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Early hominids-Neandertals
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
04/28/2008

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E H

Taung child
Definition
Discovered by Raymond Dart in 1924
Hominid features
Term
E H
Ape-Like Features
Definition
Brain Size
Shape of dental arcade
Long arms
Small body size
Term
E H

Human Like
Definition
Canine size & shape
Reduced diastema
Bipedalism characteristics
Term
Robust Australopithecines
Definition
Broad, flat faces
Sagittal crest
Postorbital constriction
Huge back teeth with smaller front teeth
KNM - WT 17000 “The Black Skull”
A. robustus
A. boisei
Term
Early Homo
Definition
H. habilis: single, variable species
H. rudolfensis: multiple, less variable species
Oldowan stone tools: consist mainly of cores, lumps of stone, often river cobbles modified from the original rock by flaking pieces off it.
Term
Early Hominids
Bipedalism features
Definition
Foramen magnum position
Pelvis
Angle of femur (valgus knee)
Reorganization of foot
Term
Homo erectus
Definition
Eugene Dubois: Dutch Army; doctor
1892
P. erectus
Thick cortical bone in limbs
Nariokotome skeleton: 80% Complete fossil, Teenage H. Erectus
Expensive tissue hypothesis
Acheulian tool culture
Use of fire
Term
Homo E.

Cranial buttressing system
Definition
Supraorbital torus
Nuchal torus
Sagittal keel
Angular torus
Term
homo e.

Hunting
Definition
Persistence hunting: chase prey until prey dies or falls over of exhaustion
Drive prey into mud or bog
Term
Archaic Homo sapiens
Definition
Chronospecies
Anagenesis
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