Podium Abstracts

Depositional and cultural contexts of Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens fossils from Rabat-Temara caves in Morocco

Zeljko Rezek, Fethi Amani, Eslem Ben Arous, Carlo Mologni, Pauline Raymond, Margit Hildegard Simon, Ismael Ziani, Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Jean-Jacques Hublin

Forward modeling of walking in humans with different hip widths

Ekaterina Stansfield, Clara Egner, Hans Kainz

Measuring Early Levallois Blank Utility and Standardization: A Novel Approach

Jayson Gill, Keith Wilkinson, Boris Gasparyan, Daniel Adler

Shell beads and pigments associated with Châtelperronian artefacts at La Roche-à-Pierrot, Saint-Césaire, France

Isabelle Crevecoeur, François Bachellerie, Brad Gravina, Solange Rigaud, Laure Dayet, Marc Thomas, Christelle Lahaye, Loïc Lebreton, Eugène Morin, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Mickaël Baillet, Edouard Bard, Cédric Beauval, Jean-Guillaume Bordes, Thibaut Devièse, Christophe Falguères, Damien Flas, Lisa Garbé, Guillaume Guérin, François Lacrampe-Cuyaubère, Camille Lesage, Carolina Mallol, Josserand Marot, Bruno Maureille, Alexandre Michel, Xavier Muth, Elise Tartar, Nicolas Teyssandier, Adrien Thibeault, Dominique Todisco, Olivier Tombret, Hélène Rougier

Craniofacial development, variation and sexual dimorphism in extant great apes  

Weldeyared H. Reda, Philipp Gunz, José Braga, Callum F. Ross, Zeresenay Alemseged

Identification and quantification of projectile impact marks on bone: New experimental insights using osseous points

Reuven Yeshurun, Luc Doyon, José-Miguel Tejero, Rudolf Walter, Hannah Huber, Robin Andrews, Keiko Kitagawa

Incorporating Citizen Science in Archaeological Research, the case study of Early Occupation of Sicily (EOS) Project.

Ilaria Patania, Isaac Ramirez Ogloblin, Jaqueline Garnett, Peyton Carroll, Iris Querenet Onfroy De Breville, Sebastiano Di Mauro, Agatino Reitano, Gianni Insacco, Gianmarco Minniti, Christian Tryon

Phytoliths as an environmental proxy for the Upper Paleolithic in the Armenian Highlands – Aghitu-3 Cave, Armenia

Johan Jarl, Boris Gasparyan, Andrew Kandel, Angela Bruch

Revisiting the Homo erectus site of Tighennif (formerly Ternifine), Algeria. Results of new multidisciplinary investigations

Mohamed Sahnouni, Alfredo Pérez-González, Mathieu Duval, Lee Arnold, Josep María Parés, Jan Van der Made, Razika Chelli, Salah Abdessadok, Zoheir Harichane, Isabel Cáceres, Antonio Rosas, Nadia Saidani, Jordi Agusti, Abdelkader Derradji, Farrah Chemerik, Nacim Mazouni, Saloua Chibane, Slimane Hachi

StW 573 (“Little Foot”) limb functional anatomy and behavioral reconstructions, and their implications for hominin evolution

Kristian Carlson, Tea Jashashvili, Jason Heaton, Travis Pickering, Loring Burgess, Lauren Sarringhaus, Amélie Beaudet, Robin Crompton, Andi Heile, Dominic Stratford, Kathleen Kuman, Ronald Clarke, Christopher Ruff

Utilizing clinical dentistry technology to assess primate dental wear progression

Ian Towle, Kristin Krueger, Anderson Hara, Mario Modesto Mata, Marina Martínez de Pinillos, Leslea Hlusko

Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Early Holocene People from the Fucino Basin, Abruzzo, Italy

Christopher Schmidt, Ruggero D'Anastasio, Kelsie Adler, Ian Plunkett, Brandi McDonald, Jessica Dorsett, Trifon Theodosopoulos

From the Middle to Later Stone Age on the African south coast and Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: A detailed sequence of transitions from Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1

Naomi Cleghorn, Ximena Villagran, Rosaria Saktura, Sara Watson, John Murray, Benjamin Schoville, Bongekile Zwane, Irene Esteban, Erich Fisher, Hannah Keller, Dominic Stratford

Identifying the lithic reduction strategy at Middle Stone Age Vleesbaai (south coast, South Africa) using a novel refitting approach

