Café Science presents
An Ethiopian Diorama: A glimpse of Humanity's Dawn
Wednesday February 03, 2010
FREE - 7pm
The human fossil record has grown exponentially since the discovery of the first Neanderthal. We now have a continuous record of the last 6 million years, replete with many exceptional sites that offer well preserved hominins, prehistoric habitats, and stone tool troves.
One million years ago a population of Homo erectus lived in a riverine drainage basin in what is now a remote part of Ethiopia. This presentation will provide a detailed introduction to the fossils and stone tools found in this region, and provide a look at paleoanthropology history and the broader human fossil record.
Join us for a night of immersion in human evolution, with casts of fossils and engaging discussions of the history, facts, and implications of human evolution.
Henry Gilbert is a professor of anthropology at California State University, East Bay, and a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He has beenbinvolved with paleoanthropology for over 20 years, and has been doing fieldwork in Ethiopia since 1994. He currently directs the Kesem Kebena Dulecha project in Ethiopia, and recently coedited a book on Homo erectus in Africa.
