post mid Flashcards
what are absolute dating methods?
radio carbon dating
what polarity are we in?
Brunhes normal
what polarity where we in 780k years ago?
Matuyama reversed
how can we use polarity to date sites?
magnetic pull direction changes the way sediments rest before sedimenting so you can meswhat polarity something occurred in.
what tools where h Heidelbergensis using when the moved into Europe?
hand axes
faunal remains found in Sima de los Huesos?
cave bears, wild cats, lynx, cave lions grey wolfs and red foxes.
minimum number of individuals in sima de los huesos?
28
where was the original neanderthal found?
1856 Feldhofer cave, Germany
where and what was found in spy d’orneau cave
in Belgium 2 neanderthal skeletons 1886
what was found in chapelle-aux-saints, France?
mostly complete old man with arthritis in 1908.
raises questions of potential intentional burial.
what was found in lla ferrassie, France?
6 individuals from 1907-1922
what was found in shanidar cave iraq?
9 individuals in 1950s
what was found in roc de Marsal, France?
3 year old child 1960s-70s
Earliest Real Neandertal fossils?
Ehringsdorf Germany -1908
dated to 250 kya, a mandible
how old are the most recent Neandertal fossils?
Mezmaiskaya Russia, from 40,000 years ago.
when did Hominis start using fire?
handful of claims for fire use in Africa dated to between 2 and 1 million years ago. more accurate claims 1million to 300,00s years ago. earliest definitive evidence is 250 to 300 thousand years ago.
What did Neandertals eat?
A lot of meat, rain deer, bison and horses
when was the appearance of Homo Habilis?
2.8 million years ago in Africa
when was the appearance of Homo Erectus?
1.7 million years ago in Africa
when was the appearance of Homo Ergaster?
2 million years ago in africa
when did Homo Erectus travel out of africa?
1.7 million years ago
When did Homo Erectus reach Nihewan Basin and Java?
Nihewan 1.6 million years ago
Java 1.4 million years ago
What where the three major migration waves into Europe?
Some form of H. Erectus arrives 1.4 million years ago. Then Homo Hiedelbergensis arrives 600,000 years ago and evolves into Neanderthals and we modern humans arrive 45,000 years ago.
what was found in Layer 9 of the Sima Del Elephante and where is the Sima Del elephante located.
Northern spain
mandibel fragment
finger bone
and oldowan tools
how old are the important layers in Sima Del Elephante, and Gran Dolina?
oldest layer 1.9 mya
layer 9 1.25 mya
layer 6 850k years ago
What was found in the Gran Dolina Layer 6 and how old was it?
Mandible dating back to 850k years ago.
can you Order these from oldest to newest: neanderthals, Hiedelbergensis, Erectus, Sapians Sapiens, Ergaster and habilis?
Habilis, Ergaster, Erectus, Hiedelbergensis, Neanderthals and Sapiens Sapiens.
what species brought Acheulian hand axes to Europe?
Homo Hiedelbergensis
