ANT 301 Lecture Notes - Olduvai Gorge, Homo Habilis, Richard Leakey

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 301
• Professor: Chris Kirk

Document Summary

Found knm-er 1470 described as male homo habilis. Orthognathic and small cheek teeth ecv 509 cc. Others argue that they were two different species at the same site: How old is the oldest homo: maybe 2. 4 mya (based on orthognathic palates, both palates from afar region of ethiopia. Australopithecus sediba: two partial skeleton show the expected australopith mosaic of postcranial features associated with: Bipedalism: if earliest homo appeared 2. 5 mya then homo existed side-by-side with au. Garhi: also sharing the african landscape with early homo, robust australopiths all in genus paran **** *an explosion in hominin diversity ~ 2. 5-1. 8 mya. It gets weirder: knm-er 1479 and 1813 both, 1. 78 mya koobi for a homo ergaster ecv - 850 cc, h. ergaster has both small cheek teeth and bigger brain. In east africa: a. garhi and homo palates, h. rudolfensis and h. habilis, h. homo ergaster. 1984 lake turkana, kenya 1. 5 mya: nariokatome boy.