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 
I absolutely love this. As part of his World Prehistory class, Brian Hoffman had his class build a Woodland tradition earthen mound out of snow! Totally cool! Better than some old rotten snowman. Let's hope the idea catches on and the next time it snows people build replica's of Woodland and Mississippian villages in their front yards and effigy mounds out of snow. I have to stop now, I am getting carried away! Follow the link and check out the pictures.
Added Later: Hawks has an intro class starting and he has snow. Perhaps, he could make it fun for his students by having them build a mound the first day of class. Someone should email him and suggest it...
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