Paleoanthropology

A museum display of fossil hominid skulls

Australopithecus africanus

Paleoanthropology (or palaeoanthropology) combines the study of paleontology and physical anthropology. It is the study of human evolution.^[1]

The subject is also closely connected to archaeology.^[2] The evidence of tool-making and other activities shows the subtle but important changes in thinking that early humans went through.^[3]

Paleoanthropology Media

Carbon print of a photograph of Charles Darwin. Image/paper: 26.9 × 21.6 cm (10 5/8 × 8 9/16 in.); Mount: 33.8 × 28.1 cm (13 5/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian, China
Archaeological excavations in the Middle Paleolithic cave site of the Ghamari Cave in Zagros Mountains

↑ "Introduction to human evolution". National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
↑ Barry Lewis; Robert Jurmain & Lynn Kilgore 2013. Understanding humans: an introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology. 11th ed, Belmont CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, p. 18.
↑ "Dexterity and early tools". PBS: Evolution. WGBH Educational Foundation; Clear Blue Sky Productions, Inc. Retrieved 17 August 2016.

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