ANTH 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Homo Rhodesiensis, Boules, Acheulean
22 Dec 2020
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Homo erectus: all over the world- e and s africa, asia, etc. Wt 15000: really tall but represents a juvenile, 1. 6 mya, most complete h erectus. Dmanisi: old guy with no teeth lol. Zhoukoudian: cave site in china, 40 adults and children, due to strata, shows that the site was occupied for 250k years. Atapuerca: cut marks on animal bones: shows complex tools use. Evidence of culture in homo erectus: tool use: from basic to more intricate achulean, hunting, controlled fire, clothing, social structure: groups assumed, sexual dimorphism. Tool use in homo erectus: oldowan chopper , acheliun byface . Reconstructing behavior: we want what we find to match what we have come to know as reality, layers of ash show that they were cooking, more resent evidence indicates this may have been a hyena den. What is archaic homo: more derived than homo erectus but not as derived as modern humans. Hypothesis: ritualistic defleshing, food prep etc: levallois technique.
