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Are we nearly there yet Human Evolution Chris Stringer
The Natural History Museum
London
Paranthropus (Australopithecus) robustus
Australopithecines thousands of fossils and at least 8 species in S
E and C Africa
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Olduvai Gorge and the Leakeys
ldquoZinjanthropusrdquo human or australopithecine
East Turkana (N Kenya) 15 ndash20 Ma
Homo habilis one or more species
Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis
Australopithecus sediba (Malapa Cave S Africa)
Becoming human
Meat guts
and brains
Stone tools
~26 Ma
Body shape
Brain size increase
Lewin
Social brains
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 2: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Paranthropus (Australopithecus) robustus
Australopithecines thousands of fossils and at least 8 species in S
E and C Africa
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Olduvai Gorge and the Leakeys
ldquoZinjanthropusrdquo human or australopithecine
East Turkana (N Kenya) 15 ndash20 Ma
Homo habilis one or more species
Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis
Australopithecus sediba (Malapa Cave S Africa)
Becoming human
Meat guts
and brains
Stone tools
~26 Ma
Body shape
Brain size increase
Lewin
Social brains
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 3: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Australopithecines thousands of fossils and at least 8 species in S
E and C Africa
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Olduvai Gorge and the Leakeys
ldquoZinjanthropusrdquo human or australopithecine
East Turkana (N Kenya) 15 ndash20 Ma
Homo habilis one or more species
Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis
Australopithecus sediba (Malapa Cave S Africa)
Becoming human
Meat guts
and brains
Stone tools
~26 Ma
Body shape
Brain size increase
Lewin
Social brains
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 4: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Olduvai Gorge and the Leakeys
ldquoZinjanthropusrdquo human or australopithecine
East Turkana (N Kenya) 15 ndash20 Ma
Homo habilis one or more species
Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis
Australopithecus sediba (Malapa Cave S Africa)
Becoming human
Meat guts
and brains
Stone tools
~26 Ma
Body shape
Brain size increase
Lewin
Social brains
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 5: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Olduvai Gorge and the Leakeys
ldquoZinjanthropusrdquo human or australopithecine
East Turkana (N Kenya) 15 ndash20 Ma
Homo habilis one or more species
Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis
Australopithecus sediba (Malapa Cave S Africa)
Becoming human
Meat guts
and brains
Stone tools
~26 Ma
Body shape
Brain size increase
Lewin
Social brains
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 6: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
ldquoZinjanthropusrdquo human or australopithecine
East Turkana (N Kenya) 15 ndash20 Ma
Homo habilis one or more species
Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis
Australopithecus sediba (Malapa Cave S Africa)
Becoming human
Meat guts
and brains
Stone tools
~26 Ma
Body shape
Brain size increase
Lewin
Social brains
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 7: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
East Turkana (N Kenya) 15 ndash20 Ma
Homo habilis one or more species
Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis
Australopithecus sediba (Malapa Cave S Africa)
Becoming human
Meat guts
and brains
Stone tools
~26 Ma
Body shape
Brain size increase
Lewin
Social brains
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 8: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Homo habilis one or more species
Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis
Australopithecus sediba (Malapa Cave S Africa)
Becoming human
Meat guts
and brains
Stone tools
~26 Ma
Body shape
Brain size increase
Lewin
Social brains
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 9: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Australopithecus sediba (Malapa Cave S Africa)
Becoming human
Meat guts
and brains
Stone tools
~26 Ma
Body shape
Brain size increase
Lewin
Social brains
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 10: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Becoming human
Meat guts
and brains
Stone tools
~26 Ma
Body shape
Brain size increase
Lewin
Social brains
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 11: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Brain size increase
Lewin
Social brains
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 12: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Social brains
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 13: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Did increasing African aridity drive Pliocene radiations
P deMenorcal
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 14: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Ecological
change
Declining 1o productivity
Changing resource
distribution
Foraging change
Dietary change
Technology
Increased range
dispersal potential
Increased body
amp brain size
Anton Leonard and Robertson (2002)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 15: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Early humans 15-18 Ma Out of Africa 1
16
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 16: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history
Darwin 1859
John Reader
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 17: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1819)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 18: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Homo erectus
0028jpg
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 19: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
ldquoPhasesrdquo of human evolution
Human phase 2 ndash 0 Ma gtgtGlobal spread ldquoHumanrdquo anatomy gtgtEncephalised
gtgtDietary range gtgtBehavioural complexity
Australopithecine phase 4 ndash 2 Ma Widespread in Africa Bipedal but still partly arboreal Early tool-use Predom still ape-like
Early phase 7 ndash 4 Ma C+E Africa Still poorly known Earliest bipeds Largely ape-like
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 20: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Dmanisi
