ANTH 1001 : Exam 3 Notes
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The areas where muscle attaches tends to be smooth and rounded: robust: large muscle attachment areas. Refers to the narrowing of the skull immediately behind the eye orbits. A high amount is associated with smaller brains, modern human skulls do not have constriction: supra-orbital torus : sot, an enlarged area of bone above the eye orbits. Primitive characteristic, adult male gorillas, a muscle attachment site: nuchal crest: an enlarged ridge of bone in the back of the skull. Paleoanthropology: most early fossils (hominin) are found only in africa, east africa: geology impacts the preservation and dating methods. Preservation is good but difficult to extract: biostratigraphy mostly used. Kenyanthropus platyops (3. 5-3. 2 mya: spoiler : date plus the more derived features than other paleospecies making it a better candidate for human ancestor - more hominin-like, kenya (found in kenya)-anthropus (ape-man) platyops (flatness in face)
