17:30 to 18:00
Symposium

On the Pliocene Origins of Stone Tool Use

Shannon P. McPherron
Les héritiers de Lucy / Lucy's Heirs
17:30 to 18:00
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Shannon P. McPherron

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    Events

    Symposium
    08:30 to 09:00
    Jean-Jacques Hublin

    Opening
    Symposium
    09:00 to 09:30
    Donald Johanson

    The French Connection: From the Omo to the Afar
    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:00
    Jean-Renaud Boisserie

    Environments and human evolution in Africa : a plea for the global paleontological record
    Symposium
    10:00 to 10:30
    Michel Brunet

    In Chad... Abel & Toumai, the two new icons of our ancient evolutionary history
    Symposium
    11:00 to 11:30
    Martin Pickford

    New Hominid Fossils from the Basal and Mid-Pliocene of Kenya…
    Symposium
    11:30 to 12:00
    Brigitte Senut

    From Miocene to Pliocene and the origin of australopithecines
    Symposium
    13:30 to 14:00
    Laurent Bruxelles

    The age of Little Foot (StW 573) and australopithecines from the Sterkfontein site (South Africa)
    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:30
    Amélie Beaudet

    One, two or three Australopithecus species in southern Africa?…
    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00
    Fred Spoor & Hester Hanegraef

    Mid-Pliocene Hominin Diversity Revisited
    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30
    Yohannes Haile-Selassie

    Lucy's Next-Door Neighbors: She Was Not Alone!
    Symposium
    16:00 to 16:30
    Sandrine Prat

    Singularity or plurality of artisans and material cultures in the Plio-Pleistocene ?…
    Symposium
    16:30 to 17:00
    David R. Braun

    Lucy's Lineage: Exploring the Progression of Hominin Behavioral Evolut…
    Symposium
    17:00 to 17:30
    Hélène Roche

    Did Lucy carve the  stone? What do discoveries in East Africa tell us
    Symposium
    17:30 to 18:00
    Shannon P. McPherron

    On the Pliocene Origins of Stone Tool Use
    Symposium
    09:00 to 09:30
    Zeray Alemseged

    The New Status of Australopithecus
    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:00
    Stephanie Melillo

    Shoulders of Apes and Australopiths: Digital Advancements in the Study of Structure and Function…
    Symposium
    10:00 to 10:30
    José Braga

    Exploring Early Hominin Evolution through Developmental Biology and Ne…
    Symposium
    11:00 to 11:30
    Bernard Wood

    Heirs Without Descendants
    Symposium
    11:30 to 12:00
    Matt Sponheimer

    Dinner with Lucy: What Does Paranthropus Boisei Bring to the Table?…
    Symposium
    12:00 to 12:30
    Tina Lüdecke

    The Real Paleo Diet: Reconstructing Early Hominin Meat Consumption…

    Not recorded
    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:30
    Thomas Davies

    Is Australopithecus Sediba the Ancestor of Homo?…
    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00
    Zachary Cofran

    Lucy's Grandchild Homo Naledi
    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30
    Clément Zanolli

    How can we distinguish early humans from Lucy's relatives ?

    Not recorded
    Symposium
    15:30 to 16:00
    Ian Tattersall

    Retrospect
    Symposium
    16:00 to 16:30
    Jean-Jacques Hublin

    Fence

    See also

    Jean-Jacques Hublin, chair Paleoanthropology
    Les héritiers de Lucy / Lucy's Heirs