On Thursday, April 25 at 2 pm in Anthropology 178, Dr. John Kappelman will present his talk Adaptive Foraging Behaviors in the Horn of South Africa during the Toba Supereruption.

John Kappelman is a Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Geological Sciences at University of Texas at Austin. His interests include the evolutionary history of primates and especially hominoid and hominin origins and evolution, with a research focus in paleoecology, functional morphology, sedimentology and stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and computer imaging. He has conducted field work across Africa and Asia, with current projects on the Middle Stone Age of northwestern Ethiopia, Oligo-Miocene monkeys and hominoids of West Turkana, Kenya, and the geological history of the basalts of Ethiopian Plateau and NW Kenya. Kappelman and his team have developed several websites including eSkeletons.org, eFossils.org, eAnthro.org, and eLucy.org, and launched an online course on human osteology and forensics in 2017.  He directs the team studying the high resolution CT scans of the 3.2 million year old fossil “Lucy.”  Kappelman’s degrees include a B.S. in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University, and an A.M. in Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Earth and Planetary Sciences, both from Harvard University.