Eleni Panagopoulou (Ephorate of Paleoanthropology and Speleology of S. Greece), Katerina Harvati, Jack Davis, and Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika (Ephor of Paleoanthropology and Speleology of S. Greece)
Dr. Katerina Harvati (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) presented a lecture on Tuesday May 26th at Cotsen Hall entitled: “Out of Africa and Into Eurasia: An Eastern Mediterranean Perspective” which discussed much of the speaker’s own research in paleoanthropology in both Africa and Europe, in particular, Greece.
Dr. Harvati specializes in Neanderthal evolution, modern human origins and the application of 3-D geometric morphometric methods to anthropology. She is currently directing paleoanthropological fieldwork in Greece (Aliakmon Paleolithic/Paleoanthropological Survey project). Professor Harvati obtained her doctorate from City University of New York and has just accepted a professorship at University of Tübingen, Germany where she will begin this fall. A 2007 article in Science on the early modern human fossil from Hofmeyr, S. Africa (co-authored by Prof. Harvati and colleagues) was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the top ten scientific discoveries of that year.
The lecture was co-sponsored by the ASCSA and the Wiener Laboratory.
Watch the video:
Part 1:ASCSA Lecture: Out of Africa and into Eurasia, Part 1 from Mary Jane Gavenda on Vimeo.
Part 2:ASCSA Lecture: Out of Africa and into Eurasia, Part 2 from Mary Jane Gavenda on Vimeo.
