ARCH 2800 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Marcellin Boule, Venus Figurines, Homo Erectus
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Cranial: 1478 cc cranial capacity (larger than modern humans, large occipital muscles, thick brow ridges, sloping forehead, rear mass of bone on skull, big nose - nasal passageways adapted to the cold and hydrate arctc air. Post-cranial: brawn adapted to cold-subsistence; wide and broad, squat torsos and short extremities to better retain heat, hip structure different than modern humans. Culture: adapted to cold; intelligence, sophisticated stone tools, clothing, shelter, fire control, buried dead. The venus figurines are portable art that appeared during the upper paleolithic period. They were female figurines carved from soft stone or mammoth bone. They were thought to symbolize fertility, but none of them are depicted as pregnant. Instead, they represent women in all stages of life: youth, adult, crone: using the chart below, fill out the significance and discoveries made at the following sites. Denisova cave: 41,000 years ago, madame x, siberia, nuclear dna had a common origin with neanderthals, indicating an earlier migration of erectines.
