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Prehistoric Cultures

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Dates and Times to Remember 

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Primates -- Prehistoric

General Information

Prehistoric Chart

Primates -- Contemporary

Prehistoric and Contemporary Primates (class handout .pdf)

The Primates -- Dennis O'Neil (tutorial)

Dinosaurs

Early Primate Evolution -- Dennis O'Neil (tutorial)

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Primates -- Prehistoric

Prehistoric and Contemporary Primates (class handout .pdf)
         
General Type Subfamily Genus Species

Alternative
Name

Pre-Hominids
(Selected)


Parapithecus    
Apidium    
Propliopithecus    
Aegyptopithecus    
Proconsul   "miocene apes"
Oreopithecus  
Pliopithecus  
Dryopithecus  
Sivapithecus ramapithecus
kenyapithecus
ouranopithecus
 Gigantopithecus    "Bigfoot" ???

Hominids
(Hominidae)

Australo-
pithecines

Ardipithecus

 ramidus

 

Australo-
pithecus

anamensis

"gracile"
Australopicines

 afarensis

africanus
garhi

 aethiopicus

Paranthropus
(aka A. robustus)

 boisei

 robustus

  Kenyanthropus platyops "Flat-faced
Kenya Man"

 Hominines

Homo

 rudolfensis

"Early Homo"

habilis

erectus

Pithecanthropus, etc.

sapiens

"Archaic"

Prehistoric
"Early Moderns"

Contemporary
"Moderns"

   Special Case: Piltdown

Adapted from Intoduction to Physical Anthropology, 8th ed., Jurmain, Nelson, Kilgore, and Trevathan
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth / Thomson Learning, 2000, pp. 211 - 215, 263 - 267, 285 - 290), and
Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., Turnbaugh, Jurmain, Kilgore, and Nelson
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth / Thomson Learning, 2002)


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General Information -- Prehistoric Primates

Prehistoric Chart

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Pre-hominid

    • Sivapithecus indicus
    • ramapithecus
  • kenyapithecus
  • ouranopithecus
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