ANT-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rising Star Cave, Cradle Of Humankind, Robert Broom
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Indicates that they were really crushing something, bipedal. Robustus: robert broom: 1st robust australopithecus, 1938. Sterkfontein bs drimolen sites: if you look at the animals that were there before, it fits the prey profile of something like a leopard in. So there is some idea that there are different things going on. Lots of cave activity, chimps use caves to nap in. The bone polish was so specific it had to have a specific activity. Eating c3 foods, diet of leaves, fruit, wood, bark, grasses. Primitive: small brain, australopithecus shoulder, curved phalanges. Derived: brain reorganization (read endocasts, humanlike hands and pelvis, short fingers. Even though we have bipedality, may not be the same type. Eugene dubois: the man who found the missing link. Java man: skull cap, femur, not associated. Davidson black and franz weidenreich: peking man. Discovery of a set of fossils called peking man.
