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- Description
- Paranthropus at Olduvai Gorge.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11324
- Image Number
- 17267
- Description
- Paranthropus.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11325
- Image Number
- 17268
- Description
- Paranthropus, small-brained and heavy-jawed, may have favored the more lush habitats of southern and eastern Africa.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11326
- Image Number
- 17269
- Description
- Teotihuacán -- Citadel.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 461
- Image Number
- 1727
- Description
- Australopithecus court (after Wilson).
- Date of Photo
- 1959
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11327
- Image Number
- 17270
- Description
- Australopithecus was a slender four-footer, weighing under 100 pounds. Standing eret, he ran with a swaying side-to-side motion, but walked in a short-stepping plod. His jaw was slightly forward-thrusting, a result of well developed canines and incisors.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11328
- Image Number
- 17271
- Description
- Australopithecus. lustrated under the direction of the author by Zdeněk Burian.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11329
- Image Number
- 17272
- Description
- Advanced Australopithecus: Distinguished from the early australopithicenes by his increased canial capacity, advanced Australopithecus was a contemporary of Paranthropus. Primitive tools have been found with both, but whether one or the other or both produced them remains unsettled; and Homo Erectus:The first man of our genus, homo erectus is modern of limb but more primitive of hand and brain, with a cranial capacity extending only into the lower ra
- Date of Photo
- 1965
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11330
- Image Number
- 17273
- Description
- Australopithecus to Homo erectus. Australopithecus: Ramapithecus and this early form of Australopithecus, the first certain hominid, are seperated by a gap of nine million years. In this time, the prehumans made great advances - they walked upright, lived on the ground and may have used stones in their defense; Paranthropus: though he stood erect and had hominid features, Paranthropus represents an evolutionary dead end in man's ancestry. A vegeta
- Date of Photo
- 1965
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11331
- Image Number
- 17274
- Description
- Hominid cranial capacity.
- Date of Photo
- 1963
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11332
- Image Number
- 17275
- Description
- Australopithecine chronology, South Africa.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11333
- Image Number
- 17276
- Description
- Pre-Chelles-Acheul implements from the australopithecine-bearing breccias at Sterkfontein (Transvaal).
- Date of Photo
- 1959
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11334
- Image Number
- 17277
- Description
- Olduvai Gorge near junction.
- Date of Photo
- 1959
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11335
- Image Number
- 17278
- Description
- Olduvai Gorge near junction.
- Date of Photo
- 1959
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11336
- Image Number
- 17279
- Description
- Tula, Hidalgo -- southern face of Mound B.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 454
- Image Number
- 1728
- Description
- Olduvai Gorge stratigraphy.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11337
- Image Number
- 17280
- Description
- Olduvai Gorge stratigraphy (revised). Dated 1963.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11338
- Image Number
- 17281
- Description
- Olduvai hominid sequence. Schematic representation of the lower half of the Olduvai sequence, showing the approximate vertical position of hominid fossils (numerals enclosed in squares). The potassium-argon dates are indicated near the left margin (m = million years).
- Date of Photo
- 1965
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11339
- Image Number
- 17282
- Description
- "African genesis". The story of early man in Africa is told in this chart. Gray bars in the center represent fossil and tool-bearing sites: those on the left are Beds I and II at Olduvai Gorge in East Africa; those on the right side are South African caves. On the left hand edge of the diagram are absolute dates obtained from Beds I and II by the potassium-argon method. South African dates are known only by cross-checking animal fossils there with
- Date of Photo
- 1965
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11340
- Image Number
- 17283
- Description
- Polyhedral cores; Ain Hanech, Algeria.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11341
- Image Number
- 17284
- Description
- National Museum of Mexico display of Classic Teotihuacán figurines. Photograph taken by Jeffrey R. Parsons.
- Date of Photo
- Aug. 1966
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11359
- Image Number
- 17285
- Description
- Peru, Nazca art (3rd to 8th century), Fisherman birds.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11458
- Image Number
- 17286
- Description
- Morgan County, Illinois. Hilderbrand site (Hopewell); large obsidian core plowed up near north edge of Meredosia, Illinois.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11468
- Image Number
- 17287
- Description
- Morgan County, Illinois. Hilderbrand site (Hopewell); bottom view of large obsidian core plowed up near north edge of Meredosia, Illinois.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11469
- Image Number
- 17288
- Description
- Teotihuacán -- Pyramid of the Sun.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 462
- Image Number
- 1729
- Description
- Teotihuacán -- Citadel.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 463
- Image Number
- 1730
- Description
- Juntunen site, exhibit in University Museum.
