ANTC17H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Liang Bua, Cave Painting, Homo Heidelbergensis
7 May 2012
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East and south african fossil sites with homo, tools, and australopthecine. Haeckle convinced that ancestor would lie in far east. Neandetherals are also biped and they have human-like traits. British were jealous that they were not finding human ancestor remains. So piltdown said he found cranium bolt in europe. (the largest scientific fraud) He glued back the pieced together and also found mandible. Had human-like head, particularly robust canine, and robust mandible. Thing that was intriguing about it was that there were only molars showing. Piltdown man had large brain and a very robust jaw like man. Function of dentition wouldn"t work this way though. It was a medieval human skull, fossil orangutan mandible, and chimp canine. At the same time, taung child was discovered (tiny fossil cranium of 6-year-old) Discovered by raymond dart (u of witwatersrand in s. africa) They thought it was a bigger discovery but this was something else.
