Grantee Spotlight: Alia Gurtov
Over the next few months we will be introducing you to Leakey Foundation grantees from our Fall 2014 granting cycle. Our first featured grantee is Alia Gurtov, PhD candidate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her project is entitled “Dental microwear analysis of Early Pleistocene hominin foraging seasonality.” Alia Gurtov in Rising Star Cave
For our Early Stone Age predecessors<br>
Grantee Spotlight: Elizabeth Tinsley Johnson
May 2014 (dry season): Geladas come off the cliffs, where they sleep at night, and regroup at the top. They often take an hour or so to socialize and rest before heading off to forage. Pictured (left to right): graduate student Morgan Gustison; field assistant Esheti; field manager Megan Gomery. Photo by E. Tinsley Johnson.
In the spring of 2013<br>
Grantee Spotlight: Philip A. Slater
In spring of 2013 Philip A. Slater, PhD candidate at the University of Illinois, was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant for his project entitled “Planning and technological organization in the Kenyan MSA and LSA.” The following is a short update on his progress. Small and intentionally dug hole that contained about 550 artifacts. The people at the site (~94,000<br>
Grantee Spotlight: Alexandra Uhl
“These are some of the non-adult crania we scanned at Universität Tübingen. That’s our CT scanner in the background. We also did DNA analysis on the teeth from these individuals.”
In the spring of 2014 The Leakey Foundation awarded Alexandra Uhl, PhD candidate from the University of Tübingen in Germany, a research grant for her project entitled “Sex determination in<br>
Grantee Spotlight: Nathan Thompson
Nathan Thompson explaining to a kinematic subject how head motion relates to the semicircular canal organs in the inner ear.
Nathan Thompson, PhD candidate from Stony Brook University, was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in spring of 2014 for his project entitled “Kinematics and evolution of upper body stability in hominins.”
Humans are unique among our primate relatives<br>