Question

What are three cultural changes that are associated with the archaic forms of Homo sapiens and not with other previous hominins?

Answer 1

Ans. Archaic Homo refers to the human populations or species that were chronologically and anatomically intermediate between Homo erectus and modern Homo sapiens.

The cultural changes associated with the archaic forms of Homo sapiens are :-

1) Anatomically , Archaic Homo exhibit larger braincases than Homo erectus as well as greater body mass , among other features.

2) Archaic Homo had controlled and regular use of fire .

3) Archaic Homo colonized temperate regions of Eurasia for the first time.

In some regions, Archaic Homo populations appear to have directly contributed to the ancestry of modern humans.

The overall pattern of evolutionary relationships among Archaic Homo , as elucidated by the available fossil and paleogenomic evidence indicates that not all archaics and modern humans were reproductively isolated from each other.