ARCH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Dog Sled, Native Copper, Solutrean
12 May 2016
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Chapter 6 readings: 6. 1 modern humans in east asia (page 152) Ngandong site on the island of java where the most recent known fossil of homo erectus was found, dating to between 46 000 and 27 000 years ago. Sahul the landmass that encompassed australia, tasmania, and new guinea during periods of low sea level: 6. 2 australia (page 153) Wallacea : the string of islands that separates sunda and sahul where the channels between the islands are. Sunda the landmass that connected much of southeast asia during periods of low sea level too deep to have been dry land at any time for the past 50 million years. Wallace line the line that runs through wallacea and separates the unique animals and plants of. Australia from the animal and plant communities of southeast asia. The discovery of stone tools on the island of flores in wallacea suggests that homo erectus was able to cross bodies of water.
