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Program
2003 Annual Meeting
Tempe, Arizona
April 22-23, 2003
 

Tuesday, April 22, 2003
9:00 - 9:15 Introduction
9:15 Todd, N.
Elephant biostratigraphy and human evolution in the African fossil record [abstract]
9:30

Stout, D.
Stone tools and the brain: the neural substrates of Mode I knapping skill as revealed by Positron Emission Tomography (PET) [abstract]

9:45

Sponheimer, M., D. DeRuiter and J. Lee-Thorp
New chemical evidence of Australopithecine diets [abstract]

10:00 L. M. Van Blerkom
Viruses and Human Evolution [abstract]
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30

Yokley, T. and V. Hutchinson
Refining character sets for hominin phylogenetic analysis [abstract]

10:45 MacLatchy, L., W. Downs, R. Kityo, M. Mafabi and E. Musiime
New Catarrhine fossils from the Lower Miocene of Uganda, with implications for the ape-monkey split [abstract]
11:00 Brunet, M. and M.P.F.T.
Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Late Miocene of Chad), the earliest hominid [abstract]
11:15 Haile-Selassie, Y.
A Late Miocene hominid from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and its relationship with contemporary hominoid taxa [abstract]
11:30 Suwa, G., R. Kono, M. Brunet and T. White
Intraspecific variation of enamal thickness in humans and modern apes, and its significance to the interpretation of fossil hominids [abstract]
11:45

White, T.
Early Hominids: diversity or distortion [abstract]

12:00 Robb, C.
Use of African bovid forelimb morphology in determining habitat cover at Makapansgat Limeworks, South Africa [abstract]
12:15 Schubert, B., P. Ungar, M. Sponheimer and K. Reed
Preliminary dental microwear analysis and dietary reconstruction of Makapansgat bovids [abstract]
Lunch break
2:00 Pickering, T., R. Clarke and J. Heaton
The faunal context of the "little Foot" Australopithecus skull and skeleton (Stw 573) from Sterkfontein Member 2 (South Africa) [abstract]
2:15

Kingston, J. and T. Harrison
Laetoli paleoecology reconsidered: the isotopic evidence [abstract]

2:30 Su, D., T. Harrison and S. Freidline
Taphonomic versus ecological factors in the rarity of fossil hominins at Laetoli Tanzania [abstract]
2:45

Semaw, S., M. Rogers, J. Quade, M. Dominguez-Rodrigo, S. Simpson, P. Renne, D. Stout, N. Levin and R. Butler
Recent archaeological discoveries from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia [abstract]

3:00 Dominguez-Rodrigo, M. T. Pickering, S. Semaw and M. Rogers
Cutmarked bones from Late Pliocene archaeological sites at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia: implications for the function of the world's oldest stone tools [abstract]
3:15 DeGusta, D. Y. Beyene, B. Asfaw, H. Gilbert and T. White
The oldest cutmarked bones: Pliocene hominid faunal exploitation at Bouri, Ethiopia [abstract]
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break
3:45 Ambrose, S., G. WoldeGabriel,, Y. Haile-Selasie and T. White
Determining early hominid habitats in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia, using paleosol stable isotopes [abstract]
4:00 Behrensmeyer, A., E. Harmon and W. Kimbel
Environmental context and taphonomy of the A.L. 333 Locality, Hadar, Ethiopia [abstract]
4:15 Harmon, E., A. Behrensmeyer, W. Kimbel and D. Johanson
Preliminary taphonomic analysis of hominin remains from A.L. 333, Hadar Formation, Ethiopia [abstract]
4:30 Ward, C., M. Drapeau and C. Ruff
Diaphyseal and articular proportions in the limbs of Australopithecus afarensis [abstract]
4:45

Copeland, S.
Relating vegetation structure to hominid plant resource availability based on an actualistic study in modern East African savannas [abstract]

5:00 Braun, D., S. Arnow, J. Ferraro, J. Tactikos, M. Noll and J. Harris
Quantifying Oldowan lithic reduction sequences: theoretical and methodological considerations [abstract]
5:15

Ferring, R. and D. Lordkipanidze
Interim report on the geology of the Dmanisi site, Republic of Georgia [abstract]

5:30 Tappen, M., A. Vekua, D. Lordkipanidze and R. Ferring
Interim report on continuing excavations and taphonomy at the Dmanisi site, Republic of  Georgia [abstract]
5:45 Lee, S-H,
Is the variation in cranial capacity of the Dmanisi sample too high to be from one species? [abstract]


Wednesday, April 23, 2002
8:30 Meyer, M.
Vertebrae and language ability in early hominids [abstract]
8:45 Potts, R. and R. Teague
Heterogeneity in large-mammal paleocommunities and hominin activities in the southern Rift valley during the mid-Pleistocene (1.2-0.4 Ma) [abstract]
9:00

