ANTH 1032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Klasies River Caves, Archaic Humans, Nassarius Kraussianus
11 Mar 2014
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Origins and dispersal of anatomically modern homo sapiens. Less robust and muscular: slight reduction in brain size, modern jaws & faces slighter ( less robust) than in archaic ones. Mtdna evidence: modern humans derive from a 200,000 ya african population, african mtdna greater diversity than anywhere else in the world longer period of diversification. Evolved in africa: first examples date to approx. Traits: large brain (1,200-1,700 cc, globular braincase, vertical forehead, reduced brow ridges, pronounced chin. Omo kibish (east africa) 195,000 ya. Klasies river mouth (south africa) 120,000 80,000 ya. Much earlier than se asia or europe. Early african amh culture: middle stone age (msa) General characteristics: prepared core technologies, bone tools, breadth of resource use, art. Technology that amh had when migrating from africa. Blombos cave: 75-65,000 ya, decorated ochre, ochre processing tools". Blombos cave: 75,000 years ago, nassarius kraussianus beads (snail shell beads, speaks to an aspect of art of society.
