Question

Detailed environmental reconstructions, based on fossil animal bones, of the Daka Member of Ethiopia’s Middle Awash deposits .

a. demonstrate that Asian Homo erectus lived in a rain forest. provide a detailed picture of the habitat in which Homo erectus lived about 1 mya.
b. provide a detailed picture of the habitat in which australopithicines and Homo habilis coexisted about 2.5 mya.
c. prove that in certain areas of Africa, there were no large mammals, only "microfauna" consisting of mice and similar creatures.

Answer 1

b. provide a detailed picture of the habitat in which australopithicines and Homo habilis coexisted about 2.5 mya

Step-by-step explanation:

→Deposits of sediments in lakes and rivers,;

→Low carbon isotopes ratio from carbonate deposits from fossils analysis; showed a wet habitat , and therefore type and population of flora.

Thus these evidences showed the nature of habitat inhabited by the australopithecines .