ANT101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Homo Sapiens Idaltu, Anatomically Modern Human, Upper Paleolithic
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Describe the time frame and geographic locations for the earliest evidence of odern humans in africa as well as elsewhere in the old world. Compare the different models accounting for the origin and dispersal of modern humans and evaluate how fossil and genetic evidence support these models. Explain from the archaeological evidence how and why modern human behavior in the upper paleolithic differed from that of their middle paleolithic predecessors. Probably close to 200,000 ya, the first modern homo sapiens populations appeared in africa. 150,000 years or so, their descendant had spread across most of the old world, even expanding as far as. African populations of h. heidelbergensis are the most likely ancestors of the earliest modern h. sapiens. The upper paleolithic period begins in western europe around 40,000 ya and ends roughly 10,000 ya. By 12,000-10,000 ya, the technology of upper paleolithic hunter-gatherers was a diverse and effective as that of historically documented hunter-gatherers.
