ANTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Olduvai Gorge, Homo Erectus, Mary Leakey

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1
• Professor: Loeffler

Document Summary

Found hundreds of fossils, along w the second most complete hominid ever discovered. Discovered a stretch of footprints at least 75 ft in length embedded in volcanic ash, containing 2 sets of bipeds. The footprints are nearly indistinguishable from humans. Most of the final lecture will only be on the final. Everything from the final 5 classes fair game for the final. Genus afarensis is likely the common ancestor to. First genus homo was discovered by lewis leakey in e africa near olduvai. Homo habilis - earliest known tool making hominid. Slight increase in forehead compared to graciles. Loss of most of the facial concavity (prognathism) Homo erectus (~2. 2 mya - 200,000 ya) One of the australopithecines evolved into homo erectus. Sets the stage for the evolution of humans. The first to migrate throughout all of africa. The first hominid to leave the continent of africa.