Tag Archives: early Homo

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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Tooth wear and stable isotopes: what were these fossils eating?

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

The New York Times has picked up a story on an article which came out in last week’s edition of Science on hominin diets. The review paper, co-authored by Peter Ungar (Univ. of Arkansas) and Matt Sponheimer (Univ. of Colorado) … Continue reading →

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