Nicolas Hansen, John Murray, J. Ivan Anderies, Chloe Hoelzel, Curtis Marean

Taphonomic analysis of Middle Stone Age ostrich eggshell fragments from Pinnacle Point 5-6N (south coast, South Africa) reveals changes in occupational intensity

Hannah Keller, Curtis Marean

The potential of crypto-tephrochronology studies at paleoanthropological sites throughout Africa

Jayde N. Hirniak, Eugene I. Smith, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua Ren, Jacob A. Harris, Nicholas J.G. Pearce, Christopher Campisano, Melanie Barboni, Eamonn Needham, Curtis W. Marean

Using Drone Survey to Map Stratigraphy and Hominin Activity Patterns at Olduvai Gorge

Alex Pelissero, Edward Herrmann, Jackson Njau, Tewabe Negash, Danielle Peltier, Michael Pante

Habitat, precipitation, and seasonality reconstructions using fossil fauna from 2.8-2.6 Ma localities in Ledi-Geraru, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia

Irene Smail, Amy Rector, Joshua Robinson, Kaye Reed

²³⁰Th/U burial dating of Australian megafaunal eggshells

Elizabeth Niespolo, Warren Sharp, Francois Tissot, Gifford Miller

A comparative study of maxillary sinuses in modern and fossil humans by Virtual Anthropology

Costantino Buzi, Antonio Profico

Archaeology of the Odele Member at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

Michael Rogers, Sileshi Semaw, Gary Stinchcomb

Comparative 3D shape analysis of the Iwo Eleru mandible, Nigeria

Katerina Harvati, Chris Stringer, Caleb Folorunso

Comparing dispersal patterns of African hominins in the Plio-Pleistocene

Kaye Reed, Irene Smail, David Feary

Deciphering Information Transfer Through Oldowan Tool Refits

Niguss Baraki, Jonathan Reeves, David Braun

Earliest evidence of Artificial Cranial Modification in epigravettian Arene Candide 12 (12000 BP)

Tommaso Mori, Vitale Sparacello, Alessandro Riga, Francesca Seghi, Monica Zavattaro, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, Irene Dori

Exploring Early Hominin Carnivory: Insights from the newly discovered Area 8A Fossil Assemblage in East Turkana, Kenya.

Frances Forrest, Eimy Gonzalez Alvarez, David Braun, Emmanuel Ndiema

Late Pleistocene human occupation of the Kilwa coast (Tanzania): New OSL dates and paleoenvironmental insights from stable isotope data

Amanuel Beyin, David K. Wright, Kokeli P. Ryano, Jan-Pieter Buylaert

Oldowan occurrences on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya

Tom Plummer, Emma Finestone, James Oliver, Ditchfield Peter, Kinyanjui Rahab, Lemorini Cristina, Caricola Isabella, Bishop Laura, Blumenthal Scott, Parkinson Jennifer, Braun David, Onyango Blasto, Grant Madison, Potts Rick

Primate teeth as proxies for understanding water inputs and past seasonality

Tanya Smith, Ávila Janaína, Jelmer Eerkens, Daniel Green, Hinde Katie, Edgar Huerta, Ian Williams

Religious sacrifice in the Ice Age? On ritual finger amputation as a potential explanation for the Gravettian hand images with incomplete fingers

Mark Collard, Brea McCauley

The OGS-6/-7 Sites from Gona, Ethiopia, Revisited

Sileshi Semaw, Michael Rogers, Isabel Caceres

The Relationship between Distal Femur Morphology and the Evolutionary History of Locomotion

Antonio Otero

Analyzing obstetric adaptations in incomplete hominin pelves: A new method for predicting unpreserved pubic morphology

Stefan Schlager, Caroline VanSickle, Mirella Woodert, Martin Haeusler, Nicole Torres-Tamayo

Beyond Extinction: Modelling Diverse Neanderthal-Homo sapiens Interactions

Tanner Kovach

Death on the Nile: Why did Nilotic Later Stone Age hunters wage war or keep peace?

Stanley Ambrose, Petra Brukner Havelková, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Ladislav Varadzin, Elise Tartar, Adrien Thibeault, Mike Buckley, Sébastien Vilotte, Lenka Varadzinová

Differences in the rotational profile of the lower limb among humans and non-human primates.

Jessica Wollmann-Reynolds, Nicole Peterson, Michelle Cameron, Bence Viola

Examining niche partitioning of extinct hyaenid species in non-analog Pleistocene ecosystems

Alyssa McGrath, W. Andrew Barr, J. Tyler Faith

How did Middle Stone Age humans heat-treat silcrete at Pinnacle Point 13B approximately 162,000 years ago?

