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What are the S. African cave complexes

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Tuang, Sterkfontein, Makapan, Swartskrans

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What is Dolomite

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Limestone like rock

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What is Breccia

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Dead fragments cemented into Dolomite

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What was discovered in Tuang

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Dart discovered Tuang child skull-A. Africanus

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What was Dart’s incorrect hypothesis

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Osteodontokeratic hypothesis-ancient homonids used prey’s bones as tools, and were incredibly vicious and savage

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What was Dart’s thoughts on ancient life

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Incredibly savage beings who lived in caves (WRONG)

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How was the Tuang baby killed

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Eagle punctured his skull

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How did the bones end up in caves

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Hyenas, Jaguars, other predators dragged remains into there

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What defined the first Australopithecine

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Bipedality first seen in A. Afarensis

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MNI?

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Minimum number of individuals. Based of mono bones such as mandible, L or R pacific bones.

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How did bipedality change bone structure

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Hips widened, femur shortened + thickened, Craniovertebral junction moved to bottom of skull

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Olduvai Gorge

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Tanzania, evidence dates 2mya, Oldowan tools, cut bones, large mammal remains

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Little Volcanic site

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Near Tanzania, ash on ground captured and then fossilized footsteps of Astralopithecis

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Koobi Fora

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Kenya, dates back 1.9mya, scavenging and hunting behaviors seen, large game found. 1.5mya potential fire use, probably bush fire

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Hadska

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Ethiopia, dates to 3.2mya, early hominid tools, large herbivore bones-meat processing

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Makapansgat

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South African valley where a rock was found to be 2.6-3 mya, etched into an australipithacus face

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FLK (frida leakey korongo)

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site inE. Africa where tools and A. Boisei were found. 1-1.8mya. Also showed evidence of human cooperation

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Ubeidiya

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Modern Israel 1.4 mya. Has both oldowan and acheulean tools(proves migration)

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Dmanise

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Modern Georgia. 1.8 mya. Evidence shows large sexual dimporphism(primitive H. Erectus)

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Nihewan Basin

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W. Beijing 1.6mya. lack of acheulean tools shows patterns of early homo bases

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Zhoukoudian

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China, 500-200kya, MNI of 40 H. Erectus, hearths!

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Torralba/ Ambrona

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Spain 400k ago, acheulean and burned wood. Elephant bones in swamps

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Shanidar Cave

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Iraq. 9 Neanderthal remains with flowers buried with them

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Portugal??

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Shows use of fish and fauna for Neanderthal food

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Skhul Cave

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92k ago. evidence of h. sapiens out of Africa

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Multiregional theory

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all homo’s evolved into h. sapiens through gene flow sin separate regions

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Out of Africa theory

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mitochondrial DNA evidence to back this up from 250k years ago

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Le Solutre

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French site where horse families were found hunted by humans-100k MNI

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Mezhirich Ukraine

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Used mammoth bones to create huts

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Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic…Willendorf…Brassemouy…Chauvet…Lascaux

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all within the last 30k years, advanced art found by ancient people

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Routes out of Africa

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Levant(Middle East), Southern (Coast of arabia into SE Asia), Northern(Up into Europe then americas)

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Qafzeh

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Israel, early AMH’s and burial practices

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Herto

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Ethiopia 160kya, modern features found in older fossils

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Jebel Irhoud

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Morocco, early signs of society and modernity 300kya