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Internet Exercises
Chapter 8: Homo erectus and the Emergence of Hunting and Gathering
- Compare the H. erectus and H. ergaster data at this site: http://www.geocities.com/palaeoanthropology/Herectus.html . What are the major differences? Are they different enough to be two species? Or are we really seeing variation in H. erectus similar to what we see today in H. sapiens?
- Access the Peking Man World heritage Site at Zhoukoudian (http://www.unesco.org/ext/field/beijing/whc/pkm-site.htm) and answer the following questions: When was the site first identified by an outsider? Why is it particularly attractive to geologists? What are 'Dragon Bones?' Why was the discovery of Peking Man so important with regard to studies of human evolution? What evidence of fire is found at the site and how was it probably first obtained? What was a typical lifespan for Peking Man?
- Visit the web focus site for Homo floresiensis at http://www.nature.com/news/specials/flores/index.html. Imagine you're one of the paleoanthropologists/archaeologists who discovered H. floresiensis, and you have as much money and time as you need, so you decide to continue your investigations. What additional information do you most want to learn about this species? Why? How would you go about searching for more data?
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