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Week 3           Biological Anthropology

Weekly Topics and subtopics


Primates Human as Primates and Modern Human Adaptations Paleoanthropology


Basic Overview of PaleoanthropologyHistory of the Old EarthDating Methods Used in PaleoanthropologyHistory of PaleoanthropologyEvolutionary lines, trees, bushes, and speciesArdipithecusAustralopithecusHomoPutting it all together

  • Neanderthal skull cap found 1856AD⊕
  • Pithecanthropus erectus (Now Homo erectus) found 1891AD⊕
  • Piltdown announced 1912AD⊕
  • Taung Child Announced 1924AD⊕
  • Piltdown is exposed as a fraud 1953AD⊕
  • Discovery and subsequent naming of, Zinj 1959AD⊕
  • Discovery of early Homo at Olduvai in same beds as Zinj 1960AD⊕
  • Homo habilis published 1964AD⊕
  • Discovery of Lucy, AL-288-1, at Hadar, Ethiopia 1974AD⊕
  • First Neanderthal DNA study published 1997AD⊕
  • Ardipithecus ramidus skeleton, Ardi, published 2009AD⊕
  • 10-1 Ma
  • 1-0.1 Ma
  • 0.1Ma - 8000BC
  • 8000BC-1000AD
  • 1000-1900AD
  • 1900-2000AD
  • 21st Century