Georgia
~18 Ma
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 21: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Brain size increase
Lewin
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 22: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Debate about the earliest human dispersals from Africa
An Asian perspective on early human
dispersal from Africa
Robin Dennell amp Wil Roebroeks 2005
Nature 438 1099-1104
hellipit is time to develop alternatives to one
of palaeoanthropologys most basic
paradigms Out of Africa 1
Dmanisi
Flores
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 23: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Contingency (chance events)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 24: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
The ldquoHobbitrdquo Homo floresiensis
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 25: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Origins and evolution Lahr amp Foley
Brown
Reader
Dmanisiorg
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 26: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
The Asian storyhellip
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 27: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Getting to Europehellip
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 28: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
12 Million year old jawbone
found in Sima del Elefante
Atapuerca Spain
Evidence of earliest human occurrence in
Europe
the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)
Arzarello M Marcolini F Pavia G Pavia M
Petronio C Petrucci M Rook L Sardella R
15
Ma
14
Ma
12
Ma
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 29: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Atapuerca Spain Gran Dolina and Sima del
Elefante
Homo antecessor 08Ma and possibly 12Ma
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 30: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Some ldquorecentrdquo events in human evolution
Out of Africa 1
First humans in S Europe
First humans in Far East
Changes in glacial intensity
First humans in N EuropeBritain
Early Neanderthals in Europe
Homo sapiens Out of Africa 2 Homo sapiens in Africa
Neanderthals and ldquoHobbitrdquo extinct
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 31: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
How and when did people first get to Britain
Fire
Clothing
Shelters Better hunting
Better technology
National Museum of Wales
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 32: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
When did people first arrive
Who were they
How did they get to Britain
What environments did they
occupy
Was occupation continuous
When did our real ancestors arrive
When did Britain become an island
httpwwwahobprojectorg
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 33: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
An example of severe climate change in Britain Three Cliffs Bay Gower S Wales
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 34: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
The marginal position and extreme climates of Britain help us to distinguish and sequence events
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 35: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Ostend Channel
Site 2
Site 1
Hill House River
sediments
Site 3 ~840950ka
Site 4
Site 5
Happisburgh Norfolk
offshore
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 36: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
July 8th 2010
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 37: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
John SibbickAHOB
conditions similar to those at the
ecotonal boundary between deciduous
and coniferous woodland such as
occurs in southern Sweden and Norway
today
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 38: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo antecessor Homo erectus
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 39: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
Homo heidelbergensis Mauer ~600ka
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 40: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
A common ancestor at 500 ka
H heid in Europe and Africa
LCA of Nea and sapiens
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 41: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
Boxgrove
The Boxgrove Quarry
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 42: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
Sussex 500000 years ago
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 43: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
Boxgrove
~500ka
The Boxgrove Project
Homo heidelbergensis
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 44: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/44.jpg)
Why does heidelbergensis brain size reach the modern
range
H erectus (Sangiran) H heidelbergensis (Broken Hill)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 45: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/45.jpg)
Technology and brain evolution
Foley amp Lewin
Archaeology suggests a late ldquoexplosionrdquo in behavioural complexityhellip
helliphowever brain size shows a steadier increase
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 46: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/46.jpg)
Language
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 47: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/47.jpg)
Lewin
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 48: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/48.jpg)
The Enigma of the Handaxe and spearshelliphellip
If they were talking to each other they were saying the same thing over and over and over
Desmond Clark
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 49: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/49.jpg)
The enigma of Schoumlningen
Our future is partly up to ushellip
![Page 50: Chris Stringer The Natural History Museum London · Earliest bipeds? Largely ape-like? Olduvai Gorge and ... Light will be thrown on the origin of Man and his history Darwin 1859](https://reader031.vdocument.in/reader031/viewer/2022011821/5ebe00172849704e7731a081/html5/thumbnails/50.jpg)
Our future is partly up to ushellip