“peking man” aka homo erectus pekinensis aka sinanthropus
DESCRIPTION
Class Slides Set # 26A Tim Roufs’ section. “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus. Time 23 July 2001. Time 23 July 2001. Genus Homo. Species rudolfensis ( “early” ) habilis ( “early” ) erectus. Homo. Java (Trinil) Pithecanthropus erectus China (Beijing) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
“Peking Man”– aka Homo erectus pekinensis– aka Sinanthropus
Class Slides Set # 26A
Tim Roufs’ section
![Page 2: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Time 23 July 2001
![Page 3: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Time 23 July 2001
![Page 4: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
HomoHomo
Genus
Homo
Species
• rudolfensis ( “early” )
• habilis ( “early” )
• erectus– Java (Trinil)
• Pithecanthropus erectus– China (Beijing)
• Homo erectus pekinensis– Africa . . . – Europe . . .
• sapiens
![Page 5: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 238
![Page 6: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Selected Major Discoveries / Events, ca. 1850 - PresentSelected Major Discoveries / Events, ca. 1850 - Present
"Peking Man" • Choukoutien, China
(now Zhoukoudian)
• Sinanthropus
• Homo erectus pekinensis
• 0.5 - 0.2 mya
1920s
![Page 7: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
![Page 8: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Major Sites: ChinaMajor Sites: China
Choukoutien = Zhoukoudian
( Chou-kou-tien )
![Page 9: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Campbell – Loy, Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 295
![Page 10: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Zhoukoudian Cave.
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 267
![Page 11: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Homo erectus from Zhoukoudian
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 225
![Page 12: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Trinil Homo erectus from Zhoukoudian
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 227
![Page 13: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
![Page 14: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
foraminia mentalia
![Page 15: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
![Page 16: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
![Page 17: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
1. Had larger cranial capacity• 830 - 1300 cc• avg. = 1075
Beijing people
![Page 18: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Campbell – Loy, Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 317
![Page 19: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
1. Had larger cranial capacity• 830 - 1300 cc• avg. = 1075
2. had fire
Beijing people
![Page 20: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
www.gridclub.com/fact_gadget/1001/human_world/prehistoric_people/639.html
![Page 21: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
![Page 22: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
The First Men (Little Brown, 1973), p. 26
![Page 23: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
The First Men (Little Brown, 1973), p. 8
![Page 24: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
The First Men (Little Brown, 1973), p. 29
![Page 25: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
![Page 26: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
![Page 27: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
![Page 28: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
![Page 29: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
![Page 30: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
1. Had larger cranial capacity• 830 - 1300 cc• avg. = 1075
2. had fire3. lived in caves
Beijing people
![Page 31: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
http://cssa.mit.edu/worldheritage/img/zkd/big/zkd-08b.jpg
![Page 32: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
![Page 33: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
1. Had larger cranial capacity• 830 - 1300 cc• avg. = 1075
2. had fire3. lived in caves4. had better tools
Beijing people
![Page 34: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
http://cssa.mit.edu/worldheritage/img/zkd/big/zkd-08b.jpg
![Page 35: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
http://cssa.mit.edu/worldheritage/img/zkd/big/zkd-08b.jpg
![Page 36: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
![Page 37: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
![Page 38: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
Chinese Tools from Middle Pleistocene sites.
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 268
Quartzite chopper Flint point Flint Awl Graver or Burin
![Page 39: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
![Page 40: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
Source: Campbell and Loy, Humankind Emerging, 7th ed, p. 334
Movius Line
![Page 41: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
1. Had larger cranial capacity• 830 - 1300 cc• avg. = 1075
2. had fire3. lived in caves4. had better tools5. seemed inclined to eat their
neighbor
Beijing people
![Page 42: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
![Page 43: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2937187.stm
![Page 44: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/44.jpg)
![Page 45: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/45.jpg)
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/14863_cannibalism.html
![Page 46: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/46.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
•Survival
Types of Cannibalism
![Page 47: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/47.jpg)
![Page 48: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/48.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
•Survival
•Gustatory
Types of Cannibalism
![Page 49: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/49.jpg)
![Page 50: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/50.jpg)
![Page 51: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/51.jpg)
![Page 52: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/52.jpg)
CannibalismCannibalism
“Bones Offer Evidence of a Neanderthal - Eat - Neanderthal World”
78 fragments from 6 skeletons
ca. 100,000 ybp
30 September 1999
Moula-Gercy, France
![Page 53: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/53.jpg)
(ABACNEWS.com/MagellanGeographix)
![Page 54: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/54.jpg)
Fragment of a Neandertal Thigh bone
(UCAL Berkeley / AP Photo)
![Page 55: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/55.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
•Survival
•Gustatory
•Ritualistic or Incorporative
Types of Cannibalism
![Page 56: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/56.jpg)
![Page 57: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/57.jpg)
Homo erectusHomo erectus
•Modern deposits and bones
•Sampoeng stratum (Neolithic)
•Ngandong stratum (Upper Pleistocene)
•Trinil stratum (Middle Pleistocene)
•Djetis stratum (Lower Pleistocene)
•Three or more strata (Pliocene)
Java stratigraphy
![Page 58: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/58.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
Beijing people were
geographically isolated
This shows up in . . .
![Page 59: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/59.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
1. Mongoloid shovel-shaped incisors
2. taurodontisma. molars and premolars with enlarged pulp
cavities extending downward into fused roots
3. mandibular torusa. heavy bony ridge on inside of lower jaw
from canine to first molar on each side
4. extra foraminia mentaliaa. 2 - 5 openings in lower jawbone through
which pass the nerves and blood vessels
![Page 60: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/60.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
1. Mongoloid shovel-shaped incisors
![Page 61: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/61.jpg)
Shovel-shaped incisors, shown here in a modern Homo sapiens sapiens
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 263
![Page 62: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/62.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
1. Mongoloid shovel-shaped incisors
2. taurodontisma. molars and premolars with enlarged pulp
cavities extending downward into fused roots
![Page 63: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/63.jpg)
![Page 64: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/64.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
1. Mongoloid shovel-shaped incisors
2. taurodontisma. molars and premolars with enlarged pulp
cavities extending downward into fused roots
3. mandibular torusa. heavy bony ridge on inside of lower jaw
from canine to first molar on each side
![Page 65: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/65.jpg)
![Page 66: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/66.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensisHomo erectus pekinensis
1. Mongoloid shovel-shaped incisors
2. taurodontisma. molars and premolars with enlarged pulp
cavities extending downward into fused roots
3. mandibular torusa. heavy bony ridge on inside of lower jaw
from canine to first molar on each side
4. extra foraminia mentaliaa. 2 - 5 openings in lower jawbone through
which pass the nerves and blood vessels
![Page 67: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/67.jpg)
Homo erectus pekinensis
![Page 68: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/68.jpg)
Homo sapiens sapiens
![Page 69: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/69.jpg)
Kottak, Physical Anthropology & Archaeology (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004), p. 202.
![Page 70: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/70.jpg)
Kottak, Physical Anthropology & Archaeology (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004), p. 203.
![Page 71: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/71.jpg)
REM
Homo erecti are hand axe people
![Page 72: “Peking Man” aka Homo erectus pekinensis aka Sinanthropus](https://reader033.vdocuments.mx/reader033/viewer/2022061604/56814ef3550346895dbc822e/html5/thumbnails/72.jpg)
Homo erectus in Africa
Next: