ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Cerebral Cortex, Limbic System, Homo Antecessor
6 Aug 2020
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East africa, then europe and all the way to east asia. Zhougoudian (formerly chou kou tien), china, 400,000 ya famous homo erectus site. Scientists were looking for dragon"s teeth site of discovery of peking man. Peking man vs. modern human: the skull of homo erectus is widest toward the back below the ear canals, while humans is biggest at the top. They have a sagittal keel, instead of a full sagittal crest, because it has robust muscles. It also has large brow ridges and a steeply sloped forehead. Homo erectus/ergaster (some people think that they"re two species: cranial capacity about 900 cm3, cranium dolichocephalic (long and flat, brow ridges, sagittal keel (not crest, sites: africa (olduvai, bodo, broken hill), europe (dmanisi- first site outside of. Africa at 1. 7 mya, swanschombe, steinheim, montmaur), asia (java, china) Dmanisi, republic of georgia homo ergaster: 1. 7 mya, first out of africa, more primitive than erectus.
