Who's Who Among The Early Hominins

Most people that I know only think that there are two kinds of homonids, Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. Actually there are way more. There are at least eight types of early hominmids dating back at least eight million years. We are the final product of millions of years of evolution, from primitive small brained quadrupeds with long, protruding snouts and large canines for eating meat. We on the other hand are large brained bipeds with a relatively flat face and smaller canines. The oldest relatively complete skeleton is called Orrorin Tugenensis the oldest remains found of this hominid date back to roughly six and a half million years ago. The biggest leap after that is the Homo Habilis who started using stone tools that it had actually created. Homo habilis lived around 2 and a halfmillion years ago. And later on came us, the infamous Homo Sapiens the latests step in the evolution of hominids.

MLA Citation: Susman, Randall. "Who's Who Among the Early Hominins?" Odyssey 1 Oct. 2009. Print.

Why We Study Human Origins by Randall Susman Calliope: Exploring World History

This is quite an inspiring article that we read during and outside humanities class. It was written by an author called Randal Susman for the magazine Calliope in September 1999. This article tells you all about why we study human origins and what are the developments and achievements. Since writing began people have been wondering the same things over and over again. Things such as how were we created. The Christians came up with a pretty good answer, Adam and Eve the two first humant who where both magically dropped from the sky.

But scientists and historians such as Charles Darwin thought otherwise. They believed in evolution which of course contradicted everything the Christian church said. As a result  Nineteenth century scientists and religious people got into long rows about who was right but obviously in the mid- Nineteen hundreds there was no fossil evidence of our Ape like ancestors. Well not until Henry Huxley came along and foumd the first complete skeleton of our ancestors. Huxley also made some other important discoveries like as the author states “Huxley believed that anatomically, African apes and humans were similar, more similar in fact than apes were to monkeys.” I think this blog post proves that there were apes before us and we didn't simply fall out of the sky.

Stonehenge Theories

Stonehenge has many theories on the reason of its existence some slightly mad to some others that may be plausible.v Here are some examples. Some of the crazy ones are: Stonehenge is in the shape of female genitalia and represents fertility, it was created by the famous magician Merlin who transported stones made by giants others state that it was an ancient Roman temple or a alien landing site. Some of the more plausible theories are it was an ancient observatory, it was the burial place of the dead or it was a place to worship the gods. In my opinion most of these theories are completely barmy and the answer is still out there.

Huge Gladiator School Found Buried in Austria

A huge gladiator training school has been discovered in Austria using new technology to detect underground objects and produce 3D images. This gladiator school is even bigger than two wallmarts, even larger than the training grounds outside the colloseum. They have found gladiator graves completely changing the perspective on a gladiators life. It was probably built in A.D 150 during the rule of Marcus Aurelius. The school contains a moch arena bleacher, dormatries a courtyard and cages where wild animals would be kept. The arena covers 19,000 square meters. But will probably never be excavated.

Human Ancestor May Put Twist in Origin Story

Hey people! This is another post that we had to do for  homework in humanities class. We are currently learnin why people study archaeology, its techniques and the basics. Enjoy! A group of archaeologists recently discovered two two million year old primate that has been proved to have be related to humans.  There is one roughly thirty year old female and another teenage male. It seems they both fell into an ancient chasm which was also responsible for countless other animals, as was proven by the countless animal bones littered around the chasm. Unlike other skeletons found from our ancestors these ones have a presision grip wich means that the thumb is longer than usual which means that they would be able to use tools. Another human trait found on these skeletons was the pelvis and the feet suggest that they would have been able to walk but they would also climb trees. At 1.2 meters tall they are also quite short. So as you can see thanks to this discovery we now know a lot more about our ancestors.