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Associate Professor of Anthropology
PhD 1994, M.A., 1991, B.A., 1987, University of California, Berkeley.
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Research Interests: Physical anthropology; skeletal biology; evolution of genus Homo; dispersal; evolutionary morphology; human osteology and anatomy; growth, development and life history patterns. Field programs in Asia and the Pacific.
Selected Works:
2006 Stanford, C.B., Allen, J.S. and Antón, S.C. Introduction to Biological Anthropology: A Natural History of Humankind. Prentice Hall.
In press Antón, S.C., Spoor F., Fellmann, C.D., and Swisher, C.C. III. Defining Homo erectus: Size Considered. In. Henke, Rothe and Tattersall (eds). Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Volume 3, Chapter 11. Springer-Verlag.
2004 Antón, S.C. and Swisher, C.C. III. Early dispersals of Homo from Africa. Annual Review of Anthropology 33:271-96.
2004 Antón, S.C. The face of Olduvai Hominid 12. J. Human Evolution. 46:336-346. DOI information: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2003.12.005
2003 Antón, S.C. A Natural History of H. erectus. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 46:126-170.
2003 Antón, S.C. and Steadman, D.W. Mortuary patterns in burial caves on Mangaia, Cook Islands. International J. Osteoarchaeology. 13:132-146.
2002 Antón, S.C., Leonard, W.R. and Robertson, M. An ecomorphological model of the initial hominid dispersal from Africa. J. Human Evolution. 43:773-785.
2000 Steadman, D.W., Antón, S.C., Kirch, P.V. Ana Manuku: A prehistoric ritualistic site on Mangaia, Cook Islands. Antiquity 74:873-83." Current News / Projects
Updated July 2009 The MA program in Human Skeletal Biology and the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE, which I co-edit with Steve Leigh, UIUC) continue to occupy much of my time. Members of the fourth class of the MA program graduate this spring and summer. Five first-year students are developing their thesis projects, and six new students will start the program in the fall. JHE, which publishes papers on human and primate evolution, remains the top journal in the field. Links to more information about the MA program and JHE can be found on the departmental and CSHO websites.
The second edition of our book, Exploring Biological Anthropology: The Essentials, which I co-wrote with Craig Stanford and John Allen, was published in February. Several longstanding research projects finally came out in print as well.
During the winter, I continued my research with the Koobi Fora Research Project spending time in Birchington, UK, at the Powell-Cotton museum collecting comparative data on African apes for our work on early fossil Homo from Koobi Fora with Fred Spoor and Chris Dean (U College London) and Meave Leakey (National Museums Kenya). This work examines new fossil material discovered by the KFRP and follows up on our work published in Nature in 2007. Earlier in the fall I undertook field work in Indonesia (with Etty Indriati, UGM, and Carl Swisher, Rutgers) as part of our continuing collaboration on the earliest H. erectus sites in the world. And at the end of spring term I began a long term collaborative project with Etty Indriati on the anatomy of Indonesian H. erectus. In the spring Josh Snodgrass (U. Oregon) and I hosted our third annual workshop “Bones and Behavior III” in Chicago, IL, where we also published our first abstract on our integrative data collection protocols. A synopsis of the work done by the ‘Bones and Behavior Working Group’ and the protocols can be found at www.bonesandbehavior.org/. In February I was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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