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[[Mayan History]]

=====Australopithecus fossils found east of the Great Rift Valley=====

[https://popular-archaeology.com/article/australopithecus-fossils-found-east-of-the-great-rift-valley/ 24/3/2016 Popular Archaeology]

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[https://popular-archaeology.com/article/earliest-human-remains-in-eastern-africa-dated-to-more-than-230000-years-ago/#google_vignette by Popular Archaeology 12/1/22]

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Cambridge, has reassessed the age of the Omo I remains – and Homo sapiens as a species. Earlier attempts to date the fossils suggested they were less than 200,000 years old, but the new research shows they must be older than a colossal volcanic eruption that took place 230,000 years ago. The results* are reported in the journal Nature.

=====Louis Leakey=====

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Leakey by WIKIPEDIA]

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey. Having established a programme of palaeoanthropological inquiry in eastern Africa, he also motivated many future generations to continue this scholarly work. Several members of the Leakey family became prominent scholars themselves.[1]

=====The use of mortality patterns in archaeological studies of hominid predatory adaptations

Author links open overlay panel=====

[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/027841659090010B by Mary C. Stiner 12/1990 ScienceDirect]

Mortality patterns in archaeofaunas can be informative of prehistoric human foraging habits, land use, and, ultimately, evolutionary changes in hominid sociality and ecological niche. The analytical value of mortality patterns is only as great, however, as archaeologists' understanding of the full range of possible causes for patterns in these data.

=====Olorgesailie Drilling Project=====

[https://humanorigins.si.edu/research/east-african-research-projects/olorgesailie-drilling-project by Smithsonian]

In the Oct. 21 issue of the journal Science Advances, an interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Richard Potts, director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, describes the prolonged period of instability across the landscape in this part of Africa (now Kenya) that occurred at the same time humans in the region were undergoing a major behavioral and cultural shift in their evolution.

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+[[Mayan History]]
 =====Australopithecus fossils found east of the Great Rift Valley=====
 [https://popular-archaeology.com/article/australopithecus-fossils-found-east-of-the-great-rift-valley/ 24/3/2016 Popular Archaeology]
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 [https://popular-archaeology.com/article/earliest-human-remains-in-eastern-africa-dated-to-more-than-230000-years-ago/#google_vignette by Popular Archaeology 12/1/22]
   An international team of scientists, led by the University of Cambridge, has reassessed the age of the Omo I remains – and Homo sapiens as a species. Earlier attempts to date the fossils suggested they were less than 200,000 years old, but the new research shows they must be older than a colossal volcanic eruption that took place 230,000 years ago. The results* are reported in the journal Nature.
+=====Louis Leakey=====
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Leakey by WIKIPEDIA]
+ Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey. Having established a programme of palaeoanthropological inquiry in eastern Africa, he also motivated many future generations to continue this scholarly work. Several members of the Leakey family became prominent scholars themselves.[1]
+=====The use of mortality patterns in archaeological studies of hominid predatory adaptations
+Author links open overlay panel=====
+[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/027841659090010B by Mary C. Stiner 12/1990 ScienceDirect]
+ Mortality patterns in archaeofaunas can be informative of prehistoric human foraging habits, land use, and, ultimately, evolutionary changes in hominid sociality and ecological niche. The analytical value of mortality patterns is only as great, however, as archaeologists' understanding of the full range of possible causes for patterns in these data.
+=====Olorgesailie Drilling Project=====
+[https://humanorigins.si.edu/research/east-african-research-projects/olorgesailie-drilling-project by Smithsonian]
+ In the Oct. 21 issue of the journal Science Advances, an interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Richard Potts, director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, describes the prolonged period of instability across the landscape in this part of Africa (now Kenya) that occurred at the same time humans in the region were undergoing a major behavioral and cultural shift in their evolution.