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Australopithecines characteristics and behaviour
Characteristics: Smaller Brain size, reduction in front teeth, sexually dimorphic
Behaviour: Meat eating from scevenging, no evidence of hunting
Paranthropis Characteristics and Behaviour
Characteristics: More robustly built, Larger brain size, very large molars and premolars, large jaws for chewing, presence of sagittal crest, pneumatized
Behaviour: Adapted to a diet made of coarse vegetation, strong sexual dimorphism, possible gorilla-like behaviour
The Habilines Characteristics and Behaviour
Larger Brains, Rounder Skull, Smaller Teeth, Less facial prognathism, Postcranial like Australopithecines
Behaviour: Possibly first tool makers, Oldowan tool technology, possible uses as hammers, digging tools, etc.
Australipithecus garhi Characteristics and behaviour
Oldest fossil that we know of that has been using stone tools
Behaviour:: Tool use, butchery of meat
Archaics Characteristics and behaviour
Large brain size, modern human stature, more robust built, massive supraorbital torus, occipital torus
Behaviour: Hunted Large game, stone tools
Satellite imagine or aerial photographs are best used to find evidence of:
Large scale features or monuments
Characteristics and Behaviour of Homo Erectus
Larger body, Larger brain, robus built, less sexual dimorphism, Higher skull, less prognathic, smaller jaws and teeth, larger supraorbital torus, Occipital torus
Behaviour: First to potentially migrate out of Africa, New Tools (Acheulean tools), Hunters or Scavengers, Use of Fire, Made Shelters
Homo Floresiensis Characteristics and Behaviour
1m tall, Small brain, Island Effect
Behaviour: Used fire, Stone tools
________ are associated with the earliest human culture to have existed in the _______
Clovis Points, America
Homo Sapiens Characteristics and Behaviour
Roundest skull, Small teeth, presence of a chin, slender build, oldest remains in africa (?)
Behaviour: Contemporary with Neandertals (Coexisted), No evidence of cultural differences during that time
Neanderthal Characteristics and Behaviour
Australopithecines
Paranthropis
Australipithecus Garhi
Homo Erectus
Homo Floresiensis
Archaics
Neanderthal
Homo Sapien
Oldowan tools can be described as
Thin, symmetrical tools made by striking off flakes on alternating sides with a variety of stone, bone, and antler tools
Characteristics of anatomically modern humans
Lightly built post-cranial skeleton
Tiny or nonexistent brow ridges
A “Globular” brain case
Name the following that are part of the genus Paranthropus
Aethiopicus
Boisei
Robustus
The earliest evidence for goat and cattle herding is about
11,000 years ago