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La Quina 5 Maxilla Fragment (Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: France. Time Period: Late Pleistocene (~35-65 ka). Scanned from plaster cast.

Baboon Mandible (Papio Anubis)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: Africa. Time Period: Recent. Scanned from plaster cast.

Kabwe Skull (Homo Heidelbergensis)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: Zambia. Time Period: Late Pleistocene (~200-300 ka). Scanned from plaster cast.

La Quina 18 Juvenile Cranium (Homo Neanderthalensis)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: France. Time Period: Late Pleistocene (~35-65 ka). Scanned from plaster cast.

La Quina 5 Cranium (Homo Neanderthalensis)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: France. Time Period: Late Pleistocene (~35-65 ka). Scanned from plaster cast.

Monte Circeo I Cranium (Neanderthal)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: Italy. Scanned from plaster cast.

Modjokerto Calvarium Infant (Homo Erectus)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: Java. Scanned from plaster cast.

Le Moustier Maxilla Fragment (Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: France. Time Period: Late Pleistocene (~35-65 ka). Scanned from plaster cast.

Ehringsdorf (Calotte) (Homo Sapiens)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: Germany. Scanned from plaster cast.

Skhul 1 Cranium (Juvenile) (Transitional H. Sapiens)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: Mt. Carmel, Israel. Scanned from plaster cast.

Steinheim (H. Sapiens)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: Stuttgart, Germany. Scanned from plaster cast.

Skhul 1 Mandible (Juvenile) (Transitional H. Sapiens)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: Mt. Carmel, Israel. Scanned from plaster cast.

Choukoutien (Lower Cave) Cranium (Homo Erectus)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: China. Scanned from plaster cast.

Choukoutien (Lower Cave- Locus T) Skull I (Homo Erectus)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: China. Scanned from plaster cast.

Choukoutien (Lower Cave- Locus G-1) Mandible (Homo Erectus)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: China. Scanned from plaster cast.

Choukoutien (Lower Cave) Mandible (Homo Erectus)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: China. Scanned from plaster cast.

Neander Valley (Neanderthal Type Specimen)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: Neander Valley, Germany. Scanned from plaster cast.

Wadjak I Cranium (Homo Sapiens)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: Java. Scanned from plaster cast.

Predmosti (H. Sapiens)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: Austria. Scanned from plaster cast.

Saldhana Bay (Homo Sapiens)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Reconstructed half-skull. Origin: South Africa. Scanned from plaster cast.

Spy- Calotte (Neanderthal)

3D Hominin Artifact Models

Origin: Belgium. Scanned from plaster cast.

The Place To Be

Publications and Exhibits

Public life brings us together in common activity: cheering on the school sports team, enjoying Sunday dinner at a favorite restaurant, shopping at a local store. In these public spaces we conduct business, swap recipes, discuss issues of the day, relax with friends, and welcome newcomers to town. Public life knits together the diverse elements of a community and fosters a sense of civic responsibility. But longer job commutes, greater popularity of home entertainment, and online shopping mean more time spent privately and fewer opportunities to get together. To retain vitality, communities must continually nurture their traditional gathering places and …

Where Does Our Food Come From?

Publications and Exhibits

This twenty-two-panel exhibit traces Knox County's food system from farm to table. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork with dozens of local residents, including farmers, food processors, truckers, restaurant owners, and consumers, the exhibit consists of photographs and text that provide a unique perspective on the food we eat and the character of rural communities. The exhibit debuted at Kenyon College in May 2006 and has been featured at the Knox County Fair and the Centerburg (Ohio) Oldtime Farming Festival. This exhibit is on permanent display at Malabar Farm State Park in Lucas, Ohio. "Where Does Our Food Come From?" is …

What's For Dinner?

Publications and Exhibits

This nine-cube tabletop exhibit explores the implications of our food choices for us as individuals and for our community. Each cube explores a different implication of our food choices-- for nutrition, health, food production, economics, politics, and the environment. Materials presented include discussion of a food product and biographies of people related to the local food system. Copies are currently on display in restaurants, libraries, school cafeterias, medical offices, and assisted living centers.

The Mayos: African-American Artists Of The Heartland

Publications and Exhibits

This oral history project and exhibit pays tribute to two outstanding African-American folk artists with roots in Mount Vernon, Ohio: Walter O. Mayo (1878-1970) and his son, Walter L. “Bud” Mayo (1908-2000). Kenyon students Margaret Tazewell (’03) and Jessica Philips (’04) conducted interviews with family and community members, traced and documented artworks in the community, and mounted an exhibit and public conversation at Kenyon’s Olin Gallery in January 23-February 23, 2003.

Foodways

Publications and Exhibits

This series features essays, biographical sketches, photographs, and recipes exploring food and community life in Knox County. Topics include gardening, hunting and trapping, food markets, the economics of food, new farmers, feeding the hungry, eating out, ritual food, cooking, canning and preserving, food and healing, and food choices. The series is based on extensive field research.

Life Along The Kokosing

Publications and Exhibits

This tour guide of sites along Knox County's Kokosing River explores our relationship to nature and rural community identity. The guide includes thirteen five-minute audio programs featuring excerpts of interviews with residents about the sites and a forty-page booklet with photographs and additional historical materials. Topics include village and town history, Amish community, agriculture, floods, recreation, immigration, the economy, geological history, wildlife, green space preservation, and urban sprawl.

Track listing:

1. Intro: At Riverside Park

2. Waterford

3. Kokosing Resevoir

4. Kokosing Sand and Gravel Pit

5. Cassell Farm

6. Mount Vernon Viaduct

7. Andrew Craig Historical Marker

8. Brown Family Environmental Center

9. Kenyon Mill

10. Indianfield Run

11. Trestle …

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