How is potassium-argon dating useful to a palaeoanthropology


  • How is potassium-argon dating useful to a palaeoanthropologist when it can'tbe used to date bone?
  • What techniques from this chapter can be used to reconstruct the palaeoenviron-ment of a hominid site?
  • Where is the Fayum Depression and why is it important?
  •  What is the Y-5 pattern and why is it important to identify among early primates?
  • What credible evidence for bipedality can come from the cranium of an
  • early hominid? What about from the pelvis?
  •  Sure robust and gracile Australopithecines look very different anatomically
  • but what's the evolutionary significance/difference between the two? (Don't
  • describe anatomy here just give me overall evo signif.)
  •  How is the lifestyle of Homo habilis is different from earlier hominids?
  • Zhoukoudian is located in which country, was inhabited by which species
  • Traditional views have portrayed Neandertal in a very"uncomplimentary" fashion. What does modern scientific evidence now sayabout the behavior of this type of individual?
  •  What is unique about how Neandertal tools were made that sets them apartfrom other stone tools?
  • The traditional explanation of the subsistence strategy for the earliestinhabitants of the New World has been one nearly solely focused onPleistocene megafauna. What does the archaeological evidence show fromsites such as Monte Verde in Chile? 

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