About the Ancient Man Website

We have spent hundreds of hours scouring the world wide web and selecting, what we think to be, the best web sites that have anything to do with ancient man.  We hope that you enjoy what we've found and that you will learn something new during your visits here.  In the left frame, under Main Menu, you will see that the major selections have been categorized by continents and islands.  We have chosen to separate the continent of Eurasia into Europe and Asia.  This convention is commonly used.  We have not included the continent of Antartica, because as far as we know, there is no evidence of any hominids (see below) ever having been there in ancient times.  If the content of a site covers more than one continent then we will place the link on the World page, unless the great majority of the material is on one continent.  In which case we will place the link under the appropriate category.  Throughout the site you will also find links to various educational and learning sites that may or may not have anything to do with "ancient man".
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On the World page we have provided a link to an Anthropology Glossary which was produced  by the University of California Santa Barbara.  This site has a definition of the moment.  Must see!  Also, searchable definitions for terms commonly used in each subdiscipline of anthropology

hominid(from Merriam-Webster-Online) - any of a family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals comprising recent humans together with extinct ancestral and related forms

hominid (from Infoplease.com) - any of the modern or extinct bipedal primates of the family Hominidae, including all species of the genera Homo and Australopithecus.

Note:  The words man and men as used on this site are terms defined by Merriam-Webster Online as:

Main entry: man
b : the human race : MANKIND
c : a bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapiens) that is anatomically related to the great apes but distinguished especially by notable development of the brain with a resultant capacity for articulate speech and abstract reasoning, is usually considered to form a variable number of freely interbreeding races, and is the sole representative of a natural family (Hominidae);  broadly : any living or extinct member of this family

We provide over 40 regional News headlines with 20 top stories per region, updated every 15 minutes (see the News link in the top frame).  We also provide links to Anthropology breaking news, Archaeology & Paleontology News, Science News, and magazine articles on archaeology, palentology and more. For a little humor we provide you with Daily Jokes and Offbeat News.

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The "Web" and "Ancientman.com" search box provided by Google (see top frame) allows you to search for any word/words contained in the Ancient Man website or on the web. Whether you are searching for such things as "Homo erectus" or "arawak" or "shoes" or "salvador dali" or "ISP" or "Internet Service Providers" or just about anything else, hopefully you will find it here. 
Note: Some great info about using Google is that you can search for a word or a phrase on almost any site on the web.  An example would be to find info about Ancient Greece at the website "Exploring Ancient World Cultures by the University of Evansville"  Insert the following into the Google search box:
Ancient Greece site:eawc.evansville.edu

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