ANTA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Archaic Humans, Blombos Cave, Homo Erectus

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They were relatively taller than modern humans: they had proportionately short lower arms and lower legs, they had large, heavy muscles, they had very robust bones, the tool culture associated with the neandertals is called, oldowan, acheulian, solutrean. D. mousterian: fossils with fully modern human traits first appear, 1 million years ago, 500,000 years ago, 300,000 years ago. D. 200,000 years ago: the earliest fossils with anatomically modern human traits are found in, europe. B. africa: southwest asia, southeast asia, early mtdna studies placed the origin of modern humans at about, 5 million years, 1 million years, 500,000 years. D. 200,000 years: the perforated mollusk shells found at blombos cave are interpreted as having been, dietary remains, washed into the cave when sea level was elevated during the last interglacial of the pleistocene. C. items of personal adornment as part of a necklace: sacrificed to the mollusk god. 10. the first hominids in the new world ie north america: