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Summer 1999
Vol. 52:3
The discovery of this well-preserved skull
of a Taung child in 1925 began an ongoing search across Africa for the
remains of human ancestors.
Photograph by
Kenneth Garrett.
Departments
Life on The
Edge
Found Links
•Keith K. Howell
Habitats
Emeryville Shell Game
•Gordy Slack
Counterpoints
in Science
The Other People
•Jerold M. Lowenstein
Reviews
Mountain Lions
Editor's Recommendations
At Home
in the
Natural World
Naturalist's
Almanac
What to See This Summer
•Robert Adler
Skyguide
Millennium's Last Eclipse
•Bing F. Quock
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Features
The Latest Leakey
Searches For Our Earliest Ancestors
Paleontologist Meave Leakey continues a celebrated family tradition:
looking for early hominids in East Africa's Rift Valley.
•Keith Howell.
Upright
Characters
Many of the traits once considered unique to Homo sapiens
have since been discovered in other species. So what makes us singularly
human?
•Nina Jablonski
From
Eternity to Here
Driven by new discoveries and dating techniques our understanding of human
evolution has increased rapidly over the last century.
•Adrienne L. Zihlman and Jerold M. Lowenstein
The
Symbol and The Spear
Forty thousand years ago, a radical change altered people's ability to
perceive themselves and their world.
•Blake Edgar
Light
Before Dawn
The sun, moon, and stars must have dominated the daily routine of early
humans. Archeoastronomers search for the earliest indications of their
influence.
•Robert Adler
Not available
online:
Here At The Academy
War Stories
•Lisa Owens-Viani
Inside Grotte Chauvet
The only American anthropologist to experience this newly discovered
cave, crowded with well-preserved, lifelike images dating back 32,000
years, describes her impressions.
•Margaret Conkey
The Riddle of the Ancient Mariners
How did the first Americans walk from the Bering Strait to southern Chile?
They didn't.
•Tabitha M. Powledge
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