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2023
April 12th, 2023
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The Stone Age Institute is proud to present a concert by The Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, featuring the poetry of Emily Dickinson set to the music of American composer Gordon Getty. Getty has made a lifetime of contributions to the world of classical music. In recognition of his extraordinary musical legacy, he was awarded the prestigious European Culture Prize in 2019 ... more
2021
May 2nd, 2021
The Stone Age Institute is proud to present a livestream performance by Lisa Loeb. Loeb is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, producer, touring artist, actress, author, and philanthropist who started her career... more
April 25th, 2021
The Stone Age Institute is proud to present a livestream performance by Larkin Poe. This Grammy-award nominated roots and blues duo will perform and answer audience questions. Larkin Poe are an American roots rock band... more
April 18th, 2021
The Stone Age Institute is proud to present a livestream performance by Kenny Aronoff. From Mellencamp to McCartney to Fogerty and hundreds of artists in between, Aronoff is one of the world’s finest drummers... more
April 11th, 2021
The Stone Age Institute is proud to present a livestream performance by Tuck & Patti. Tuck & Patti are an American jazz duo consisting of guitarist William Charles "Tuck" Andress and singer Patricia "Patti" Cathcart Andress. This unique... more
April 4th, 2021
The Stone Age Institute is proud to present a livestream appearance by leading aerial choreographer Dreya Weber. Weber will discuss how aerial arts have woven their way into her work from international arena tours to film to theater... more
March 28th, 2021
The Stone Age Institute is proud to present a livestream concert by Shawn Colvin. Colvin has been a solo recording artist for decades. She is best known for her 1997 Grammy Award-winning song "Sunny Came Home"... more
January 2nd, 2021
The Stone Age Institute is proud to present a livestream concert by Carrie Newcomer. Carrie is a Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter, who maintains a busy schedule of touring and performing concerts in the U.S. and overseas... more
2020
December 19th, 2020
The Stone Age Institute is proud to be a supporter of this virtual concert by world-famous violinist Joshua Bell as part of our Popular Culture Series, with a grant from the Kaman Foundation. The concert will be the first livestream recital ... more
December 13th, 2020
As part of our Stone Age Institute’s Popular Culture series, we are proud to sponsor the Annual Holiday Show by our friend, singer/songwriter Krista Detor on Sunday, December 13th, 2020 at 3 pm (EST). This virtual international event is FREE... more
September 24th, 2020
We would like to announce that the 50th Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture will be given by Dr. Johannes Haile-Selassie on Thursday, September 24th, 2020, at 9pm EDT, via webinar. The research webinar... more
March 2nd, 2020
The Stone Age Institute, through a grant from the Kaman Foundation, is proud to present Janis Ian. Janis will be giving a Master Class in Artistry to be held at the Monroe County Public Library Auditorium in Bloomington on March 2nd, 2020 at 7pm... more
February 27th, 2020
Through the support of the Stone Age Institute and a grant from the Kaman Foundation, famed drummer Kenny Aronoff is coming to the Buskirk Chumley Theater in Bloomington on Thursday February 27, 2020 at 7:30 pm. The event is... more
February 26th, 2020
The Stone Age Institute is proud to present an Afternoon with Jesse Eisenberg at the Buskirk Chumley Theater on February 26th, 2020 at 4pm. During the event, Eisenberg will share his experiences as an actor, author, and playwright. The event is... more
2019
September 23rd, 2019
On Monday, September 23rd, Co-Directors Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth received honorary doctorates from Tbilisi State University, Georgia’s oldest and largest university, for their contributions to Georgian Archaeology. In its 101-year history... more
August 1st-4th, 2019
The 2019 EAAPP conference was held August 1st-4th in Nairobi, Kenya, on the campus of the Nairobi National Museum. Stone Age Institute researchers Dr. Jackson Njau, graduate students Lana Ruck and Danielle Peltier-Thompson, and... more
May, 2019
J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter book series, received the Stone Age Institute’s Outstanding Craftsmanship Award in 2019 for her contributions to literature, cinema, and philanthropy. Past awardees have included such luminaries as... more
April, 2019
Our current postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Shelby Putt, has accepted a tenure-track position at Illinois State University, where she will be Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, beginning August, 2019. Shelby has been working for the... more
February, 2019
In February of 2019, the Stone Age Insitute welcomed famed jazz harpist Destiny Muhammad, Monika Herzig on piano, Cami Mennitte-Pereyra on drums, and Crystal Rebone on bass. Their performance was a part of the “Jazz Girls” program... more
January, 2019
Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb is awarded the 2019 Outstanding Craftsmanship Award for her contributions to songwriting, performance, television, film, and philanthropy, and for her entrepreneurship in eyewear and coffee... more
2018
December, 2018
Dr. Mohammed al-Barwani, MB HOLDINGS, Sultanate of Oman, was presented with the Outstanding Craftsmanship award for his international entrepreneurship in oil, gas, minerals, real estate, hotels, and super-yacht manufacture... more
October 12th-13th, 2018
Stone Age Institute researchers joined their international research partners at the Stone Age Institute in Indiana October 12th-13th, 2018 to participate in a set of workshops where they presented lectures and had discussions... more
August, 2018
Graduate student Lana Ruck and S.A.I. researcher Dr. Tom Schoenemann won "Best Poster Award" at the 6th North Sea Laterality conference, which was held in Dundee, Scotland, in August of 2018. The poster, which was titled "Handedness... more
