After attending the UISPP Congress in Paris I went directly to Munich where I studied Olduvai Hominid I (OH1) curated at the Staatsammlung für Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie München. The fossil was originally discovered in Tanzania in 1913, but has seldom been studied since the 1930's. A lack of humans fossils Later Stone Age of East Africa emphasizes the need to revisit museum collections to analyze the few fossils that have been discovered. I spent two days studying OH1 and I look forward to sharing the results of that work here in the future. Until then, I suggest reading a very interesting work on the taphonomy of the postcranial skeleton by Matu and colleagues (2017) that documents extensive damage to the skeleton by subterranean termites. Reference:
Matu, M., I. Crevecoeur, and J. B. Huchet. 2017. Taphonomy and Paleoichnology of Olduvai Hominid 1 (OH1), Tanzania. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 27 (5):785-800. DOI: 10.1002/oa.2593.
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the XVIIe Congrès Mondial UISPP - Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques in Paris, France where I participated in Session XXXI-1 Through time, space and species: implication of new discoveries, technological developments and data diffusion improvement in Biological Anthropology organized by Dominique Grimaud-Hervé, Carlos Lorenzo, Julie Arnaud. I presented collaborative work synthsizing research on the "Non-alimentary tooth-use in European Prehistory". The presentation brought together data across a wide span of time and space that have been studied so far by my colleagues (Alejandro Romero, Eulàlia Subirà, and Marina Lozano) and me. Much of the data we presented will contribute to the IDENTITIES Project.
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