- WT 15000 (almost complete H. erectus skeleton ever found)

- dated to 1.6 mya

- 8yr old boy - 5'3" tall

- 880 cc-909 cc (as an adult)

- 50-25 kya (70-40 kya)

- most recent H. erectus fossils

- contemporart with H. sapiens 

- 14 individuals fossils found

the study of how bones and other materials came to be buried in the earth and preserved as fossils 

the polish left on an experimental flint implement after scraping wood for 10 minutes

a method of removing flakes from a core by pressing a pointed implement against the stone

- nearly complete skull of Homo erectus

- 1.8 mya

- 848 cc

  - H. erectus range: 700- 1250 cc

- 130,000 ya

- mosaic features (mosaic evolution)

  - brow ridge robust, brain case expanded

- nearly complete skull found

- skull cap (900 cc)

- solo river in Java

- first time found outside of Europe or Africa

- discovered by Euguene Dubois

- 1.6-1.0 mya

- small stone tools ususally produced from narrow blades punched from a core

- found especially in Africa during the latter part of the Pleistocene

- best evidence of H. heidelbergensis in Asia

- nearly complete skull found 

- 230,000 - 180,000 ya

- reconstructed skull

- an early modern human from Ethiopia, dated to 195 kya

- clear presence of a chin

- oldest modern human found anywhere

-two crania found

- Isreal

- thought to be reps of early H.sapien

- vault height, forehead, & lack of prognathasm are all modern traits

- 10 individuals found

- 130,000 - 100,000 ya

- conduct continous exvations at Olduvai

- provided clues to the ecological conditions of early hominin habitats

- an estimate of age in years based on radioactive decay

- absolute dating

- canine fossa

- vertical forehead

- reduced browridges

- pyramidal mastoid process

- definite chin

- 195,000 ya

- Europe, Australia, SE Asia, China, oldworld

- supra orbital tori

- characteristic in a robust form of varying degrees of erectus, sahaelanthropus, paranthropus aethiopicus

- behavioral aspects of human adaptation

- systematic learned behaviors that can be communicated to others