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We have extended the deadline for the 2015 UMass Bioarchaeology and Forensic Field School until May 1. Apply now at [email protected] Application materials can be found at our website at www.umass.edu/bioarchaeology/aboutfieldschool.html

The course will be divided into three units. The first unit will introduce students to field and laboratory techniques, including familiarity with the human skeletal system, recognizing what constitutes bioarchaeological or forensic data, and violence theory. The second unit will consist of excavations of a pseudo-crime scene and pseudo-archaeological burial. The third unit will focus on laboratory techniques used to ...

Announcing a new Research Experience for Undergraduates that combines a month of field work in the Middle Stone Age of Ethiopia with an additional month of museum-based research at the National Museum in Addis Ababa, or a month of laboratory-based research at one of several labs in the US with a focus in archaeology, paleoanthropology, paleontology, geochemistry, geology, archaeomagnetism, and chronology. Supporting Institutions: The University of Texas at Austin, University of Arkansas, Rutgers University, Southern Methodist University, INSTAAR, Illinois Geological Survey, and Addis Ababa University. Students will be recruited from a mix of two- and four-year US colleges with a ...

Registration is open for the workshop "QUANTITATIVE CLADISTICS AND USE OF TNT - 2nd Edition", June 29 - July 3, 2015. Instructors: Dr. Goloboff and Dr. Szumik (Conicet, Argentine).

AAPA MEMBERS HAVE A 20 % DISCOUNT ON THE FEE.

PLACE: Facilities of the Centre de Restauració i Interpretació Paleontologica, Els Hostalets de Pierola, Barcelona (Spain).

WEBPAGE: www.transmittingscience.org/courses/phylo/cladistics/

PROGRAM:

- Intro and Basics. Parsimony and phylogenetic systematics. Character optimisation and mapping. Most parsimonious reconstructions and specific changes. Input/output in TNT. Dataset formats. Using GB->TNT to create matrices. Instruction files. Options for graphic output (SVG, metafiles). Creation of “batch ...

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"Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future" is the topic of a free public symposium hosted by the UCSD/Salk Center for Academic Research & Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) on Friday, May 15th (1:00 – 5:30 pm PDT), co-chaired by Charles Kennel (Scripps Institute of Oceanography/UC San Diego) and Rick Potts (Smithsonian Institution).

Our early ancestors evolved on a drying, cooling, and highly variable planet, which has led to competing ideas as to how climate may have shaped human evolution. Equally compelling is the question of how and when humans began to affect their ...

Charles Darwin award winner, Phyllis Dolhinow, with nominators Agustin Fuentes and Katie MacKinnon.

Lasker recipient, Dennis O’Rourke, with his nominator, Trudy Turner

Best Podium Presentation (Left) Ian George Mapping Language Networks in the Human Brain.

Best Poster (Right) Zachariah Hubbell Age-Related Trends in Human Trabecular Bone Connectivity at the Cortical-Trabecular Interface in the Proximal Tibial Metaphysis.

Presented by Rebecca Jabbour.

BACK ROW:

JAMES HERRERA (Stony Brook) Environmental instability and functional traits explain lemur ecological community structure (Poster) - Earnest Hooton Prize

MARYJKA BLASZCZYK (NYU) Boldness in wild vervet monkeys: individual differences and consistency across contexts (Podium) - Sherwood Washburn Prize

ELEANOR DOVE (Liverpool John Moores U) A (w)hole new idea: Using nutrient foramen location to identify relative growth and the center of ossification in juvenile tibiae (Poster) - Ales Hrldlicka Prize

MEGAN PETERSDORF (NYU) What can the skeleton tell us about flanging? Hard-tissue markers of cheek flanges in Mandrillus (Poster) - Primate Interest Group prize and Honorable Mention

SUSAN ANTÓN (NYU)

LEAH SPARROW ...

This course introduces students to the role of the biological anthropologist, archaeologist and forensic scientist in excavations of human remains. A few spots are still available for the 2015 UMass Bioarchaeology and Forensic Field School!

The course will be divided into three units. The first unit will introduce students to field and laboratory techniques, including familiarity with the human skeletal system, recognizing what constitutes bioarchaeological or forensic data, and violence theory. The second unit will consist of excavations of a pseudo-crime scene and pseudo-archaeological burial. The third unit will focus on laboratory techniques used to analyze the data generated from ...

Spots are still available for Sepela Field Programs' Field Primatology Course in South Africa. Students will spend three weeks in the field, learning how to collect behavioral and ecological data on wild and captive primates. After a night of rest at Lesedi Cultural Village, students will travel to Loskop Dam Nature Reserve, where they will receive orientation, bush skills training, and introductory instruction. From there, students will travel to Leshiba Wilderness Reserve, Makuleke Contractual Park inside Kruger National Park, and Blyde River Canyon. Most days will be spent in the field, observing wildlife and practicing data collection techniques. During the ...

