ANT203H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Archaic Humans, Jebel Irhoud, Homo Floresiensis
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Getting colder then warmer, then colder, then warmer. Getting ability to move around much more easily. During glacial period, get more drying climate, more patches of suitable habitat. More about archaic homo sapiens this transition very heterogeneous (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)tly, the(cid:396)e a(cid:396)e diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t i(cid:374)te(cid:396)p(cid:396)etatio(cid:374)s a(cid:271)out . Controversies some anthropologists refer to these transitional forms as archaic homo sapiens. However, many anthropologists refer to the european, african (and sometimes even. Many recent classifications refer to homo heidelbergensis to describe fossils found in. (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) if a(cid:396)(cid:272)hai(cid:272) ho(cid:373)o sapie(cid:374)s is its o(cid:449)(cid:374) disti(cid:374)(cid:272)t spe(cid:272)ies. A mixture of primitive (h. erectus) and derived (h. sapiens) traits. Some feature more modern than homo erectus. See cut marks on hominin skulls may indicate cannibalism, or ritualism of post death. Many middle pleistocene european fossils have been assigned to archaic homo sapiens or (homo heidelbergensis, depending on who you ask) Several fossils in china (dali, maba and jinniushan) Show a mixture of h. erectus and h. sapiens traits.
