Susan
Antón
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Dr.
Antón
in South Africa |
Dr. Antón at MAN-84,
Mangaia, Cook Islands |
Position: Associate
Professor of Anthropology
Education: B.A.
1987, University of California, Berkeley
M.A. 1991 University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. 1994, University of California, Berkeley
E-mail: susan.anton@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-992-9786
Research
Sites: Java,
Indonesia; Mangaia, Cook Islands
Research
Focus:
My research considers the evolution
of the genus Homo from 2.5 Ma to present. My main
areas of interest in early Homo are: the relationship
between size, scaling, environment and morphology, biological
responses to resource
variability,
and evolution of the human developmental pattern. I am also
particularly interested in the relationship between morphological
and ecological
variables and the early dispersal of genus Homo,
as well as the potential ecological impacts of genus Homo on
hominin-naïve
ecosystems in Asia. These projects includes
African and Asian hominins and fieldwork in Indonesia.
In
recent human evolution, I’ve
focused on human influences
on island ecosystems and the
concomitant influences of resource
scarcity on human
biocultural systems. I address this work
primarily on Mangaia,
Cook Islands. |
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Dr.
Antón in Puerto Rico |
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In an effort to to develop integrative approaches to research questions concerning human evolution and to increase our ability to link behavioral, biological, and skeletal data sets, we started the Bones and Behavior Working Group. More details about our group and our integrative measurement protocol for morphological and behavioral research can be found at the group website, http://www.bonesandbehavior.org/. |
Bones and Behavior Working Group Conference in 2007 |
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Downloadable CV
Recent and Selected Publications:
- 2009. Stanford, C.B., Allen, J.S. and Antón, S.C. Biological Anthropology. 2nd edition. Pearson-Prentice Hall.
- 2008. Antón, S.C. Framing the Question: Diet and Evolution in early Homo. In: Vinyard, Wall and
Ravosa, eds. Primate
Craniofacial Function and Biology: Papers in Honor of Bill Hylander. Chapter 20, pp. 443-482. Springer Science.
- 2008. Indriati, E. and Antón, S.C. Earliest Indonesian facial and dental remains from Sangiran,
Java: a description of Sangiran 27. Anthropological Science. 116:219-229.
- 2008. Spoor, F., Leakey, M.G., Antón, S.C., and Leakey, L.N. The taxonomic status of KNM-ER
42700: A reply to Baab (2008a). Journal of Human Evolution. 55:747-750.
- 2008. Griffin, N., Gordon, A., Richmond, B., Antón, S.C. Cross-sectional geometric analysis of a
foot bone assemblage from Mangaia, Cook Islands. Homo: Journal of Comparative Human
Biology. 59:27-40.
- 2008. Stanford, C.B., Allen, J.S. and Antón, S.C. Exploring Biological Anthropology: The Essentials. Pearson-Prentice Hall.
- 2007. Spoor, F., Leakey, M.G., Gathogo, P.N., Brown, F.H., Antón, S.C., McDougall, I., Kiarie, C.,
Manthi, F.K., and Leakey, L.G. Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, East Lake
Turkana (Kenya). Nature 448:688-691.
- 2007. Antón, S.C. Climatic influences on the evolution of early Homo? Folia Primatologica.
(Special Issue on Climate and Primate Evolution. Christophe Soligo, ed.) 78:365-388
- 2007. Clark, J., Dobson, S., Antón, S.C., Hawks, J., Hunley, K., and Wolpoff, M.H. Identifying artificially deformed crania. International Journal Osteoarchaeology. 17(6):596-607
- 2007. 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; pp. 1655-1693. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
- 2006.
Stanford, C.B., Allen, J.S. and Antón, S.C. Introduction
to Biological Anthropology: A Natural History of Humankind.
Prentice Hall.
- 2004. Antón,
S.C. and Swisher, C.C. III. Early dispersals of Homo from
Africa. Annual Review of Anthropology 33:271-296.
- 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.
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