Wikipedia:GLAM/Smithsonian Institution/To do/National Museum Of Natural History

The following tables contain references to books, academic articles, news articles, Smithsonian webpages,and other resources that may be useful in editing and creating articles relating to the topics of the Human Origins Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon.

Suggested Edits: Include more information about contents of the hall, reviews of the hall, and the companion book, What Does It Mean To Be Human by Rick Potts and Christopher Sloan.

Suggested edits: Include new section about Olorgesailie Drilling Project, as well as update existing sections for accuracy and detail. History of excavation at the site, the various prehistoric environmental conditions, information about the fauna (including updating the bit where it says that the animals were likely butchered, which aside from one known butchery site, is not accurate), are all examples of sections that need more information.

Suggested Edit: Move content from Xiochangliang to Nihewan Basin, and expand to include significant paleontological and archaeological discoveries from entire Nihewan Basin.

Suggested Edit: Merge with Yuanmou Man, and rename "Yuanmou Prehistoric Site", and expand to include more information about the site itself. The moniker "Yuanmou Man" is outdated.

Suggested Edits: Expand article to include more about the 50-plus-year history of excavation at Liang Bua. Change "discovery" date to "first excavated" date, as people living in the area knew that the cave existed before the 1950s. Correct inaccurate information about the dig closing; the article referenced says that he was getting ready to leave for the season, not forever.

Suggested Edits: Create page for Soa Basin, an archaeological area in Flores, Indonesia where the oldest known stone tools on the island have been recovered from.

Suggested Edit: Expand "Evolutionary History" section to include information about Varanus komodensis found at Liang Bua,

This is a list of pages that lack images:
 * Flores giant rat
 * Leptoptilos robustus

Suggested edits: Edit Theropithecus to include information about Theropithecus at Olorgesailie.

Potts, Richard, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, and Peter Ditchfield. "Paleolandscape Variation and Early Pleistocene Hominid Activities: Members 1 and 7, Olorgesailie Formation, Kenya." Journal of Human Evolution 37, no. 5 (1999): 345-46.

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 * Potts, Richard, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, and Peter Ditchfield. "Paleolandscape Variation and Early Pleistocene Hominid Activities: Members 1 and 7, Olorgesailie Formation, Kenya." Journal of Human Evolution 37, no. 5 (1999): 345-46.
 * Academic Article
 * Authored by SI Curator
 * Day 10 (July 5, 2011): Olorgesailie - the Big Picture
 * Blog Post
 * Day 10
 * Yes
 * Anthropology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems: "The Role of GIS in the Interdisciplinary Investigations at Olorgesailie, Kenya, a Pleistocene Archaeological Locality"
 * Book Chapter
 * Authored by SI Curator
 * Anthropology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems: "The Role of GIS in the Interdisciplinary Investigations at Olorgesailie, Kenya, a Pleistocene Archaeological Locality"
 * Book Chapter
 * Authored by SI Curator
 * Authored by SI Curator
 * Authored by SI Curator

Suggested edits: Include more information about bronze statues and facial reconstructions of early hominins, as well as information about his book, Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins.

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 * A scientist-artist recreates human ancestors by studying their bones
 * Article and Radio Interview
 * No
 * A scientist-artist recreates...
 * No
 * Sculpting Evolution
 * SI News Article
 * No
 * Sculpting Evolution
 * Yes
 * Reconstructions of Early Humans
 * Webpage on Human Origins Website
 * No
 * Reconstructions of Early Humans
 * Yes
 * Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins
 * Book
 * No
 * Shaping Humanity...
 * No
 * Review of: Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins
 * Book Review
 * No
 * Review of: Shaping Humanity...
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 * Review of: Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins
 * Book Review
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 * Review of: Shaping Humanity...
 * No

Suggested edits: Include more information about climate change during human evolution. In Use of Tools section, include more information about control of fire (where there is an image of fire but no information about its early use), and reformat several items erroneously in quotation marks (Oldowan Stone Tools was likely meant to link to another page, and "Homo" and "Paranthropus" should be italicized.

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 * Climate Effects on Human Evolution
 * Article on SI Webpage
 * No
 * Climate Effects on Human Evolution
 * Yes
 * Fire-Altered Stone Tools
 * Artifact Page on SI Website
 * No
 * Fire-Altered Stone Tools
 * Yes
 * Control of fire by early humans
 * Wikipedia page
 * No
 * Control of fire by early humans
 * No
 * No
 * Control of fire by early humans
 * No

Suggested edits: Include more information about Shanidar III, which is displayed in the Hall of Human Origins. Also include information about Shanidar V through X. Also, in the "See All" section, 'hominina' isn't widely or commonly used in the scientific community.

