Kenyatta University | INSTITUTUTE OF OPEN LEARNING | AHT 202 EARLY AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY | | | W. KENNEDY GITU‚ L.K. NGARI‚ W.S. NDIIRI | 1/4/2012 | | Table of Contents Definition of Terms 3 Fossils in Geological Context 5 The Earth in the Cenozoic 11 Origins of Primates 17 The Basis for Human Evolution 23 Origins of the Genus Homo 28 Origins of Modern Humans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 32 Behavior and Evolution of Early Hominines……………………………………………………………………………………………39
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The site of Marlik is one that gives so much valuable information about a culture that lived so long ago‚ yet very few seem to know about the site and what it can tell us about a culture long gone. The site has given so much to the study of archaeology and is one of the richest excavated graveyards in Iranian history‚ and some have argued‚ the best-documented ancient cemetery in the entire Near East. (iranica) Because of its immense significance and vast documentation‚ (MET Culture) it is hard to
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Hominid and hominin – what’s the difference? The terms ‘hominid’ and ‘hominin’ are frequently used in human evolution. New definitions The most commonly used recent definitions are: Hominid – the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is‚ modern humans‚ chimpanzees‚ gorillas and orang-utans plus all their immediate ancestors). Hominin – the group consisting of modern humans‚ extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo‚ Australopithecus
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Richard Cándida Smith Department of History University of Michigan Ann Arbor‚ MI 48109 The Other Side of Meaning: George Kubler on the Object as Historical Source forthcoming in Intellectual History Newsletter‚ vol. 23‚ 2001 The objects that men and women have made provide the most enduring trace of human activity extending back tens of thousands of years in every part of the globe. In a handful of locations‚ as in Europe or East Asia‚ traditions of collecting and connoisseurship
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Trauma and pathology of a buried dog from San Nicolas Island‚ California‚ U.S.A. Barney G. Bartellea Journal of Archaeological Science Rebekah Minchew September 12‚ 2010 In April of 2010‚ Barney G. Bartellea led a group of archaeologists on a dig on San Nicholas Island‚ California‚ USA. Primary investigators included Bartellea‚ Rene Vellanoweth‚ Elizabeth Netherton‚ Nicholas Poister‚ William Kendig‚ Amira Ainis‚ Ryan Glenn‚ Johanna Marty‚ Lisa Thomas-Barnett and Steven Schwartz. The exact
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This paper will discuss relative points and insights relating to sculpture of the Paleolithic era‚ specifically the Venus of Willendorf‚ through the essays of Christopher Witcombe. Venus is a term that has long been associated with artwork‚ most specifically the classical forms of beautiful women. The term Venus has also come to represent female sculptures of the Paleolithic era. The most notable of these female sculptures is the Venus of Willendorf‚ 24‚000-22‚000 BCE. The age of the figurine
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Pompeii and Herculaneum are undoubtedly two of the most prolific and valuable archaeological finds of the ancient world. Both sites‚ due to their preservation in the hardened volcanic tufa and undisturbed tonnes of ash expelled by Vesuvius in AD 79‚ have yielded an abundance of archaeological artefacts which include human remains. Archaeologists‚ historians and museum authorities now face a critically urgent question of ethics concerning the excavation‚ scientific study and display of human remains
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If you live within 100 metres of a centrally protected monument‚ you cannot expand your property anymore‚ according to an amendment to an Act on the protection of monuments. In a major step towards protection of monuments under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)‚ President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday signed the amendment to the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Remains and Sites Act‚ 1958‚ which envisages ban on construction in the prohibited area of the ASI-protected monument. The
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Technology has helped archaeologists and historians to reconstruct the lives of people from Pompeii and Herculaneum. It has allowed artefacts and human remains to be deciphered and more knowledge to be gained. This is why the role of technology is important in reconstructing the lives of people from Pompeii and Herculaneum Estelle Lazer has worked on hundreds of disarticulated bones that were stored in the Sarno Baths in Pompeii. Her research was based on statistics and the use of techniques like
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In central Turkey‚ on the Konya plain‚ lie two tells in what is today one of Turkey’s main agricultural centres. Today the area suffers from periodic droughts‚ but 9000 years ago the Eastern tell‚ Çatalhöyük East‚ was a bustling village‚ or as James Mellaart claimed‚ a city (Anatolia News Agency 2008: 1). In November 1958 James Mellaart returned with two British archaeologists‚ David French and Alan Hall‚ to search the Konya plain for the tell-tale mounds that would signify early human settlement
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