Éditeur(s) : Art Asia America, a Digital Archive of Asian/Asian American Contemporary Art History Art Asia America, a Digital Archive of Asian/Asian American Contemporary Art History
Résumé : Record item with link to the full digital resource added to support use of this text in the Panama Silver, Asian Gold course to be taught at three institutions starting in Fall 2013.

Droits : See the holding digital archive for information on rights: http://artasiamerica.org/works/454/51
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00015987/00001

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Wiley
Résumé : International audience
Although advanced anthropoid primates (i.e., Simiiformes) are recorded at the end of the Eocene in North Africa (Proteopithecidae, Parapithecidae, and Oligopithecidae), the origin and emergence of this group has so far remained undocumented. The question as to whether these primates are the result of a monophyletic radiation of endemic anthropoids in Africa, or several Asian clades colonizing Africa, is a current focus of paleoprimatology. In this article, we report the discovery of a new anthropoid from Djebel el Kébar in central Tunisia, dating from the late middle Eocene (Bartonian). This taxon, Amamria tunisiensis, new genus and species, currently known by only one isolated upper molar, is among the most ancient anthropoids to be recorded in Africa thus far. Amamria displays a suite of dental features that are primarily observed in Eosimiiformes (stem Anthropoidea). However, it is not allocated to any known family of that group (i.e., Asian Eosimiidae and Afro-Asian Afrotarsiidae) inasmuch as it develops some dental traits that are unknown among eosimiiforms, but can be found in African simiiform anthropoids such as proteopithecids and oligopithecids. With such a mosaic of dental traits, Amamria appears to be a structural intermediate, and as such it could occupy a key position, close to the root of the African simiiforms. Given its antiquity and its apparent pivotal position, the possibility exists that Amamria could have evolved in Africa from Asian eosimiiform or Asian "proto"-simiiform ancestors, which would have entered Africa sometime during the middle Eocene. Amamria could then represent one of the earliest offshoots of the African simiiform radiation. This view would then be rather in favor of the hypothesis of a monophyletic radiation of endemic simiiform anthropoids in Africa. Finally, these new data suggest that there must have been at least two Asian anthropoid colonizers of Africa: the afrotarsiids and the ancestor of Amamria.
ISSN: 0002-9483

hal-01053704
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01053704
DOI : 10.1002/ajpa.22523

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
This lecture main goal will be to present a synthesis of the researches we have conducted during the last 15 years about the pre-Columbian occupation of the West Indies between 300 BC and 400 AD. Those researches have been realized in Martinique, Dominica, Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe, Antigua and Barbuda. They have been enriched by the work of others archaeologists in Grenada, St. Vincent, Montserrat, Nevis, St Kitts and St. Martin. This huge set of data give us the opportunity to analysis the West Indian Amerindian civilizations in a maritime and archipelagic perspective, falling out by this way with the traditional approach focused on the insularity concept. The last part of this research have been an experimental archaeology program about Amerindian navigation techniques. Thus, between 2008 and 2010 we have navigated on a 60 feet long traditional dugout canoes from island to island, from Grenada to Antigua following the road of ours ancestors.
1st Garifuna International Conference
kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Droits : info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
hal-00961357
https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-00961357
https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-00961357/document
https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-00961357/file/Pre-Columbian_Antillean_civilizations_in_an_archipelagic_perspective.pdf