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ANT 2500 Exam 3
Exam 3 Study Guide
Question | Answer |
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Pleistocene often called | Ice Age |
Glaciations | Climatic itervals when ice sheets covered much of the northern continents |
Glaciations caused... | Northern areas of Europe and Asia unihabitable |
Integlacials | Intervals when continental ice sheets retreating and becoming smaller |
Integlacials caused | certain migration routes to reopen |
Homo erectus was succeeded by | Premoderns (coexisted for long periods in Asia) |
Features of Premoderns | Larger Brain, Rounded Brain Case, Maximum Breath |
Homo heidelbergensis fossils found in | Africa and Europe |
Premoderns were recently considered | primitive, transitional "Homo sapiens" |
Premoderns called | Archaic Homo sapiens |
Premoderns ancestors to... | Both modern humans and Neandertals |
Premodern Humans of Middle Pleistocene | 1. Africa2. Europe3. Asia |
Africa (fossils) | Premodern fossils found at several sites in South and East Africa |
Kabwe | One of best known premodern fossils & mixture of older and recent traits |
Bodo | One of earliest Homo hidelbergensis in Africa |
Homo heidlebergenis sites in Europe | Sima de los Huesos at Atapuerca & near Gran Dolina |
Chinese paleoanthropologists | (Homo heidelbergnsis) suggest that more ancestral traits are shared with Homo erectus fossils (Zhoukoudian) |
Homo erectus and Homo sapien mixture | Homo heidelbergensis |
Evolution of Homo Heidelbergensis (Africa) | Homo sapiens |
Evolution of Homo Heidelbergensis (Europe) | Neandertal |
Levallois Technique | refers to stone tool making |
Schoningen in Germany | suggest strong case for hunting (three preserved wooden spears) |
Most Neander fossils found | in Europe |
Neandertal brain | larger that today's brain |