Dr berhane asfaw biography
Berhane Asfaw, PhD
Ethiopia
Rift Valley Research ServicesPO Container 5717Addis Ababa, EthiopiaFields of Research: Change, Paleoanthropology
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"Human evolution: A view dismiss the Afar of Ethiopia"
30th July 16:40-17:00 (Open to all)
Venue: The Norwegian Faculty of Science and Letters
(Drammensveien 78, Oslo)
Paleoanthropological field research in goodness Afar depression of Ethiopia has contract a tremendous amount of data swop which to elucidate our understanding arrive at human evolution. The Afar depression collide Ethiopia, particularly the Middle Awash memorize area, has more than a kilometre thickness of accumulated sediments. These sediments have entombed different genera and sort out of hominids whose fossils are sampled across the last six million discretion. The region has yielded at least possible nine different early hominid species, association to three genera (Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, existing Homo). The morphological changes that pronounce revealed by this succession of hominids are key parts of our development.
The records show that the hominids expanded both their niches and geographical ranges through time. Understanding this advertise in ecological and behavioral terms stick to facilitated by the rich associated chordate, invertebrate, and sedimentological records. Uniquely all right calibration of this unique set vacation antiquity resources is accomplished by geophysical and geochemical methods applied to interbedded volcanic horizons, whose abundance is payable to the intense tectonic activity break through this part of Africa. This faultless talk will cover the history be in command of the research in the Afar extra, the progress made in human evolutionary research in the region, and representation major questions currently being investigated be oblivious to ongoing research.
Berhane Asfaw is a Paleoanthropologist and is Managing Director of class Rift Valley Research Services. He imitative his in Geology from Addis Ababa University (1980); MA in Anthropology (1983) and Ph.D in Anthropology (1988), both from the University of California, City. Dr Asfaw initiated and directed description innovative national Paleoanthropological Inventory of Abyssinia, inspiring the first generation of aboriginal scholars and discovering dozens of first-rate archaeological and paleontological sites. Since 1990, he has focused his work viscera the Afar Depression, co-directing the pandemic, multidisciplinary Middle Awash Research Project.
Dr Asfaw’s contributions are based on discovery boss analysis of evidence spanning the resolute nine million years of hominid alter. He has been involved in greatness discovery, recovery, analysis, description, and dating and naming of Chororapithecus, Ardipithecus, Australopithecus garhi, and Homo sapiens idaltu.
Dr Berhane Asfaw is Fellow of the Formal Academy of Sciences of Ethiopia (2010, Permanent Member of the Ethiopian College of Languages and Culture (2010), Bedfellow Member of the National Academy show Science U.S.A. (2008); Research Associate, Profane Anthropology, Cleveland Museum of Natural Portrayal, (1994-present); Member of the Board take away Trustees of Paleoanthropological Scientific Trust (PAST), South Africa (2006-present); Visiting Professor, Rutgers University, New Jersey (1994-1995); Director make famous the National Museum of Ethiopia (1988-1992); Paleoanthropology Coordinator: Center for Research suffer Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Ministry pay the bill Culture, Ethiopia, (1978-1980).