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Prehistoric Cultures

• Class Slides Set 13A
• Hominoids Early Apes and Humans
• OUTTAKES
• Tim Roufs section

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Early Man, Time-Life (1973), p. 41
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Sivapithecus
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• All living apes
• show forelimb-dominated locomotion
• (They climb, swing, or hang about by their arms
  -- brachiation)

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Prehistoric Hominoidea
Miocene hominoids

• Proconsul
• (Miocene dental ape)

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Miocene Hominoids
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back to the Anthropoids all living and
extinct monkeys, apes and humans
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Anthropoids
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Back to the Hominoids all living and extinct
apes and humans
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General Features and Major Evolutionary Trends of
Apes and Humans (Hominoidea)
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 131
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Hominoids
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Hominoids
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Hominids
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Hominids
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General Features and Major Evolutionary Trends of
Apes and Humans
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General Features . . . of Apes and Humans, p. 3

• As a group the apes have been subject of much
  mythology and many misconceptions.
• Probably originated in the early Miocene period,
  ca. 17-20 mya.
• Pleistocene 1.6 mya 10,000 years B.P.
• Pilocene 5 1.6mya
• Miocene 25 5mya
• Oligocene 35 25mya
• They flourished in the later part of the Miocene,
  15 to 5 mya.
• Well represented in the fossil record by such
  forms as
• Proconsul
• Sivapithecus
• Kenyapithecus
• Oreopithecus

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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• (Began m.y.a.)
• Holocene 0.01
• Pleistocene 1.8
• Pliocene 5
• Miocene 23
• Oligocene 34
• Eocene 55
• Paleocene 65

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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• (Began m.y.a.)
• Holocene 0.01
• Pleistocene 1.8
• Pliocene 5
• Miocene 23
• Oligocene 34
• Eocene 55
• Paleocene 65

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Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 183
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 191
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Oligocene Catarrhines

• Oligocene
• Catarrhines

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Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 183
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Times to Remember WebPage
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 191
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• Apes
• flourished in the
• later part of the Miocene
• ca. 15 5 mya

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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• Well represented in the fossil record by such
  forms as
• Sivapithecus . . .
• Rampithecus
• Kenyapithecus
• Ouranopithecus
• Dryopithecus
• Proconsul
• Oreopithecus
• Gigantopithecus

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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• Rudapithecus
• Pasalar
• Nyanzapithecus
• Afropithecus
• Turkanopithecus
• Rangwapithecus
• and others

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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• Some dental apes
• appeared earlier
• (e.g. The Oligocene Aegyptopithecus)

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Aegyptopithecus
Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 180
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• (Began m.y.a.)
• Holocene 0.01
• Pleistocene 1.8
• Pliocene 5
• Miocene 23
• Oligocene 34
• Eocene 55
• Paleocene 65

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Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 191
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Prehistoric Hominoidea
Miocene hominoids

• Proconsul
• (Miocene dental ape)
• Oreopithecus
• Pliopithecus
• Dryopithecus
• Sivapithecus
• Gigantopithecus

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