Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called 
Helping out the Arkansas Archeological Survey:
The Arkansas Archeological Survey and Southern Arkansas University report
the theft of 26 prehistoric Caddo Indian pottery vessels from the Arkansas
Archeological Survey's Research Station collections at Southern Arkansas
University. The pottery vessels are all from the Cedar Grove site located on
the Red River in Lafayette County, Arkansas. The vessels belong to the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers and are federal property. Photographs and complete
documentation of each pottery vessel exist so they will be very difficult to
sell on the open market.
The vessels are from Indian graves subject to the provisions of the Native
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, a federal law. If the
vessels were transported across state lines they will be subject to the
federal Archeological Resource Protection Act. Hence, the thieves can be
prosecuted under two separate federal laws as well as state law. For these
reasons, the SAU Police Department is working with the El Dorado office of
the FBI in the investigation.
For a list and photographs of the stolen pottery vessels see:
http://www.projectpast.org/sau/SAUCedarGroveMissingList_v3.pdf
Thomas J. Green
Director
Arkansas Archeological Survey
2475 N. Hatch Ave.
Fayetteville, AR 72704
479-575-3556 or 479-442-0261
or
Jamie C. Brandon
Research Station Archeologist
Arkansas Archeological Survey
Southern Arkansas University
PO Box 9381
Magnolia, AR 71754
870-235-4229
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