ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Basseri, Kinship Terminology, Endogamy
Document Summary
Paleocene (65-54mya): small mammals, eocene (54-35mya): anthropoid fossils, miocene (23-5mya): hominoids (apes), pliocene (5-2mya), pleistocene, holocene epochs. Plesiadapiformes do not have primate adaptations of the eyes and the hands (but do have flexible wrists. True primates include lemur-like adapiformes that have forward-facing eyes with bony protection, grasping hands with nails & tactile pads and long legs for leaping. Paleocene & eocene forms are broadly distributed in north america, europe and asia (northern hemisphere) Climate is warm and tropical; cooling climate at the end of the eocene results in a major collapse of strepsirhine/prosimian primates. Eocene adapiformes are plentiful in n am & europe. Archicebus is a 55 m year old anthropoid from central china. Cooling climate at the end of the eocene results in a major collapse of strepsirhine primates. Oligocene anthropoids are abundant at the fayum site of egypt. Nomadism the entire group move with the herd through the yeartrade for crops.
