Genus homo - early Flashcards
when did genus homo begin? epoch?
2.5mya
pleistocene
describe homo habilis
- 2.5 - 1.8 mya tanzania, l.leakey
- Increase use of material culture / stone tools
- Larger brain 600 cc
- smaller teeth - big change from australopitheus
- Australopithecus like body - about same overall size
Homorudolfensis
• 2 mya kenya
• 775 cc cranial capacity
• Homo habilis or aust?
distinct lineage
pliestocene environment
ice coverage - glacial maxima
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• Where the ice wouldve been
Environment plays a huge role in finding fossils
describe homo erectus - where was it? when? anatomy?
- Huge geographical range
- Don’t need to memorize sites, but know its spread out across africa, asia, and europe - due to climate change? Or other selective pressures?
- Increase in cranial capacity
- Longer limos
- 1.8-0.05 mya
- Sagittal keel - ridge of bone along the sagittal suture commonly found on H. erectus crania - not all of the homo erectus crania have this
was h erectus successful?
- Very successful hominin - maybe even more than us bc longer time span - more than a million years
- Widest part low down vs ours which is high up
distinct phyical traits of h erectus
• Long low vault • Thickly walled • Little development of forehead • Prominent brow ridge • Larger cranium than earlier fossils Max breadth below ear opening
aus boisei vs homo erectus: what was in common?
around at same time
Commonality - bipedal + non honing canines
Nariokotome boy - describe
• Discovered in 1984 • West side of lake turkana kenya • Dates to 1.6 mya • 8-12 years old • Arm/leg ratio human like • May have been almost 6 feet? • Cranial capacity 900 cc homo erectus
illeret kenya finding?
- 1.5 mya
- Foot prints
- Perhaps homo erectus
h. erectus in ethiopia
daka cranium 1 mya
bodo crNIUM 0.6 MYa
• Keep in mind the looong time frame and wide geographical spread - but don’t focus too much on this example
H. erectus in asia?
skull 5
1.8 mya dmanisi georgia
• All features of homo erectus but size was different! A bit smaller
KNOW this one
remarkable completeness of the skull—the most complete of Early Pleistocene Homo—helps paleoanthropologists to understand the full morphology of the cranium, mandible, and teeth of some of the earliest members of our genus. Skull 5 has the combined features typical of H. erectus in having a long, low cranium and relatively large browridges. The individual combines a small braincase (brain size is 546 cc) with a large face
This skull and other remains from Dmanisi provide evidence for a single evolving lineage of early Homo and for continuity of evolution from at least 1.8 mya across Africa, Europe, and Asia.
java man?
• Indonesia
• Cranial capacity 1000 cc
• Myositis ossificans
• Top of cranium - evidence of a brow ridge! = homo erectus
• Other bone femur - individual was injured - calcified - community? Did this person require help?
h. erectus
theory on moving across water for h. erectus?
• Water craft? Experimental archeology
• How did they move? Water craft possible?
• • Robert Bednarik and team constructed
bamboo rafts and attempted to sail
between the islands of Indonesia
• About 48 km - they made it the 2nd time
• Suggests water craft was likely used
what defines the paleolithic?
• The period of human history where humans have created stone tools
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