ANTH 1001 : Anthropology Notes For The Final Exam
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Review session wednesday at 5:30 basement classroom of evangeline. Hobbits -have been named a separate species (homofloresiensis: cranial. Small and primitive skull and 1/3 the brain size of modern humans. Lived in modern times but different than modern humans: postcranial. Had relatively large feet in comparison to their body. With such a small brain they shouldn"t have tools and language capabilities: date. They came out at about 18,000 years old. Shrunken erectus : the idea that they arrived on flores as homo erectus but because of restricted nutrients over time gradually the population height got smaller and smaller, the criticisms: Just because you got smaller, doesn"t mean your arms are longer than your feet. It could be hobbiless but hobbiless is restricted to africa: maybe hobbiless migrated from africa and got even smaller(they were about 4 feet tall) It would provide food and protection during travel: criticism:
