Join us tonight at 5pm! Joan Silk from ASU is giving a CSHO lecture: "Reproductive tradeoffs for male baboons: competing vs caring"

How do individual differences in strength, accuracy & cognition impact knapping skill acquisition in different information transmission conditions? In a new study, we trained 23 individuals for 2 hours to knap by observation only/direct active teaching. rdcu.be/c1nOs

Kudos to MS alum Lauren Petrullo (‘15) on her new paper in Science! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Hot off the presses! New review "African apes and the evolutionary history of orthogrady and bipedalism" by Scott Williams, Cody Prang, and co-authors. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… WUSTL Bioanthro WashU Anthropology NYU ANTHROPOLOGY CSHO @ NYU

Fully funded opportunity to excavate at Boomplaas Cave and across several sites in Malawi through the Human Origins Migration and Evolution (HOMER) research group. May-July 2023. More info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1uA…

CSHO faculty Shara Bailey is part of the research team that published in Science on the oldest Oldowan tools found at a site called Nyayanga, Kenya. They were associated with Paranthropus teeth, suggesting that Paranthropus potentially used them: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our new paper shows how neuroplasticity enables bio‑cultural feedback in Paleolithic stone‑tool making (nature.com/articles/s4159…). Results show that technical skill acquisition can produce structural brain changes conducive to the discovery and acquisition of additional skills.

Tomorrow! 4/27 at NYU -- Katerina Harvati lecture non-NYU attendees, email [email protected] for access

I love the opportunity to work with them, they are such great students! Looking at archaeology through their eyes is an amazing experience!

African Paleosciences Laboratory@NYU ARISE summer high school interns turning up the heat with their presentations on silcrete heat treatment at the American Museum of Natural History. Excellent guidance and mentoring from Adela Cebeiro. CSHO @ NYU NYU ANTHROPOLOGY

Check out our NYU Anthropology talks this fall!

New study co-authored by Prof. Terry Harrison reveals clues about the evolution of human movement. nyu.edu/about/news-pub…

Our new paper documenting the earliest examples of compound glues from Europe, led by Patrick Schmidt Universität Tübingen & Ewa Dutkiewicz Museumsportal Berlin science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… also w/ Abay Namen (1/6)

Did Neanderthals use glue? NYU ANTHROPOLOGY and Universität Tübingen researchers found evidence of a multi-component adhesive in stone tools that suggests a higher level of cognition and cultural development than previously thought. More on the Science Advances study: spr.ly/6014neKEs

❄️Curious about the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and its impact on southern Africa's climates, environments, and human evolution? Our new #Quaternary Science Reviews paper (tinyurl.com/mwcfh948) sheds light on this icy chapter at #Boomplaas Cave

Congrats to Dr. Jing Zhang for her highlight at #CVPR2024! Our paper (w/ Chen Feng) describes an #AI classification algorithm for microscopic use wear, to be used by archaeologists to guess what materials were worked with a stone tool. (1/3) arxiv.org/abs/2403.13171

Congrats to Adela Cebeiro (Adela Cebeiro) on winning a GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship for summer research on tool use in robust capuchins!

Congrats to Alex Gregory on winning a Robert Holmes Travel/Research Award for African Scholarship for summer research on the effects that aquatic resources played on hunter-gatherer technologies during the Late Holocene in southern Africa!

Congratulations to Justin Pargeter and Guilhem Mauran on receiving a research grant from the PAST AFRICA Foundation to support two southern African master students, Malesetla Sepamo and Petrus Tangeni, who will work on ochre collections from Boomplaas Cave! Justin Pargeter