The Stone Age Institute
Exhibits at Celebrate Science Indiana's
2013 Science Festival

 

Co-Directors Nick Toth and Kathy Schick teach science festival
visitors about evolution and the hominid lineage.

Celebrate Science Indiana is Indiana’s Premier Science Festival. The annual festival held in Indianapolis is a public event that demonstrates the importance of studying science and the joy of discovery, the economic value of science, and its significance to society. For all age groups and for individuals from all walks of life, science impacts our daily lives, and the event aims to encourage young Hoosiers to pursue exciting, rewarding careers in science.

The Stone Age Institute participated in the Celebrate Science Indiana 2013 festival on September 8th which welcomed more than 5000 visitors. The Stone Age Institute exhibits promoted the study of evolution and critical scientific analysis with displays of fossil casts of our ancient ancestors and presentations by our scientists.

Stone Age Institute researchers Nick Toth, Kathy Schick, Jackson Njau, Tom Scoenemann, and Kevin Hunt, and staff member Reina Wong presented materials and information and answered questions from festival-goers of all ages and backgrounds during the all-day event.

Left: Jackson Njau, professor at Indiana University and Stone Age Institute research associate, talks to Celebrate Science Indiana attendees about one of the oldest known pieces of matter on earth, a 4.567 billion year old meteorite that fell from space and landed in Mexico in 1969.
Center: Staff member Reina Wong presenting exhibit materials to visitors.
Right: Nick Toth demonstrates stone tool-making as it was probably done about 2.6 million years ago, the age of some of the oldest known stone tools.

Left: Tom Schoenemann and Jackson Njau, professors at Indiana University and Stone Age Institute research associates, talk to Celebrate Science Indiana attendees about our ancient ancestors.
Center: Discussing the role of technology in the study of human brain and morphological evolution are (left to right) Kevin Hunt and Tom Schoenemann, professors at Indiana University and research associates at the Stone Age Institute.
Right: Nick Toth and Jackson Njau talking with a young festival attendee about human evolution.