By JOSEPH LELYVELD. Author of 'On the Road' was Hero to Youth--Rejected Middle-Class Values ack Kerouac, the novelist who named the Beat Generation and exuberantly celebrated its rejection of middle-class American conventions, died early yesterday of massive abdominal hemorrhaging in a St. Petersburg, Fla., hospital. He was 47 years old.
Primates are relative newcomers on our planet. The earliest ones are found in the fossil record dating to 50-55 million years ago. These first prosimians thrived during the Eocene Epoch. There were no monkeys or apes for them to compete with yet.he first true primates evolved by 55 million years ago or a bit earlier, near the beginning of the Eocene Epoch. Their fossils have been found in North America, Europe, and Asia. They looked different from the primates today.
Anthropoid coffins are remnants of the Egyptian presence in the Levant, and date to end of the Late Bronze and early Iron Ages. The tomb in which this coffin was found probably dates to the Iron Age, sometime in the twelfth century BC.Anthropoid coffins, made from coarse clay, resemble the human form and are roughly cylindrical, tapering from a domed top to a flat base.Some of the lids depict the deceased in a naturalistic style, and some in a grotesque style with exaggerated facial features.he anthropoid coffins found at sites like Beth Shean were likely for Egyptian officials or army officers, although some of the deceased in the coffins may have been foreign mercenaries in Egyptian service. Penn Museum Object #29-103-789. See this object and more like it on Penn Museumâs Online Collection Database.