Stone Age Institute
Award
for Outstanding Research
into Human Origins
This award is presented to individuals and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to human evolutionary studies. Recipients are invited to give a talk on their work and receive an engraved plaque from the Stone Age Institute.
Recipients of the Outstanding Research Award
2020 Tim White, University of California, Berkeley
2019 Fidelis Masao, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2019 Henry and Marie-Antoinette de Lumley, Institute of Human Paleontology, Paris
2017 Linda F. Marchant, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
2016 Thomas Wynn, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
2015 Sonia Harmand, Stonybrook University, New York
2014 David Lordkipanidze, Georgian National Museum, Republic of Georgia
2013 Fred Smith, Illinois State University
2012 Walter Alvarez, University of California, Berkeley
2011 Henry Gilbert, California State University, East Bay
2010 Lawrence Straus, University of New Mexico
2009 Johannes Haile-Selassie, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
2008 David Christian, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
2007 Ralph Holloway, Columbia University
2006 David Lordkipanidze, National Museum, Republic of Georgia, Tbilisi
2006 Duane Rumbaugh, Great Ape Trust, Des Moines Iowa
2005 Pat Shipman, The Pennsylvania State University
2005 Alan Walker, The Pennsylvania State University
2004 C.K. "Bob" Brain, Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
2003 Ron Clarke, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
2002 Ralph Holloway, Columbia University
2001 Harold Dibble, University of Pennsylvania
2000 Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Georgia State University
1999 Frank Brown, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
1998 Jean Clottes and Robert Begouen, Begouen Association
1998 Lorraine Copeland, Chateau de Marouatte, France
1997 Richard Klein, Stanford University
1996 F. Clark Howell, University of California, Berkeley
1995 William McGrew, Miami University, OH
1994 J. Desmond Clark, University of California, Berkeley
1993 Jane Goodall, Jane Goodall Institute, Tucson, AZ and Gombe Reserve, Tanzania
1992 Mary Leakey, National Museums of Kenya and Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
1991 Kanzi and the Language Research Center, Georgia State University