ARCH 131 Lecture Notes - Homo Erectus, Neanderthal, Mastoid Part Of The Temporal Bone
27 May 2014
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We have finally arrived at modern humans us. A commonly used category for our own earliest fossils is anatomically. Actually, compared to neandertals, there are very few examples of early, obviously modern, human remains even relatively recent ones. Anatomically modern human fossils dating to after 25,000 years ago become much more common, but from sites older than this they are very rare - so far. However, there are still a few things that we think we know for sure about these early direct ancestors of all living people: When it comes to understanding the general skeletal morphology of modern humans we obviously have a huge sample of examples to study since we have innumerable recent skeletons available from various contexts. Although, very similar in general to all other hominin craniums from the last 1 or 2 million years, the anatomically modern. Human cranium also has some obviously distinctive characteristics.
