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The Paleoanthropology Society was founded in 1992. It recognizes that paleoanthropology is multidisciplinary in nature and the organization's central goal is to bring together physical anthropologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists and a range of other researchers whose work has the potential to shed light on hominid behavioral and biological evolution.

News & Announcements

Turkana Basin Institute Meave Leakey Postdoctoral Scholar

We are now accepting applications for the Meave Leakey Postdoctoral Scholar, named in honor of Dr. Meave Leakey’s extraordinary contributions to the understanding of human and primate evolution in the Turkana Basin. The TBI postdoctoral scholar will join the SHaPE (Studies in Human and Primate Evolution) Lab in the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University.

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The 2026 Annual Meetings

The annual Paleoanthropology Society meeting will be held in Denver on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 17 and 18 in conjunction with the American Association of Biological Anthropologists. The conference hotel is the Sheraton Downtown Denver. For updated hotel information please check the AABA web site.

Non-concurrent oral and poster sessions will be held with oral presentations limited to 15 minutes. If you wish to have either a poster or oral presentation considered for inclusion, you must submit an abstract via the Society’s online submission system before December 1. Abstracts must not exceed 300 words of text (not counting address, title, acknowledgments, etc.), and those submitted by any other route will be declined. The web system will request the name, title, institutional affiliation, mailing and email address of all authors. Please consider the nature of the material you wish to present and on this basis decide whether a poster or oral presentation will be most effective: then click the appropriate box.

PaleoAnthropology Journal

PaleoAnthropology is published jointly by the Paleoanthropology Society (PaS) and European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE). The journal is accessible free of charge to everyone, including non-members of the Paleoanthropology Society. To receive email notices of new articles when they appear online, go to the Members page and follow the instructions.

Dissertations and Publications

The Society hosts doctoral dissertations (theses) in all areas relevant to our interests. The procedure is to send an abstract of the work and information about its source to the Society so that we may determine that its topic falls within the range of our coverage. A pdf file of the entire work may then be made available for download. To see what is already present or to submit an abstract for consideration, follow this link.

The Society now also hosts additional publications in the field of PaleoAnthropology. These are not publications of the Society but are being made available to the community via our web site. Follow this link to view these publications.