An Asian Grande Coupure

Article Abstract:

Meng and McKenna provide an overview of successive mammalian faunas in Mongolia from the Palaeocene to the end of the Oligocene. They have identified large scale extinction, the Mongolian remodelling, that happened at around the same time as the Eocene/Oligocene (EOB). In 1966 it was shown that rodent biotas in Europe were enriched by Asian forms around the time of the EOB. In 1985 it was proposed that the EOB should be known as the terminal Eocene event (TEE). The consequences of the misnamed TEE on the evolution of Central Asian faunas is now appreciated with the Meng and McKenna synthesis.

Paleontology, Paleobotany, Oligocene Epoch

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Neanderthals emancipated

Article Abstract:

A reappraisal of bone tools and ornaments excavated from a site at Arcy-sur-Cure, France, suggests that they were made by Neanderthals and are not, as previously assumed, the products of a later period. The Chatelperronian layers at the site yielded 36 personal ornaments and 142 worked bone objects. It seems that the Neanderthals of Arcy were capable of symbolic behaviour and were able to communicate. Early Aurignacian modern humans and Chatelperronian Neanderthals are concluded to be biologically different, although with important cultural similarities.

Social aspects, France, Antiquities, Prehistoric peoples, Human evolution, Neanderthals, Neanderthal man

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