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CSHO @ NYU

@CSHO_NYU

The Center for the Study of Human Origins at New York University

 New York City
wp.nyu.edu/csho/
Joined March 2010
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We are hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor at NYU in Biological Anthropology, for someone working in areas of non-human primate ‘omics. All new state-of-the-art lab facilities should be ready in early 2026. Job ad and application link here: apply.interfolio.com/153021
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Congratulations to Justin Pargeter and Guilhem Mauran on receiving a research grant from the @PASTEvolve Foundation to support two southern African master students, Malesetla Sepamo and Petrus Tangeni, who will work on ochre collections from Boomplaas Cave! @justin_pargeter
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Congrats to Adela Cebeiro (@AdelaCebeiro) on winning a GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship for summer research on tool use in robust capuchins!
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Congrats to Alex Gregory on winning a Robert Holmes Travel/Research Award for African Scholarship for summer research on the effects that aquatic resources played on hunter-gatherer technologies during the Late Holocene in southern Africa!
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❄️Curious about the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and its impact on southern Africa's climates, environments, and human evolution? Our new #Quaternary Science Reviews paper (tinyurl.com/mwcfh948) sheds light on this icy chapter at #Boomplaas Cave
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Did Neanderthals use glue? @nyuanthro and @uni_tue researchers found evidence of a multi-component adhesive in stone tools that suggests a higher level of cognition and cultural development than previously thought. More on the @ScienceAdvances study: spr.ly/6014neKEs
A Neanderthal stone tool glued into a handle made of liquid bitumen.

ALT A Neanderthal stone tool glued into a handle made of liquid bitumen.

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New study co-authored by Prof. Terry Harrison reveals clues about the evolution of human movement. nyu.edu/about/news-publicati…
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Check out our NYU Anthropology talks this fall!
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@AfricanPaleosc1 ARISE summer high school interns turning up the heat with their presentations on silcrete heat treatment at the @AMNH. Excellent guidance and mentoring from @AdelaCebeiro. @CSHO_NYU @nyuanthro
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Image from Justin Pargeter (@justin_pargeter)
Image from Justin Pargeter (@justin_pargeter)
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I love the opportunity to work with them, they are such great students! Looking at archaeology through their eyes is an amazing experience! – at Manhattan, NY
Justin Pargeter (@justin_pargeter) profile pictureJustin Pargeter@justin_pargeter26 Jul 2023
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@AdelaCebeiro leads The @AfricanPaleosc1 lab’s summer 2023 Applied Research Innovations in Science and Engineering (ARISE) interns to the @AMNH’s Hall of Human Origins. These talented high school students are cracking away at several Paleolithic projects over the summer.
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Tomorrow! 4/27 at NYU -- Katerina Harvati lecture non-NYU attendees, email [email protected] for access
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Our new paper shows how neuroplasticity enables bio‑cultural feedback in Paleolithic stone‑tool making (nature.com/articles/s41598-0…). Results show that technical skill acquisition can produce structural brain changes conducive to the discovery and acquisition of additional skills.
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CSHO faculty Shara Bailey is part of the research team that published in Science on the oldest Oldowan tools found at a site called Nyayanga, Kenya. They were associated with Paranthropus teeth, suggesting that Paranthropus potentially used them: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and...

Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and...

Ancient Oldowan sites from Nyayanga show evidence of hippo butchery, plant processing, and the first Paranthropus, a type of extinct hominin, from southwest Kenya.

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Hot off the presses! New review "African apes and the evolutionary history of orthogrady and bipedalism" by Scott Williams, Cody Prang, and co-authors. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @WUSTLbioanthro @WUSTLAnthro @nyuanthro @CSHO_NYU
African apes and the evolutionary history of orthogrady and bipedalism

African apes and the evolutionary history of orthogrady and bipedalism

Since the first discovery of human fossils in the mid-19th century, two subjects—our phylogenetic relationship to living and fossil apes and the ancestral locomotor behaviors preceding bipedalism—h...

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Fully funded opportunity to excavate at Boomplaas Cave and across several sites in Malawi through the Human Origins Migration and Evolution (HOMER) research group. May-July 2023. More info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Kudos to MS alum Lauren Petrullo (‘15) on her new paper in Science! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Phenotype–environment mismatch errors enhance lifetime fitness in wild red squirrels

Phenotype–environment mismatch errors enhance lifetime fitness in wild red squirrels

In fluctuating environments, phenotypic mismatching may reflect an error-avoidance bias that enhances a mother squirrel’s overall lifetime fitness.

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How do individual differences in strength, accuracy & cognition impact knapping skill acquisition in different information transmission conditions? In a new study, we trained 23 individuals for 2 hours to knap by observation only/direct active teaching. rdcu.be/c1nOs
Subjects observing expert knapper in the observation only condition.

ALT Subjects observing expert knapper in the observation only condition.

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As promised, a thread of photos and fun facts about the incredible drill monkey (Mandrillus leucophaeus) that I have the privilege of researching. All photos are mine. #scicomm (1/11)
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Join us tonight at 5pm! Joan Silk from ASU is giving a CSHO lecture: "Reproductive tradeoffs for male baboons: competing vs caring"
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Discovery of earliest gibbon fossil & @CSHO_NYU analysis fills long-elusive gap in apes' evolutionary history. nyu.edu/about/news-publicati…
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