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- Description
- Obsidian- Scandium and manganese ratios in Old World samples.
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- 35mm slide: 23626
- Description
- Obsidian- Barium and zirconium (conc. P.P.M.) ratios in Old World samples.
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- 35mm slide: 23625
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- Obsidian- Sodium and manganese ratios in Old World samples.
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- 35mm slide: 23620
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- Obsidian- Old World sample areas.
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- 35mm slide: 23615
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- 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
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- 35mm slide: 11505
- 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
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- 35mm slide: 11503
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 35mm slide: 11330
- Description
- Hominid cranial capacity.
- Date of Photo
- 1963
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- 35mm slide: 11332
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- 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
- Description
- Australopithecus. lustrated under the direction of the author by Zdeněk Burian.
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- 35mm slide: 11329
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- 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
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- 35mm slide: 11328
- Description
- Australopithecus court (after Wilson).
- Date of Photo
- 1959
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- 35mm slide: 11327
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- Paranthropus, small-brained and heavy-jawed, may have favored the more lush habitats of southern and eastern Africa.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11326
- Description
- Paranthropus.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11325
- Description
- Australopithecus and Paranthropus. 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: 11323
- Description
- Left lateral views of innominate bones in chimpanzee (left), Australopithecus prometheus (center), and Bushman (right).
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- 35mm slide: 11317
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- First milk molars of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Bushman.
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- 35mm slide: 11316
- Description
- Craniograms of Australopithecus prometheus (solid line); Plesianthropus transvaalensis, male (dashed and dotted line); and Paranthropus robustus, male (dotted line).
- Date of Photo
- 1951
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- 35mm slide: 11315
- Description
- Craniograms of Australopithecus africanus, infant (dashed and dotted line); Australpithecus prometheus, female (solid line); and Paranthropus robustus, male (dotted line).
- Date of Photo
- 1951
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- 35mm slide: 11314
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- Ramapithecus: The easliest manlike primate found so far, Ramapithecus is now thought by some experts to be the oldest of man's ancestors in a direct line. This hominid status is predicated upon a few teeth, some fragments of jaw and a palate unmistakably human in shape.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11309
- Description
- Proconsul (by Wilson).
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11308
- Description
- Proconsul: Known from numerous fragments adding up to almost complete skeletons, Proconsul is considered to be a very early ape, the ancestor of the chimpanzee and perhaps of the gorilla. A contemporary of Pliopithecus, it is often found with it in the same fossil site.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11307
- Description
- Proconsul, Miocene.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11306
- Description
- Oreopithecus, a human collateral of the Pliocene epoch.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11304
- Description
- Dryopithecus: Though its skeleton is tantalizingly incomplete, Dryopithecus can be fairly described from a few jaws and teeth. First of the fossil great apes to be discovered, it was widely distributed; remains have been unearthed throughout Europe, in North India and China.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11305
- Description
- Oreopithecus, 14 -8 million years ago, Pliocene.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11302
- Description
- Oreopithecus: A likely sidebranch on man's family tree, Oreopithecus is believed t ohave stood around four feet tall and weighed about 80 pounds. Its teeth and pelvis led scientists to wonder if it could be ancestral to man, but apparently it became extinct some 8 million years ago.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11303
- Description
- Pliopithecus: One of the earliest proto-apes, Pliopithecus had the look of a modern gibbon although its arms were not as disproportionately long and specialized for swinging through the trees. On the basis of its teeth and skull it is now classed as an ancestor of the gibbon line.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11301
- Description
- Pliopithecus, 23-12 million years ago, Miocene.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11300
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- Plesidapis, 60-55 million years ago. Paleocene.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11298
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- Smilodectes, 50-45 million years ago, Eocene.
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 11299
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- A. afarensis composite skeleton. Lovejoy reconstruction. (Original teaching slide code: PM-7)
- Date of Photo
- 1988
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- 35mm slide: 20546
- Description
- Chimp, A. afarensis (AL 200), Human dental arches, AL 200, age ca. 3.4 Ma, from Awash, Ethiopia. (Original teaching slide code: PM-8)
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- 35mm slide: 20547
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- Chimp vs. gracile and robust Australopithecines. Biomechanics of feeding. (Original teaching slide code: PM-5)
- Date of Photo
- 1995
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- 35mm slide: 20544
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- Chimp vs. human locomotion. Biomechanics of walking. (Original teaching slide code: PM-6)
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- 35mm slide: 20545
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- Early Modern Humans: Predmosti 3 (top), ca. 25 Ka and Qafzeh 9 (bottom), ca. 95 Ka. (Original teaching slide code: PM-40)
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- 35mm slide: 20579
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- Raw material sources, Middle vs. Upper Paleolithic. The big difference in the distances over which raw materials were obtained comes with the Uper Palaeolithic when shells, amber, and other items were widely traded. (Original teaching slide code: PM-37)
- Date of Photo
- 1994
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- 35mm slide: 20576
- Description
- Different portrayals, Ape-man based on La Chapelle (ca. 1910), in suit by Coon (ca. 1950s). (Original teaching slide code: PM-34)
- Date of Photo
- 1995
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- 35mm slide: 20573
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- Neanderthals, reconstruction by Gurche. (Original teaching slide code: PM-35)
- Date of Photo
- 1988
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- 35mm slide: 20574
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- Mousterian point (left), Levallois core and point (right) (Original teaching slide code: PM-32)
- Date of Photo
- 1988
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- 35mm slide: 20571
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- Life history of a side scraper, see any article by Dibble. (Original teaching slide code: PM-33)
- Date of Photo
- 1994
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- 35mm slide: 20572
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- Dart holding Taung child. Taung: A. africanus, age ca. 2.7 Ma, discovered 1924, (Original teaching slide code: PM-3)
- Date of Photo
- 1988
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- 35mm slide: 20542
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- Homo erectus, reconstruction done by Burian. (Original teaching slide code: PM-29)
- Date of Photo
- 1988
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- 35mm slide: 20568
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- Cleaver. (Original teaching slide code: PM-24)
- Date of Photo
- 1965
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- 35mm slide: 20563
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- Map Early of Sites with Homo erectus and archaic Homo sapiens. (Original teaching slide code: PM-25)
- Date of Photo
- 1988
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- 35mm slide: 20564
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- Lithic technology, soft Hammer percussion. (Original teaching slide code: PM-22)
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- 35mm slide: 20561
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- Acheulean technology, Acheulean technology. (Original teaching slide code: PM-23)
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- 35mm slide: 20562
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- Lithic technology, hard hammer percussion. (Original teaching slide code: PM-21)
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- 35mm slide: 20560