July, 2018
The Stone Age Institute, with a generous grant from the Kaman Foundation, is happy to announce that construction of the new geoarchaeological research laboratory has been completed at Olduvai Gorge, “The Cradle of Humankind,” in northern... more
April 12th, 2018
Michael Molenda, the recipient of the 2018 Stone Age Institute Award for Outstanding Craftsmanship, will give an informal presentation and answer questions on all things related to guitars and the music industry, including technological trends... more
2017
November 14th, 2017
Carl Cook, CEO of the Cook Group, Bloomington, and Ronan Young, senior engineer at Cook, are this year’s recipients of the Stone Age Institute’s Craftsmanship Award. Carl and Ronan have “reverse engineered” Bloomington’s first automobile... more
November 2nd, 2017
Primatologist Linda Marchant is the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Research Award and will deliver this year's Leighton Wilkie Memorial Lecture, "Chimpanzees, Hands, and Tools: Models for the Evolution of Technology in Humans" on November 2nd... more
August, 2017
Stone Age Institute researchers joined their international research partners in Tanzania in August of 2017 to participate in a set of workshops where they presented lectures, had discussion meetings, visited important sites, and examined prehistoric... more
April 26th, 2017
The Stone Age Institute and the I.U. Cognitive Science Program are happy to present a lecture by Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel on April 26th at 6 pm in room of 109 Ballantine Hall on the IU campus. Dr. Herculano-Houzel is a Brazilian neuroscientist... more
April 14th, 2017
The Stone Age Institute and the IU Cognitive Science Program present a lecture by Dr. Natalie Uomini on April 14th at noon in Woodburn Hall on the IU campus. Dr. Uomini is a professor at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History... more
March 8th-22nd, 2017
Stone Age Institute researchers joined their international research partners in China for two weeks in March 2017 to participate in a set of workshops where they presented lectures, had discussion meetings, visited important sites, and examined... more
2016
November 18th-19th, 2016
The Stone Age Institute gathered an interdisciplinary, international team of researchers from November 18-19, 2016 for the second Olduvai Gorge Coring Project Workshop. The purpose of the workshop was to present results of analyses of the Olduvai Gorge core samples retrieved during the Summer 2014... more
November 11th, 2016
Kenny Aronoff has worked with iconic musicians such as John Mellencamp, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Melissa Etheridge, Joe Cocker, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Grohl, Sting, Steven Tyler, John Fogerty, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and the Stone Age Institute Band. Join him at the Buskirk... more
October 10th, 2016
Kenny Aronoff has worked with iconic musicians such as John Mellencamp, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Melissa Etheridge, Joe Cocker, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Grohl, Sting, Steven Tyler, John Fogerty, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and the Stone Age Institute Band. Join him at the Buskirk... more
September 26th-30th, 2016
Stone Age Institute researchers joined their international research partners in Tbilisi, Georgia September 26th-30th, 2016 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... more
September 20th-24th, 2016
In commemoration of a century and a quarter of research, the 2016 Senckenberg Conference focused on Homo erectus evolution and behavior in a broad perspective, bringing together Homo erectus specialists from... more
April 1st, 2016
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... more
March 20th, 2016
Dr. Thomas Wynn is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He earned his AB in Sociology/Anthropology at Occidental College, and his MA and PhD in Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana. He focused on the archaeology of the Lower Palaeolithic, early Stone Age... more
February 12th, 2016
Dr. Gerard Schuster is professor of Earth Science and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. His research interests are in seismic imaging, interferometry, waveform inversion, EM methods, seismic field techniques, and the use of novel methods for super resolution imaging. He has a strong interest in geophysical characterization of archaeological sites... more
January, 2016
We are very happy to announce that the Stone Age Institute was just approved for a $3.2 million dollar research grant from the John Templeton Foundation for our project... more
2015
October 8th, 2015
Dr. Sonia Harmand is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University, co-Director of the West Turkana Archaeological Project, and worked as a Research Scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France from 2009 to 2012. Dr. Harmand is an expert in Early Stone Age archaeology... more
June, 2015
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and inventor of the first personal computer, received the Stone Age Institute's 2015 Award for Outstanding Craftsmanship in recognition of his contributions to computer technology, design, and entrepreneurship... more
2014
May 2nd, 2014
Dr. Lordkipanidze is Director of the Georgian National Museum in the Republic of Georgia, located in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. He is also a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science... more
March 28th, 2014
Dr. Ralph Holloway is a paleoneurologist at Columbia University, a Research Associate with the American Museum of Naural History, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a pioneer in paleoneurology, the study of the evolution of the brain using fossil brain cases (endocasts). Holloway's research interests are in craniology, endocasts... more
2013
October 29th, 2013
