early man vocab

asiangang · Oct 22, 2007

i found every letter except I,J,K,X and Y..can some1 think of 1? doesnt matter what lv..lol

hiake · Oct 22, 2007

No clue what it means by "early man vocab" but here's a few technical ones:

I = Ibrahim Shah, S.M. - Co-discoverer of a specimen in Pakistan dated 8 millions years ago (8mya) called Sivapithecus indicus.

J = Johanson, Donald - American archaeologist renowned for his discovery of Lucy, a female hominid australopithecine in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. (everyone should know about Lucy, and shame on whichever witless museum that decided to sponsor its "travelling exhibition", long story here, but if anyone's interested, give me a shout and I can provide some juicy retarded details on it)

Source: not sure where.

K = Kebara 2 - A specimen named after its site of discovery, Kebara Cave, Israel.

The material from Kebara Cave, Israel, was discovered in several phases of excavations. The first hominid found was the fragmentary remains of an infant (Kebara 1), and in 1983, the better known Kebara 2 specimen was recovered. This material has been dated by both thermoluminescence and ESR dating to approximately 60 kyr. The Kebara 2 specimen consists of the upper part of a male postcranial skeleton, as well as a mandible, a hyoid, and a single M3. The Kebara 2 specimen is one of the few complete pelves known between the australopithecines and modern humans, however, as with just about every complete fossil pelvis that is currently known, it is from a male individual. The Kebara 2 individual is estimated to have stood about 173 cm tall, and to have weight approximately 76 kg, significantly smaller than estimates for European Neanderthal specimens of similar height, such as La Ferrassie. The recovery of the hyoid bone was a very important find, as it disproved earlier theories that Neanderthals and other pre-sapiens hominids were incapable of speech due to the lack of a hyoid. Neanderthals did possess a hyoid, and this scenario of speechlessness based on this bone was discredited. The individual was between the ages of 25 and 35 when he died, and he can be securely attributed to Neanderthals based on the several features, including the presence of a retromolar space, an the lack of a mental eminence.

Source: http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/homoneaderthalensis.htm
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K = Krapina - again, specimen named after its site of discovery, Krapina Cave, Coratia.

The material from Krapina Cave, Croatia, was first discovered in 1899 by K. Gorjanovic-Kramberger. The material from this site is the largest sample of Neanderthals ever found, and is one of the largest fossil hominid samples ever found. There are more than 850 human fossils from more than eighty individuals at the site , most of whom died between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four years. This material has been dated to approximately 130 kyr. Many of the remains show evidence of butchery, and many of these remains may be the result of cannibalism, as also evidenced by the presence of concoidal scars, and the lack of carnivore tooth marks. While the crania that have been reconstructed show some differences from the classic Neanderthal anatomy, and from the Near East Neanderthals, several features clearly link the crania as Neanderthal, including...

Source: http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/homoneaderthalensis.htm
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Can't help with X and Y, kind of braindead on those -sweat

asiangang · Oct 23, 2007

^oh thanks!
oh and i forgot, im missing V too...lol

early man vocab

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