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Zeresenay (Zeray) Alemseged

Director and Curator
Anthropology
PhD

My research program focuses on the discovery and interpretation of hominid fossil remains and their environments with emphasis on fieldwork designed to acquire new data on early hominid skeletal biology, environmental context, and behavior. Specifically, I am currently working in the following areas:

Description of new hominin and non-human primates
Growth and development in early hominins
Application of new techniques, such as CT analysis to investigate internal and external structures of hominin fossils
Analysis of environmental and ecological factors affecting primate and human evolutionary processes

In order to support this with new data, I initiated the Dikika Research Project (DRP) in 1999, which is undertaking multidisciplinary field research on sediments that span in age from over 3.8 Ma to less 500,000, and is addressing some of the major questions in paleoanthropology. The Pliocene site of Dikika promises to increase our knowledge of the diversity of hominins prior to the time period represented by the oldest sediments at Hadar and other east African sites, and subsequent to the radiation of hominin species after the split from the great apes. The sediments from Asbole, on the other hand, represent a time period poorly known in the region: the Middle Pleistocene. Thus the area has potential to increase our understanding of the patterns of transition from H. erectus (H. heidelbergensis) to H. sapiens.

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Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged

Current Position
Irivine Chair and Curator of Anthropology
Chair, Department of Vertebrate Zoology and Anthropology
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
zeray@calacademy.org

http://www.calacademy.org

Positions Held

2004 - 2008 Senior Researcher, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

2000 - 2003 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

1998 - 2000 Research Associate, French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

1991 - 1993 Junior Geologist, Paleoanthropology Laboratory, National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Educational Background

1998 Ph.D., Laboratory of Paleontology, University of Paris VI and the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France “A. aethiopicus - A. boisei transition and paleoenvironmental changes in the Omo Ethiopia”.

1994 M.Sc., Paleontology, Institute of Evolutionary Sciences, University of Montpellier II, France

1993 French Language Diploma, Cavilam de Vichy International Language School,

Vichy, France

1990 B.Sc., Geology, Department of Geology, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Languages and Computer

English, French, Amharic, Tigrigna, Basic Oromifa, and Basic German

Good knowledge of commonly used software

Scholarships and other professional activities and recognitions

Current: Panel reviewer for Wenner Grent Foundation

Ongoing Occasional referee for National Science Foundation, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, Annales d’Ethiopie, Nature

2004 – 2008 Associate editor of Journal of Human Evolution

2007 Founder (with Dr. Emma Mbua) of the East African Association for Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (EAAPP).

2004 Identified as emerging explorer by National Geographic Society

1993-1998 Full scholarship, Centre National des Oeuvres Universitaires, Paris, France

Major Fieldwork Experience

1999 – present Director, Dikika Research Project (DRP), Afar, Ethiopia.

1996-1997 Co-Director, Chorora Paleontological Mission, Ethiopia

1994 and 1999 Member, The site of Hadar in the Afar Ethiopia, a multidisciplinary project led by D.C. Johanson and W.H. Kimbel, 1994 and 1999.

1999 The site of Fejej in south-western Ethiopia, a multidisciplinary project led by H. de Lumley 1999.

1999 Archaeological sites of Melka Kunture and Tiya, Ethiopia, a multidisciplinary project led by Yonas Beyene, 1999.

Selected Research Grants

2011 East African Association For Paleoanthropology and Paleontology Third Conference, Paleontological Scientific Trust (PAST)

2011 Biogeochemical study of the australopithecine diet, National Science Foundation

2011 East African Association For Paleoanthropology and Paleontology Third Conference, The Wenner Gren Foundation

2010 The Leakey Foundation

2010 National Science Foundation

2010 The Wenner Gren Foundation

2009 Paleontological Field Research at Dikika, Ethiopia, National Science Foundation

2009 East African Association For Paleoanthropology and Paleontology Second Conference, Wenner-Gren Foundation

2008 East African Association For Paleoanthropology and Paleontology Second Conference, Paleontological Scientific Trust (PAST)

2004 – 2008 Paleoanthroplogical Field and Laboratory Research in Africa, Max Planck Society

2003 Laboratory analysis of hominin remains from Dikika, Ethiopia, National Geographic Society

2002 Fieldwork at the Dikika site of Ethiopia, National Geographic Society

2001 Exploring Plio-Pleistocene sites in the Afar Ethiopia, The L.S.B. Leakey Foundation.

2001 Laboratory preparation and analysis hominin remains from the Dikika site of Ethiopia, National Geographic Society

2000 Fieldwork at Dikika and Asbole site of Ethiopia, Institute of Human Origins

2000 – 2001 Fieldwork at Dikika and Asbole site of Ethiopia, CFEE.

