ANT200Y1 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Kebara Cave, Homo Antecessor, Olduvai Gorge
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Hadar: eastern african rift valley in ethiopia fossils of australoputhecines, (lucy) 2. 3 mya: west turkana region of northern kenya, east african rift valley site, tools produced through elaborate process, knapping was not random and haphazard, complexity shows that first stone tools were not simplest of all possible. Nihewan basin: northern china, human occupation 1. 6 mya, stones tools were flakes, made from poor materials. Radiation : period in which there is a rapid increase in the diversity of a single lineage. During the period between 4 2 mya there was a radiation in hominin lineage. Dispersal : an event where a single species dramatically expands its range. Contrasts radiation in that it expands both its geographical and ecological range. Where radiation involves a wide diversity of a new species evolving. Hominin: members of the human lineage after it split with the chimpanzee lineage. Homo erectus: the first hominin found on sites outside of africa.
