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First Chair of Rock Art Research
Congratulations to AAAP member Paul Tacon who has been appointed Australia's, perhaps the world's, first
Chair in Rock Art Research, in the Place, Evolution and Rock Art
Heritage Unit (PERAHU), School of Humanities, Griffith University.
Paul's new appointment, along with
the establishment of rock art research centres at two other Australian
universities marks a renewed commitment to rock art research in
Australia and internationally.
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| Groundbreaking Research Published in Science |
AAAP member Shanti Pappu from the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education and her colleagues recently published an article in Science about
their exciting work on the southern Indian Lower Palaeolithic record.The work shows that during the Early Pleistocene, India was already occupied
by hominins fully conversant with an Acheulian technology, implying that the spread
of bifacial technologies across Asia occurred earlier than previously thought. Science also published an accompanying Perspective (or commentary) article by another AAAP member Robin Dennell of the University of Sheffield.
Congratulations from all of us to Shanti and her team for this
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Call for Papers
This special issue will
provide a snapshot of current thinking about theory and practice in
hominin systematics. Topics to be covered will include, but are not
limited to: species concepts and their application to higher primates and hominins, species recognition in higher primates as a baseline for hominins, great ape and hominin phylogenies, hominin species and genera, molecular systematics, impacts of ancient DNA studies, evo-devo and 3D morphometrics, and how they inform systematics, theory and practice of phylogenetic systematics, and higher primate and hominin macroevolution. |
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UPDATED - 2012 AAAP Inaugural Conference and Workshop The organising committee is pleased to announce
the final dates for the first AAAP conference and
workshop: 17th-19th November 2012. Further information is available at the Kunming 2012 conference homepage. You may also wish propose a conference session or might like to provide us with a preliminary registration to assist us with attendance numbers for planning purposes.
We look forward to seeing you in Kunming in 2012!
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