ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fossil, Mousterian, Caving
5 Feb 2016
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Arm bones were bigger, brow bones stuck out. Evolved in europe, their relative closeness allowed them to evolve. Their bones were bigger, as well as their brains. There isn"t a coloration between brain size and intelligence. Their foreheads jut out, they have larger jaws, their heads slope backwards, they didn"t have a chin o o o o o. Even though modern humans have been found throughout the world, the neanderthals had never been found in africa. At this time, they were very religious, and subscribed to the no-evolution theory, creationism. A lot of competing theories were put forward to try to justify the skeleton, to suggest anything besides evolution. As more fossils were found, people had to been to accept this ancestry. What if we weren"t the final rung on the. We know that the neanderthals had culture because they had tools. Flake tools (scrapers) predominate with few core tools.
