ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Prognathism, Mousterian, Stone Age
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Helpful to look over spring 2013 and over summer 2013! All the same information over and over and over again. If you can understand that exam, you will do very well on this exam. Homo erectus is important because of its longevity and geography. Then we start to see transition again in africa. 800k years, we see a change in ergaster (african erectus) of a larger brained individual (trend thru genus homo is increased cc, standardized tools, reduction on dentition) This new species is a transition from erectus to ourselves. Reduction is size of dentition (we see larger more globular cranial vault, reduction in thickness of cranial bone and absence of crests) @ 800 - 600,000 ya this new species is a transition from homo erectus to modern. Homo erectus gave rise to a bigger brained descendent. Receding forehead - backward sloping forward because of increase brain size (ours is almost vertical)
