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Anthropology Newsgroups: sci.anthropology[.paleo]
sci.anthropology is the general USENET newsgroup for anthropology. sci.anthropology.paleo is for the discussion of the evolution of the genus Homo, and more generally of the primates.
Becoming Human: Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins
The Institute of Human Origins' (IHO) interactive online documentary, glossary and other resources on human evolutionary history. IHO conducts, interprets and publicizes scientific research on the human career. IHO’s unique approach brings together scientists from diverse disciplines to develop integrated, bio-behavioral investigations of human evolution. Through research, education, and the sponsorship of scholarly interaction, IHO advances scientific understanding of our origins and its contemporary relevance. Combining interdisciplinary expertise and targeted funding, IHO fosters the pursuit of integrated solutions to the most important questions regarding the course, cause and timing of events in human evolution.
Chasseur de la Préhistoire. L'Homme de Tautavel il y a 450 000 ans.
The Arago cave (or "Caune", as it is also called) is one of the largest karstic caves in the southern Corbières region. The cave is located high up, overlooking the Tautavel Valley, and offering an unparalleled view of the surroundings. This observation post must have been ideal for prehistoric hunters, who could thus watch the movements of game. In addition, the Verdouble, flowing at the foot of the cliff, was a watering place where animals came to drink - thus offering an obvious advantage to the people of Tautavel. Near the former entrance to the cave, a path provided easy access to another hunting area: the plateau, located above the cave.
Computer Assisted Paleoanthropology
Computer-assisted Paleoanthropology allies research in palaeoanthropology / physical anthropology and informatics / computational sciences, while simultaneously maintaining close links to biomedical imaging and clinical applications. The principal thrust of our group is analysis of developmental morphology in primates and humans with an evolutionary perspective: comparing data from fossils with data from living species, and with data from computer models. This combined approach reflects our vision that questions relating to hominin evolution and development are addressed most appropriately in 3 ways: by observing patterns resulting from past and present evolutionary / developmental events, by performing experiments on extant species, and by incorporating computer models. Computer simulations build an essential link between the first and second, as they permit exploration of the properties of evolutionary / developmental model systems incorporating theoretical and empirical data.
ETSS.net - Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences
Our mission is to serve as the premier information site for scholars interested in evolutionary thought in the social sciences.
Evolution of Evolution - 150 Years of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
The National Science Foundation created this resource with an excellent overview of evolutionary theory over the last 150 years. This online exhibit features a timeline of events, videos, images, and essays by scientists, such as Tim White and Ken Weiss. The online exhibit covers these areas of evolutionary science: Anthropology, Geosciences, Astronomy, Charles Darwin, Biology, and Polar Sciences.
Human Evolution: The fossil evidence in 3D
Welcome to the UCSB online 3D gallery of modern primate relatives and fossil ancestors of humans. This gallery contains five modern primate crania, and five fossil crania. The crania can be rotated 360 degrees. Each cranium is accompanied by a short description of its relevance to human evolution, and a site map.
The Institute of Human Origins (IHO) conducts, interprets and publicizes scientific research on the human career. IHO’s unique approach brings together scientists from diverse disciplines to develop integrated, bio-behavioral investigations of human evolution. Through research, education, and the sponsorship of scholarly interaction, IHO advances scientific understanding of our origins and its contemporary relevance. Combining interdisciplinary expertise and targeted funding, IHO fosters the pursuit of integrated solutions to the most important questions regarding the course, cause and timing of events in human evolution.
john hawks weblog | paleoanthropology, genetics, and evolution
I'm an anthropologist, and I study the bones and genes of ancient humans. I was trained as a paleoanthropologist. ``Paleoanthropology'' is more than a speciality within anthropology, or biology. It is an integrated study involving methods and insights from many fields. Unlike many paleoanthropologists, my study extends across the entire span of human evolution, the last 6 million years, as I examine the genetic and environmental causes that made the foundation of our origins. My academic position is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. I've been in Madison since 2002. In the fall of 2009 I am on leave from the university working on several projects. I started writing this blog for two basic reasons: first, because there are some really interesting issues in paleoanthropology that are not well covered in the mainstream science press, and second, because I needed a good way to organize my notes.
