ANT101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Straight Edge, Sangiran, Turkana Boy
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Describe the geographical distribution of the earliest homo erectus finds and compare the dating for these discoveries in africa, asia, and europe. Describe the most important anatomical features found in homo erectus and compare them with early homo and homo sapiens. Discuss the biocultural evidence (both anatomical an archaeological) that miht explain how early hominins dispersed from africa to other regions of the old world. All early hominins were restricted to africa. Hominins expanded widely out of africa into other areas of the old world. There is a universal agreement that the hominins found outside of africa are all members of genus. Around 1. 7-1. 6 mya, well after the initial dispersal of hominins, the lower paleolithic stone tool industry called acheulian developed. More advanced than the oldowan, acheulian tool kit provides us with convincing evidence of increasing tool dependence by hominins. Taxonomic splitting was quite common in the early years of paleoanthropology.