Fred H. Smith is a professor and department chair of the Anthropology Department at Illinois State University. He has worked on Neanderthal and early modern human fossil material for almost 40 years. His research is focused on the role of Neanderthals in the emergence of modern humans in western Eurasia... more
October 20th, 2013
The Origins Symposium features I.U. faculty in physics, astronomy, geology, biology, paleontology, and anthropology involved in cutting-edge origins research... more
October 16th, 2013
Doug Dayhoff is the president of the Upland Brewing Company and chairman of Kline Cabinetmakers. He has worked with several successful entrepreneurial teams in high growth businesses, raising over $35 million in venture capital and completing transactions totaling more than $150 million. He is also a director of the Sycamore Land Trust and... more
September 8th, 2013
The Stone Age Institute participated in the Celebrate Science Indiana 2013 festival 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... more
February 20th, 2013
Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth, Professors at Indiana University and Co-Directors of The Stone Age Institute and CRAFT Research Center, will draw on over three decades of archaeological research investigating the origins and evolution of human technology and its role in human evolution... more
2012
May 1st - October 15th, 2012
When Stone Age Institute co-Directors Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth were invited to participate as a sponsor of The Brain Extravaganza project, they knew it would be a great way to support the community while furthering the Stone Age Institute's science and education mission... more
April 26th, 2012
Gayle Cook graduated from Indiana University in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1963, she co-founded the Cook Group, a medical equipment manufacturer, with her husband Bill Cook, where she served on the board of directors. She has co-written two books... more
March 21st & 26th, 2012
Walter Alvarez is Professor Emeritus of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and recipient of the Penrose Medal, the highest honor of the Geological Society of America. Alvarez and his father Luis W. Alvarez are... more
2011
October 27th, 2011
Henry Gilbert is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Studies at California State University, East Bay. Gilbert received a Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley in 2003. Gilbert will deliver the 2011 Leighton A. Wilkie Memorial Lecture on the IU campus on October 27th... more
October 23rd, 2011
Origins: The Evolution of the Universe, the Earth, Life, and the Human Species. Featuring IU faculty in physics, astronomy, biology, paleontology, and anthropology involved in cutting-edge origins research... more
October 8th, 2011
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... more
April 22nd, 2011
Dr. Robert Shumaker, President of the Indianapolis Zoo, has studied orangutans for more than 30 years. Shumaker will talk about his work with orangutans and his new book, Animal Tool Behavior: the Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals... more
April 7th, 2011
Mary Krupinski, AIA, is owner of Kirkwood Design Studio, pc practicing architecture and planning throughout South Central Indiana. Kirkwood Design Studio is the architect for The Stone Age Institute and most recently, Fairview Elementary School, among other local and regional works... more
2010
October 23rd, 2010
Stone Age Institute co-directors Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick are proud to announce the opening day event of their museum exhibit From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web which reveals the origins of everything, from the birth of the universe to the development of the cutting-edge technology of today. The exhibit allows... more
October 22nd, 2010
Stone Age Institute co-directors Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick will give a special lecture introducing From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web, a new exhibit which will open at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures on October 23rd. The new exhibit reveals the origins of everything, from the birth of the universe to the... more
October 14th, 2010
Dr. Lawrence Straus is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research interests include paleolithic prehistory, paleoanthropology, archaeology of caves, and lithic analysis. His research locations have included Spain... more
2009
December 1st, 2009
Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie is the Curator and Head of Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropogy at Case Western Reserve University. Yohannes is well known in the field of paleoanthropology for having a gift for fossil spotting, with his... more
October, 2009
Origins: The Evolution of the Universe, the Earth, Life, and the Human Species. Featuring IU faculty in physics, astronomy, biology, paleontology, and anthropology involved in cutting-edge origins research... more
2007
April 27th & 28th, 2007
Dr. Ralph L. Holloway is a physical anthropologist at Columbia University and research associate with the American Museum of Natural History. Since obtaining his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, Holloway has served as a professor of anthropology at Columbia. Holloway's interests lie in craniology... more
2006
November 8th, 2006
Dr. David Lordkipanidze is the first Director General of the Georgian National Museum (GNM). Lordkipanidze led the discovery of the earliest known hominid remains outside of Africa at Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia and has authored more than 120 scientific articles published in scientific journals such as Nature, Science... more
2004
April 28th - May 1st, 2004
From April 28th through May 1st, 2004, scientists from around the world convened in Bloomington, Indiana to celebrate the life and career of Bob Brain, Curator Emeritus of the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria, South Africa. Dr. Brain is an African prehistorian with over 50 years of experience in the natural sciences... more
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