Africanna Studies : Human Evolution Part I
A.D. : Translate this acronym
Anno Domini
What Stone Tool Technology did the Homo Erectus invent that evolved after Homo Hablis' creation ?
Burnished Acheulean Tools
Africa is the cradle of Humanity & Human Evolution. Based upon the Paleoontological evidence , the fossilized human skull was assayed to be 10 to 5 million years old . Its anatomical structure was analogous to the Lower Primate ( e.g. Chimpanzee and Gorilla ) . They were bipedally locomotive with spontaneous arm motion . Their usual habitat was the dense coppice and open Savannah . The next breed as Toolmakers evolved around 4 million years ago . Their dwelling ramified into the Southern , Eastern , and Central Africa. An Omnivorous class . What were they called ?
Australopithecines
The Evolutionary emergence of this hominid came around 8 million years ago.
Homo Ergaster
Who were the major producers of the Oldowan Stone Technology .
Homo Habilis
The primarily spoken linguistics of the Songhai indigenes .
Nilo Saharan Branch
Primitive Stone Age evolved around 3.3 million years ago . These crude stone were not burnished , and however , they had resourcefulness . What is the archaeological term for these tools ?
Oldowan Stone Tools
The Archaeological evidence bears a countervailing weight of strength akin to the Biological evidence : the Mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) . The lexicon ' fossil ' implies and means any preserved relics from the past geologic age or as a remnant , impression , or trace of an organism of past geologic epoch as preserved in the Earth crust . Every fossil is antediluvian and mandarian that is quarried at the Archaeological site . Etymologically speaking , the word fossil emanates from French ' fossil ' and Latin ' fossilis ' meaning obtained by digging .
Fossilized Evidence
3000 to 2001 B.C. : What time capsule is this ?
3rd Millennium B.C .
What represent the 21st Century C.E. time capsule?
01 January 2001 ( MM ) to 31 December 2100 A.D. ( MMC )
1st Millennium A.D : What time capsule does this represent ?
1 A .D. to 1000 A.D.
The 1st Century C.E. representsed the Julian Calendar . What was the time capsule ?
1 A.D . to 100 A.D.
2nd Millennium C.E : What time capsule is this ?
1001 A.D. to 2000 A.D.
What constitute as the LAST Millennium of the B.C. era ?
1st Millennium B.C ( 1000 to 1 B.C. )
3rd Millennium C.E. What constitute this time capsule ?
2001 A.D. to 3000 A.D.
In what Century was the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 ( its prohibition of Housing discrimination against African Americans ) and 1964 ?
20th Century ( 1901 A.D. to 2000 A.D. )
2000 B.C. to 1001 B.C. What time capsule is this?
2nd Millennium B.C
The 21st Century C.E is part of awhat Millennium ?
3rd Millennium ( 2001 to 3000 A.D. )
Our current Millennium is based on THIS calendar that spans from the 21st Century to the forthcoming 30th Century C.E.
Gregorian Calendar
This locomotive and antecedent species is a member of the Hominidae family whose Primate exhibits the characteristic bipedalism and erect stature . The taxonomic classification embodies the Humans alongside its extinct ancestors . Other Taxonomic genre entails the lower primates , namely the Chimpanzee , Zati , Gorilla , and Bonobo . This word has its Etymological origin to Latin , ' Hominidae ' as derived from Homin ( Homo + idae ) . A 20th Century C.E Archaeological excavation uncovered the hidden past : the 3.5 million years old Human skull including other fossilized artifacts in Northern Kenya 🇰🇪. An Epiphany !
Hominid
The Evolutionary emergence of this hominid came around 1.5 million years ago. Their fossilized head circumference was a small brained cerebrum . They continued the Homo Habilis utility of the Oldowan tools . With subsequent head size augmentation, they created the advanced stone technology: Chiseled Acheulean tools . Bivouac & Bon fire matured . Around 40,000 years ago , this hominid became the 1st class to initiate the Intercontinental migration by absconding & leaving Africa. There was a terrestrial exploration by these Frontiers . It launched the planetary colonization such as the Expansion out of Africa. By 10,000 B.C , this species colonize much of Afro- Eurasia via dispersal activities. Corroborative evidence include Genetics , , Cultural folklore , and Linguistics Analysis
Homo Erectus
Eastern and Southern Africa was the Evolutionary birthplace of Modern Anatomically Humans beginning around 250,000 to 150,000 years ago . Fossil records and archives corroborated this . These ancestors represent the New Breed : US . What is the Anthaeopological term of reference?
