Athena ReviewJournal of Archaeology, History, and Exploration

Volume 4, no.1

Homo Erectus2004

Discovering Homo erectus 

Recent Finds: 

  • Homo erectus at Olorgesailie, Kenya
  • Jordan Valley site shows early fire use
  •  Ivory animal figures from Germany's Upper Paleolithic
  • Indo-European language grouping supports theory of Anatolian origins
  • Looting threatens a lost civilization in Iran
  • Lion burial in Egypt
  • Pet cat from Prehistoric Cyprus
  • Epi-Olmec script decipherment challenged
  • Nanterre may replace Paris as hometown of the ancient Parisii
  • Vindolanda reveals Roman plumbing at Hadrian's Wall
  • Acropolis marbles: world treasures in international contention

Museum Reviews:

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art: Byzantium: Faith and Power reviewed by Michele A. Miller



Feature Articles

by Roy Larick (URS Engineering), Russell Ciochon (University of Iowa)  and Yahdi Zaim (Bandung Institute of Technology)

Sangiran 17 skull, 1.15 million years old

  • The Paleobiology of Homo erectus and Early Hominid Dispersal 

by Susan Cachel (Rutgers University)

  • Out of Africa or Out of Asia? The colonization of Europe by Homo erectus

by Sarah Milliken (Oxford University)

  • Homo erectus in East Asia: Human Ancestor or Evolutionary Dead-End?  

by Dennis A. Etler (Cabrillo College)

Worldwide Archaeology:
  • The Neolithic on Sardinia

by Paula K. Lazrus (St. John's University)

  • Bronze Age Nuragic Culture in Sardinia: Guide to Sites and Museums 

by Barbara Abendschein

  • Golden Lady from a Scythian Barrow along the Middle Don, South Russia

by Valeri I. Guliaev (Institute of Archaeology, Moscow)



 


Acheulean handaxes





















Dragon Bone Hill, China

Book Reviews:



All articles listed above are contained, in their complete form, in the printed issue.

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