ANTH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Acheulean, Openair, Border Cave
Document Summary
Neandertals- la chapelle aux saints (70,000-35,000 years ago) Nearly complete skeleton with whole brain case and face fully preserved. Neandertals central europe- krapina, croatia (130,000-110,000 years old) Remains of 70 individuals, 1,000 stone tools, earliest site exhibiting classic neandertal morphology. Similar western european neandertals; intentional burial site. One particularly interesting individual (1600cc, crushing blow to head, massive blow to right side of body, arm gone, damage to right leg) Short and stocky (cid:894)berg(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:374)"s/alle(cid:374)"s rules(cid:895), thi(cid:272)k (cid:271)o(cid:374)es, shoulders, powerful arms/hands, low vaulted braincase; midface prognathism, large nose, brow ridges, large brains (1410cc), retro molar gap, extreme wear on front teeth. Combination of publication of the origin of species (1859) and neander valley (1856) spurs controversy over evolution-thomas huxley defends darwinian view. Debate further fueled by marcellin boudle with the la chappelle aux saints analysis. Further analysis reveals similarity of neandertals to modern humans. 1960s, scholars begin to argue that neandertals no that different from modern people.
