Human Cognitive Evolution Workshop
Beijing, China
Research group at the Homo erectus memorial
in Nihewan Basin, Hebei Province, China.
Stone Age Institute researchers joined their international research partners in China March 8th-22nd, 2017 to participate in a set of workshops where they presented lectures, had discussion meetings, visited important sites, and examined prehistoric artifacts and fossils. Workshop activities took place at the Institute of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, the Forbidden City in Beijing, Zhoukoudian (Peking Man) Site, the Nihewan Basin in Hebei Province (an area rich in early human sites dating back to 1.7 million years ago), and the Xian area (where the First Emperor’s Terra Cotta Army was discovered).
The workshops are the second set of workshops that form a part of a three-year grant project “What Drives Human Cognitive Evolution?” The three-year project is funded by a grant awarded to the Stone Age Institute and Indiana University’s Cognitive Science Program by the John Templeton Foundation. This project brings together researchers from the U.S., Tanzania, China, and the Republic of Georgia.
The project’s researchers:
From the Stone Age Institute/Indiana University:
Kathy Schick (archaeology, paleoanthropology)
Nicholas Toth (archaeology, paleoanthropology)
Jackson Njau, (geology, paleoanthropology)
Tom Schoenemann (paleoneurology and paleoanthropology)
Kevin Hunt (primatology and paleoanthropology)
Peter Todd (cognitive science, informatics, and evolutionary psychology)
Colin Allen (philosophy)
From Tanzania:
Jackson Njau (paleoanthropology and geology, Indiana University)
From the Institute of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China:
Guan Ying (archaeology and paleoanthropology)
Gao Xing (archaeology and paleoanthropology)
From Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia:
David Lordkipanidze (paleoanthropology and paleontology)
Giorgi Bidzinashvili (archaeology and paleoanthropology)
Research group at the Donggutuo Site
in Nihewan Basin, Hebei Province, China.
The research group viewing artifact collections during
the workshops.
The research group at Zhoukoudian site and museum.
Research group at the Forbidden City
Beijing, China.
