1. ... or how to make sense out of Chs. 9 and 11 of the text... Prehistoric Cultures Tim Roufs’ section ©2009 Class Slides Set 17A Early Hominins

2. Introduction to Early Hominins

4. Australopithecus garhi, 2.5 m.y.a., Ethiopia Turnbaugh, Jurmain, Kilgore, and Nelson, 8t h ed., p. 235 Introduction to Early Hominins

5. Understanding Humans, 10 th Ed., p. 110.

6. Began (mya)

7. note climactic change including the “Ice Age”

8. The Pleistocene is frequently referred to as the “Ice Age”

9. John E. Pfeiffer, The Emergence of Man, 4 th ed. (NY: Harper and Row, 1985), p. 101. Miocene Pleistocene Plocene

10. Campbell-Loy, Humankind Emerging, 7 th ed., p. 327

12. http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040927/full/040927-16.html

15. 3 million yrs

16. 2 million yrs

17. 1 million yrs

18. Pleistocene

19. Holocene

21. “Taung Child” “Zinj”

22. Homo habilis

24. Australopithecines

25. Australopithecines... –including Paranthropus... (aka Australopithecus robustus) are also known as “Plio-Pleistocene hominids”

26. Understanding Humans, 10 th Ed., p. 110. Began (mya) Plio-Pleistocene hominid = Australopithecus

27. Australopithecu s Homo habilis

28. Australopithecu s Homo habilis Homo erectus

29. Australopithecu s Homo habilis Homo sapiens Homo erectus

30. Australopithecus Homo habilis Homo erectus Homo sapiens

31. Australopithecus Homo habilis Homo erectus Homo sapiens “Moderns”

32. Australopithecus Homo habilis Homo erectus Homo sapiens Neandertals “Moderns”

33. Australopithecus Homo habilis Homo erectus Homo sapiens Pleistocene

34. sea levels rise and fall with global warming and cooling

35. www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/107842/ MARILYN VOS SAVANT Sunday's Column - May 31, 2009 I'd like some perspective on global warming. Have sea levels ever been as high as they are now? —J. Kolasinski, Columbus, Ohio Yes, roughly 35,000 years ago. A few thousand years later, sea levels began to drop. By about 15,000 years ago, the oceans had declined by almost 500 feet. Then they started to rise, and sea levels have been going up ever since.

36. www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/107842/ MARILYN VOS SAVANT Sunday's Column - May 31, 2009 I'd like some perspective on global warming. Have sea levels ever been as high as they are now? —J. Kolasinski, Columbus, Ohio Yes, roughly 35,000 years ago. A few thousand years later, sea levels began to drop. By about 15,000 years ago, the oceans had declined by almost 500 feet. Then they started to rise, and sea levels have been going up ever since.

44. http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/15546939.htm

49. Wűrm glacial Riss glacial Mindel glacial Gűnz glacial

50. Wisconsin glacial Illinoian glacial Kansan glacial Nebraskan glacial North American Terms

51. Weischel glacial Saale glacial Elster glacial

60. Understanding Humans, 10 th Ed., p. 110. Began (mya)

61. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 103

63. Early Hominids Orrorin Ardipithecus Australopithecus Paranthropus tugenensis ramidus anamensis afarensis africanus garhi aethiopicus boisei robustus Genus Species

64. tugenensis ramidus anamensis afarensis africanus garhi aethiopicus boisei robustus Orrorin Ardipithecus Australopithecus Paranthropus Early Hominins

65. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0008EB7D-BC26-1138-BC2683414B7F0000

66. Video: Search for the First Human Week 07

67. Understanding Humans, 10 th Ed., p. 110. Began (mya) Plio-Pleistocene hominid= Australopithecus Orrorin

68. Understanding Humans, 10 th Ed., p. 110. Began (mya) Orrorin Plio-Pleistocene hominid = Australopithecus Mio-Plio-Pleistocene hominin