Speaker

Briana Pobiner
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution & Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA

Topic

The role of scavenging in human evolution

Hypotheses about the increased incorporation of animal tissues (meat and marrow) into early hominin diets often focus on the mode of large animal carcass procurement by hominins: hunting or scavenging. This talk will outline zooarchaeological and neo-ecological evidence for scavenging as a likely mode of hominin procurement of large animal carcasses in the Early Stone Age.

Briana Pobiner is a paleoanthropologist whose zooarchaeological and taphonomic research centers on meat-eating in the evolution of Stone Age human diets, using bone surface modifications such as human butchery marks and predator tooth marks on extant and fossil bones. She has conducted fieldwork, experimental studies, and collections-based research in Indonesia, Kenya, Romania, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United States. She joined the Smithsonian in 2005 as a research fellow to help put together the Hall of Human Origins, and now leads the Human Origins Program’s education and outreach efforts while continuing her scientific research.

Place

Room 410, build. B35 (3rd floor, northern wing), University of Poitiers.

Find out more

http://palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Seminar-38-Briana-Pobiner_EN.pdf