1999 Program

	Tuesday, April 27, 2:00 - 6:00
2:00	Michael J. Rogers, Christopher M. Monahan, John W.K. Harris, Susan Cachel and Daniel Deocampo New discoveries of hominid-modified bones from the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya
2:20	Brian Richmond Reconstructing locomotor behavior in early hominids: evidence from primate development
2:40	R. Potts, A.K. Behrensmeyer and P. Ditchfield Hominid responses to Pleistocene paleolandscapes, Olorgesailie Formation, Kenya
3:00	Sally McBrearty, Barbara Brown, Alan Dieno, John Kingston and Steven Ward Anatomy, context, age and affinities of hominids from the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya
3:20-3:35	Coffee Break
3:35	J. O'Connell, K. Hawkes and N. Blurton Jones Can grandmothering explain the evolution of Homo erectus?
3:55	O. Frank Huffman Variety in the paleoenvironment of early Homo erectus of Java, Indonesia
4:15	Kildo Choi and Dubel Driwantoro Cut mark evidence for meat-eating and tool use by Pleistocene early hominids in Java
4:35	Gilliane Monnier Evaluating the archaeological evidence for a Lower/Middle Paleolithic division in Western Europe
4:55	Paola Villa and Francesco d'Errico Bone and ivory points in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic A review of the evidence from Western Europe
5:15	Alison S. Brooks, David M. Helgren and John E. Yellen The Middle Stone age of the Ethiopian rift: new data from the Middle Awash
5:35	Alan G. Morris and Fredrick E. Grine Hofmeyr and the origin of anatomically modern South Africans
	Wednesday, April 28, 8:30 - 12:10
8:30	Trenton W. Holliday Qafzeh-Skhul, West Asian "Neandertals" and modern human origins
8:50	Osbjorn M. Pearson Postcranial differences between the earliest modern humans and recent people
9:10	Zachary J. Davis Levantine Mousterian mobility patterns: the view from Mt. Carmel, Israel
9:30	P.E. Nehoroshev and L. B. Vishnyatsky Shlyakh - a new Middle Paleolithic site in the South Russian Plain
9:50	B.L. Hardy and M. Kay New Evidence for Reconstructing Neanderthal Subsistence: Functional Analysis of Stone Tools from theMiddle Paleolithic of the Crimea
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30	James G. Enloe, Francine David and Gennady Baryshnikov Middle Paleolithic zooarchaeology: hyenas and hunters at Prolom II
10:50	Gilbert B. Tostevin The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition from the Levant to Central Europe: diffusion or in situ development?
11:10	R.M. Quam, J-L Arsuaga, C. Lorenzo, J.C. Diez Middle Paleolithic human remains from Valdegoba Cave (Huermeces, Burgos, Spain)
11:30	M.T. Black The "trunk torsion hypothesis" and Neanderthal superior pubic ramal morphology
11:50	J. L. Thompson and A. J. Nelson Le Moustier 1, limb proportions and the ontogeny of the Neandertal form
Lunch
	Wednesday, April 28, 2:00 - 6:00
2:00	Jeffrey T. Laitman, Joy S. Reidenberg, Samuel Marquez, Douglas C. Broadfield, William Lawson, Adam Silvers and Ian Tattersall By a preponderance of the evidence, the Neanderthal upper respiratory tract differed from that of living humans
2:20	S.E. Churchill, L.L. Shackelford, J.N. Georgi and M.T.Black Airflow dynamics in the Neandertal nose
2:40	Robert G. Franciscus Unique vs. non-unique aspects of Neandertal upper respiratory anatomy
3:00	Paul Mellars 'Acculturation', 'co-existence' and the end of the Neanderthals
3:20-3:40	Coffee Break
3:40	L.B. Vishnyatsky Pre-Aurignacian Reconsidered
4:00	Eric Trinkaus Pathology and persistence in the Pavlovian: paleopathology and mobility of Dolni Vestonice 15
4:20	Jeffrey K. McKee Faunal dating of southern African fossil assemblages: a reflexive test
4:40	Christopher M. Monahan Quantifying bone modification by African wild dogs and spotted hyenas: implications of models estimating the timing of hominid and carnivore access to animal carcasses
5:00	M.E. Lewis and L. Werdelin Implications of mosaic evolution in non-primate taxa for understanding changes in hominid behavioral ecology
5:20	Matt Sponheimer, Kaye E. Reed and Julia A. Lee-Thorp Of Isotopes and Ecomorphology
5:40-6:00	Business Meeting


Program for Columbus April 27-28, 1999 Columbus Hyatt Regency
	Tuesday, April 27, 9:00 - 12:20
9:00-9:15	Introduction
9:15	Richard May and Richard Sherwood Shape measurements of the early hominid cranial base
9:35	Travis Rayne Pickering, Tim D. White and Nicholas Toth Stone tool cutmarks on Stw 53, an early hominid from Sterkfontien, South Africa
9:55	J.A. Lee-Thorp and Matt Sponheimer Preliminary results of a study of carbon and oxygen isotope ratios in modern faunal enamel carbonate, and application to identification of ecological niche of extinct fauna from Swartkrans
10:15	Rene Bobe and Anna K. Behrensmeyer Environmental changes in early hominid evolution derived from analysis of fossil mammals from the lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia
10:35-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00	Margaret J. Schoeninger and Holly Reeser Paleoenvironment of Allia Bay, East Turkana, Kenya 3.9 Myr: the stable isotope data
11:20	Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, Amy Cushing and Robert Blumenschine Stable isotope ratios of fauna and the environment of palaeolake Olduvai
11:40	Tom Plummer, Laura Bishop, John Kingston, Nancy Sikes, Peter Ditchfield, Fritz Hertel and Joe Ferraro Reconstructing Oldowan hominid paleoecology
12:00	Robert J. Blumenschine, Charles R. Peters, Fidelis T. Masao, Gail M. Ashley, James I. Ebert Preliminary tests of paleoanthropological predictions for hominid land use in the east-central portion of the lowermost Bed II Olduvai Basin, Tanzania
Lunch