On the Pliocene Origins of Stone Tool Use

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Speaker(s)

Shannon P. McPherron

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Events

Opening

The French Connection: From the Omo to the Afar

Symposium

15 Jun 2023

09:30 - 10:00

Jean-Renaud Boisserie

Environments and human evolution in Africa : a plea for the global paleontological record

The age of Little Foot (StW 573) and australopithecines from the Sterkfontein site (South Africa)

One, two or three Australopithecus species in southern Africa?…

Symposium

15 Jun 2023

14:30 - 15:00

Fred Spoor & Hester Hanegraef

Mid-Pliocene Hominin Diversity Revisited

Symposium

15 Jun 2023

15:00 - 15:30

Yohannes Haile-Selassie

Lucy's Next-Door Neighbors: She Was Not Alone!

Singularity or plurality of artisans and material cultures in the Plio-Pleistocene ?…

Lucy's Lineage: Exploring the Progression of Hominin Behavioral Evolut…

Did Lucy carve the stone? What do discoveries in East Africa tell us

On the Pliocene Origins of Stone Tool Use

The New Status of Australopithecus

Shoulders of Apes and Australopiths: Digital Advancements in the Study of Structure and Function…

Exploring Early Hominin Evolution through Developmental Biology and Ne…

Heirs Without Descendants

Dinner with Lucy: What Does Paranthropus Boisei Bring to the Table?…

The Real Paleo Diet: Reconstructing Early Hominin Meat Consumption…

Is Australopithecus Sediba the Ancestor of Homo?…

Lucy's Grandchild Homo Naledi

How can we distinguish early humans from Lucy's relatives ?

Retrospect

On the Pliocene Origins of Stone Tool Use

Speaker(s)

Shannon P. McPherron

Events

Opening

The French Connection: From the Omo to the Afar

Environments and human evolution in Africa : a plea for the global paleontological record

In Chad... Abel & Toumai, the two new icons of our ancient evolutionary history

New Hominid Fossils from the Basal and Mid-Pliocene of Kenya…

From Miocene to Pliocene and the origin of australopithecines

The age of Little Foot (StW 573) and australopithecines from the Sterkfontein site (South Africa)

One, two or three Australopithecus species in southern Africa?…

Mid-Pliocene Hominin Diversity Revisited

Lucy's Next-Door Neighbors: She Was Not Alone!

Singularity or plurality of artisans and material cultures in the Plio-Pleistocene ?…

Lucy's Lineage: Exploring the Progression of Hominin Behavioral Evolut…

Did Lucy carve the stone? What do discoveries in East Africa tell us

On the Pliocene Origins of Stone Tool Use

The New Status of Australopithecus

Shoulders of Apes and Australopiths: Digital Advancements in the Study of Structure and Function…

Exploring Early Hominin Evolution through Developmental Biology and Ne…

Heirs Without Descendants

Dinner with Lucy: What Does Paranthropus Boisei Bring to the Table?…

The Real Paleo Diet: Reconstructing Early Hominin Meat Consumption…

Is Australopithecus Sediba the Ancestor of Homo?…

Lucy's Grandchild Homo Naledi

How can we distinguish early humans from Lucy's relatives ?

Retrospect

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