News item:
David Katz and Tim Weaver's research was mentioned in a Science News article:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/animal-hybrids-may-hold-clues-neandertal-human-interbreeding October 2016.
Recent publications:
Steele, T.E., Mackay, A., Fitzsimmons, K.E., Igreja, M., Marwick, B., Orton, J., Schwortz, S., Stahlschmidt, M.C., 2016. Varsche Rivier 003: A Middle and Later Stone Age site with Still Bay and Howiesons Poort assemblages in southern Namaqualand, South Africa. PaleoAnthropology 2016, 100-163. November 2016.
Weaver, T. D., H. Coqueugniot, L. V. Golovanova, V. B. Doronichev, B. Maureille, and J.-J. Hublin. 2016. Neonatal postcrania from Mezmaiskaya, Russia, and Le Moustier, France, and the development of Neandertal body form. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 113:6472-6477. June 2016.
Recent funding:
David Katz just received funding from the Leakey Foundation to study the morphological consequences of hybridization: https://leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-our-spring-2016-grantees June 2016.
Check out a BBC story about Cassandra Gilmore's research: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160419-what-neanderthals-teeth-tell-us-about-their-minds April 2016.
Recent talk:
Nicolas Zwyns gave a talk at Harvard University: http://archaeology.harvard.edu/event/nicolas-zwyns-uc-davis-upper-palaeolithic-central-asia March 2016.
News item:
Check out the Leakey Foundation's cool write-up of Tim Weaver's research: https://leakeyfoundation.org/journal-article-unconstrained-cranial-evolution-in-neandertals-and-modern-humans-compared-to-common-chimpanzees/ January 2016.
Recent publication:
Smith, K. N., Wärmländer, S. K., Vellanoweth, R. L., Smith, C. M., & Kendig, W. E. (2015). Residue analysis links sandstone abraders to shell fishhook production on San Nicolas Island, California. Journal of Archaeological Science, 54, 287-293. February 2015.
Recent funding:
Naomi Martisius is a funding machine! She has recently received awards from several sources (National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Sacramento Archaeological Society, Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S.) totaling $47,372. This funding supports the three main components of her dissertation research: an experimental program, an innovative approach to studying use-wear using qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and artifact analyses in France, Germany, and Russia.
Recent publications:
Katz, D. C., Grote, M. N. and Weaver, T. D. (2015), A mixed model for the relationship between climate and human cranial form. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22896. December 2015.
Weaver, T. D., & Stringer, C. B. (2015, October). Unconstrained cranial evolution in Neandertals and modern humans compared to common chimpanzees. In Proc. R. Soc. B (Vol. 282, No. 1817, p. 20151519). The Royal Society. October 2015.
Steele, T. E. (2015). The contributions of animal bones from archaeological sites: the past and future of zooarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science, 56, 168-176. April 2015.
