The following PhD dissertations are available for download in pdf format.

 


2019

  • Favreau, Julien. 2019. Lithic Raw Material Characterisation at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. University of Calgary. 194 pp.
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  • Patalano, Robert Vincent. 2019. The Environmental Context of the Earliest Acheulean at Olduvai Gorge, TanzaniaThe Environmental Context of the Earliest Acheulean at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. University of Calgary. 484 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2016

  • Will, Manuel. 2016. Lithic technology and behavioral variability during the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa: Implications for the evolution and dispersal of early modern humans. University of Tübingen, Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology. 379 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2014

  • Barr, William Andrew. 2014. The Paleoenvironments of Early Hominins in the Omo Shungura Formation (Plio-Pleistocene, Ethiopia): Synthesizing Multiple Lines of Evidence Using Phylogenetic Ecomorphology. University of Texas at Austin. 321 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • VanSickle, Caroline M.. 2014. A new examination of childbirth-related pelvic anatomy in Neandertal females. University of Michigan. 181 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2013

  • Wallace, Ian Jacob. 2013. Physical Activity and Genetics as Determinants of Limb Bone Structure. Stony Brook University. 148 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Parkinson, Jennifer. 2013. A GIS Image Analysis Approach to Documenting Oldowan Hominin Carcass Acquisition: Evidence from Kanjera South, FLK Zinj, and Neotaphonomic Models of Carnivore Bone Destruction. City University of New York. 295 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2012

  • Cofran, Zachary. 2012. Mandibular Growth in Australopithecus robustus.. University of Michigan. 208 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2010

  • Cancellieri, Emanuelle. 2010. From the watershed to the Great Adriatic Plain: an investigation on humans and landscape ecology during the late Upper Paleolithic. The significance of lithic technology.. University of Ferrara. 332 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2009

  • Hutton, Virginia. 2009. SAMPLING BIASES AND NEW WAYS OF ADDRESSING   THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TRAUMA IN NEANDERTALS . University of Michigan. 407 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Mackay, A. 2009. History and selection in the late Pleistocene archaeology of the Western Cape, South Africa.. Australian National University. None pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Mounier, Aurélien. 2009. Validité du taxon Homo heidelbergensis Schoetensack, 1908. Université de la Méditerranée. 514 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2008

  • DeSilva, Jeremy. 2008. Vertical Climbing Adaptations in the Anthropoid Ankle and Midfoot: Implications for Locomotion in Miocene Catarrhines and Plio-Pleistocene Hominins. . The University of Michigan. 363 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • de Sousa, Alexandra. 2008. Hominoid Brain Organization: Histometric and Morphometric Comparisons of Visual Brain Structures.. The George Washington University. 298 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Gilbert, Christopher. 2008. African Papionin Phylogenetic History and Plio-Pleistocene Biogeography.. Stony Brook University. 196 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Jabbour, Rebecca. 2008. Geographic Variation in the Forelimb and Hindlimb Skeletons of African Apes.. The City University of New York. 602 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Masters, Michael. 2008. Modern Variation and Evolutionary Change in the Hominin Eye Orbit.. The Ohio State University. 160 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Scandiuzzi, Rene. 2008. Les Tambourets: un gisement châtelperronien de plein air, au seuil  des Petites Pyrénées, Etude de l’industrie lithique. Fouilles H. M. Bricker, 1973, 1975, 1980.  Couladère, Haute-Garonne). Mémoire de Master II, Université de Toulouse II le Mirail  . Université de Toulouse II le Mirail. 131 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Schurmans, Utsav. 2008. The Production of Small Flakes in the Middle Paleolithic: A New Look at Assemblage Variability.. University of Pennsylvania. 317 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Skinner, Matthew. 2008. Enamel-dentine junction morphology of extant hominoid and fossil hominin lower molars.. George Washington University. 202 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Stallman, Robert. 2008. The Pace and Processes of Early Divergence and Statis: Morphological Evolution in Isolated Populations of the Sulawesi Booted Macaque, Macaca orchreata (Cercopithecidae).. University of California Davis. 306 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Thompson, Jessica. 2008. Zooarchaeological tests for modern human behavior at Blombos Cave and Pinnacle Point Cave 13B, southwestern Cape, South Africa.. School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University.. 523 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2007

  • Dewar, Genevieve. 2007. The archeology of the coastal desert of Namaqualand, South Africa: a regional synthesis.. Department of Archaeology. University of Cape Town.. 320 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Egeland, Charles. 2007. Zooarchaeological and Taphonomic Perspectives on Hominid and Carnivore Interactions at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.. Department of Anthropology. Indiana University.. 313 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Pobiner, Briana Lee. 2007. Hominin-Carnivore Interactions: Evidence from Modern Carnivore Bone Modification and Early Pleistocene Archaeofaunas (Koobi Fora, Kenya; Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania).. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.. 575 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Tocheri, Matthew. 2007. Three-dimensional riddles of the radial wrist: Derived carpal and carpometacarpal joint morphology in the genus Homo and the implications for understanding the evolution of stone tool-related behaviors in hominins.. Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University.. 326 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Yoo, Yongwook. 2007. Long-Term Changes in the Organziation of Lithic Technology: A Case Study from the Imjin-Hantan River Area, Korea. . McGill University. 369 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2006

