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Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae, working from biological evidence (such as petrified skeletal remains, bone fragments, footprints) and cultural ...
John W. Olsen is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist specializing in the early Stone Age prehistory and Pleistocene paleoecology of eastern Eurasia.Olsen is Regents' Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Executive Director of the Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
The discovery of human antiquity was a major achievement of science in the middle of the 19th century, and the foundation of scientific paleoanthropology.The antiquity of man, human antiquity, or in simpler language the age of the human race, are names given to the series of scientific debates it involved, which with modifications continue in the 21st century.
The discovery sparked an entirely new field of science: paleoanthropology, aka the study of early humans through fossils. Since this groundbreaking discovery, ...
The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (JVP) is the society's flagship publication. JVP was founded in 1980 at the University of Oklahoma and continued in 1984 by SVP. JVP contains original contributions on all aspects of the vertebrate paleontology; including vertebrate origins, evolution, functional morphology , taxonomy, biostratigraphy ...
The society was officially established in 2011 in Leipzig, Germany, as a non-profit organization under German law. Following the 2020 elections, the society is currently located in Tübingen, Germany. The current president of the society is professor Dr. Katerina Harvati, Director of the Department of Paleoanthropology at the University of ...
Jean-Jacques Hublin (born 30 November 1953) is a French paleoanthropologist.He is a professor at the Max Planck Society, Leiden University and the University of Leipzig and the founder and director of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Little is known about the Denisovans. But a new study is revealing how these enigmatic ancient humans survived in the Tibetan plateau, one of Earth’s most extreme environments.