Associate Professor of Anthropology
Member, Center for the Study of Human Origins
B.A., 1987, M.A., 1991, PhD 1994 University of California, Berkeley.

Research interests include physical anthropology; skeletal biology; evolution of genus Homo; dispersal; evolutionary morphology; human osteology and anatomy; growth, development and life history patterns. Field programs in Asia and the Pacific.


Selected Publications

2006 Stanford, C.B., Allen, J.S. and Antón, S.C. Introduction to Biological Anthropology: A Natural History of Humankind. Prentice Hall.

In press Antón, S.C., Spoor F., Fellmann, C.D., and Swisher, C.C. III. Defining Homo erectus: Size Considered. In. Henke, Rothe and Tattersall (eds). Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Volume 3, Chapter 11. Springer-Verlag.

2004 Antón, S.C. and Swisher, C.C. III. Early dispersals of Homo from Africa. Annual Review of Anthropology 33:271-96.

2004 Antón, S.C. The face of Olduvai Hominid 12. J. Human Evolution. 46:336-346. DOI information: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2003.12.005

2003 Antón, S.C. A Natural History of H. erectus. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 46:126-170.

2003 Antón, S.C. and Steadman, D.W. Mortuary patterns in burial caves on Mangaia, Cook Islands. International J. Osteoarchaeology. 13:132-146.

2002 Antón, S.C., Leonard, W.R. and Robertson, M. An ecomorphological model of the initial hominid dispersal from Africa. J. Human Evolution. 43:773-785.

2000 Steadman, D.W., Antón, S.C., Kirch, P.V. Ana Manuku: A prehistoric ritualistic site on Mangaia, Cook Islands. Antiquity 74:873-83."