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Anthropology professor to speak on early-man research at California Academy of Sciences

Home erectus illustration, copyrighted by Henry Gilbert and Kathy Schick.

Home erectus illustration, copyrighted by Henry Gilbert and Kathy Schick.

  • November 21, 2011 11:00am

Henry Gilbert, Ph.D., will present a capsule of his research on early man Dec. 1 at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, as part of its research lecture series.

Gilbert, assistant professor of anthropology at Cal State East Bay, and research manager of the Human Evolution Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, will cover “One Million Years Ago, Homo erectus, the Acheulean and Prehistoric Globalization,” from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the boardroom. The public is welcome, and admission is free.

The data comes from Gilbert’s 2008 book, Home erectus: Pleistocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia, but the synthesis of information on Homo erectus is new. 

He will be referring to the cranium he found, and that is now considered a national treasure of Ethiopia and leaves the country only for museum tours. A photo of a similar cranium is at Daka homo erectus calvaria

The lecture will focus on the evolutionary history of Homo erectus and the material culture of this species. Gilbert will be providing a paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Daka Member, showing the other animals that lived with Homo erectus there, and showing the stone tools they used.

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