ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homo Heidelbergensis, Chisel, Native Americans In The United States

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT101H5
• Professor: Sherry Fukuzawa

Document Summary

Modern humans make two migrations out of africa, there is no extinction of modern humans. When and where are they found, all important tool tech. associated with them. Cro-magnon - western europe, 35,000y. a. irst ind but not the oldest, has modern human features- large cc 1500-1600 (ave modern humans is 1300), Earliest of modern humans sapiens found in africa. 200,000 years ago we think there was a speciation event from h. heidelbergensis to modern homo sapiens in africa. First ind but not the oldest: high broad forehead, chin, narrow nose. Three dif. theories, question on test and exam \/ h. sapiens hypotheses: single origin /complete replacement / out of africa (eve) hypothesis (stringer & andrews, 1988) evidence that supports this theory is genetic evidence, The greatest genetic diversity of mtdna found in africa, we ind the oldest or inding pop of our species, best estimate 200,000ya, probably the home of the irst modern homo sapiens,