  • Belmaker, Miriam. 2006. Community Structure through Time: 'Ubeidiya, a  Lower Pleistocene Site as a Case Study.. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.. 284 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Heaton, Jason. 2006. Taxonomy of the Sterkfontein Fossil Cercopithecinae: The Papionini of Members 2 and 4 (Gauteng, South Africa).. Indiana University. 479 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Njau, Jackson. 2006. The Relevance of Crocodiles to Oldowan Hominin Paleoecology at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 324 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Olejniczak, Anthony. 2006. Micro-Computed Tomography of Primate Molars.. Stony Brook University. 242 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Lucas, Premo. 2006. Patchiness and Prosociality: Modeling the Evolution and  Archaeology of Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Food Sharing. . University of Arizona. 358 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Van, Arsdale. 2006. Mandibular variation in early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan. 244 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2005

  • Abe, Yoshiko. 2005. Hunting and Butchery Patterns of the Evenki in Northern Transbaikalia, Russia.. Stony Brook University. 555 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Kandel, Andrew. 2005. Comparative Studies in Landscape Archaeology.. University of Tübingen. 201 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Minichillo, Thomas. 2005. Middle Stone Age Lithic Study, South Africa:  An Examination of Modern Human Origins. University of Washington. 298 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Tactikos, Joanne. 2005. A Landscape Perspective on the Oldowan from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. The State University of New Jersey. 284 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2004

  • Tafforeau, Paul. 2004. Aspects Phylogenetiques et fonctionnels de la microstructure de l'email dentaire et de la structure tridimensionnelle des molaires chez les primates fossiles et actuels: Apports de la mircotomographie à rayonnement X synchrotron. Université Montpellier II. 284 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Smith, Tanya. 2004. Incremental Development of Primate Dental Enamel. Stony Brook University. 370 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Moyer, Campbell. 2004. The Organisation of Lithic Technology in the Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic Industries at the Haua Fteah, Libya  . University of Cambridge. 298 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Morin, Eugène. 2004. Late Pleistocene population interaction in Western Europe and modern human origins: New insights based on the faunal remains from Saint-Césaire, southwestern France. University of Michigan. 450 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Copeland, Sandi. 2004. Paleoanthropological Implications of Vegetation and Wild Plant Resources in Modern Savanna Landscapes, With Implications to Plio-Pleistocene Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. The State University of New Jersey. 422 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Banks, William. 2004. TOOLKIT STRUCTURE AND SITE USE: Results of a High-Power Use-Wear Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Solutré (Saône-et-Loire), France . University of Kansas. 179 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2003

  • Reed, Denné N.. 2003. Micromammal Paleoecology: Past and present relationships between African small mammals and their habitats. Stony Brook University. 242 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Rougier, Hélène. 2003. Étude descriptive et comparative de Biache-Saint-Vaast I (Biache-Saint-Vaast, Pas-De-Calais, France). . Université Bordeaux I. 424 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Pilbrow, Varsha. 2003. Dental variation in African apes with implications for understanding patterns of variation in species of fossil apes. New York University. 366 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2002

  • Weaver, Timothy. 2002. A MULTI-CAUSAL FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF HOMINID HIP MORPHOLOGY. Stanford University. 221 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Steele, Teresa. 2002. RED DEER: THEIR ECOLOGY AND HOW THEY WERE HUNTED BY LATE PLEISTOCENE HOMINIDS IN WESTERN EUROPE. Stanford University. 274 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Soressi, Marie. 2002. The Mousterian of Acheulian Tradition in the southwest of France. Discussion on the significance of the facies based on a comparative study of four sites: Pech-de-l’Azé I, Le Moustier, La Rochette, La Grotte XVI. Thèse de l'Université Bordeaux I. 339 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Rivals, Florent. 2002. Les petits bovidés pléistocènes dans le bassin méditerranéen et le Caucase. Etude paléontologique, biostratigraphique, archéozoologique et paléoécologique.. Université de Perpignan. 417 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Bailey, Shara. 2002. Neandertal Dental Morphology: Implications for modern human origins. Arizona State University. 238 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

2001

  • Weaver, Anne. 2001. THE CEREBELLUM AND COGNITIVE EVOLUTION IN PLIOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE HOMINIDS. University of New Mexico. 309 pp.
    Abstract Thesis
  • Frost, Stephen. 2001. FOSSIL CERCOPITHECIDAE OF THE AFAR DEPRESSION, ETHIOPIA: SPECIES SYSTEMATICS AND COMPARISON TO THE TURKANA BASIN. City University of New York. 463 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

1999

  • Cleuvenot, Emmanuel. 1999. Courbures Sagittales de la Colonne Vertebrale Determinees par la Morphologie des Vertebres. Developpement d'une Nouvelle Methodologie et Application chezHomo sapiens.. Université de Bordeaux. 317 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

1997

  • Bouzouggar, Abdeljalil. 1997. Matières premières, processus de fabrication et de gestion des supports d'outils dans la séquence atérienne de la grotte des Contrabandiers à Témera. Université de Bordeaux. 312 pp.
    Abstract Thesis

1994

  • Crummett, Tracey. 1994. The evolution of shovel shaping: Regional and temporal variation in human incisor morphology. University of Michigan. 363 pp.
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