- Date of Photo
- May 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11487
- Image Number
- 17306
- Description
- Late Archaic Burial Exhibit.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11490
- Image Number
- 17309
- Description
- Teotihuacán -- Quetzalcoatl's Temple.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 464
- Image Number
- 1731
- Description
- Vision and olfactory centers in primates.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11491
- Image Number
- 17310
- Description
- Primate genealogy.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11492
- Image Number
- 17311
- Description
- The Common Tree Shrew: with its long bush tail ooks so much like squirrels in Malaysia there that the local natives make no distinction between the two, calling both of them tupai.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11493
- Image Number
- 17312
- Description
- Tarsiers: Staring straight backward over its long, brush-tipped tail, a tarsier shows the mobility of its head, able to swivel 180° right or left. Below it, a companion clutches a lizard.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11494
- Image Number
- 17313
- Description
- Sifaka (Indridae): Carrying her baby like a money belt around her waist, a sifaka mother bounds off the ground with a powerful kick. A stunning cowl of white fur frames her naked black face and ears.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11495
- Image Number
- 17314
- Description
- Lion Marmoset: The marmoset, smallest of the living monkeys, is about the size of a squirrel. This particular species is found only in Brazil.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11496
- Image Number
- 17315
- Description
- Woolly Monkey
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11497
- Image Number
- 17316
- Description
- Red Howler Monkey
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11498
- Image Number
- 17317
- Description
- Uakari: A baby uakari clings to its mother. Despite their surprising habit of emitting what sounds like hysterical laughter when annoyed, these creatures are reputed to make delightful pets when they are young- so loyal to their owners that if deserted they refuse all food and ultimately pine away. As adults, however, they are less tractable and do not adjust well to captivity.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11499
- Image Number
- 17318
- Description
- Golden Langur: The golden Langur changes its color with the seasons. It is creamy white in summer, but in cold weather it turns to a light chestnut or golden hue.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11500
- Image Number
- 17319
- Description
- Teotihuacán -- Quetzalcoatl's Temple.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 465
- Image Number
- 1732
- Description
- Gorilla and Homo Skeletons: Comparative skeletons from a macaque monkey (not pictured- on page 82), gorilla and man illustrate the physiological progression from four-footedness through arm-swinging to two-legged walking. The monkey's arms are somewhat shorter than its legs; it can walk with its hands palm down, an impossible feat for a gorilla. On the other hand, the monkey's down-turned shoulder sockets prohibit brachiation in the true sense of
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11501
- Image Number
- 17320
- Description
- Indian Langur: Perched in a Tamarind tree, Indian langurs display their sleek lines. Although adapted to an arboreal way of life they often spend as much as 80 percent of the day on the ground.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11502
- Image Number
- 17321
- Description
- Male Baboon: The fierce gape of a male in full prime displays canines several times the size of a female's.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11503
- Image Number
- 17322
- Description
- Male baboon: Safe from predators, a male baboon adopts the posture it may keep all night long. Its ischial callosities, or callous pads, bear its weight and permit it to sleep sitting up even on slender branches.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11504
- Image Number
- 17323
- Description
- Female baboon and child: Suckling, an infant baboon presses up to its mother, who will nurse it for almost a year.
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11505
- Image Number
- 17324
- Description
- Onion Portage, Alaska. Stamp pattern from House #8 at AD 800
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11506
- Image Number
- 17325
- Description
- Onion Portage, Alaska. Stamp pattern from House #8 at AD 800
- Date of Photo
- 1967
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11507
- Image Number
- 17326
- Description
- Bussinger site: engraved pattern on typha stem.
- Date of Photo
- 1961
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11508
- Image Number
- 17327
- Description
- Bussinger site. Typha stem cover of leather with fringe
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11509
- Image Number
- 17328
- Description
- Bussinger site. Leather cover showing punch holes for sewing over typha stem.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11510
- Image Number
- 17329