Psy 190 Test 2 Study Guide

 

Chapter 5

 

The Pit of Bones (La Sima de los Huesos)                     homo antecessor

Atapuerca Cavern                                                        homo heidelbergensis

Gran Dolina (dates)                                                      Schoningen (dates)

Boxgrove, England – evidence of complex behavior (dates)

Fire use by hominids, dates, speculations

Climate changes, ice ages, impact on human evolution

Tool making, dates, styles through evolution                  brain size of evolving hominids

 

Chapter 6

 

Neanderthals – time span, size, features, lifestyle

Neander Valley, Feldhofer Cave, Johann Fuhlrott, Sschaafhauson, Virchow, Mayer, Huxley, (dates)

Le Moustier, La Ferrassie, Le Chapelle

Shanidar: The First Flower People

Eric Trinkaus                Mouterian toolkit                      The “last Neanderthals” (when and where)

 

Chapter 7

 

African Eve     

Allan Wilson, Rebecca Cann, Mark Stoneking              Cro-Magnons

Multiregionalism versus Out-of-Africa theory of human origins

Weidenreich, Wolpoff, Alan Thorne                                          Chris Stringer

Trinkaus’s “limb thermometer” – results, implications     Kibish Man

Border Cave, Klasies River

Dates of emigrations, mitochondrial DNA, mutation rate, implications

Svante Paabo’s analysis of Neanderthal DNA, findings, implications

Reasons for extinction of Neanderthals

 

Chapter 8

 

Grotte Chauvet             parietal art                    Lascaux

Dates of Cro-Magnon art                     Lady of Brassempouy (age)

Significance of “art”

Venus figurines                         Ideas of Jared Diamond