Prehistoric Cultures

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Prehistoric Cultures

• Class Slides Set 12A
• Introduction to Primates
• Tim Roufs section

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Classification chart (after Linnaeus)
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 96
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Primate taxonomic classification
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 123
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prosimians
pre-monkeys
monkeys
monkeys
apes
apes
humans
humans
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http//www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/p
cprim.htmltitle
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Primates are tropical and temperate climate
creatures
Distribution of Nonhuman Primates
Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 93
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http//www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/p
cprimpr.html
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Times to Remember WebPage
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A Primate Family Tree
The Emergence of Humankind, 4th ed., p. 64
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A Primate Family Tree
The Emergence of Humankind, 4th ed., p. 64
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Mesozoic (ca. 125 m.y.a.) Cenozoic (ca. 65
m.y.a.)
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 106
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Pangea

• Pangea Split
• Island Effect
• New Adaptations
• New Orders of Creation

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Primates

• tree life
• physical modifications

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Primates

• earliest primates
• prosimians
• (pre-monkeys)

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Primates

• improved grasping hand
• improved opposability
• more elaborate brains
• smelling becomes secondary
• color vision
• larger eyes
• eyes moved forward

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Gibbon Red Wolf
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 116
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Primates

• All of this required increased coordination of
  senses

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Primates

• monkeys use food more efficiently than apes
• need for apes to encounter wider and more varied
  environments
• greater variety of environments

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Primates

• microenvironments

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microenvironments
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microenvironments
The African SavannahIllustration by Jay H.
Matternes
http//www.amnh.org/exhibitions/atapuerca/africa/b
ranches.php
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Primates

• multiplicity of alternatives
• need for deliberation
• requires more time
• causes delay

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Primates

• therefore life becomes less automatic and one
  depends to a greater extent on learning . . .

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Primates

• CULTURE
• (learned behavior)

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Next Prosimians
Prosimians (pre-monkeys)