Kimmswick - Mastodon State Historic Site
Mastodon State Historic Site contains an important archaeological and paleontological site - the Kimmswick Bone Bed, where scientists discovered the first solid evidence of the coexistence of humans and the American mastodon in eastern North America. At the end of the ice age that occurred from 35,000 to 10,000 years ago, the glaciers to the north were slowly melting as the earth warmed. Animals such as giant ground sloths, peccaries, and hairy, elephantlike mastodons roamed the Midwest. Paleontologists theorize that the area was once swampy and contained mineral springs. Animals that came to the springs may have become trapped in the mud, which helped preserve their bones. Early American Indians also had reached present-day Missouri by at least 12,000 years ago. For a brief period at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, the lives of humans and mastodons intertwined.
Inspired by the interpretations of human evolution proposed by Dr. Louis Leakey, one of the past century's great anthropologists, several individuals founded the Leakey Foundation in 1968 to support his fieldwork and scientific priorities. Within its first decade of existence, the Leakey Foundation provided grants to many of the seminal studies that inform our understanding of human prehistory such as the field research and discoveries of Louis, Richard and Mary Leakey, Don Johanson, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas. Today, the Leakey Foundation continues to support the significant studies of researchers like Zeresenay Alemseged, Jill Pruetz, Dan Lieberman, Frederick Grine, Sileshi Semaw, David Lordkipanidze and many more.
The museum is operated by the Neanderthal Museum Foundation. It cultivates the cultural heritage "Neanderthal" for the general public as well as for specialist research. Initially, the foundation has been supported by the District of Mettmann and the Neanderthal Museum Association. The museum is only partly run by public funds. Most of the museum's fund is carried by entrance fees and proceeds from sales. In 1996, the construction and arrangement of the museum was supported by NRW-Stiftung Natur, Heimat and Kultur and RWE. Since 2002, new supporters joined: Kreissparkasse Düsseldorf, the Rhineland Regional Council (LVR), as well as the cities of Erkrath and Mettmann.
Physical Anthropology Tutorials Menu
Lessons on various topics in physical anthropology. Includes glossaries, practice quizzes, and lists of related links.
TalkOrigins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy
Talk.origins is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins. Most discussions in the newsgroup center on the creation/evolution controversy, but other topics of discussion include the origin of life, geology, biology, catastrophism, cosmology and theology. The TalkOrigins Archive is a collection of articles and essays, most of which have appeared in talk.origins at one time or another. The primary reason for this archive's existence is to provide mainstream scientific responses to the many frequently asked questions (FAQs) that appear in the talk.origins newsgroup and the frequently rebutted assertions of those advocating intelligent design or other creationist pseudosciences.
The Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution
The Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian is dedicated to understanding the biological and cultural foundations of human life. Our two objectives follow the fundamental goals of the Smithsonian Institution: to advance scientific knowledge through continuing cutting-edge research, and to create the opportunity for public access to this knowledge. We are committed to furthering scientific knowledge about the evolutionary origin of human beings, including our species' relationship and interactions with the natural world. Our ongoing fieldwork and new projects in Africa, Asia, and Europe investigate clues and accumulate precise data about early human adaptation, evolution, and environmental change
The Paleoanthropology Society Home Page
The Paleoanthropology Society was founded in 1992. It recognizes that paleoanthropology is multidisciplinary in nature and the organization's central goal is to bring together physical anthropologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists and a range of other researchers whose work has the potential to shed light on hominid behavioral and biological evolution.
The Sunghir Archaeological Site
The Sunghir archaeological site is situated near of Vladimir city, 192 km from Moscow (56°11" NL and 40°30" EL). The settlement was discovered in 1955. For 16 field seasons (1957-1977) an expedition under supervision of Otto N. Bader revealed 4500 m2 of the site area. Age of the settlement is defined from the disposal of the cultural layer in the so called Bryansk soil, connected with the corresponding interstadial of Valdai Ice age of Late Pleistocene. One of the first radiocarbon dates, obtained from collagen of reindeer bones in Groningen laboratory gives absolute age of 24430+/- 400 years ago (Gro 5446) and from charcoal - 25500+/- 200 years ago (Gro 5425).
This small, isolated peat deposit contains artifacts and human burials dating to the Early Archaic period. It represents one of the largest collections of human skeletal material from its time period and one of the largest collections of fiber arts yet found at any archeological site in the New World.