1999 Updating the status of paleoanthroplogical archives in Ethiopia, CFEE.

1998 Description and analysis of hominin cranium from Omo, Ethiopia, Collège de France

Major ongoing laboratory research projects

Description and analysis of new hominid fossils from the Dikika area of the Afar, Ethiopia

Description and analysis of new primate fossils from Asbole of the Afar, Ethiopia

CT scan image analysis of DIK-1-1 and other hominin fossils

Environment and Human Evolution – qualitative, quantitative and comparative approaches

Major ongoing field research projects

Fieldwork in the Pliocene paleoanthropological site of Dikika, in Afar, Ethiopia

Fieldwork in the Pleistocene archaeological and paleontological site of Asbole in Afar, Ethiopia

Teaching and advisement

2011 Lecturer, Advanced Human Evolution, Department of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University

2011 Advisor, SSI Program Intern, Kate Corbin, Vertebrate Zoology and Anthropology Department

2010 – present M.Sc. thesis supervision, Enquye Wondimu, Addis Ababa University

2010 Advisor, SSI Program Intern, Natalie Porter, Anthropology Department, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA

2007 Lecturer, Human Evolution, Department of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University; Graduate Students Supervised and other Committee Work with Students

2007 – present M.Sc. thesis supervision, Chalachew Mesfin, Addis Ababa University

2006 – 2010 PhD committee member, Zelalem K. Bedaso, University of South Floida, Tampa

2005 – 2008 Coordinator and Lecturer, Paleoanthroplogy, International Max Planck Research School within the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (http://www.leipzig-school.eva.mpg.de/start.htm)

2002 – present Member, Honors thesis committee, Catherine Haradon, Arizona State University

Selected research visits

2011 National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Research Workshop on Selam

2009 Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Department of Physical Anthropology, Cleveland, OH, USA

2008 American Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleontology, New York, NY, USA

2008 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA

2003 Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College, London, UK,

2002 Powell Cotton Museum, Birchington, UK

2002 National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

2000 and 2002 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA

2000 American Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleontology, New York, NY, USA

1999 Transval Museum, Pretoria, South Africa

1995 – present National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Selected Professional Collaborations

Prof. William Kimbel, Institute of Human Origins and Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, USA

Dr. Denis Geraads, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Dr. Jonathan Wynn, Department of Geology, University of South Florida, USA

Dr. Rene Bobe, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, USA

Dr. Denne Reed, Department of Anthropology, the University of Texas, USA

Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian Institution, USA

Dr. Fred Spoor, University College London, UK

Max Planck Institute, Germany

National Museum of Ethiopia, Ethiopia

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

National Museums of Kenya

Affiliation and Memberships

Max Planck Institute, Germany

Paleanthoropology Society

American Association of Physical Anthropology

East African Association for Paleoantology and Paleoanthropology

Invited lectures

2011 University of South Florida, Tampa (8 April)

2011 Keynote Speaker at ITB Berlin, Germany (9 March)

2010 Guest of Honor at the Agere Awards Ceremony, Atlanta, Georgia (17 October)

2010 The Leakey Foundation, San Francisco, CA (15 October)

2010 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2010 University of California, Berkeley (12 October)

2010 College de France, Paris (25 March)

2010 Mekelle University, Ethiopia (13 April)

2009 Major Issues in Modern Biology lecture series, University of California-Davis, California (12 May, “Early hominin evolution: learning from an old child”)

2008 The American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA (1 May)

2008 The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA (12 April)

2008 The Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden (5 March)

2007 TED Global, Arusha, Tanzania (4 June)

2007 The Smithsonian Institution / The Leakey Foundation, Washington, DC, USA (30 May)

2007 The Science Museum of the "la Caixa” Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (8 May)

2007 Dresdner Freundeskreis Athiopien e.V., Dresden, Germany (21 April)

2007 School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA (5 April)

2007 Residence of the Ambassador, US Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (5 February)

2007 Goethe Institute and the German Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (24 January)

2007 Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (9 January)

2003 Geology Department, Addis Ababa University

2001 Geology Department, University of Arizona

1999 Biology Department, Addis Ababa University

Other lectures

2010 California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA

Guest Services, Academy Insides (1 October)