20th European Anthropological Association (EAA) Congress: European Anthropology in a Changing World: From Culture to Global Biology will be held in Zagreb, Croatia, August 26-30 2016. More information will be announced soon.

International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter Congress: World anthropologies and privatization of knowledge: engaging anthropology in public will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 4-9 2016.

More information will be announced soon on the Congress web site: iuaes2016.conventuscredo.hr/.

Since 2009 Institute for Anthropological Research, Croatia, is organizing summer schools for undergraduate students. Program is created according to the interest of the student group and its duration is two to three weeks. Lectures and fieldwork are organized in cooperation with professionals in various fields of Anthropology, such as Physical/Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology or Visual Anthropology.

In 2015 and 2016 summer school will be organized in Croatian capital city of Zagreb (www.zagreb-touristinfo.hr/&lang=en) and beautiful ancient city on the Adriatic coast - Pula (www.pulainfo.hr/en/).

For all further questions please contact us ...

9th ISABS Conference on Forensic and Anthropologic Genetics and Mayo Clinic Lectures in Individualized Medicine will be held in Bol, Island of Brač, Republic of Croatia, June 22-26, 2015.

Due to the tremendous interest in participating and submitting abstracts for the ISABS 2015 Conference, the Scientific Committee has decided to extend the deadline for the abstracts submission until April 13th, 2015.

Please visit the Conference web site for more information: www.isabs.hr.

There are a few slots still available in the course "INTRODUCTION TO GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS- 6 th edition". AAPA MEMBERS ARE ENTITLED A 20 % DISCOUNT ON THE FEE.

INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester, UK) and Dr. Jesús Marugán (UAM, Spain).

Dates and Place: July 27-31, 2014. This time the course will be held at the beautiful rural house "Can Julià" (www.canjulia.org/?lang=en) , in Barcelona province (Spain), with option to stay there during the course (all-inclusive option).

Organized by: Transmitting Science and the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont.

More information and registration: www.transmittingscience ...

DANTA Tropical Biology Field Courses 2015

Do you have an interest in primates, tropical ecology and/or conservation?

Are you looking to gain valuable field experience?

Would you like to learn about other cultures?

Would you like to learn more about yourself?

Danta is pleased to announce our 2015 field courses in tropical biology. Our course are intended for undergraduates or early graduate level students who have a keen interest in tropical ecosystems and conservation, but have little or no experience of working in a tropical environment. Participants may enroll on either a credit or non-credit basis.

DANTA operates on ...

Saint Mary's University is offering two exciting online forensic sciences courses!

There are no pre-requisites for these courses so anyone can register.

For more detailed information about the course syllabus please contact the instructor, Stephanie Beland: [email protected]

See attached poster.

Do you have an interest in primate evolutionary history and how they fit into ecosystems? Living primate ecology & behavior and how to quantify it in the field? The challenges we face in balancing conservation and development? Consider applying to "Madagascar Past and Present: Biodiversity, Extinction and Conservation", led by Dr. Mitch Irwin and Dr. Karen Samonds (a collaboration between Northern Illinois University, University of Antananarivo, and SADABE)! You will: • Learn first-hand about the goals and methods of studying non-human primates, through observations of habituated wild primate groups • Learn about lemur species that were lost to extinction already, and the ...

Proceeds Benefit Student Travel

THURSDAY MARCH 26th – Grand Ballroom A/B Silent Auction starts at 4:30 pm Live Auction starts circa 6:45

New this year – BUY IT NOW prices for all Silent Auction items.

Silent auction items include scientific and popular books; jewelry; monkey paraphenalia; wine; toys; art; bone-themed clothing and much more!

Live auction features: a Life Membership in AAPA ($1600 value!); Hooton illustrations; Fossil casts; Almonds from California; Curious George Mystery Box; Original Skeleton Art; France Casting gift certificate; an Atlanta hotel room….And much much more….

And in the midst of it all…….Students can ...

Do you want to learn about ancient humans and the environments in which they lived, discover fossils and artifacts, and visit field sites where some of the most important prehistoric discoveries were made?

Our Origins Field School addresses the place that humans occupy in the natural world and how we came to occupy that place. Participants will gain hands-on experience in field survey and excavation methods, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, taphonomy and more, and will take field trips to important paleontological and archaeological sites, diverse ecological settings, and remarkable geological features throughout the Turkana Basin.

The program is comprised of five, three-credit ...