John Murray, Ivan Anderies, Swanny Jurczak, Chloe Hoelzel, Nicolas Hansen, Curtis Marean

Human Adaptation to Different Altiitudes Through Time and Climatic Changes (HUMA)
 

Giuseppina Mutri

New insights into Magdalenian subsistence at Petersfels (Hegau Jura, southwestern Germany)

Madison J. McCartin, Britt M. Starkovich, Nicholas J. Conard

Palaeoecological implications for hominin dispersal(s) through the Pinjor Formation of the Upper Siwalik Hills near Chandigarh in northern India

Anubhav Preet Kaur

Paleoecological implications of the Lateglacial hyena den from Besaansklip (southwestern Cape, South Africa)

Kathryn Sokolowski, Kaedan O'Brien, Vincent Hare, Drake Yarian, Lloyd Roussouw, J. Tyler Faith

The (semi) arid ape: How the rift valley defined our niche

Amelia Villaseñor, Lucas Delezene, Rahab Kinyanjui, Enquye Negash, Porter Joshua, Anna Behresmeyer

The Aggregation Problem: Implications for Paleoanthropology

Amanda Leiss, Michael Rogers, Sileshi Semaw, Naomi Levin

The Missing Oldowan: The Early Stone Age from 2.3 to 2.0 Ma at the Nasura site complex, West Turkana, Kenya

Evan Wilson, Xavier Böes, Vincent Arrighi, Sonia Harmand

The Omo-Turkana Basin hominin fossil record

François Marchal, Denné Reed, Sandrine Prat

The academic life and legacy of Sally McBrearty (1949-2023)

Christian Tryon, Roure Johnson Cara

The effect of trait redundancy on parsimony-inferred tree topologies from a hominin character matrix

Levi Raskin, Maja Šešelj, Bárbara Bitarello

The taphononic history of the Neandertals from Krapina

Michael Pante, Mica Glantz, Connie Fellmann, Davorka Radovčić

Thinking beyond the rift: how important is sampling bias in understanding human evolution?

W. Andrew Barr, Bernard Wood

Poster Abstracts

Laminae-facet angle differences on hominid cervical vertebrae

Carlos A. Palancar, Daniel García Martínez, Markus Bastir

A partial parietal hominin bone from the 2023 campaign at the Middle Pleistocene site of “Ruidera-Los Villares” (Ruidera, Spain, Iberian Peninsula)

Daniel García-Martínez, Sara Díaz Pérez, Francesc Gascó-Lluna, Josu Aranbarri, Lucía Bermejo Albarrán, Candelas Buenestado Ruíz, Isidoro Campaña Lozano, Gabriel Cifuentes-Alcobendas, Miren Del Val, Raquel Dotes-Güendian, Manuel D. D’Angelo del Campo, Almudena Estalrrich, Beatriz Fernández Cascón, Darío Fidalgo, Cecilia García Campos, Marta Gómez Recio, Miguel López Cano, José M. López-Rey, Mario Modesto Mata, Davinia Morneo, Mariano Padilla Cano, Jorge Sanz-Cardiel, Tomás Torres Medina, Carlos A. Palancar

Maximizing the Impact of Public Outreach: A Case Study in Sicilian Paleolithic Archaeology

Jacqueline Garnett, Gianni Insacco, Ilaria Patania

Was symmetry an entrenched cognitive trait that organized early human technologies? A case study of Fauresmith prepared cores from Kathu Pan 6, South Africa

Hilary Duke, Michael Chazan

A quantitative analysis of the micromorphology of marks on bone retouchers used to sharpen lithics

Tewabe Negash, Michael Pante, Edward W. Herrmann, Connie D. Fellmann, Alex Pelissero

Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene cultural landscapes of northern Butana in the Sahel of Sudan

Ahmed Nassr, Ahmed Balela, Mohammed Eltoom, Zainab Albshir, Zeljko Rezek

Modeling the influence of volcanic processes on speciation and its implications for hominin evolution

Danielle Peltier, Jackson Njau, P. David Polly

A Bio-Available Strontium Isoscape for the South Kenya Rift: Implications for Tracking Faunal Landscape Use

Joshua J. Porter, Richard Potts, Alison S. Brooks, Amelia Villaseñor

A Comparative Study of Reduction Sequences Methods: Application to Oldowan Technology

Joyce Waithira Waweru, David Royce Braun, Mathew Douglass, Jonathan Scott Reeves, Niguss Baraki, Movin Kiprotich

