Podium Abstracts

Late Middle Paleolithic behavioral continuity from Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne, France) dental remains?

Juliette Henrion, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Bruno Maureille

New Perspectives on Oxygen Isotopes for Human Evolutionary Biology

Tanya Smith, Janaína Ávila, Ian Williams

Homo erectus, hunting, and humanness at FLK Zinj: Comparative evidence from older and younger sites

Henry Bunn

A New Multi-Proxy, Non-Destructive Approach to Sourcing Silcrete in South Africa

Samantha Borges-Eckert, John Murray, Ivan Anderies, Jayde Hirniak, Andrew Zipkin, Curtis Marean

A preliminary study of Pierolapithecus catalaunicus phalangeal cortical bone morphology

Samar Syeda, Marta Pina, Julia Arias-Martorell, David Alba, Sergio Almecija, Ashley Hammond

Middle Stone Age Shellfish Exploitation Strategies at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6N (100–50 ka), Mossel Bay, South Africa

Katharine Kyriacou, Sean Bergin, Richard Cowling, Hayley Cawthra, Patrick Fahey, Janet Franklin, Brooke Rose, Colin Wren, Curtis Marean

The use of  FTIR grinding curves from modern experimental samples to identify thermal alteration and diagenesis in archaeological bones.

Kyra Johnson, Montserrat Sanz, Joan Daura, Ana Cristina Araújo, Ana Maria Costa, João Zilhão, Dan Cabanes

Addressing spatial sampling issues in paleoecological reconstructions: an agent-based modeling approach

Kathryn Fish, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, David Braun, Andrew Barr

Ancient human exploitation of ostrich in Malawi

Hannah Keller, Potiphar Kaliba, Jessica Thompson

Evaluation of herbivore diets at Boomplaas Cave, South Africa, using Dental Microwear Texture Analysis challenges uniformitarian assumptions

Kathryn Sokolowski, Larisa DeSantis, Juniper Koehler, Kaedan O'Brien, Justin Pargeter, Deano Stynder, Callie Tuck, J. Tyler Faith

Inferring the combined impacts of Homo erectus carnivory and increasing grass biomass on mammalian food webs at Koobi Fora, Kenya

Andrew Du, Tyler Faith, Alyssa McGrath, Kendra Chritz, Margaret Lewis, John Rowan, Andrew Barr

Later Pleistocene faunal assemblage with unusual hominin cranial remains from Amboseli National Park, Kenya

Anna Behrensmeyer, J. Tyler Faith, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Rose Nyaboke Juma, John Rowan, Christian Tryon, Diane Gifford-Gonzalez

The peopling of the Western Hemisphere: A population ecology approach

John Hoffecker

The tangible history of Paleolithic archaeology in the United States: Artifact collections from the American School of Prehistoric Research.

Christian Tryon, Jayson Gill, Wendi Field Murray

Comparative Morphology of Proximal Phalanx Entheses across Primates

Sarah Johnson, John Hawks

Earliest Hominin Use Of Wooden Hand-Held Tools Found At Marathousa-1 (Greece)

Katerina Harvati, Annemieke Milks, Maria Ntinou, Stylianos Koutalis, Dimitrios Michailidis, George Konidaris, Domenico Giusti, Nicholas Thompson, Georgia Tsartsidou, Eleni Panagopoulou, Vangelis Tourloukis, Panagiotis Karkanas

How Do Macroscopic Heat Alterations Relate to Lithic Artifact Size and Raw Material Type: A Controlled Heat-fracture Experiment 

 

Aylar Abdolahzadeh, John Murray, Kathryn Ranhorn, Andie Barnes, George Leader, Madelyn Stuckey

Mapping 424,000 years of vegetation change in the Cape south coast (South Africa): Implications for early modern humans

Brooke Rose, Richard Cowling, Franklin Janet, Curtis Marean, Hayley Cawthra, Sean Bergin, Patrick Fahey, Katharine Kyriacou, Kerstin Braun, Colin Wren

Phylogenetic simulation estimates recovered morphological variation in the hominin fossil record

Levi Raskin, Wonseop Lim, Jacky Li, Jack Tseng, Maja Šešelj, Bárbara Bitarello, John Huelsenbeck

Sr/Ca in modern and fossil dental enamel in the context of growth; implications for interpretation of fossil hominin data

Andrew Sillen, Christopher Dean, Vincent Balter

Using Agent-Based Models to Investigate the Paranthropus boisei Dietary Conundrum

Matt Sponheimer, Colin Wren, Oliver Paine

An Archaeological Signature for Early Tool Use: Modeling Site Formation in Nonhuman Primates

