American Association of Physical Anthropologists

Hobbit dentistry, ancient footprints and navigating gibbons in news from the recent physical anthropology meeting

American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting, Minneapolis, April 12–16, 2011


Footprints from the past
Volcanic ash near the shore of a Tanzanian lake preserves a snapshot of two groups of people from around 120,000 years ago. A team led by Kevin Hatala of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.,