Prehistoric Cultures
Class Slides Set # 01B
Tim Roufs’ section
Kinds of Major Finds
and
Announcements
of the
Past Quarter Century:
(Pre- Homo sapiens sapiens)
Prehistoric Primates
Prehistoric Primates
(and other prehistoric species)
are no longer around
Why?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10819471/
dates
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html
Source: Dinosaurs
(c)1997, 1998, 1999 Dinosaur Interplantary Gazette, All Rights Reserved
Source: www.dinosaur.org
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4505516.stm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0202_060202_evolution.html
Motochondrial
Eve
Understanding Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th edition, p. 43.
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html
“Did We Come Out of Africa?
Studies Collide”
“Out of Africa” [“Replacement
Theory”]
vs.
“Multi-Regional” Theory
New York Times
(12 January 2001)
Hobbit
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=198867&page=1
Mysteries of newly-found 'hobbit' lure tourists to remote
Indonesian isle
http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17497640%255E2702,00.html
http://www.slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2108823&
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=198867&page=1
Gigantopithecus
(Bigfoot?)
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=52160&section=homepage
Robert Olson of Deer River holds a plaster casting that he made
from what he says are footprints of Bigfoot beings in
Northeastern Minnesota.
(Lee Bloomquist / Duluth News Tribune)
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=52160&section=homepage
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_BIGFOOT_SEARCH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_BIGFOOT_SEARCH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/local/14814166.htm
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/flores/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4648598.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/3631256.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/12/secret.waterfall.ap/
Anova 30 October 2001
Weekly World News -- 30 October 2001
Gigantopithecus
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1208_051208_giant_ape.html
http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/opr/nms/newsreleases/2005/rink.html
Neandertal
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/science/05nean.html?_r=2&\1ref=science&\1oref=slogin&oref=slogin
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202323.html?hpid=moreheadlines
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202323.html?hpid=moreheadlines
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0326_030326_neanderthalthumb_2.html
www.physorg.com/news101477918.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/070930-neanderthals.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4986668.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5343266.stm?lsm
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html
Neandertals
Four important Neandertal questions
1. Is Neandertal a separate species than Homo sapiens ?
Neandertals
Four important Neandertal questions
1. Is Neandertal a separate species than Homo sapiens ?
2. Why did the Neandertals disappear so rapidly ?
• The “Neandertal Problem”
• Out-fought ?
• Genetically Absorbed ?
• Killed off by tropical and warm-climate diseases for which they
had no resistance ?
Neandertals
Four important Neandertal questions
1. Is Neandertal a separate species than Homo sapiens ?
2. Why did the Neandertals disappear so rapidly ?
• The “Neandertal Problem”
3. Did Neandertals have speech like we know it ?
• The “Lieberman” hypothesis
Neandertals
Four important Neandertal questions
1. Is Neandertal a separate species than Homo sapiens ?
2. Why did the Neandertals disappear so rapidly ?
•
The “Neandertal Problem”
3. Did Neandertals have speech like we know it ?
4. Did Neandertals interbreed with Homo sapiens sapiens ?
Are we part Neandertal?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3431609.stm
“Are our kin Neanderthals?”
University of Utah researcher, John Hawks,
says Neanderthals bred with modern humans
Deseret News
(15 January 2001)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3023685.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3256228.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3663865.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4637605.stm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050314/neanderthal.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1687212,00.html
“Other Archaics”
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html
Homo erectus
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070801174826.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6937476.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6937476.stm
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pekingman7apr07,1,4016461.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4863378/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051114/homocrunch_arc.html
Homo habilis
Australopithecus
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5363328.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5363328.stm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060920-lucys-baby.html
3.5 mya
Australopithecus
suggesting our ancestors
were less chimp-like than
we thought
31 January 2003
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html
WT 17000
“The Black Skull”
2.5 mya
Australopithecus aethiopicus
(aka Australopithecus boisei)
KNM-WT
17000
•Kenya National Museum
•West Lake Turkana, Kenya
•Find # 17,000
Fossil Naming Conventions
K
KNM-WT
17000
Kenya National
Museum
West Turkana
Find #17,000
http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/australopithecusaethiopicus.htm
KNM-WT 17000
Source: Braindance
Other early
hominids
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4900946.stm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2006/04/13/MNGMII8GLK1.DTL&o=1
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996353
Orrorin tugenensis Femur
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/ps-chw090204.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4021811.stm
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/news/nation/10212249.htm
July 23, 2001
Ardipithecus
ramidus
kadabba
“Toumai”
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=8104820
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=8104820
“Toumai”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4416757.stm
Sahelanthropus
tchadensis
KNM-WT 17000
Pre-hominid
apes
and monkeys
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1118_041118_great_ape_ancestor.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1118_041118_great_ape_ancestor.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/11/18/great.apes/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4014351.stm