ANTHROP 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Homo Erectus, Java Man, Trinil

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 3300
• Professor: Guatelli- Steinberg Debbie

Document Summary

Homo erectus and friends: parts i and ii. Initial discovery: java, dubois = trinil java man (1891, pithecanthropus erectus = skullcap and femur, 700,000 years ago, more java men, von koenigswald in 1930s, modjokerto child = 1. 8 mya. Suggests hominin were out of africa at least 1. 8 mya: china, black"s peking man in 1920, teeth: zhoukoudian cave, sinanthropus pekinensis. Synthesis: mayr, 1950, sinanthropus pekinensis = pithecanthropus erectus = homo erectus. Discoveries in africa: bed ii at olduvai = oh 9 (1. 4 mya, acheulean handaxes, soft hammer, swiss army knife of the pleistocene, remains of large animals, koobi fora, east lake turkana. Anthro 3300: er 406 (p. boisei) and er 3733 (h. erectus) both at 1. 7 mya (contemporaneous species) Evidence for culture: tool use and subsistence, acheulean tools = first appear in africa 1. 5 mya, bifaced; soft-hammer technique, persist until about 250,000 years ago, stability, fire. Anthro 3300: 1 mya = burned bone; ash in wonderwork cave, south africa.