Human Evolution
Reflections on a New Paleoanthropological Discovery (Zarqa, Jordan)
By: FRANCO VIVIANI – This article details a palaeoanthropological discovery in the Zarqa Valley, Jordan, by a research team led by Fabio Parenti. The region, once a crossroads of human migration during the Pleistocene, has yielded stone tools attributed to the Oldowan culture, dated between 2.5 and 2 million years ago. These findings predate the…
Antropologia ed evoluzione umana nel Museo Sardo di Antropologia ed Etnografia. Finalità didattico-educative
Human Evolution, Italy, Laboratory of Anthropology, Museo Sardo di Antropologia ed Etnografia, Museum Education, Physical anthropologyBy: MARCO SARIGU, ROSALBA FLORIS, GIOVANNI UMBERTO FLORIS, VALERIA PUSCEDDU – The Anthropological room located in the Sardinian Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of Cagliari University, exhibits a permanent collection of human skeletal remains and replicas of fossil hominids related to human evolution. The educational role of the museum is supported by several exhibitions and…
Comunicare la Storia Naturale dell’Uomo: ombre e luci
By: ILARIO DE BIASE – This paper endeavors to explain what the issues are in understanding human evolution, mainly focusing on the teaching of Italian scholarship. What languages are more suitable to teach it? What topics should be chosen for it? Can pupils under 12 understand human evolution? All of the answers come out from…
La Corsa nell’evoluzione umana
By: NICCOLÓ MAZZUCCO – L’anatomia umana si sarebbe sviluppata più di 2 MA sotto la pressione e lo stimolo indotto da un’attività di corsa, poiché attività necessaria ai nostri antenati nel competere con gli altri predatori per l’approvvigionamento di cibo nell’ambiente della savana. Proprio la corsa, in particolare la corsa su lunghe distanze, avrebbe stimolato…