Board of Trustees, Research Division Open House (29 September)

Research Division, Seminar Series, (Ongoing)

2009 Ethiopian Archaeologist’s Association, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (25 August) Selam’s place in Human Evolution

2009 California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA

Docent Course, Hidden Treasures (21-23 September) Update on human evolution timeline and new discoveries

Eastwood Associates (14 April) California Academy of Sciences and the role of Anthropology

Pritzker Lecture Series (14 April) Discovering and interpreting hominin fossil remains

Board of Trustees (25 March) New Fossil Discoveries in Ethiopia

Public outreach

2008 Argo Community High School, Chicago, USA

2007 Wakefield High School, Virginia, USA

2008 Stavanger Ethiopian Community, Stavanger, Norway

Online links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YMfzhm8ao

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/168

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5364630.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMpbnIHUNUk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeresenay_Alemseged

http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.zeresenay.zeray.alemseged

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9YE1qH_3QU

Symposia

2009: Z. Alemseged (panel speaker), “Africa: Past and Present”. Third Annual Explorers Symposium, National Geographic, Washington, DC (11 June)

2009: Z. Alemseged (Speaker), “Growth and development in the early hominin fossil record”. Evolution: California Academy of Sciences and UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA (17 April)

2003: R. Bobe, Z. Alemseged and K. Behrensmeyer (Chairs and Organizers), Hominid Environments and Paleoecology in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence, Tempe, AZ, USA

Conference

2011: Lead Organizer: East African Association for Paleoanthropology and Palaeontology. 3^rd EAAPP Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (August 8-12)

2009: OrganizerEast African Association for Paleoanthropology and Palaeontology Past, Present and Future. 2^nd EAAPP Conference, Arusha, Tanzania (August 16-21)

2007: Organizer, East African Association for Paleoanthropology and Palaeontology 1st EAAPP Conference, Nairobi, Kenya (June 18-20)

Workshop

2011: Lead orgnizer: Research workshop on Selam at the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

2004: A.K. Behrensmeyer, R. Bobe, Z. Alemseged (Chairs and Organizers), Workshop on Faunal Evidence for Hominin Paleoecology in East Africa, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA

Books

2007: Bobe, R., Alemseged, Z., Behrensmeyer, A.K. (Eds.). Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, Springer, Dordrecht. http://www.springer.com/west/home/life+sci/zoology?SGWID=4-10039-22-1235...

Book chapters

In press: Alemseged, Z. Early hominin synthesis. In: Cambridge Prehistory.

In press: Alemseged, Z. Australopithecus in Ethiopia. In: Australopithecus. Springer, Dordrecht, pp

2009: Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R. Diet in early hominin species: a paleoenvironmental perspective. In: Hublin, J.J., Richards, M.P. (Eds.), The Evolution of Hominid Diets:Integrating Approaches to the Study of Palaeolithic Subsistence. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., pp. 179–186.

2008: Wynn, J. G., Roman, D.C., Alemseged, Z., Reed, D., Geraads, D., Munro, S. Stratigraphy, depositional environments and basin structure of the Hadar and Busidima Formations at Dikika, Ethiopia. In: Quade, J., Wynn, J.G. (Eds.), The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa: Geological Society of America Special Paper 446, p. 1–32,

2007: Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Geraads, D. Comparability of fossil data and its significance for the interpretation of hominin environments: a case study in the lower Omo valley, Ethiopia. In: Bobe, R., Alemseged, Z., Behrensmeyer, A.K. (Eds.), Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 159-181.

2007: Behrensmeyer, K., Bobe, R., Alemseged, Z. Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene. In: Bobe, R., Alemseged, Z., Behrensmeyer, A.K. (Eds.), Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 1-24.

2007: Behrensmeyer, K., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R. Finale and future: Investigating faunal evidence for hominin paleoecology in East Africa. In: Bobe, R., Alemseged, Z., Behrensmeyer, A.K. (Eds.), Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 333-345.

Peer reviewed articles

In press:Bedaso, Z., Wynn, J.G., Alemseged, Z., Geraads, D. Dietary and paleoenvironmental reconstruction using stable isotope analysis of herbivores’ tooth enamel from the Pliocene locality of Dikika, Ethiopia: implication for A. afarensis habitat and food resource. J. Hum. Evol.

In press:Thompson, J.C., Lansing, S.W., Marean, C.W., McPherron, S., Alemseged, Z. Experimental definition of bone surface signatures from natural unmodified stones and implications for early hominin subsistence. J. Hum. Evol.