Homo Sapien
The functional lesson in Biology and Anthropology in African origin unfurled the truth . The Mitochondrial DNA is the genetic mother whose appearance began around 250,000 years ago . According to the Scientists , there is an osmosis of the genetic information to 7 billion people around the world today. Scientist Vincent Macaulay's Assay highlighted 2 discoveries : Mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) and the Male specific part of Modern Human chromosomes. Both have the uncontestable origin in Africa that led to the osmotic diffusion and dispersal throughout the globe less than 100,000 years ago . Inferentially , Africa is the Cradle of Humanity and Human Evolution. The hominid traces its genesis to Africa. For those like myself carrying the Mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) are descendants from one African Mother .
Mitochondrial DNA of Humans
The pulchritude of Ancient African Rupestrian Aesthetics began its Cultural evolution and naissance around 24,000 B.C Archaeologists found fossilized Evidence of Rock painting . This one in particular emerged at the Appollosite in Africa. Where ?
Namibia 🇳🇦
This concept is used interchangeably with Monogenism . It provides a lesson in Anthropology and Biology anent the origin of humans . Amidst the Sahelanthropus Tchadensis discovery , this theory proposes the thesis of ' One Common African Origin. " ..Humans are byproducts of the Monogensis . This postulation further states that humans originates from Africa as a " ..Common descent for all human races . The negation of monogenism is polygenism . This issue was hotly debated in the Western World in the 19th century as the assumption of scientific racism came under scrutiny from ( the white ) religious group and in the light development in life science & human science. It was integral to the early conception of Ethnology .." ( Wikipedia) The 20th & 21st Centuries scientists have had refuted polygenetic theory that posited that humans contemporaneously evoved in diverse geo-zones as scientifically erroneous , fallacious , and unfounded. Human Evolution began in Africa.
Monogensis
This Hominid species emerged around 7.2 million years ago in Chad 🇹🇩. Its emergence evolved long after the disappearance of the mammoth Dinosaur 🦕 around 75 million years ago. They are the most common ancestors of both : Humans and Chimpanzee . Archaeologists' fossilized evidence were deracinated and extirpated from the regional area of the Tebou tribe of Chad . The Archaeological evidence is suggestive of human evolution and function as a countervailing weight of strength akin to the biological evidence of the Mitochondrial DNA.
Sahelanthropus Tchadensis
The Typologies of the Austopithecines anent the Pre SahelAnthropus Discovery . The fossils of antiquity are Archaeological evidence and relics of the past . It predated the oldest discovery : Sahelanthropus. Tchadensis . The Australopithecus Afarensis represents one of the typological Australopithecines. The scientific nomenclature came under dispute. The term , Lucy , was employed by European American Archaeologists to the umbrage of the Ethiopian indigenes. The Ethiopian Clerisy and Scholars Ayele Bekeries , assigned the Ethiopian African classification of Lucy. As "...Dinqnesh...". He chimed"..Dinnesh, we insist and NOT LUCY , is a 3.1 million years old Human like species found in the Afar region of the Rift Valley of Ethiopia..." It Anthropological characteristics entails Bipedalism with upright locomation , short stature relative to the anatomically Modern Homo Sapien ( Humans ). Its emergence evolved around 4.2 million yrs ago . Anent the ecological habitat , the soliterraineous. And arboreal environ was replete with huge trees , cavernous shelters and rock lodges. Its subsistence included water , herbivorous plants , esculent food and nuts . The Ethiopian Dinqnesh personified as the Cradle of the Species in East Africa..." Provenance: The African American People : A Global History by Molefi Kete Asante
Dinqnesh : An Australopithecus Afarensis