This term humanities was fun. We learned about ancient Mesopotamia, The types of buildings there. We even learned about early humans! I think I participated very well in class but could still do better. My favorite part of humanities this term was when we were parted into groups of 2-4 to make , fire, a basket and a spear all using only things we found. For fire we used a donkey eye from the coast of Trinidad that got really hot when rubbed against rock then when it was hot we put a dried leaf between them. For our basket we weaved Palm leaves together For the spear we strapped a stone on bamboo with vine.
This is a Donkey eye.
This is a picture of our basket.
Homo Erectus paragraph.
In the early years of paleoanthropology, there were two different species that were attributed to the genus Homo. These included the Neanderthals, and the Homo Erectus. In the early 1960s, this began to change. Homo Erectus is one of the better-known groups in the hominids, especially in terms of its well-established place in paleoanthropology. This has begun to change, and now some question its place in human evolution.
Some say that Homo Erectus is an invalid taxon, though few accept this at this point in time. Others believe that the material previously attributed to Erectus should be split into different taxons: Asian and African material remaining with Erectus not contributing to modern humans. In this description of the species, the material that has been attributed as ergaster and Erectus in the splitting scenario will be covered,with the heidelbergensis material.
The species was named by Eugène Dubois it was originally designed as Pithecanthropus Erectus in 1894. After this Eugène Dubois enlisted as an army surgeon in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army, and searched for fossils in Sumatra. He had little success in Sumatra, but found unearthed a thick mineralized hominid skull near the bank of the Solo River in Java. Dubois made his find public a few years later. His material was later associated with the Chinese material from Zhoukoudian. Except for modern Homo sapiens, Erectus was the most far-ranging hominid to have existed. Material that has been attributed to Erectus has come from South Africa, Indonesia, England, and just about everywhere in between, covering the entire continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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