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LUCY, THIRTY YEARS LATER: AN EXPANDED VIEW OF AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS Donald C. Johanson Commencing in the 1970s, paleoanthropological exploration of Ethiopia’s Afar Triangle has made ever-increasing contributions to our knowledge of human origins, ranging from putative early hominids at 6 million years ago to the appearance of Homo sapiens at 150,000 BP. One of the most significant and fossil rich sites is Hadar, best known for the 1974 discovery of a 3.2-million-year-old partial skeleton, colloquially known as “Lucy” and assigned to the species Australopithecus afarensis. Renewed fieldwork at Hadar initiated in 1990 has significantly enlarged the Hadar A. afarensis collection, which now totals 362 specimens spanning 400,000 years from 3.4 to 3.0 million years ago. The discovery of male and female skulls provides vital knowledge for our understanding of A. afarensis. The oldest known co-occurrence of Oldowan tools and early Homo was also documented at Hadar in 2.33-million-year-old strata. With affinities to H. habilis, this discovery casts important light on to the origins of our own genus. WHY ANTHROPOLOGY NEEDS MORE HISTORY Peter M. Whiteley Despite a recent turn toward “historical anthropology,” anthropological explanation still tends to be predisposed to neglect or oppose a historical sensibility. This paper addresses how anthropological explanation can be enhanced by a more acute attention to history, in several dimensions. Those chosen concern: first, how a particular form of historical imagination reveals the hidden logic of a social order (the example is Hupa); second, the methodological value of the archival record for explaining significant societal events (the 1906 split of the Hopi town of Orayvi); and, third, identifying explicitly ethical foundations in the anthropological discipline’s origins (specifically, in Lewis Henry Morgan’s League of the Iroquois). Anthropological inquiry and explanation need to develop a deeper historical consciousness. HEADING HOME: THE ARCHITECTURE OF FAMILY AND SOCIETY IN EARLY SEDENTARY COMMUNITIES ON THE ANATOLIAN PLATEAU Sharon R. Steadman The earliest settled communities on the Anatolian Plateau (central Turkey) consisted of cultivators living in households that cooperated across dwellings in networks of production and consumption. These conclusions are based on the Anatolian data viewed though an interpretive framework modeled on the analysis first offered by Kent Flannery in 1972, with modifications drawn from studies by other scholars in the intervening decades. The theoretical underpinnings of Flannery’s original work are reviewed and revisions are offered. The ethnographic record is also examined for insights into the ambiguities present in hunter-gatherer and pastoralist familial and socioeconomic structures. The study closes with a revised explanatory framework to interpret the Anatolian early settlement data and with conclusions drawn from that data. The Skull of Australopithecus afarensis. William
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