BIOLOGY 1M03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Homo Ergaster, Late Pleistocene, Early Pleistocene
14 Jul 2018
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Butchering large animals he got carcass by hunting/ scavenging and used a hand ax to dismember the carcass and cut it into useful pieces (wear pattern, hand axes are best for butchering: 2. Digging up tubers, burrowing animals, making wells to get water: 3. Stripping bark from trees to get nutritious cambium layer underneath: 4. If he was not eating plants in dry season then it might have relied on meat: he moved from african tropics to temperate habitats outside (survived temperate winter when plants are not available by eating meat) Variation in dmanisi: this much variation at 1 site means it has a narrow time range, researchers from dmanisi believe the evidence supports the idea that all the homo fossils in. Africa, europe, asia rep 1 variable lineage that should be called h. erectus: some say that there may be more than 1 species represented and that each species in each country is differen.
