ANT101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10-16: Dual Inheritance Theory, Written Language, Epipaleolithic
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Lower paleolithic/early stone age: oldowan tool technology. 1. 8 mya (africa) 300,000 ya (se asia) Lower paleolithic/early stone age: acheulean tool technology (africa, europe, sw asia) East african h. erectus (h. ergaster: nariokotome, west turkana, 1984 kamoya kimeu, wt 15000 (nariokotome boy, 1. 6 mya, boy approx. 12 y. o: stature (cid:887)"(cid:885) , postcranial similar to modern humans, 880 cc, know each australopithecine by traits, dates, sites & also know specific individuals lucy, tongue child, black skull. If he lived to adulthood stature of 6 feet tall would have sufficed. Most complete and most juvenile skeletons found to date. From post cranial skeleton we learned about post cranial skeleton in homo erectus: bipedal, angulation of thigh bones (from hips to knees), had morphological changes. Barrel shaped ribcage in humans that helps with breath control, but homo erectus has one that is cone shapedsimiliar to chimps this has lots of repercussions for speech and breathing control. Lower paleolithic/ early stone age: levalloisian tool technology.
