PREHISTORIC LINKS
Erm, the links aren't prehistoric,
the subject matter is.
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General |
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Zooarchaeology Comparative Collection Databases -- From the Florida Museum of Natural History. |
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Prehistory pages from Minnesota St. University. |
| Extensive web links for everything from Australopithecines to Cro Magnon. From the web notes for History of Life, 3rd ed. |
| Stone Age Resources: Links page. Many links are as dead as the fossils they talked about. |
| "Skeletons in Your Closet": a brief overview of early hominids, from an online anthropology course. |
| The Leakey Foundation is committed to research related to human origins. |
| Stone Age Reference Collections: an excellent reference on tools and techniques, from the University of Oslo. |
| Institute for Ice Age Studies |
| Early Man: Where did early man begin, and why? |
| Laboratory for Experimental Archeology: nice site, but in Italian. |
| Primitive Ways deals with recreating primitive technologies. |
| Flintsource: identifying the geographic origins of prehistoric artifacts in Europe. |
| Anthropology Resources |
| Paleontological Research Institute. |
| Articles: Dominance war in Britain - 400K years ago? |
| Prehistorics Illustrated |
| Society of Primitive Technology |
| Primitive technology and reenactment links. |
| Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project. And PMIP Phase 2. |
| Global land environments since the last interglacial. From the Review and Atlas of Paleovegetation. |
| Schöningen Spear Project: 400,000 year old spears. |
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Neanderthals |
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And while I learned it as "Neanderthal", I'm getting the impression that it's in vogue to drop the "h". |
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Who Were the Neandertals? is a good introduction to these ancient peoples, and includes more about the (still ongoing!) debate on the relationship between the Neanderthals and us. From the Earth and Sky website. |
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The web-page of the museum at the site where Neandertals were discovered. |
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Neandertals: A Cyber Perspective is a good source for information on the folks we can't decide if we descended from (we all have relatives like that, I'm sure). |
| In Search of Neanderthals |
| Another article about Neanderthal DNA findings, from ABCNews. |
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Giving voice to the Neanderthal: Evidence on Neanderthal speech. |
| Extensive Neanderthal web links. |
| The Neanderthal Paradigm, by Valerius Geist. |
| A summary and transcript of a BBC show about Neanderthals -- specifically, determining such things as strength, intelligence and vocal capability based on anatomical evidence. |
| Neanderthal fact files from the BBC. |
| The Gibraltar Caves -- possibly the last Neanderthal holdouts. |
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Cro-Magnon |