Anthropology 2100 Lecture Notes - Stone Tool, Upper Paleolithic, Canine Tooth
31 Jan 2013
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Increase in cranial capacity to 1125 to 1400 cc with an average of 1260 cc. Homo erectus" mean cranial capacity was only 960 cc. 200,000 years old are sometimes called homo heidelbergensis. Archaic homo sapiens from greece petralona 1 (. 4 my old?) Archaic homo sapiens from france arago xxi (. 4 mya) Archaic homo sapiens from germany steinheim (. 25 mya) Archaic homo sapiens from china dali (. 2 mya) Have a rounded cranial vault and cranial capacity of 1120 cc. Archaic homo sapiens from zambia at broken hill (. 3 mya: large cheekbones, prominent brow ridges, no chin, or a very small chin. Hunted small-medium sized animals (reindeer were a major food source) Also hunted woolly mammoth and rhinoceros and la cotte de st. brelade in the jersey islands in the english. Channel shows 20 mammoths and 5 woolly rhinos were stampeded off a cliff. Binford says neanderthals captured food on an encounter basis and there was no planning but others disagree.
