Hadar Paleoanthropology Field School


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Faculty How to Apply Classes Home	Hadar Paleoanthropology Field School October 7-- November 23, 2007 The Institute of Human Origins in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University now offers a field school in paleoanthropology at the Lucy site at Hadar, Ethiopia. This region of the Afar Triangle is one of the richest in the world for middle Pliocene hominin fossils. The Hadar site contains approximately a million years of human evolution within its deposits. Australopithecus afarensis material has been recovered from more than 3.4 to 3.0 million years ago. The A. afarensis sites include the Lucy Locality (AL-288), the First Family Locality (AL-333), the two adult skull localities (AL-444 and AL-822). Early Homo material from ~ 2.33 million years ago includes the locality of AL-666. In addition, stone tools have been recovered from sediments older than 2.33 million years. The program includes instruction in early hominin evolution, paleoecology, faunal analysis, geology, archaeology, site mapping, fossil survey, and various types of excavation. For 2007 the following activities are scheduled (subject to changes): view original fossils of Lucy and other Australopithecus afarensis material collection and excavation instruction archaeological excavation of Oldowan sites hominid and other mammalian fossil identification geological context and reconstruction of fossil sites African ecology and paleoecology visit to Awash National Park For more information, please contact: Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University ATTN: Hadar Field School P.O. Box 874101, Tempe, AZ 85287-4101 Telephone: (480) 727-6580 Fax: (480) 727-6570 e-mail: human.origins@asu.edu OR kaye.reed@asu.edu OR wkimbel.iho@asu.edu