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.

Data Sharing Survey

In cooperation with the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, we request that you take this anonymous survey on data sharing attitudes and practices of researchers in natural sciences, housed at http://bit.ly/DataShareSurvey We are interested in the views of archaeologists, biological anthropologists, paleoanthropologists and other colleagues in related fields. All are invited to take the survey.

The results will be discussed in an article to appear later this year in the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, and a link will be added to this site when available. Thank you.

News & Announcements

There are no active announcements.

The 2021 Annual Meetings

We are sorry to inform you that our 2021 annual meeting has been cancelled, due to the cancellation of the SAA meeting, which would have provided us with a meeting room and poster space. We hope to have our 2022 meeting in Denver (CO) in association with the AAPA (American Association of Physical Anthropologists).

If you have already paid for your 2021 registration, please advise by return email if you wish:
1) to transfer the payment to your registration for 2022;
2) donate the payment to the Society, for use in expanding our program of facilitating attendance at the 2022 meeting for students and others with limited access to travel funds;
or 3) requesting a refund (the most difficult and least favored option).

PaleoAnthropology Journal

PaleoAnthropology is published jointly by the Society and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. 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.