Neanderthals and Us
David Frayer
Thursday, 13 Oct 2011 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Anthropologist David Frayer studies the relationship between Neanderthals and subsequent European populations. He has published on topics ranging from Neanderthal toothpick use to evidence for human massacres in the German Mesolithic to evidence for language origins. His current projects include the Croatian Neanderthal site of Krapina; the dental anthropology of an early, pre-ceramic Neolithic site in Pakistan; and the so-called 'hobbit" from Flores, Indonesia. Frayer earned his PhD from the University of Michigan and is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. Sigma Xi Lecture Series.Cosponsored By:
- Sigma Xi
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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