ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anatomically Modern Human, Archaic Humans, Homo Ergaster
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Archaic means ancestral or old homo sapiens, although we now know they are not homo sapiens possibly ancestors. Lower pleistocene- 1. 8 mya to 780 tya, homo ergaster, homo erectus, also the period of the acheulian tool industry. Middle pleistocene 780 tya to 128 tya, end of the homo erectus & on set of early archaic homo sapiens, same tools but larger brains. Upper pleistocene 128 tya to 20 tya, late archaic (including. Neanderthals) & early anatomically modern homo sapiens, and mustarian tools. Period of rapid temperature flux, during warm periods it is possible that the homo erectus left africa and travelled into europe, during cold periods they didn"t explore. Orthognathic, long low brain case, prominent brain cases, 700-850. Dmanisi, georgia 1. 8 mya: not very orthognathic, possibly an early australopithecine migration, Nariokatome boy *: very human teeth, brain capacity 534 cc, so different they look like 5 different species, most complete skeleton, 12-year-old boy.
