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 A105 Human Origins and Prehistory
A105 Instructor: Leslie Harlacker
 

I'm a Ph. D. candidate in the palaeoanthropology program.  My advisors, Kathy Schick and Nick Toth, are co-directors of CRAFT -- the Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology -- where we study, among many other things, the earliest stone tool technology.

My dissertation research concerns the biomechanics of stone toolmaking.  I'll be using 3D film analysis to find out, biomechanically speaking, what makes a good stone toolmaker; the study will involve both humans and nonhuman primates.  In terms of  prehistoric periods, my specific research interest remains the transition from the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic -- from Neandertals to modern humans like ourselves; I'm also preparing to try to publish a paper on paleopathology, and my coursework has also involved  metrical studies involving fossil and modern populations.  I've done fieldwork in Greece, Kenya, Ethiopia, and the United States.

I'm originally from El Paso, Texas.  I went to college at Boston University, where I earned a BA in Archaeology and a BS in Television Production.