The Stone Age Institute
presents

Dr. Michael Pante

 


Dr. Michael Pante



Illustrated prehistoric landscape at Olduvai Gorge



"Food for Thought:
Carnivory and Cognitive Evolution
at Olduvai Gorge Tanzania"


Friday, April 1, 2016
12 (noon)
The Stone Age Institute
1392 W. Dittemore Rd.


 

Dr. Michael Pante is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Geography at Colorado State University. He conducts paleoanthropological research on the evolution and feeding behavior of early members of the human genus (Homo). He has conducted fieldwork and research at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania for many years and is currently the senior zooarchaeologist for the Olduvai Geochronology and Archaeology Project (OGAP), and a collaborator with the Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Project (OLAPP). Dr. Pante examines evidence of butchery and tooth marks left by both human ancestors and carnivores on fossils to unravel the feeding behavior and ecology of early humans.