2011: McPherron, S.P., Alemseged, Z,, Marean, C.W., Wynn, J.G., Reed, D., Geraads, D., Bobe, R., Béarat, H.A.Tool-marked bones prior to the Oldowan change the paradigm. PNAS 108:E116.

2011: Geraads, D., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Reed, D. Enhydriodon dikikae sp. nov. (Carnivora: Mammalia), a giant otter from the Pliocene of Dikika, Lower Awash, Ethiopia. J. Vert. Paleontol. 31:447-453.

2010: McPherron, S., Alemseged, Z., Marean, C., Wynn, J.G., Reed, D., Bobe, R., Béarat, H. Evidence for stone tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues prior to 3.39 Ma at Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 466:857-860.

2010: Bedaso, Z., Wynn, J.G., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Reed, D. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Asbole fauna (Busidima Formation, Afar, Ethiopia) using stable isotopes. Geobios 43:165-177.

2010: Geraads, D., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Reed, D. Nyctereutes lockwoodi sp., a new canid (Carnivora: Mammalia) from the Middle Pliocene of Dikika, Lower Awash, Ethiopia. J. Vert. Paleontol. 30:981-987.

2009: Njau, J.,Mbua, E. Alemseged, Z., Pobiner, B. Second Conference of the East African Association for Paleoanthropology and Paleontology: Fifty Years After Discovery of Zinjanthropus. Evol. Anthropol. 18:235-236.

2008: Mbua, E., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R. A New Association for East African Paleoanthropology and Paleontology. Evol. Anthropol. 17, 123-124.

2007: Frost, S.R., Alemseged, Z. Middle Pleistocene fossil Cercopithecidae from Asbole, Afar Region, Ethiopia. J. Hum. Evol. 53:227-259.

2006: Alemseged, Z., Spoor, F., Kimbel, W.H., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Reed, D., Wynn, J.G. A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 443:296-301.

2006: Wynn, J.G., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Reed, D., Roman, D.C.Geological and palaeontological context of a Pliocene juvenile hominin at Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 443:332-336.

http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/hominiddevelopment/index.html#podcast

http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/hominiddevelopment/video/index.html

http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/v443/n7109/nature-2006-09-21.mp3

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7109/pdf/7109xiiia.pdf

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7109/pdf/443278a.pdf

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060918/full/060918-5.html

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/313/5794/1716.pdf

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6110009&sc=emaf

http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?title=lucy_s_baby_found_in_ethiopia&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

http://www.nazret.com/radio/lucy_bbc_092006.php

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5363328.stm

2005: Alemseged, Z., Wynn, J.G., Kimbel, W.H., Reed, D., Geraads, D., Bobe, R. First hominin from the Basal Member of the Hadar Formation, Dikika, Ethiopia and its geological context. J. Hum. Evol. 49:499-514.

2004: de Lumley, H., Bahain, J.-J. Beyene, Y., Marchal, F., Alemseged, Z.. Les Formation Plio-Pleistocenes du bassin de l’Omo-Turkana. In: Les sites Prehistoriques de la region de Fejej, sud-Omo, Ethiopie, dans leurs contexte stratigraphique et paleontologique. De Lumley, H., Beyene, Y. (Eds.). Éditions Recherche sur les Civilizations, Paris, pp. 81-107.

2004: Echassoux, A., Moulle, P.E., Desclaux, E., Alemseged, Z. Les faunes Plio-Pleistocene du site de Fejej FJ-1. In: Les sites Prehistoriques de la region de Fejej, sud-Omo, Ethiopie, dans leurs contexte stratigraphique et paleontologique. De Lumley, H., Beyene, Y. (Eds.). Éditions Recherche sur les civilizations, Paris, pp. 203-340.

2004: Geraads, D., Alemseged, Z., Reed, D., Wynn, J. The Pleistocene fauna (other than Primates) from Asbole, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia, and its environmental and biochronological implications. Geobios 37:697-718.

2003: Alemseged, Z. An integrated approach to taphonomy and faunal change in the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia) and its implication for hominid evolution. J. Hum. Evol. 44:1-28.

2002: Alemseged, Z., Coppens, Y., Geraads, D. A hominid cranium from Omo description and taxonomy of Omo-323-1976-896. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 117:103-112.

