ANT101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Upper Paleolithic, Magdalenian, Chisel
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Chapter #12 the origin and dispersal of modern humans: sometime probably close to 200,000 ya, the first modern homo sapiens populations appeared in africa. Chapter 10 hints at modern features in china as early as 200,000 ya. Republic: several individuals have been excavated here and are dated to approximately 31,000 ya, some variation among the crania, including some big browridges, fred. Something new and different: the little people : by 25,000 ya, modern humans had dispersed to all major areas of the old world, and they would soon journey to the new world as well. In 2004, the world awoke to the announcement than extremely small-bodied, small- brained hominin had been discovered in liang bua cave, on the island of flores, east of. Upper paleolithic was determined by what was available seasonally in the local environment: upper paleolithic sites were usually larger and longer than that of the middle.