Comprehensive Overview to Fossil Hominids
BecomingHuman.org
Stone Tools and Meat Eating - why did some hominids turn to meat ? What was the long term impact of this move? Consider as you ponder this subject the climatic changes identified by Vrba around 2.5 million years ago when the first stone tools and cut marks on animal bones appear in the archaeological record.
What is the significance of WT 17000 or the Black Skull? Read the following article and refer to the Hominid Journey to find out more about WT 17000. Keep in mind that one fossil find such as this one can aid in altering our views of ancestry.
A Skull to Chew On
by Donald C. Johanson (Natural History, 5/93, pages 52-53)
What might the Human Cuisinart model of hominids be like? Is Australopithecus Boisei or
Robustus a human? What would it mean if they were alive today rather than having gone extinct nearly 1.0 million years ago? The following readings are taken from Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology by Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas Toth (1993).
A CASE STUDY IN RECONSTRUCTING A FOSSIL - PART 1
THE ACTUAL RECONSTRUCTION - PART 2