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 * The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave
 * Article
 * Yes
 * The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave
 * Yes
 * Shanidar 1
 * Fossil Description on Human Origins Website
 * No
 * Shanidar 1
 * Yes
 * 3D Scan of Shanidar 3
 * 3D Scan with Text
 * No
 * 3D Scan
 * Yes
 * Thorne, Alan, C.p. Grove, Mario Chech, and Erik Trinkaus. "A New Reconstruction of the Shanidar 5 Cranium." Paléorient 25, no. 2 (1999): 143-46.
 * Academic Article
 * No
 * No
 * Trinkaus, Erik. The Shanidar Neandertals. New York: Academic Press, 1983.
 * Book
 * No
 * No
 * Trinkaus, Erik, and David D. Thompson. "Femoral Diaphyseal Histomorphometric Age Determinations for the Shanidar 3, 4, 5, and 6 Neandertals and Neandertal Longevity."American Journal of Physical Anthropology 72, no. 1 (2005): 123-29.
 * Academic Article
 * No
 * No
 * Cowgill, L., E. Trinkaus, and M. Zeder. "Shanidar 10: A Middle Paleolithic Immature Distal Lower Limb from Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan." Journal of Human Evolution 53 (2007): 213-23.
 * Academic Article
 * No
 * No
 * Henry, A. G., A. S. Brooks, and D. R. Piperno. "Microfossils in Calculus Demonstrate Consumption of Plants and Cooked Foods in Neanderthal Diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium)." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011, 486-91.
 * Academic Article
 * No
 * No
 * No
 * Cowgill, L., E. Trinkaus, and M. Zeder. "Shanidar 10: A Middle Paleolithic Immature Distal Lower Limb from Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan." Journal of Human Evolution 53 (2007): 213-23.
 * Academic Article
 * No
 * No
 * Henry, A. G., A. S. Brooks, and D. R. Piperno. "Microfossils in Calculus Demonstrate Consumption of Plants and Cooked Foods in Neanderthal Diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium)." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011, 486-91.
 * Academic Article
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 * Academic Article
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Suggested edits: "Incremental dating" is not a term used in paleoanthropology, and many of the techniques listed in the Incremental Dating page are not used in paleoanthropology. Replace this link with more specific types of dating used in the field: Paleomagnetic dating, etc.

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 * Bose, China
 * Webpage on Human Origins Website
 * Bose, China
 * Yes
 * Hou Y., Potts, R., Yuan, B., Guo, Z., Deino, A., Wang, W., Clark, J., Xie, G., Huang, W., 2000. Mid-Pleistocene Acheulean-like stone technology of the Bose Basin, South China. Science 287, 1622-1626.
 * Academic Article
 * Authored by SI Curator
 * Potts, R., 2001. Mid-Pleistocene environmental change and human evolution. In Human Roots: Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene (L. Barham and K. Robson-Brown, eds.), Western Academic Press, Bristol, pp. 5-21.
 * Book Chapter
 * Authored by SI Curator
 * Wang, W., Potts, R., Yuan, B.Y., Huang, W.W., Hai, C., Edwards, R.L., Ditchfield, P., 2007. Sequence of mammalian fossils, including hominid teeth, from the Bose region caves, south China. Journal of Human Evolution 52, 370-379.
 * Academic Article
 * Authored by SI Curator
 * Wang, Wei, Stephen J. Lycett, Noreen Von Cramon-Taubadel, Jennie J. H. Jin, Christopher J. Bae, and Fred H. Smith. "Comparison of Handaxes from Bose Basin (China) and the Western Acheulean Indicates Convergence of Form, Not Cognitive Differences." PLoS ONE, 2012.
 * Academic Article
 * No
 * Wang, Wei, Jinyou Mo, and Zhitao Huang. "Recent Discovery of Handaxes Associated with Tektites in the Nanbanshan Locality of the Damei Site, Bose Basin, Guangxi, South China."Chinese Science Bulletin 53, no. 6 (2008): 878-83.
 * Academic Article
 * No
 * "Bose Basin" in Encyclopaedia of Human Evolution
 * Encyclopedia Entry
 * No
 * Academic Article
 * No
 * Wang, Wei, Jinyou Mo, and Zhitao Huang. "Recent Discovery of Handaxes Associated with Tektites in the Nanbanshan Locality of the Damei Site, Bose Basin, Guangxi, South China."Chinese Science Bulletin 53, no. 6 (2008): 878-83.
 * Academic Article
 * No
 * "Bose Basin" in Encyclopaedia of Human Evolution
 * Encyclopedia Entry
 * No
 * "Bose Basin" in Encyclopaedia of Human Evolution
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Suggested edits: Include more information in his biography about his involvement with March of Progress, one of the most well-known illustrations of human evolution.

