Prehistoric CulturesClass Slides Set # 01B

Tim Roufs’ section

Kinds of Major Finds and

Announcementsof 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/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/487514.stm

http://www.biology.lsa.umich.edu/~gwk/research/nyos.html

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/4023687.htm

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html

Source: Dinosaurs

(c)1997, 1998, 1999 Dinosaur Interplantary Gazette, All Rights ReservedSource: www.dinosaur.org

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/volcano/

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-01/gsoa-tki012302.php

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)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2909803.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2983300.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2981756.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2909803.stm

Hobbit

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=198867&page=1

http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

Mysteries of newly-found 'hobbit' lure tourists to remote Indonesian isle Mysteries of newly-found 'hobbit' lure tourists to remote Indonesian isle

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.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/

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E1089877%257E,00.html

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E1088731%257E,00.html

Anova 30 October 2001

Weekly World News -- 30 October 2001

http://www.bluemountaineagle.info/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=1018&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=12

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://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

NeandertalsNeandertals

1. Is Neandertal a separate species than Homo sapiens ?

Four important Neandertal questions

NeandertalsNeandertals

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 ?

Four important Neandertal questions

NeandertalsNeandertals

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

Four important Neandertal questions

NeandertalsNeandertals

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?

Four important Neandertal questions

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

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3167526.stm

http://www.nature.com/nsu/030310/030310-9.html

Homo erectus

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html

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

3.5 mya Australopithecus

suggesting our ancestorswere less chimp-like than

we thought

31 January 2003

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2973083.stm

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 enya N a tiona lMuseum

W est T urka na Find #17,000

KNM -W T 17000K

http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/australopithecusaethiopicus.htm

KNM-WT 17000Source: 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

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/ps-chw090204.php

Orrorin tugenensis Femur

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4021811.stm

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/news/nation/10212249.htm

July 23, 2001

Ardipithecusramiduskadabba

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=8104820

“Toumai”

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=8104820

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4416757.stm

“Toumai”

KNM-WT 17000

Sahelanthropustchadensis

Pre-hominidapes

and monkeys

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctimes.html

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-08/osu-ehm080603.php

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