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Opening Lecture

   
10.00 Clive Finlayson
 

The Gibraltar Museum, Gibraltar

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Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada

  The Problem of Scale in Human Evolution
   

SESSION 1 - Before Homo

   
11.20 David Begun
  Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
  Europe and the origin of the African Ape and Human Clade
   
12.20

Michel Brunet

 

College de France, Paris, France and Mission Paleoanthropologique Franco-Tchadienne

  In Sahelo-Saharan Africa (Chad, Egypt, Libya)…on the track of a new cradle of mankind
   
SESSION 2 - Origins and Evolutionary History of the Genus Homo
   
9.00 Christoph Zollikofer and Marcia Ponce de León
 

Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  The first Europeans: beyond African borders – beyond species borders?
   
10.00 Adam Van Arlsdale and Milford Wolpoff
  Wellesley College, USA
  Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  In the beginning
   
11.20

Ian Tattersall

  Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
  How many lineages of Homo in the Middle Pleistocene of Europe
   
12.20

Juan Luis Arsuaga

 

Departamento de Paleontologia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

  The origin of the Neanderthals
   
15.00 Chris B. Stringer
 

Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK

 

The origins and evolution of the Neanderthal and modern human clades

 
SESSION 3: Biogeography, Behaviour and Ecology of Hominins
   
9.00 Robin W. Dennell
 

Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

  Migrations on the grandest of scales
   
  10.00 Marta Mirazon Lahr and Rob Foley
 

Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  Evolutionary Geography of African Pleistocene hominins
   
11.20

Curtis Marean

 

Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

 

The Cape Floral Region, Shellfish, and Modern Human Origins

   
12.20

John Shea

 

Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook, State University of New York, USA

  Why did it take so long for Homo sapiens to get out of Africa?  A tale of two dispersals
   
15.00 Michael Petraglia
  School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK
  An Archaeological Assessment of the Southern Dispersal Route
   

short communications

   
  The Programme is now closed.  Please download the full programme for a listing of the short communications to be presented.
   
     
   

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