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Fall 2012 Calendar -- DAY Fall
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Friday, 22 November 2024, 02:28 (02:28 AM) GMT, day 327 of 2024
Babel Fish Translation
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ca. 1850 - 21st Century
For the very latest news on major discoveries see . . . Anthropology World News -- Texas A&M Anthropology |
| 1856 | Neandertals, Neander Valley, Germany, 100,000 - 32,000 B.P. |
| 1868 | Cro - Magnon, village of Cro - Magnon near Les Eyzies, Dordogne region, France, Homo sapiens sapiens ("moderns"), 34,000 B.P. |
| 1891 | Trinil, Java, Pithecanthropus
erectus (Homo
erectus; "Java Man"), 1.8 - 0.8 mya
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| 1912 | Piltdown, England, "Piltdown
Man" (Discredited in early 1950's by chemical tests which showed jaw and skull completely unrelated.)
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| 1920s | Choukoutien (now Zhoukoudian), China,
Homo
erectus ("Peking Man"), 0.5 - 0.2 mya
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| 1924 | Taung, South Africa, Australopithecus
africanus, 3.0 - 2.0 mya
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| 1934 (1969) |
Siwalik Hills, India, Ramapithecus (Sivapithecus), 13 - 8 mya |
| 1936 | Sterkfontein,Transvaal, South Africa,
Australopithecus
africanus, 3 - 2 mya
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| 1938 |
Sterkfontein,Transvaal, South Africa, Australopithecus
robustus, (aka Paranthropus robustus), 3 - 2 mya
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| 1950s to present |
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, many finds of Mary
and Louis
Leakey, and Richard
and Meave Leakey |
| 1972 | Lake Turkana, East Africa,"1470" (and
"1590") -- Homo
habilis, 2 mya
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| 1975 - 1976 |
Hadar, Ethiopia,"Lucy" and "The First Family" -- Australopithecus afarensis, 4 - 3 mya |
| 1976 | Laetoli, Tanzania, Footprints,
3.5 - 3.7 mya
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| 1985 | Lake Turkana, East Africa, KNM - WT-
17000, "The Black Skull," Australopithecus
aethiopicus, 2.5 mya
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| 1987 | Berkeley, CA, "Mitochondrial
Eve," 200,000 - 150,000 B.P.
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| 1988 | Qafzeh Cave, Israel, "Modern" (Homo
sapiens sapiens), 92,000+ B.P.
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| 1991 | Italian / Austrian boarder, "'Ötzi'
The Iceman," 5,300 B.P. Update: "Iceman Keeps Scientists Guessing" -- BBC News (19 December 2000) |
| 1994 |
Tugen Hills, Kenya's Rift Valley, Australopithecus
ramidus (Ardipithecus ramidus), 4.4 mya
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| 1995 | Chauvet
Cave, France, Cave
Paintings, 20,000 B.P. ~ 25,000 to 27,000 B.P. footprints, June 1999 |
| 1995 | Longguppo ("Dragon Bone" Cave = Zhoukoudian), China, 1.78 - 1.96 mya, Homo erectus with similarities to Homo habilis (= Pre-erectus?) |
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| 1997 | Gona, Ethiopia (Hadar Region), World's Oldest Stone Tools found, 2.5-2.6 mya |
| 1998 | Sterkfontein,Transvaal, South Africa, "Little Foot," discovery of the world's first-ever find of an entire "ape-man" skull and its skeleton, 3.5 mya |
| 1999 | "Hand Axe Hill," Kenya, "tool
factory, 2000+ pieces (Homo
habilis or Australopithecus?),
2.34 mya.
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| 1999 | Tugen Hills, Kenya,
Equatorius africanus, earliest ape to descent from trees?,
a new genus of hominoids? ca. 15 mya.
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| 1999 | Sambungmacan, Central Java, Indonesia, "Madeleine, "(PL-1), shows features of both Homo sapiens and Homo erectus, and "probably had a capacity for language close to that of modern humans,1 mya? or 100,000 - 200,000 bp? |
| 2000 | Drimolen, South Africa, "Eurydice," Paranthropus robustus," the most complete ape-man skull ever excavated," and the "best opportunity to compare the differences between [Australopithecus robustus / Paranthropus robustus] males and females," 1.5 - 2 mya. |
| 2000 | Tugen hills of Kenya’s Baringo district, The "“Millennium Man”: "Mankind’s Earliest Ancestor" -- ABC News (04 December 2000), "at least" 6 mya hominid, humankind's earliest known ancestor, at least 5 individuals, both male and female (almost twice as old as "Lucy," who dates from ca. 3.2 - 3.5 mya) |
| 2001 |
Genetically Modified "Glow-in-the-Dark" Monkey-Jellyfish: "GM monkey ["ANDi"] Offers Medical Hope" [sic.] -- BBC News (11 January 2001) |
| 2001 | South Africa, Ape-man ate termites -- BBC News (16 January 2001), Australopithecus robustus / Paranthropus robustus, formerly thought to be a vegetarian now known to eat meat, using the world's oldest-known bone tools to forage for the insects. It is said to be the oldest, direct evidence for a particular food resource in hominids. |
| 2001-03-21 | Fossil Find May Redefine Evolution : Kenyanthropus platyops |
| 2001-07-11 |
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