ANT203Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Denisovan, Evolutionary Anthropology, Collagen
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Humans past and present are constantly in the news and media. How we access food resources has changed drastically in the past decades. Did her phd in the uk, works with collaborators is namibia and south africa. She looks at how we"ve adapted to different bio diverse environments. Went to university of vienna and works mostly on central asia hominids including the neanderthals and the basins, with the slight overlap with the current modern humans. The sel"ungur cave in kyrgyzstan as a site of archeological material and uncovering the culture associated with these hominids. Also works in the chayrskaya cave in altai, in less than 20 sq meters they have uncovered over 2,000 animals bones and human fragments, including most of an arm, teeth from different individuals, ect. The piece of a finger bone of a 10-15 year old girl, and this was the first piece of evidence for a different type of hominum though the extraction of dna.