Athreya, S.
An assessment of patterns of geographic variation in the frontal bone morphology of Middle Pleistocene Homo [abstract]

9:15 Caspari, R. and S-H Lee
Is old age really old? An analysis of longevity in the hominid fossil record [abstract]
9:30 Tryon, C. and S. McBrearty
Technological change across the Acheulian-Middle Stone Age transition of the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya [abstract]
9:45

Riel-Salvatore, J., Z. Alemseged, D. Reed and J. Wynn
Stone age archaeology survey in the Busidima region, Ethiopia [abstract]

10:00 Brauer, G., C. Groden, F. Groning, K. Kupczik, E. Mbua and A. Pommert
Phylogenetic significance of endocranial features and the problem of variation: a CT-based study [abstract]
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 Mittra, E.
Evaluating the structure-function relationship of the apical tuft of the  hominid distal phalanx [abstract]
10:45 Glantz, M. and R. Suleymanov
Anghilak Cave, Uzbekistan: documenting Neandertal occupation at the periphery [abstract]
11:00

Nowell, A., F. d'Errico and A. Sytnyk
The art of taphonomy and the taphonomy of art: an analysis of Molodova I, Level IV: putative symbolic evidence [abstract]

11:15 Costamagno, S., C. Beauval, B. Vandermeersch, A. Mann and B. Maureille
Middle Paleolithic human teeth digested by carnivores (Les Pradelles, Marillac-le-Franc, France) [abstract]
11:30 Dibble, H., S. McPherron, F. d'Errico, P. Goldberg, H. Jones, W. Rink and M. Soressi
Recent excavations at the Mousterian site of Pech de l'Azé IV [abstract]
11:45

Hallin, K., M. Schoeninger and H. Schwarcz
Paleoclimate during early modern human occupation at Qafzeh, Israel: the stable isotope data [abstract]

12:00 Skinner, A., R. Hay, F. Masao and B. Blackwell
Dating the East African LSA: ESR age for the Naisiusiu Beds, Olduvai Gorge [abstract]
12:15 Steele, T.
Red deer hunting by Middle and Upper Paleolithic hominids from western Europe [abstract]
Lunch break
2:00 E. Panagopoulou, K. Harvati, P. Karkanas, E. Kotjabopoulou, M. Ntinou and B. Tsartsidou
New archaeological and fossil hominid evidence from the Late Pleistocene of Greece [abstract]
2:15 Trinkaus, E., O. Moldovan, A. Bilgar, S. Milota and L. Sarcina
An early modern human from southeastern Europe [abstract]
2:30 Holt, B., S. Churchill, F. Negrino, V. Formicola, G. Vicino, P. Pettit and A. Del Lucchese
New evidence of the Middle - Upper Paleolithic transition from Riparo Bombrini (Grimaldi, Italy) [abstract]
2:45 Tostevin, G. and P. Skrdla
New research on the Early Upper Paleolithic of Central Europe: the re-excavation of Brno-Bohunice [abstract]
3:00 Hoffecker, J., A. Sinitsyn, M. Anikovich, S. Forman, V. Holliday and P. Goldberg
Early dates for the European Upper Paleolithic from Kostenki (Russia) [abstract]
3:15 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 Clark, G. and J. Riel-Salvatore
What's in a name? An empirical review of the compositional integrity of the Eurasian Aurignacian [abstract]
3:45

White, R., D. Henry-Gambier and C. Normand
Human-tooth ornaments from the French early Aurignacian: implications for early Upper Paleolithic treatment of the dead [abstract]

4:00 Henry-Gambier, D. and R. White
New chrono-cultural data on the Cro-Magnon and Combe-Capelle human remains (Dordogne, France): consequences for the biocultural origins of modern humans in Europe [abstract]
4:15

Stiner, M., S. Kuhn, E. Gulec, A. Acikkol, I. Ozer, C. Pehlevan and H. Yilmaz
Preliminary results on subsistence and technology of the initial Upper Paleolithic and Ahmarian at Ucagizli Cave (Hatay, Turkey) [abstract]

4:30 Bicho, N., J. Lindly, M. Stiner and R. Ferring
Two steps away from the end of the world: the Upper Paleolithic site of Vale Boi, southwestern Portugal [abstract]
4:45 Veleminska, J., A. Sefcakova and J. Bruzek
Discovery of photo negatives of destroyed Upper Paleolithic fossil material from Predmosti (Czech Republic) [abstract]
5:00

J. Krigbaum, J. Manser, G. Barker, H. Barton, M. Bird, I. Datan, D.
Gilbertson, C. Hunt, T. Reynolds, W. Sanders and C. Stringer
The early human remains from Niah Cave's West Mouth (Sarawak, Malaysia) [abstract]

5:15 - 6:15 Business Meeting