Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the conference really fulfilled its goals and helped us find our Asian-American identity," said University of Pennsylvania sophomore Tina Chinaham...
...really disappointed that many more Harvard Asian-Americans did not come," said Jennifer Tye '97, a member of the Asian American Association's administrative committee...
...hundreds of thousands of years earlier than anyone had believed, long before the invention of the advanced stone tools that, according to current textbooks, made the exodus possible. It would also mean that Homo erectus had plenty of time to evolve into two different species, one African and one Asian. Most researchers are convinced that the African branch of the family evolved into modern humans. But what about the Asian branch? Did it die out? Or did it also give rise to Homo sapiens, as the new Chinese evidence suggests...
Gradually, anthropologists realized that all these fossils were from creatures so similar that they could be assigned to a single species: Homo erectus. Although the African bones were the last to be discovered, some were believed to be much more ancient than those found anywhere else. The most primitive Asian fossils were considered to be a million years old at most, but the African ones went back at least 1.8 million years. The relative ages, plus the fact that H. erectus' ancestors were found exclusively in Africa, led scientists to conclude that H. erectus first emerged on that continent...
...theory was neat and tidy -- as long as everyone overlooked the holes. One problem: if advanced tools were H. erectus' ticket out of Africa, why are they not found everywhere the travelers went? Alan Thorne, of the Australian National University in Canberra, suggests that the Asian H. erectus built advanced tools from something less durable than stone. "Tools made from bamboo," he observes, "are in many ways superior to stone tools, and more versatile." And bamboo, unlike stone, leaves no trace after a million years...