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July 2008 Five Anthropology graduate students, Tom Rein, Joe Califf, Steve Worthington, Mike Montague, and Andres Link have been awarded research grants.
June 2008
Terry Harrison is featured by ScienceNews regarding his excavation of ancient apes in China, including the earliest-known ancestral gibbons. March 2008 New info on the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) can be found via Nature News February 2008 Rita Wright is interviewed by Scienceline January 2008 Two Anthropology graduate students, Kirstin Sterner and Andres Link have both been awarded NYU Deans Dissertation Fellowships.
Shara
Bailey discusses
teeth and evolution on a show called "In Conversation" on ABC Radio
National Thursday Jan 24 at 7:25 pm (Australian, Eastern Standard
Time). To listen, go to www.abc.net.au and click your way to the "In
Conversation" program via Radio National. December 2007 Rita Wright is interviewed in NYU Research. October 2007 On October 6th, the Wenner Gren Foundation and CSHO co-sponsord an international conference and gala in honor of Cliff Jolly, entitled "Evolutionary Anthropology at the Interface: A Celebration of Cliff Jolly's Contributions to the Field." September 2007 Susan Anton is interviewed by NPR on her Nature article. August 2007 Susan Anton published a recent article in Nature entitled "Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya." April 2007 Dr. Tony DiFiore is awarded a Leakey Foundation Grant for his project "Kinship, Behavior, and Social Structure in Western Amazonian Ateline Primates". March 2007 The
New York Times features Dr. Randall
White and his prolific archaeological career working
in the Vezere Valley of France. December 2006 The
proceedings of The
‘Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives’ conference,
held at New York University (January 27-29, 2005) is published, edited by Katerina
Harvati and Terry Harrison.
Using public and private archives in France, Germany and the US, the author recounts this complicated affair step by step, dispensing with the myth that the sculpture was saved by a simple, forceful intervention by the French prehistorian Denis Peyrony. The administrative and legal procedures actually took more than three years. The story that has been told to generations of prehistorians is largely false and hides a complex reality. The removal of the sculpture was entirely conceived by French locals. When the director of the Berlin museum came to the region in 1912 to negotiate the purchase of the salmon, it was at the unsollicited invitation of the site’s owner. Hauser had nothing to do with planning, organizing, extracting or selling this important work of Paleolithic art. The role of Denis Peyrony turns out to be much less heroic than is often imagined. The whole Abri du Poisson affair can only be understood by situating it in the context of the times, marked by a crisis of national identity ; the German military threat ; an impoverished French rural population ; an absence of legislation protecting archaeological objects and monuments ; the lack of funds in France for the acquisition of collections by French museums ; administrative incompetence ; and severe conflicts among prehistorians.
November 2006 Professor Terry Harrison is elected as a fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) October 2006 The Wenner Gren Foundation and CSHO are pleased to announce a workshop and symposium, organized in honor of Cliff Jolly, entitled "Evolutionary Anthropology at the Interface" to be held in October 5-6, 2007. May 2006 A newly discovered catarrhine primate from the early Miocene site of Napak IX in Uganda has been named Lomorupithecus harrisoni, after Terry Harrison.
November 2005 Professor Cliff
Jolly is elected as a fellow to the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Ryan Raaum begins a position as a post doctoral scholar at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Department of Anthropology in Connie Mulligan's laboratory.
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