Rough Childhoods Have Ripple Effects for Wild Baboons
A new study supported by The Leakey Foundation finds that wild baboons that experience multiple misfortunes during the first years of life grow up to live much shorter adult lives.
Our Auction is Live, and Here’s a 3D Model of One of the Items!
Last month we featured a blog post by Leakey Foundation grantee Samantha Porter. She and her team had recently published an article entitled “A Simple Photogrammetry Rig for the Reliable Creation of 3D Artifact Models in the Field” in the journal Advances in Archaeological Practice. She was nice enough introduce the article to our readers, describing the technique and the
Human Evolution and Earth’s Tipping Point
Join The Leakey Foundation and Elizabeth Hadly on April 19th and celebrate Earth Day.
Our Grants Department is in Atlanta for PAS/AAPA!
This week Paddy Moore and H. Gregory of The Leakey Foundation's grants department are in Atlanta for the annual Paleoanthropology Society and the American Association of Physical Anthropologists conferences being held in the Atlanta Marriott Marquis.
World Heritage Gone: South African Diamond Mining Destroys Archaeological Sites Daily
George M. Leader of the University of Pennsylvania describes the importance of long term archaeological research at South Africa’s Cantee Kopje, one of many world heritage sites threatened by diamond mining.
Archaeologists working in South Africa are fighting a war on multiple fronts. While the whole world continues its love affair with its favorite stone, the diamond, archaeologists are fighting