ANTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Java Man, Australopithecus, Microcephaly
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Movie about a new found skeleton that disrupts the timeline of humans. Found artifacts at least 1,000 years old. Found skeleton that was like a child but had wisdom teeth exposed so. 3 feet tall so named (cid:498)the hobbit(cid:499) classified as a small adult be a lot bigger than that brain called microcephaly. Found 12 other bones small like the skeleton. Used fire and hunted, associated with stone tools. Lived around 10 kya and possibly co-existed with humans. Found that microcephaly brain and the hobbit brain were very different. Other anthropologists think its due to a disease that prevents growth of the: doesn"t fit with evolutionary timeline because human brains should. Anthropologist of indonesia thinks it"s a modern human pigmy. Bill jungers believes believes brain of hobbit isn"t big enough to make stone. Need more fossils to infer an entire species not just one skeleton. Dna would determine if it was a disease or a species.