ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Homo Sapiens, Lake Turkana, Early Pleistocene
Document Summary
Early homo: h. rudofensis and h. habilis. Skull knm-er 1470 demonstrated large brain and large molars. Several kinds of hominin lived in africa b4 and after homo: h. habilis n h. erectus. Boise and h. habilis skulls from same time. Erectus skulls (1. 6 mya) from near lake turkana show increased brain size and complexity, and modern body. Close to the modern human body size. Recent hominin fossil inds in lleret, kenya. H habilis and erectus over lapped in time. Erectus sexual dimorphism: signiicance of hunting. Erectus back teeth smaller and front teeth relatively larger: diet changed. Our of africa: biological and cultural changes enabled new adaptive strategy gathering and hunting. H erectcus pushed hominin range beyond asia and africa. The divisions of paloelithic: lower: associated w h erectus, middle: archaic homo sapiens, neanderthals, upper: top strata amh"s top soil. Acheulean: tool making tradition of erectus ass with lower paleo: hand ax modiied core of rock.
