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Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series For 30 years, the internationally renowned archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma directed the monumental excavation of the Great Temple in downtown Mexico City. Under his leadership, Mexican archaeology achieved new...
Homo sapiens Meets Neanderthals: The End of a World
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Free Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Jean-Jacques Hublin, Professor at the Collège de France (Paris), Emeritus Professor at the Max Planck Society Advance registration recommended for in-person and online attendance Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture Series The...
Exploring Human Origins at Kenya’s Lake Turkana
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2025 Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Louise Leakey, Director, Koobi Fora Research Project; Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University; National Geographic Explorer at Large...
Exploring Humanity’s Technological Origins
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Virtual Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Series Lecture Advance registration required Register Sonia F. Harmand, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University; Director, Mission Préhistorique au Kenya/West Turkana...
Video: Love and Death in the Stone Age
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Humans are the only animal species that bury their dead, and this practice is preserved in Paleolithic sites as early as 120,000 years ago. The emergence of burial traditions in this time period implies that both Neanderthals and early humans had already...
Video: Exploring Human Origins at Kenya’s Lake Turkana
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2025 Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture by Louise Leakey, Director, Koobi Fora Research Project; Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University; National Geographic Explorer at Large Kenya’s fossil-rich Turkana Basin has been—for over...
Video: Exploring Humanity’s Technological Origins
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Human evolutionary scholars have long assumed that the earliest stone tools were made by members of the genus Homo, 2.4–2.3 million years ago, and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread of savannah...
Video: Homo sapiens Meets Neanderthals: The End of a World
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Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture Series Lecture by Jean-Jacques Hublin, Professor at the Collège de France (Paris), Emeritus Professor at the Max Planck Society The arrival of Homo sapiens in the mid-latitudes of Eurasia 48,000 to 45,000 years ago and the...
Video: Modern Humans’ Earliest Artwork and Music: New European Discoveries
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The earliest evidence of artwork made by modern humans, Aurignacian art, was created more than 35,000 years ago and has been found in French, German, and Romanian archaeological sites. Randall White will discuss the rich corpus of Aurignacian painting...
Video: Volcanic Winter, Population Bottlenecks, and Human Evolution
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The eruption of the Mount Toba supervolcano in the Indonesian island of Sumatra74,000 years ago brought about an era of severe environmental degradation that decimated populations of Neanderthals and modern humans. Archaeological evidence suggests that...
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