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SUMMARY:First Stories: The Ice Age Art of Sulawesi
DESCRIPTION:Location: The Field MuseumChicago\, ILTickets: Free | Registration required \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIce Age Art of Sulawesi\n\n\n\nA 44\,000-year-old hunting scene painted on a cave wall in Sulawesi.\n\n\n\nHear about the discovery of the oldest cave art in the world! \n\n\n\nIn the 1950s\, the discovery of prehistoric rock art was reported for the first time on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. These images were found in limestone caves in the karst hills of Maros-Pangkep. At the time\, it was believed this art had been left by early Neolithic farmers\, making them about 4\,000 years old. However\, in 2014\, an Australian-Indonesian team dated the Maros-Pangkep art for the first time using a uranium-series analysis of natural mineral coatings that had formed on some of the images.  \n\n\n\nThe earliest dated image yielded a minimum age of 40\,000 years\, making it compatible with cave art in Spain\, the oldest known art in the world at the time. The Sulawesi art challenged the long-accepted story that the birthplace of human art and culture had been in Europe.  \n\n\n\nThe earliest painting\, with a minimum age of 51\,200 years\, is a scene portraying human-like figures interacting with a pig. It is the oldest cave art attributed to humans and the earliest known examples of visual storytelling in the world\, providing crucial insights into the development of human cognition. \n\n\n\nRegister to attend in person or online\n\n\n\nYou can attend this free event at the Field Museum in Chicago or online. Registration is required. Click here to register for in-person or online attendance. Registered attendees get free admission to the Field Museum! \n\n\n\nParking may be impacted by a nearby event. We encourage taking a taxi or public transportation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nAdam Brumm is a professor of archaeology at Griffith University in Queensland\, Australia. His contributions to the field span 21 years of research in Indonesia\, including extensive fieldwork on Flores and Sulawesi\, two islands that loom large in our understanding of early humans. In Flores\, his team unearthed fossils of archaic hominins that are the oldest found on the island and seem to represent a form ancestral to the celebrated ‘Hobbit’ (Homo floresiensis). In Sulawesi\, his discoveries\, with numerous colleagues\, of a series of ‘ice age’ cave paintings were deemed to be among the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of the year on two occasions (2014 and 2019) by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Brumm completed his PhD at the Australian National University in 2007 and has since held several postdoctoral research fellowships\, including at the University of Cambridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResources to learn more  \n\n\n\nQuick picks:  \n\n\n\nFound in a cave in Indonesia\, we can now show the world’s oldest figurative art is 51\,200 years old \n\n\n\nGoogle Arts and Culture virtual tour of the Indonesian cave art site \n\n\n\nDig deeper: \n\n\n\nOrigin Stories: The First Story \n\n\n\n\n\nSponsors\n\n\n\nThis lecture is in partnership with the Field Museum and Chicago Council on Science and Technology and is generously sponsored by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation\, Camilla and George Smith\, and the Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund.
URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/first-stories-the-ice-age-art-of-sulawesi/
LOCATION:Field Museum\, 1400 S DuSable Lake Shore Dr.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60605\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Apes on the Edge
DESCRIPTION:Houston Museum of Natural ScienceHouston\, Texas$18 general admission\, $12 for members (use code Leakey for your discounted ticket) \n\n\n\n\nGet your ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSenegal’s Fongoli chimpanzees live in one of the world’s harshest savanna environments\, where temperatures soar above 110 degrees Fahrenheit and wildfires sweep across the landscape during the dry season.  \n\n\n\nThe Fongoli chimpanzees are unique for many reasons. Their female hunters are the only chimpanzees that regularly hunt with tools\, and unlike most other chimps\, these apes fear neither fire nor water\, using shallow pools to cool off in the extreme heat. \n\n\n\nThe study of Fongoli chimps is as unique as the chimps themselves. While most primate research occurs in isolated reserves\, Fongoli chimpanzees live near humans\, creating both challenges and opportunities in this shared habitat. \n\n\n\nJoin primatologist Dr. Jill Pruetz as she shares discoveries from her extensive field research\, exploring the unique characteristics of these chimpanzees and the dynamics between them and the people they live alongside.  \n\n\n\nLecture and book signing\n\n\n\nDrawing from her recently published book\, Apes on the Edge\, Dr. Pruetz explores the extraordinary adaptations and behaviors that set the Fongoli chimpanzees apart from the forest-dwelling chimpanzees known from other regions of Africa\, underscoring the importance of protecting these remarkable apes and their fragile habitat. \n\n\n\nDr. Pruetz’s book will be available for purchase at the event\, and she will sign copies following the program. \n\n\n\nDr. Jill Pruetz in the field. Suzanne Livingstone\n\n\n\nAbout Jill Pruetz\n\n\n\nDr. Jill Pruetz has been the Principal Investigator of the Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project in Senegal since 2001. Dr. Pruetz is Regents’ Professor of Anthropology at Texas State University and a multiple-time Leakey Foundation grantee. Her research focuses on the environmental pressures that influence ape behavior and how the behavior of savanna-living chimpanzees differs from that of chimpanzees living in forested environments. She uses these findings to inform knowledge of early hominin behavioral ecology. \n\n\n\nShe is the founder of Neighbor Ape\, a nonprofit organization working to conserve chimpanzees in Senegal and provide for the well-being of the people who live alongside them. Dr. Pruetz has studied primates in Kenya\, Nicaragua\, Panama\, Costa Rica and Peru\, as well as Senegal.  \n\n\n\nSponsors\n\n\n\nThis lecture is eligible for CPE credits and is presented in partnership with the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Leakey Foundation lectures are generously sponsored by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation\, Camilla and George Smith\, and the Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund. \n\n\n\n\nGet your ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to catch the next Leakey Lecture online or in your city? Sign up for our events newsletter!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Updates\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n    Enter your name here\n        *\n    \n    \n	\n		Enter your name here	\n\n	\n					\n				\n					Enter your name here				\n\n							\n						\n				\n					Enter your name here				\n\n							\n				\n\n\n    \n    \n\n\n    Enter your email here\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n	\n\nSubscribe\n\n\n\n	\n			\n			\n				If you are human\, leave this field blank.			\n			\n		\n		\n\n\n\nΔ
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LOCATION:The Houston Museum of Natural Science\, 5555 Hermann Park Drive\, Houston\, TX\, 77030\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fossils\, Ecology\, and Human Evolution
DESCRIPTION:Tusher African HallCalifornia Academy of Sciences \n\n\n\n$25 General admission$20 Cal Academy and Leakey Foundation membersAcademy members and donors\, please log in after adding tickets to your cart to receive your discount. \n\n\n\n\nGet your Tickets\n\n\n\n\nIn the remote Turkana Basin in northern Kenya\, bone fragments and fossil footprints preserve stories stretching back millions of years. Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer brings these stories to life\, showing how scientists piece together ancient ecological settings and animal behavior from what remains after death. \n\n\n\nHer work reveals how climate\, landscape\, and living communities affect both species adaptations and the fate of their remains. Through these deep-time insights\, we’ll explore how the forces that shaped the past influence our world today and into the future. \n\n\n\nAbout Kay Behrensmeyer\n\n\n\nKay Behrensmeyer\, Curator\, Department of Paleobiology\, National Museum of Natural History\, Smithsonian Institution.\n\n\n\nAnna K. (“Kay”) Behrensmeyer is a Leakey Foundation grantee and recipient of the 2024 Gordon P. Getty Award. She has worked in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History since 1981; she has been a Senior Scientist there since 2009. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011\, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020\, and a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2021. \n\n\n\nBehrensmeyer is a ‘big-picture’ scientist with an over-arching interest in the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems—which in lay terms means understanding how animals interacted with their environment\, and with each other\, in deep time. \n\n\n\nBehrensmeyer has undertaken fieldwork at various paleontological sites in the East African Rift Valley System\, but her longest and best-known involvement is with research on the east side of Lake Turkana where she discovered what\, at the time\, was the earliest evidence for the manufacture of stone tools by early hominins. \n\n\n\nSponsors\n\n\n\nThis lecture is presented in partnership with the California Academy of Sciences. \n\n\n\nThis lecture is made possible by the generous support of the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation\, Camilla and George Smith\, and the Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund. \n\n\n\nAcademy members and donors\, please log in after adding tickets to your cart to receive your discount.
URL:https://leakeyfoundation.org/event/fossils-ecology-and-human-evolution/
LOCATION:California Academy of Sciences\, 55 Music Concourse Dr 94118\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
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