Chewing Intensity of a Modern Spotted Hyena Modified Assemblage

Kyle Pontieri

Global Review of Early Childhood Graves 20,000 to 9,000 years ago and their Cultural Implications

Lia Plankenhorn-Farrell

Investigating the mysteries of bone modification with the Smithsonian’s National Taphonomic Reference Collection

Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Jarod M. Hutson

Applications of TEX86 paleotemperature reconstruction method at the Late Stone Age sites of Txina Txina and Zimuara in Mozambique

Elena Skosey-LaLonde, Gideon Hartman, Ana Gomes, Nuno Bicho

Different migratory and dietary responses to seasonality in Last Glacial Period versus present-day Kenyan large herbivores

Kaedan O'Brien, Christian A. Tryon, Lilian Ashioya, J. Tyler Faith

Paleoecology of the saber-toothed felid Lokotunjailurus emageritus from Lothagam (Turkana Basin, Kenya)

Christianne Ormsby, John Rowan, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster

Taphonomy of a seasonal riverine habitat: the first year of the Zambia Rift Valley Research Project

Thierra K. Nalley, Lucas K. Delezene, Joseph Museba, Marie Vergamini, Amelia Villaseñor, Amy L. Rector

A New Non-Destructive Method for the Identification of Fossilized Burned Bones In the Archaeological Record

Madison Fortier, Sarah Hlubik, Frances Forrest, Caitlin Craig

A comparative study of different core reduction indices using 3D scanned experimental lithic assemblages

Lucy Suchomel, Matthew J. Douglass, David R. Braun, Jonathan S. Reeves

Appearance of Nycticebus coucang in Late Pleistocene south China: Exploring primate biochronology and paleoecology in Yahuai cave.

Jessica Castaño, Guangmao Xie, Qiang Lin

Diachronic zooarchaeological and paleoecological analyses of Late Pleistocene sites in the Jabel Qalkha area, Southern Jordan: Evidence for human adaptability

Miriam Belmaker, Masato Hirose, Toru Tamura, Risako Kida, Seiji Kadowaki

Ecomorphic analysis of bovid astragali at the Fort Ternan, Kenya Miocene site

Nick Diego Rosas, W. Andrew Barr

Examining the Stable Isotope Variation of Mammals in South Luangwa National Park in the Context of Anthropogenic Influences

Taylor Hubbard, Lucas K. Delezene, Thierra K. Nalley, Joseph Museba, Amy L. Rector, Amelia Villaseñor

Exploring environmental drivers of hominin scavenging behavior: A modeling approach

Kathryn Fish, W. Andrew Barr, Jonathan Reeves

Exploring the impact of percussive force in flake formation. 

Cecilia Barroso-Medina, Sam C. Lin

Form or shape? How data standardization affects results of quantitative genetic analyses of the primate appendicular skeleton

Marianne J. Cooper, Mark A. Conaway, Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel

Hallucal proximal phalanx robusticity in chimpanzees, humans, and fossils hominins

Biren A. Patel, Tea Jashashvili

Hominin Occupation Site vs. Landscape: A Comparative Analysis of Hominin-Use Evidence on Faunal Remains in the Koobi Fora Region 

Mary Polaneczky, Madison Fortier, Sarah Hlubik

Isotopic Niche Space: A novel approach to assess hominin and faunal niche dynamics at the site of Laetoli, Tanzania 

Georgia Oppenheim, Joshua Robinson, John Kingston

Lithic Technology and Human Adaptation in the Sicilian Upper Paleolithic 

Peyton Carroll, Christian Tryon, Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, Ilaria Patania

Sexual dimorphism of the sacral auricular surface: A preliminary 3D geometric morphometrics analysis

Carly E. Stark, Scott A. Williams

Shelling out the details: Impacts of variable reporting of chelonian remains in Pleistocene zooarchaeological assemblages in Africa

Alyssa Enny, Jessica C. Thompson

The Reverse Engineering approach: A pioneering technique in the reconstruction of missing anatomical data. Preliminary results using primate femora.

Julia Aramendi, Lloyd A. Courtenay

Using Geography and Irrigation Practices to Create a Model to Identify Schistosomiasis Cases in Egyptian Mummies

Sarah Etheridge, NA, NA

Vole (Microtus guentheri) stable isotopes as proxies for paleoenvironments: Implications for modern human and Neanderthal interactions in the Middle Pleistocene Levant

Logan Guthrie, Miriam Belmaker