One of the things I am definitely excited for during the upcoming AAPA meetings is the large number of Dmanisi Field School alums who are contribution posters and/or podium presentations to the event. We have had wonderful students on the program the past two years and it is great to see them getting involved at the meetings.
2011 alums, Katya Mack and Amy Goldberg, have teamed up with Michigan geneticist Abby Bingham for two posters on Thursday:
– A genetic perspective on the evolution of longevity at the Middle Paleolithic to Upper Paleolithic transition. A. GOLDBERG, K. MACK, A. BIGHAM.
– Rates of Neandertal introgression in genic versus intergenic regions of the human genome. K. MACK, A. GOLDBERG, A. BIGHAM.
Boston University grad student and 2010 Dmanisi student, Alex Claxton, is the lead author on a poster Friday based on his Master’s thesis work at the University of Indianapolis:
– Manual phalangeal curvature and its relationship to positional behavior in anthropoids. A.G. CLAXTON, J.H. LANGDON
One of my students at Wellesley, Amanda Papakyrikos, who was at Dmanisi last summer is a co-author on my paper Friday morning:
– Size and skeletal development in early Homo erectus: a comparison of Nariokotome and Dmanisi. A.P. VAN ARSDALE, Z.D. COFRAN, A. PAPAKYRIKOS.
Fellow Wellesley student and a 2010 Dmanisi alum, Sana Saiyed, has a poster on work she did this past summer on an NSF undergraduate research supported project at the University of Notre Dame:
– Strontium tells all at Tell Dothan: exploring migration with strontium isotope analysis. S.T. SAIYED, J.R. HOFFMANN, J.P. CARTWRIGHT, L.A. GREGORICKA, J.M. ULLINGER, S.G. SHERIDAN
And my partner in crime in organizing the Field School the past two summers, Ani Margvelashvili, has a podium talk Thursday morning:
– Age-related changes of the occlusal surface geometry in humans and great apes. A. MARGVELASHVILI, C.P. ZOLLIKOFER, M.S. PONCE DE LEÓN.
