Catch a Pithecus by the Toe

[jasonk282]

SO I was taking a dump and needed something to read and since my wife was a cultural archaeoloist before landing her steady job with way better pay she still subscribes to Archaeology magazine. And I was reading about Ardipithecus ramidus and decided to share the story as I found it interesting. Don't really know if this is widley kowen knowledge but here is the story.

Fifteen years ago, a group of fossil hunters, including a UC Berkeley graduate student named Yohannes Haile-Selassie, crawled on their hands and knees across a patch of 4.4-million-year-old sediment in northeastern Ethiopia's Afar region. Moving shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the group, Haile-Selassie spotted a small, white fossil on the reddish clay. It turned out to be a hand bone, the first piece of a partial skeleton of a female Ardipithecus ramidus (nicknamed Ardi). She would have mainly eaten plant foods, and probably spent much of her time in the trees that covered the area when she was alive. She stood about four feet tall, weighed approximately 110 pounds, and had a brain the size of a chimpanzee

The rest of the article is here
http://www.archaeology.org/1001/trenches/ardipithecus.html

 

[Wainkerr99]

She lived in the court of King Caracticus.

("If you want to see the scintillating stitches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses of the faces of the ladies of the harem of King Caracticus, it's too late! They've all passed by." Roger Whittaker.)

 

[Philbert]

I am really sure that I lived above her cousin and quite possibly her Uncle in the '70s...while I never observed the actual activity, I am sure the whole family were indeed knuckle-draggers.
Maybe they immigrated from Ethiopia along with some of the early Falasha, who didn't go to Israel...just about everybody at one time or another lived in L.A. in the '70s.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Did she do anal or IR?

 

[gunslingingbird]

This thread should be called "The things I've learned while taking a dump," and it should be a place for everyone to share any new knowledge attained while sitting on the throne. flylicker