Lecture - "Creation of the Institute of Human Palaeontology in Paris: a foundational act for global prehistory"

Date
Mercoledì 6 novembre 2024 alle 18:00
Mercoledì 6 novembre 2024 alle 18:00
Posizione
Museo di Antropologia preistorica
Museo di Antropologia preistorica
Indirizzo
56 bis, boulevard du Jardin Exotique
56 bis, boulevard du Jardin Exotique
Categoria
Conferenze
Conferenze
2024
06
nov

Lecture - "Creation of the Institute of Human Palaeontology in Paris: a foundational act for global prehistory"
"The creation of the Institute of Human Palaeontology by Prince Albert I in 1910: a foundational act for global prehistory", by Anna Echassoux, Director of the Institute of Human Palaeontology , Doctor of Palaeontology. A specialist in the relationship between the first Hominids and their animal environment, she has studied some of the oldest sites in Ethiopia, China, Georgia, and Southern Europe. In 2021, she became leader of the Fejej palaeoanthropological research project in south-west Ethiopia, a region key to our understanding of four million years of human evolution.