Meredith Carlson, Tamara Dogandzic, Brendan Barrett, Nicolas Zwyns

Bone Tool Technologies in the Kasitu Valley, Northern Malawi

Yue Li, Francesco D'Errico, Lila Geis, Potiphar Kaliba, Jessica Thompson

Changes in carnivore niche overlap during the late Cenozoic of eastern Africa

Alyssa McGrath, W. Andrew Barr, Andrew Du, Krystal Koski, Alexandra Norwood, Kathryn Sokolowski, J. Tyler Faith

Faunal shifts across the MIS 5 to 4 Transition at Pinnacle Point 5-6N (south coast, South Africa)

B. Patrick Fahey, Jamie Hodgkins, M. Brooke Rose, Richard Cowling, Janet Franklin, Curtis Marean, Hayley Cawthra, Sean Sean Bergin, Katharine Kyriacou, Colin Wren

First evidence of Paranthropus from Afar, Ethiopia

Zeresenay Alemseged, Fred Spoor, Denné Reed, W. Andrew Barr, Denis Geraads Geraads, René Bobe, Jonathan Wynn

Herbivore enamel isotopes suggest dietary niche conservatism in the Eastern African Rift System across the last 10 million years

Alexandra Norwood, John Rowan, Joshua Robinson, Andrew Du, Ignacio Lazagabaster, J. Tyler Faith

Investigating landscape fire in the Early Pleistocene and its relation to early human activities

Sarah Hlubik, Victoria Rainis, Madison Fortier, Peter Wambugu, Pereboom Eleanor, Kinyanjui Rahab, Troy Ferland, Kevin Uno, David Braun

Local variation in Australopithecus afarensis habitat - insights from the isotopic composition of bovid teeth 

Georgia Oppenheim, Christopher Campisano, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Kaye Reed, Naomi Levin

Physical Foundations of Chaines Operatoires: An Alternative to Mental Template explanations of Lower Stone Age and Early Paleolithic Technologies

James Smith

Reconstructing Early Pleistocene Fire: Insights from morphometric and spectral analysis of charcoals from the Koobi Fora Formation, East Turkana, Kenya.

Victoria Rainis, Sarah Hlubik, William Gosling, David Braun

Stable isotope ecology of eastern African small mammals: Implications for reconstruction of hominin environments.

Jensen Wainwright, Denné Reed, Scott Blumenthal, Kathlyn Stewart

Stylistic diversity in the earliest ostrich eggshell bead manufacture in East Africa

Stanley Ambrose

The demise of Australopithecus afarensis and the appearance of new species through time in the Lower Awash Valley

Irene Smail, Kaye Reed, Amy Rector

Two late Pliocene hominin manual phalanges from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia: filling a gap in the origins of modern hand morphology

Ignacio Lazagabaster, Kristi Lewton, Caley Orr, Patel Biren, Thierra Nalley, Thomas Prang, Brian Villmoare, Lars Werdelin, Kaye Reed, Amy Rector

Poster Abstracts

Lithic attributes in the presence of task driven choices during stone tool production

Asher D. Rafkin, Matthew Douglass, Jonathan Scott Reeves, Lydia Luncz, Emmanuel K. Ndiema, Movin Kiprotich

Insights from ZooMS Analysis on Unidentified Faunal Remains from the Châtelperronian Layer at Roc de Combe (Lot, SW France)

Giulia Gallo, Marie-Cécile Soulier, Jean-Jacques Hublin

An Error Study for Segmentation of micro-CT Scanned Tooth Roots in Hominids

Ariel N. Barrera, Chris A. Robinson, Camille Martin, Ashley S. Hammond

Early hominid carcass access and trophic roles in the Plio-Pleistocene Turkana Depression: Integrating bone surface modification and food web modeling

Bisrat Gebreegziabher ARAYA, Blade Redae, Lloyd A. Courtenay, Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Antoine Souron

Correlating woody cover with Australopithecus presence and relative abundance at eastern African fossil sites

Jenna Dagher, Andrew Du, Andee Kaplan

Reconstructing Population Interaction Among Sicily's Earliest Inhabitants

Peyton D. Carroll, Ilaria Patania, Christian A. Tryon

Selection and use of iron-oxide rich coloring materials in the French Pyrenees region: case study at Isturitz, Gatzarria, and Brassempouy

Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville

A Multi-Proxy Record of Vegetation and Climate Changes at Kisese II Rockshelter During the Last Glacial Maximum

Husna Mashaka, Jason Lewis, Rhonda Quinn, Ilaria Patania, Rahab N. Kinyanjui, Elizabeth Niespolo, Andrew Du, J. Tyler Faith, David Patterson, Christian Tryon, Samantha T. Porter, Kathryn Ranhorn

A preliminary analysis of Kenyapithecus astragali from Maboko, Kenya.

