Access in Paleoanthropology

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Kate Wong, writing for Scientific American, gives proper journalistic treatment to the issue of access in paleoanthropology, something I was musing on back in March (here and here).

That situation is apparently changing. According to Johanson, this past January Yonas Desta, director general of the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Ethiopia, convened a meeting in Addis Ababa during which he announced that the rules and regulations for research in Ethiopia are currently being rewritten with aim of attracting more scholars to Ethiopia to study the fossils.

About Adam Van Arsdale

I am biological anthropologist with a specialization in paleoanthropology. My research focuses on the pattern of evolutionary change in humans over the past two million years, with an emphasis on the early evolution and dispersal of our genus, Homo. My work spans a number of areas including comparative anatomy, genetics and demography.
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One Response to Access in Paleoanthropology

  1. John Hawks says:
    May 10, 2012 at 11:55 pm

    I read the “Be sociable, share!” at the bottom of your post and thought you were editorializing :)

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