L48 Anthro 150A Lecture 35: HE 12.02.18
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~debate whether early omo skulls (195 kya) count as being modern h. sapiens. ~earliest undoubted evidence of modern h. sapiens is herto skull (160 kya) ~upper paleolithic (upper stone age most recent stone age tools we associate with ourselves) *long low cranium vs. high, round cranium with tall forehead. *bigger brow ridge (sexual selection, or just the way the face is built) vs. *big nose (adaptation for cold climate) vs. smaller nose. *gap behind 3rd molar (due to shape of face) vs. no retromolar space. *bump in back of skull vs. no occipital bun. *complex tools in humans as well (100 kya) humans more sophisticated and developed than neanderthals, and maybe that"s how humans outcompeted them; humans and neanderthals had same brain size. *more complexity in tools (20 kya) atl atl, bow and arrow, etc. *hides? vs. clothing (72 kya) no archaeological record of neanderthal clothing.
