Category Archives: Center for the Study of Human Origins

Alex DeCasien’s Research Garners Media Attention

March 30, 2017Anthropology in the Field, Center for the Study of Human Origins, Faculty Research, Graduate StudentsSamuel Rolfe

Congratulations to Ph.D candidate Alex DeCasien! Her 2nd year qualification paper was recently published, with Professors James Higham and Scott Williams as co-authors. The paper’s research found that “those [non human primates] who munched on fruit instead of leaves had 25 percent more brain tissue, even when controlling for body size and species relatedness” (NPR).

The research generated quite a bit of media attention in publications including Science, the BBC, Scientific American, New Scientist, The Guardian, and The Smithsonian.

CSHO Colloquia: Rachel Scott

March 10, 2017Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department Colloquium, TalksSamuel Rolfe

Prof. Randall White’s New Research Covered in NPR

February 28, 2017Center for the Study of Human Origins, Faculty ResearchSamuel Rolfe

NPR recently covered two of Professor Randall White’s new articles on the discovery of 38,000 year old rock engravings, which is older “than the famous images at both Lascaux and Chauvet caves.”

Read NPR’s coverage of Prof. White’s findings, here.

Anthropologists Uncover 38,000 Year-Old Engravings

January 27, 2017Anthropology in the Field, Center for the Study of Human Origins, Faculty ResearchSamuel Rolfe

“An international team of anthropologists has uncovered a 38,000-year-old engraved image in a southwestern French rockshelter—a finding that marks some of the earliest known graphic imagery found in Western Eurasia.” Professor Randall White, of the NYU Department of Anthropology and the Center for the Study of Human Origins, contributed to the findings. You can read more about the discoveries, here.