IT'S ABOUT LUCY

In Search of Human Origin: Lucy



In Search of Human Origin: Lucy

Introduction

“In Search of Human Origins -- The Creative Revolution” is the final episode in a three-part anthropology documentary that provides a historical perspective on the contributions of our earliest ancestors. Narrated by anthropologist Don Johanson, this tape analyzes the profound behavioral and cultural changes that occurred amongst African hunters and gatherers 50,000 generations ago. Lucy or Dinknesh is the nickname of the fossil of the species Australopithecus afarensis discovered on the site of Hadar in Ethiopia in 1974 by an international research team. This fossil is 40% complete and date of about 3.2 million years. Long considered a species at the origin of the human lineage, Australopithecus afarens interprets as species of the genus Homo. Lucy is the first relatively complete fossil was discovered for a period as old and has revolutionized our understanding of human origins, demonstrating that the acquisition of walking biped was from 3 to 4,000,000 years.

The population of African ancestry, descended from slaves brought by British traders, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish during the colonial period, concentrates mainly in the Caribbean and Brazil, but is also important in Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, the Guianas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay. These ancestors worked mainly in the mines or on sugar plantations and cotton, and as domestic servants in all the dominant colonial houses. For his clear conflict of interest with the settlers, the people actively participated in the independence process of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but were subsequently scorned as "uncivilized" by the governments, which did little to improve the social situation but free in the nineteenth century. It is necessary to emphasize the importance of Haitian independence in 1791-1804, as the forerunner of all the revolutions of independence from the rest of Latin America in the nineteenth century.

History finds its presence among the ancestors who belonged to the ancient African countries. This assignment studies a video clip by name “In search of Human Origin”, to study if Lucy was our ancestor or not. We will utilize various evidences from the video clip to justify our agreement or disagreement with Dr. Johanson about declaring Lucy as our ancestor. For all these reasons, the populations of African ancestry need to produce mechanisms of cultural resistance and forward movements to defend their civil rights. Among the most important manifestations of cultural specificity and resistance are the religion, music and movement or Afro Negrista.

Discussion

The discovery of Lucy was very important for the study of Australopithecus: this is the first relatively complete fossil discoversfor a period as old. Lucy has indeed fragments of 52 bones including mandible elements of the skull and especially postcranial elements including a portion of the pelvis and femur.These elements have proven extremely important to reconstruct the locomotion of the species Australopithecus afarensis . His bipedalism is not exclusive, and its body structure describes as "bilocomotrice" because it combines two types of locomotion: a form of bipedalism and an ability to ...