Web Directory

» Australopithecines
   Information on this hominid family that originated between 10 and 5 million years ago.
   http://www.stanford.edu/~harryg/protected/chp18.htm

» Early Hominids
   Radio report about a research team's discovery, in a Pleistocene cave site in Atapuerca, Spain, of a new species of hominid (Homo antecessor) that may be the common ancestor of both modern humans and Neanderthals.
   http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1997/May/hour1_053097.html

» Homo habilis and Homo erectus
   Article on the earliest creatures of the human genus, Homo habilis and Homo erectus, users of stone tools, with enlarged brains.
   http://www.ecotao.com/holism/hu_habilis.htm

» Meat Eating and Hominid Evolution
   Paper by Craig B Stanford and Henry T Bunn on this subject including how the pattern of meat eating in modern people compares with early humans.
   http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~burton/foodcourse/meat-eating.htm

» Peter Brown's Australian and Asian Palaeoanthropology
   Covers the hominid fossil record from Australia, East Asia and South-East Asia, including archaic and modern Homo sapiens and Homo erectus. Also includes a PDF field guide to the human skeleton, and downloadable data files of anthropometric data on variou
   http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~pbrown3/palaeo.html