ANTH 1131 Lecture Notes - Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Koobi Fora
Document Summary
Olduvai gorge: n. tanzania, most southern site, hot, dry scrubby, little vegetation, tons of erosion, grasslands, bones, teeth, skeletons could be sticking out, place where louis and mary leakey married, lake deposits, hominin remains, water erosions, stone tools. Laetoli: n. tanzania, mary leakey, well known because of footprints 1978, dated 3. 7 million years ago, volcanic eruption, volcanic ash, shortly after eruption, mary +louis leakey found footprints, footprints got wet and hardened. Tell us about they walked, very similar to ours. Koobi fora: n. kenya, homo habilis, and homo rudolfensis remains, excavated sediments, found watering hole, find footprints- different kinds of animals, footprints 1. 5 million years ago, dated about 1-2 million years ago. West turkana: n. kenya, h. habilis, h. rudolfensis, and australopithecus afarensis fossils, lake rudolf , nw ethiopia. Lower omo river: sw ethiopia, afar depression. Hadar and kada gona: oldest know stone tools.
