Welcome!

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.

The Society has a new Secretary

Dr. John Polk has volunteered to serve as the Paleoanthropology Society Secretary. Since he is the only candidate, a formal election is not necessary. His 3-year term began in June 2022. John is a biological anthropologist who is Director of the Human Biology Program, University at Albany (State University of New York). He can be reached by email at Secretary@paleoanthro.org

News & Announcements

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The 2025 Annual Meetings

The annual Paleoanthropology Society meeting will be held in Denver on Tuesday and Wednesday April 22 and 23 in conjunction with the Society for American Archaeology. The conference hotel is the Sheraton Denver Downtown. The meeting room is Governor’s Square 14. The poster session will be held in the adjacent foyer. For updated hotel information please check the SAA website. The final program is now available.

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 (now closed) 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.