MONICA MSECHU, MONTE L. MCCROSSIN, BRENDA R. BENEFIT, WILLIAM E.H. HARCOURT-SMITH

Bilateral asymmetry of H. naledi femora from the Lesedi Chamber of the Rising Star cave, South Africa

Lukas Friedl, Andrea Lukova, Patrick Randolf-Quinney, Steven E. Churchill, Jeremy M. DeSilva, John Hawks, Lee R. Berger

Reconstructing the Paleoenvironment of Area 123, Koobi Fora, Kenya

Saranna Shevalier, Dr. David Braun, Dr. Emmanuel Ndiema, Sahleselasie Melaku, Dr. Frances Forrest, Dr. Sharon Kuo, Madeleine Kelly

Revisiting Behavioral Signatures of Early Oldowan Activity at FxJj50: A Geospatial Approach

Sarah Ann Bender, David R. Braun

Technological Variation in the Okote Member in Area 129 of Koobi Fora, Kenya

Darrian Engberg, David R. Braun, Matthew Douglass, Movin Kiprotich, Rahwa Mezgebo, Emmanuel Ndiema, Asher Rafkin, Jonathan Reeves

The taphonomic effects of characterizing modern ecosystems through game camera data

Taylor Hubbard, A.G. Kirkpatrick, Amelia Villaseñor

A comparison of variance-covariance matrices in fossil and extant papionins

Marianne J. Cooper, Magdalena Humphrey, Marianne F. Brasil, Tesla A. Monson

Advancing Cryptotephra Analysis: Volcanic Glass Detection Through AI-Assisted Microscopy

Jayde N. Hirniak, Julien Riel-Salvatore, Fabio Negrino, Claudine Gravel-Miguel

Analysis of downslope mass movement effects on bone fragment microwear: Implications for Earlier Stone Age bone tool identification

Zeenat Mahomed Khan, Dominic Stratford, Matt Lotter, Justin Bradfield

Experimental Investigation of  Combustion Features Using Microcharcoal Morphological Patterning

 

Sylvie Clowes, Victoria Rainis, David R. Braun, Sarah Hlubik

Exploitation of Animal Resources by Mesolithic Foragers in the Central Balkans: An Archaeozoological Analysis of Crvena Stijena, Montenegro

Aarilee C Lorenzen

Exploring Hominin Landscape Scale Behavior at FxJj20: Phytoliths as an Environmental Proxy 

Madison Fortier, Andrea Gonzalez Cabellos, Rahab Kinyanjui, David R. Braun, Emmanuel Ndiema, Sarah Hlubik

Flat, Dry, & Full of Potential: Rethinking Deserts in Human Evolution

Kelsey Deweese, Michelle M. Glantz, Sayat Temirbekov

Geographic Distribution of Dental Traits in Archaic Homo

Katherine Brown, Jack Cameron, Mica Glantz

How mesh size affects the diversity of aquatic faunal fossil assemblages: implications for understanding aquatic diets 

Kaili Auchampach, Alyssa Enny, David Braun

Investigating Combustion on an Early Pleistocene Landscape through Area/Perimeter and Length/Width Ratios of Microcharcoals

 

Sylvie Clowes, Victoria Rainis, David R. Braun, Sarah Hlubik

Linking herbivore traits to selectivity of C₃ versus C₄ grass consumption: implications for reconstructing southern African paleoenvironments

Krystal Koski, Andrew Du, Adrian V. Bell, Alexandra L. Norwood, Kathryn G. Sokolowski, Alyssa McGrath, J. Tyler Faith

Micromorphological analysis of early LGM (26-22 cal kBP) deposits at Boomplaas Cave, South Africa: Preliminary results 

Caitlin Craig, Brian Chase, Mark Collard, J. Tyler Faith, Susan Mentzer, Justin Pargeter

Patterning of Dental Microwear Textures Among the Epigravettian Individuals from Arene Candide Cave, Liguria, Italy.

Christopher Schmidt, Irene Dori, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, Vitale Stefano Sparacello, Nathan Reynolds

Quantifying the degree of size-selectivity in mammal extinctions over the last six million years in the East African Rift System 

Lily Gregson, Andrew Du, Tyler Faith

The Middle Paleolithic at Sefunim Cave (Mt. Carmel, Israel): New Insights from Zooarchaeological and Isotopic Analyses

Jamie L Clark, Gideon Hartman, Chen Zeigen, Andrew W. Kandel, Ron Shimelmitz

The Phylogeny of Orthognathic Homo

Jared Jordan, Sarah Freidline

The contribution of Information transfer and Individual invention in the Production of Oldowan Artifacts

Joyce Waithira Waweru, David Royce Braun

Understanding the paleoecology of Boomplaas Cave, South Africa, through bovid mesowear

Rebekah Hardman, Kathryn Sokolowski, Justin Pargeter, J. T. Faith