ANT 2511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Atapuerca Mountains, Neanderthal, Shanidar Cave
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People: archaic homo sapiens in europe, atapuerca 5 from spain, arago- france, steinheim-germany, and. All between 200,000-500,00 years old: features: they have long, low skulls and large brain cases that are close to or within the lower end of the modern human range. Large brow ridges, and robust skeletons: some of the europe archaic h. sapiens have projecting face and a wide nose. Neandertals: features: continued the pattern of enlarged brain size, reduced tooth size and skeletal robusticity. Long, low skull: west asia discoveries: amud in israel (brain capacity 1,740 cc) considerably larger than the average human brain today. Another skeleton was found in kebara cave, israel, a fossil that helps researchers reconstruct what the body of a typical male would have been like. Other finds found in shanidar northern iraq: discoveries, shanidar iraq- 45,000 years old, male, heavy wear on teeth, very large brain, eye injury, arm amputation, foot with arthritis.
