ANTA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Archaic Humans, Homo Erectus, Neanderthal
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Homo erectus ~1. 8 mya ~40,000 years ago -travels from africa all the way to europe and far. Eastern asia -much more modern in many ways (e. g. , brain size, body mass, technical innovations) Eugene dubois (1858-1940) -discoverer of the first homo erectus fossils. Dating the javan homo erectus: trinil material: difficult to date, sangiran material: ~1. 6 mya, ngandong material: ~40,000 ya. Davidson black (1884-1934) -canadian involved in the discovery of homo erectus fossils at. Homo erectus peking man -reconstruction, zhoukoudian cave, china ~780,000 ya lost during the second sino-japanese war (1937-1945) thick cranial bone. Kmn-wt 15000 (nariokotome boy) from west of lake turkana, kenya ~1. 6 mya. Nariokotome boy ~5" 3 at 8 -12 years old -would have grown to ~6". Contrasts with shorter, stockier h. erectus from china. Similar pattern of adaptation to climate seen in modern humans. Much shorter and stockier than nariokotome boy (4"10 -5"5 tall)
