Links to 2024 IHO Year-End Research Review Articles and ASU News
UNESCO World Heritage designation
ASU News: ASU research site given UNESCO World Heritage designation
https://news.asu.edu/20240805-science-and-technology-asu-research-site-given-unesco-world-heritage-designation
Six million years of African mammal fossil history
ASU News: New study captures 6M years of African mammal fossil history
https://news.asu.edu/20240722-science-and-technology-new-study-captures-6m-years-african-mammal-fossil-history
Replicability in stone tool analysis
Cambridge University Press: Replicability in Lithic Analysis
American Antiquity
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/replicability-in-lithic-analysis/7ACC7BC81603208A5D8BDD1361383D13
Six-Million-year-old Chinese animal fossils
ASU News: New research and prehistoric fossils expose rare window into Earth's environment 6M years ago
https://news.asu.edu/b/20240927-new-research-and-prehistoric-fossils-expose-rare-window-earths-environment-6m-years-ago?{_src}=news-story
Cryptotephra research
Toba super-eruption unveils new insights into early human migration
ASU News:Toba super-eruption unveils new insights into early human migration
https://news.asu.edu/20240619-science-and-technology-toba-supereruption-unveils-new-insights-early-human-migration?{_src}=news-story
Poor oral health affects the heart, brain
ASU News:New ASU research shows how poor oral health affects the heart, brain
https://news.asu.edu/20240320-health-and-medicine-new-asu-research-shows-how-poor-oral-health-affects-heart-brain?{_src}=news-story
Origin of cumulative culture in human evolution
ASU News: ASU study points to origin of cumulative culture in human evolution
https://news.asu.edu/20240617-science-and-technology-asu-study-points-origin-cumulative-culture-human-evolution?{_src}=news-story
Influences for mate choice
ASU News: ASU study says our brains are flexible in choosing a partner, but we look to others for help
https://news.asu.edu/20240306-science-and-technology-asu-study-says-our-brains-are-flexible-choosing-partner-we-look?{_src}=news-story
Stepparenting in traditional societies
Hunter Gatherer Research
Volume 9, Number 3-4
"Parenting of non-biological children by Ache adults"
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hgr.2024.2
Third-party arbitration and forgiving strategies increase cooperation when perception errors are common
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
"Third-party arbitration and forgiving strategies increase cooperation when perception errors are common"
Hillary Lenfesty, Sarah Mathew, Thomas Fikes, Cody T. Ross and Robert Boyd
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2024.0861
Perceived value of education in hunter-gatherer communities
Discover Magazine, "Why Do Some People Always Seem To Get Lost?
Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction"
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/why-do-some-people-always-seem-to-get-lost
ScienceNews
"Navigation research often excludes the environment. That’s starting to change
Decades of research suggests navigation strategies studied in a lab may not replicate in real life"
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/navigation-research-exclude-environment
Snare removal program supports chimpanzee conservation
ASU News:ASU primatology, snare removal program supports chimpanzee conservation
https://news.asu.edu/20240717-environment-and-sustainability-asu-primatology-snare-removal-program-supports-chimpanzee?{_src}=news-story
Awards and Recognitions
Robert Boyd
ASU News:ASU faculty member elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
https://news.asu.edu/20240619-university-news-asu-faculty-member-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences?{_src}=news-story
Kaye Reed
ASU News:ASU professor named AAAS Fellow
https://news.asu.edu/20240418-university-news-asu-professor-named-aaas-fellow?{_src}=news-story
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