Tag Archives: Dmanisi

Our paper: The evolution of early Homo

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

This past Spring I published a paper, together with Milford Wolpoff, on the early evolution of our genus, Homo. The paper had several inspirations, independent of my own research in this arena associated with my work at the Lower Paleolithic … Continue reading →

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Paleoanthropology Picture of the Day

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

I am going to try to post occasional (every week or so) pictures of paleoanthropological significance. Here is a photo looking at the Block 2 excavation area at the Lower Paleolithic site of Dmanisi, with the Dmanisi museum director, Gocha … Continue reading →

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New year, new site banner

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

In honor of my 1-year blogging anniversary, I have changed the site header. The old photo was a picture taken looking out over the Eastern slope of the Tugen Hills region, in the Central Rift Valley of Kenya. I tagged … Continue reading →

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The Dmanisi mandibles

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

My latest paper examining metric variation in the Lower Paleolithic Dmanisi mandibular sample, co-authored with David Lordkipanidze, is available today via Paleoanthropology’s website (open access). Synopsis: The Dmanisi mandibular sample is a well-preserved, age-stratified set of remains, that poses interesting … Continue reading →

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The new Koobi Fora early Homo fossils

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

UPDATE: For some additional takes, check out Erin Wayman’s piece at Hominid Hunting (Smithsonian) and Zachary Cofran’s great discussion of these new fossils alongside the material from Malapa, South Africa, at Lawnchair Anthropology. Meave Leakey, Fred Spoor and colleagues have … Continue reading →

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What I talked about at the AAPA meetings

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Here is a link to a slightly modified (in order to display correctly in .pdf form) version of the talk I gave in Portland at this year’s AAPA meetings.

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Early Homo and the carnivore guild

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

One of the topics making the rounds today is the connection between Plio-Pleistocene hominins and their carnivorous contemporaries. Ann Gibbons gets the ball rolling by reporting on recent research by Lars Werdelin and colleagues on the apparent extinction of carnivores, … Continue reading →

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Fossil data, access and technology, part 1

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

One of the issues I find myself thinking about in the murkier moments of paleoanthropological reflection is the nature of the data available to us. I don’t mean by this the question of “how complete is the fossil record,” but … Continue reading →

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