ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mousterian, Comparative Anatomy, Orrorin
18 Dec 2017
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Evidence 1: fossilized bone: fossils are the petrified remains of ancient organisms (plants and animals) preserved as casts or impressions in rock. Taphonomy- fossils form and are later modified by physical forces before discovery: organisms rarely preserved in their entirety. Evidence 2: genetics: our genetic history is imprinted in every living individual on the planet, genetic data cannot be recovered from fossils, ancient dna recovered from human remains still have organic matter. Oldest yet is 110,000-year-old dna from a tooth. Evidence 3: material evidence: trace fossils. Preserved evidence that provide clues about ancient behavior: material culture. 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs went extinct and climate grew cooler. Ancestors of monkeys, apes, and humans (the anthropoids) branched off from a prosimian-ancestral line ca. 23 million years ago, at the beginning of the miocene. Miocene apes: miocene (23 to 5 million years ago) is the age of the apes .
