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Archaeological News: 'Peking Man' Was a Fashion Plate
“Peking Man,” a human ancestor who lived in China between roughly 200,000 and 750,000 years ago, was a wood-working, fire-using, spear-hafting hominid who, mysteriously, liked to drill holes into objects for unknown reasons.
And, yes, these hominids, a form of Homo erectus, appear to have…
Femoral cross-section of KNM-ER 1808 (H. erectus, 1.7 Ma) showing evidence of pathological apposition of bone on the shaft attributed to hypervitaminosis A resulting from the consumption of carnivore livers. Skinner (1991) proposed an alternative explanation: the protracted ingestion of bee brood, another food source with high concentrations of vitamin A, could theoretically produce hypervitaminosis A.
Sources:
Skinner, M. (1991) ‘Bee brood consumption: an alternative explanation for hypervitaminosis A in KNM-ER 1808 (Homo erectus) from Koobi Fora, Kenya,’ Journal of Human Evolution 20:493-503.
Walker, A., Zimmerman, M.R. and Leakey, R.E.F. (1982) ‘A possible case of hypervitaminosis A in Homo erectus,’ Nature 296:248-50.
Indonesia, Homo erectus
Physical Anthropology: Fossil of the Week: Ceprano calvaria
Archaeologist Italo Biddittu discovered a nearly complete hominin calvaria in 1994 near town of Ceprano, about 10 km south of Rome. It was an accidental find, dug out during road construction works. Potassium-argon dating of the sediments yielded date of about 0,7 mya for fossil, which…
African specimens from the Early Pleistocene are compared
This station includes several casts of early fossil Homo erectus, from the Early Pleistocene of Africa. These include:
OH 9, from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, around 1.2 million years old.
KNM-ER 3733, from Ileret, Kenya, 1.65 million years old.
KNM-ER 3833, from Koobi Fora, Kenya, 1.6 million years old.
KNM-WT 15000, from Nariokotome, Kenya, 1.5 million years old.
Physical Anthropology: Where are Zhoukoudian fossils?
One of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world, Zhoukoudian cave system in Beijing, China, has yielded about 200 human fossils from more than 40 individuals including 5 nearly complete skullcaps until the WWII. These were attributed to species Homo erectus, and the lowest…
‘Java Man’ (Homo erectus)
Chopper
Age: about 1,85 million years old Site: Dmanisi (Georgia)
