ANT 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Stone Tool, Zhoukoudian, Oldowan
12 Aug 2016
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Looking more human like but still very small. Found in the bottom of a cave which was odd. Found mostly homo naledi remains in the cave (15 individuals of all ages) Shoulders, flared pelvis, curved fingers (this organism spent time in the trees) Skull, versatile hands, long legs, human-like feet. Had to do with adaptations that homo erectus had that other species did not. Grade refers to a grouping of organisms sharing a similar adaptive pattern. Splitters africa: homo ergaster (homo erectus in africa) Close to 2 million years aho, hominins expanded out of afruca into other areas of the old world. Early hominins fossils were only found in africa, causing us to believe that they were restricted in certain ways. Homo erectus existed over 1 million years. There was anatomical differences between the african and asian discoveries. Lumpers would say they belong to the same species but there is just a wide range of diversity.