Suggested edits: Include information about how climate change affecting humans in prehistory.

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 * Climate Effects on Human Evolution
 * Article on SI Webpage
 * No
 * Climate Effects on Human Evolution
 * Yes
 * Yes

Suggested edits: Include information about Smithsonian's Grand Challenges initiatives, especially concerning its involvement with the Anthropocene. Also include the recent Smithsonian Official Climate Change Statement.

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 * Castle Series Lectures about the Anthropocene
 * Lectures
 * Castle Lecture Series
 * The Age of Humans: Living in the Anthropocene
 * SI Webpage
 * The Age of Humans
 * Smithsonian Official Climate Change Statement
 * Official Statement
 * Official Climate Change Statement
 * Smithsonian Official Climate Change Statement
 * Official Statement
 * Official Climate Change Statement

Suggested edits: Include the human evolution perspective on the Anthropocene, as well as the Smithsonian's Anthropocene initiatives.

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 * Smithsonian Anthropologist Rick Potts Answers Questions About the Anthropocene
 * Article
 * Rick Potts Answers Questions...
 * The Age of Humans: Living in the Anthropocene
 * SI Webpage
 * The Age of Humans
 * The Moral Dilemma We Face in the Age of Humans
 * Article
 * The Moral Dilemma We Face...
 * SI Castle Lecture Series about the Anthropocene
 * Lectures
 * Castle Lecture Series
 * SI Castle Lecture Series about the Anthropocene
 * Lectures
 * Castle Lecture Series
 * Castle Lecture Series

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 * Cohen, A., Arrowsmith, R., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Campisano, C., Feibel, C., Fisseha, S., Johnson, R., Bedaso, Z. K., Lockwood, C., Mbua, E., Olago, D., Potts, R., Reed, K., Renaut, R., Tiercelin, J.-J., Umer, M. (2009): Understanding Paleoclimate and Human Evolution Through the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project. - Scientific Drilling, (8), p. 60-65.
 * Workshop Report
 * Co-Authored by SI Curator
 * Project Overview for Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Driling Project
 * Webpage on HSPDP Website
 * Project Overview
 * No
 * Olorgesailie Drilling Project
 * Webpage on Human Origins Website
 * ODP
 * Yes
 * International Continental Scientific Drilling Program website
 * Website
 * ICSDP website
 * No
 * International Continental Scientific Drilling Program website
 * Website
 * ICSDP website
 * No
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Suggested edit: Update with new information about early members of genus Homo published in the following Science paper:

Antón, Susan C., Richard Potts, and Leslie C. Aiello. "Evolution of Early Homo: An Integrated Biological Perspective." Science 345, no. 6192 (2014) [DOI:10.1126/science.1236828].

Suggested Edit: Update for factual accuracy.

The Neanderthal Genome: A Paradigm Shift in Human Evolution

Virtual Neanderthals

A Paleogenomic Perspective on Evolution and Gene Function: New Insights from Ancient DNA

[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140129-neanderthal-genes-genetics-migration-africa-eurasian-science/ Surprise! 20 Percent of Neanderthal Genome Lives On in Modern Humans, Scientists Find]

Resurrecting Surviving Neandertal Lineages from Modern Human Genomes

The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

Website of the Neanderthal Genome Project

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 * Bernard Wood
 * Bio on SI Human Origins Website
 * Bernard Wood
 * Yes
 * Bernard Wood
 * Bio on GWU Website
 * Bernard Wood
 * No
 * Bernard Wood
 * Faculty Member Page on GWU Website
 * Bernard Wood
 * No
 * Faculty Member Page on GWU Website
 * Bernard Wood
 * No

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 * Alison Brooks
 * Bio on SI Human Origins Website
 * Alison Brooks
 * Yes
 * Alison Brooks
 * Faculty Member Page on GWU Website
 * Alision Brooks
 * No
 * Alison Brooks
 * Faculty Member on GWU Anthropology Website
 * Alison S. Brooks
 * No
 * Faculty Member on GWU Anthropology Website
 * Alison S. Brooks
 * No