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Category Archives: paleoanthropology
Getting there is half the fun: Early Homo
The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary presents a period of transformation in human evolution. This is a period after which it is clear that early humans are using subsistence strategies that can be characterized as hunting and gathering, assisted with the advent of … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Homo, Homo erectus, Human evolution, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Strait of Gibraltar
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The Effect of Ardipithecus ramidus on Agnopithecus creationus
Image by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com via Flickr There were a stream of posts on the anthropology blogs about Ardipithecus ramidus, the 4.4 million year old fossil hominid originally discovered by a team led by Tim White in Ethiopia between 1992-1993. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ardipithecus, Evolution, Hominidae, Human evolution, Tim White
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I Love Lucy!
Australopithecus Afarensis skeleton was discovered in 1974 near Hadar in Ethiopia, and she was nicknamed “Lucy” by the paleoanthropologists who found her. As the story goes, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” by the Beatles was playing during their celebration … Continue reading
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Tagged Australopithecus Afarensis, Hominidae, Human evolution, Origins of Life
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The First Americans Were Immigrants of Two Populations
The most recent online issue of Current Biology has an article describing the research which reveals evidence that the first Americans immigrated via two distinct populations at around the same time. One population is comprised of haplogroup D4h3, which took … Continue reading
Neanderthals were not stupid
It has long been thought that one of the reason Homo sapiens eventually dominated the hominid line, colonizing Africa and Europe beginning at around 40,000 years ago and eradicating or out-competing the Neanderthals, was that they were technologically advantaged. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropology, Archaeology, cave men, neanderthals, paleoanthropology
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Cavemen Liked Big Butts and They Cannot Lie
Acouple of online editions of U.K. newspapers reported the recent finds of 30 carvings recovered at an archaeological site in Poland, dating to about 15,000 years ago. Most anthropologists and archaeologists would probably be immediately familiar with the Venus Figurine … Continue reading
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10 Million Year Old Ape Found in Ethiopia
Not alive. I just wanted to clarify that first. But the fossil remains of what is being dubbed Chororapithecus abyssinicus by the Ethiopian-Japanese team that discovered the ancient ape “represents the earliest recognised primate directly related to modern-day gorillas, chimpanzees … Continue reading
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Iceman Bled to Death on Glacier – Killed by Arrow
At least that’s the title I should have used on March 20, 2007 when I scooped the BBC, the LA Times, National Geographic and other major and minor media outlets. My original post on the topic was at Anthropology.net, titled … Continue reading
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Paleoanthropology: Multiregional versus Replacement
The multiregional evolution hypothesis asserts that modern humans are the present manifestation of older species of hominids including Homo neanderthalensis and H. erectus. The replacement hypothesis, however, states that modern humans are a new species and that the older species … Continue reading
Howler Monkeys Part 4: References and Cited Works
I hope if you read this far in this four part series, that you enjoyed reading about one of the most enigmatic New World monkeys. Below is the list of works cited in the previous three parts, but I’m also … Continue reading