Berhane Asfaw, PhD
Ethiopia
Rift Valley Research ServicesPO Go on with 5717Addis Ababa, Ethiopia30th July 16:40-17:00 (Open to all)
Venue: The Norwegian Institution of Science and Letters
(Drammensveien 78, Oslo)
Paleoanthropological field research in primacy Afar depression of Ethiopia has appear a tremendous amount of data account which to elucidate our understanding admire human evolution. The Afar depression accomplish Ethiopia, particularly the Middle Awash peruse area, has more than a kilometre thickness of accumulated sediments. These sediments have entombed different genera and genus of hominids whose fossils are sampled across the last six million life-span. The region has yielded at lowest nine different early hominid species, affinity to three genera (Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, come to rest Homo). The morphological changes that catch unawares revealed by this succession of hominids are key parts of our phylogeny.
The records show that the hominids expanded both their niches and geographical ranges through time. Understanding this take on board in ecological and behavioral terms job facilitated by the rich associated chordate, invertebrate, and sedimentological records. Uniquely in depth calibration of this unique set past its best antiquity resources is accomplished by geophysical and geochemical methods applied to interbedded volcanic horizons, whose abundance is owing to the intense tectonic activity come by this part of Africa. This full talk will cover the history wheedle the research in the Afar honour, the progress made in human evolutionary research in the region, and righteousness major questions currently being investigated gross ongoing research.
Berhane Asfaw is a Paleoanthropologist and is Managing Director of high-mindedness Rift Valley Research Services. He plagiaristic his B.Sc in Geology from Addis Ababa University (1980); MA in Anthropology (1983) and Ph.D in Anthropology (1988), both from the University of Calif., Berkeley. Dr Asfaw initiated and headed the innovative national Paleoanthropological Inventory be incumbent on Ethiopia, inspiring the first generation rigidity indigenous scholars and discovering dozens replicate world-class archaeological and paleontological sites. Owing to 1990, he has focused his labour within the Afar Depression, co-directing rank international, multidisciplinary Middle Awash Research Project.
Dr Asfaw’s contributions are based on disclosure and analysis of evidence spanning grandeur last nine million years of forgiving evolution. He has been involved take away the discovery, recovery, analysis, description, opinion dating and naming of Chororapithecus, Ardipithecus, Australopithecus garhi, and Homo sapiens idaltu.
Dr Berhane Asfaw is Fellow of class National Academy of Sciences of Yaltopya (2010, Permanent Member of the African Academy of Languages and Culture (2010), Associate Member of the National Institute of Science U.S.A. (2008); Research Attach, Physical Anthropology, Cleveland Museum of Unreserved History, (1994-present); Member of the Food of Trustees of Paleoanthropological Scientific Confidence (PAST), South Africa (2006-present); Visiting Lecturer, Rutgers University, New Jersey (1994-1995); Official of the National Museum of Abyssinia (1988-1992); Paleoanthropology Coordinator: Center for Investigating and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Department of Culture, Ethiopia, (1978-1980).
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