ANTH 1010H Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Border Cave, Stone Age, Abrigo Do Lagar Velho
3 Sep 2013
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Anthro chapter 7: the origin of modern humans. The term modern humans refers to the members of the species homo sapiens, which includes all living humans. Most of the genetic variation in living humans is found within single populations rather than between populations. The low genetic variation in modern humans reflects a relatively recent common ancestry. The anatomical traits that define homo sapiens are characteristic of all living human populations. The oldest known fossil of a modern human was discovered at the site of herto, ethiopia, and was dated to between 160 and 154,000 years ago. Fossils of modern humans dated to between 120 and 70,000 years ago have been discovered at the south. African sites of klasies river mouth and border cave. The middle stone age refers to the archaeological period of the earliest modern humans in africa. The middle stone age began between 300- and 200,000 years ago and ended around 40,000 years ago.
