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| Ethiopia, where Lucy was found, first indicating upright posture- volcanic eruptions covered the area with ash over millions of years, preserving fossils nicely |
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| Tanzania, where 3 Australopithecines left footprints 3.6 Ma, preserved in volcanic ash, showing bipedal locomotion |
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| Georgia, site of a cave with hominid, animals and stone artifact remains with Homo erectus, Oldowan technology |
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| Germany, where four ancient wooden spears were found from about 400,000 years ago- 3 of them were for throwing- found with horse remains with cut marks, indicating active hunting |
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• Northern Tanzania
• Occupied by Homo habilis, P. boisei and Homo erectus
• Stone tools, practices of scavenging and hunting
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• South Africa
• Early evidence of controlled use of fire
• Homo erectus and Homo habilis and P. robustus
• Limestone cave
• Stone and bone tools
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• Homo erectus site in Java
• Dated back to 1.8 Ma
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• Lower Paleolithic site, Europe
• Acheulean tools and animal remains from 500,000 years ago
• Remains of Homo heidelbergensis
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• Germany site, dated to about 350,000 years ago
• Skull found there had large cranial capacity, large, slightly flattened, moderately heavy brow ridges, and rounded rear portion
• Also found there were elephant and rhino bones
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• Nice, France, dated back to lower Paleolithic when it was a prehistoric beach
• Tools dating back to about 400,000 years ago
• Evidence of early domestication of fire
• First discovery of man-made habitation- huts on the beach, making fires
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• A. anamensis, P. boisei, Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo ergaster
• Oldest specimens found to be 4.2 millions years old
• Oldowan and Acheulean tools
• Turkana boy- 1.5 million years old
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• South Africa
• Taung child- fossilized skull of A. africanus, believed to be about 3-4 years old
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• Java, Indonesia
• “Java man”- Homo erectus
• 60 more human fossils
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• Cave system in Beijing, China
• 750,000- 200,000 years ago
• Peking Man (Homo erectus)
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• Zambia
• Rhodesian Man, dated to 125,000- 300,000 years ago
• Larger cranial capacity
• Largest brow ridges
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• Early Paleolithic remains from Germany
• Reinsdorf interglacial from 370,000 years ago
• Remains of 3 individuals belonging to Homo erectus
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• 1-3.5 million years old
• hominid species
• early Homo erectus
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• Set of limestone caves in South Africa
• 2.6-2.0 million years ago
• yielded the first Australopithecine
• over 500 hominids found, making it the fossil-richest site
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• Kenya, about 1.5 million years old
• Nearly complete boy skeleton of Homo ergaster
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• Java, Indonesia
• First early hominid fossils found outside of Europe
• Trinil 2- long cranium with saggital keel and heavy brow ridge (Homo erectus)
• 1.3 million years ago- 500,000 years ago
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• Spain
• 1.2 million years ago
• Sima de los Huesos
• Bones dated to 350,000 years old
• Homo heidelbergensis
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• Human fossil remains found in well-stratified gravel of the River Thames in England
• Dated to about 300,000 years ago
• Acheulean hand axes found at the site
• Homo heidelbergensis
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• Biretia: 37 million years ago
• Oligocene epoch (33-23 mya)
• Apidum most abundant fossil there
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