2002: Geraads D., Alemseged, Z., Bellon, H. The late Miocene Mammalian fauna of Chorora, Awash basin, Ethiopia: systematics, biochronology and 40K-40Ar ages of associated volcanics. Tertiary Research 21(1-4):113-122.

2000: Alemseged, Z., Geraads, D. A new Middle Pleistocene Fauna from the Busidima- Telalak region of the Afar, Ethiopia. Compte Rendu de l’academie des Sciences 331:549-556.

2000: Alemseged, Z. Plio-Pleistocene Hominids and Their Environment in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Annales d’Ethiopie 20, 1-5.

1999: Alemseged, Z. La basse valle de l’Omo (Ethiopie). In : Les Australopitheques.Berillon, G., Bacon, A.M., Marchal, F., Deloison, Y. (Eds.). Editions Artcom.

1998: Alemseged, Z ., Geraads, D. Theropithecus atlanticus (Thomas, 1884) (Primate: Cercopithecidae) from the late Pliocene of Ahl al Oughlam, Casablanca, Moroco. J.Hum. Evol. 34(6):609-621.

1996: Alemseged Z., Geraads, D., Coppens, Y., Guillemot, C. Taphonomical and paleoenvironmental study of Omo-33, a late Pliocene hominid locality of the lower Omo basin, Ethiopia. Revue de Paléobiologie, 15(2):339-347.

Others

2002: Z. Alemseged. Dikika: a new paleoanthropological site in Ethiopia. Electronic publications (CD ROM) – University of Vienna, Austria.

2002: Z. Alemseged. Paleoanthropology in Ethiopia today. Electronic publications (CD ROM) – University of Vienna, Austria.

Scientific podium presentations

2011: Alemseged, Z. GPS data collection methods for Paleoanthropology: examples from the Dikika Research Project geodatabase. Biodiversity Information Standards – TDWG, New Orleans, Louisiana (16 October).

2011: Alemseged, Z., Bedaso, Z.K., Wynn, J.G. Plio-Pleistocene paleoenvironments and implications for hominin habitat and available resources. Third Annual Meeting of the East African Association of Paleontologists and Paleoanthropologists (EAAPP), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (8-12 August).

2011: Alemseged, Z. Reed, D., McPherron, S., Barr, W.A., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Wynn, J.G. A new GPS data collection methodology and data schema for integrating multiple project databases: Examples from the Dikika Research Project geodatabase. 20^th Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota (12-13 April).

2011: Alemseged, Z., Skinner, M.M., Schroer, K.E., Gunz, P., Wood, B.A., Hublin, J.-J. Mandibular P4 morphology among Plio-Pleistocene hominins: taxonomic implications and morphological trends. 20^th Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota (12-13 April).

2011: Alemseged, Z., Thompson, J.C., Lansing, S.W., Marean, C.W., McPherron, S.Experimental definition of bone surface signatures from natural unmodified stones and implications for early hominin subsistence. 20^th Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota (12-13 April).

2011: Alemseged, Z., Green, D.J. The primitive shoulder blade of Australopithecus. 20^th Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota (12-13 April).

2010: Alemseged, Z., Bedaso, Z.K., Wynn, J.G., Hujer, W. Pliocene paleoenvironments of the Awash Valley, Ethiopia: the isotope record of tooth enamel and its relevance to the Pliocene paleoclimate of Northeastern Africa. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco (13-17 December).

2009: Alemseged, Z. Ongoing Research on the DIK-1: Skeleton and New Data on the Deciduous Dentition. Paleoanthropology Meetings, Chicago (31 March-1 April 2009).

2009: Green, D., Alemseged, Z. The Ontogeny of Extant Hominid and Australopithecus afarensis Shoulder Morphology. Paleoanthropology Meetings, Chicago (31 March-1 April 2009).

2007: Alemseged, Z., Spoor, F., Kimbel, W.H., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Reed, D., Wynn, J.G. Paleoanthropological research at Dikika, Ethiopia and comparative morphology of a juvenile hominin from DIK-1. Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Paleoanthropology Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, USA (27-28 March 2007).

2007: Alemseged, Z., Frost, S. New Cercopithecid fossils from Asbole, Ethiopia and their environmental and ecological significance. Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Paleoanthropology Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, USA (27-28 March 2007).

2007: Reed, D.N., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Wynn, J. Taphonomy and Local Paleoecology of the Juvenile Hominin from DIK-1, Ethiopia. Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Paleoanthropology Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, USA (27-28 March 2007).

2007: Wynn, J.G., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Reed, D., Roman, D.C. Geological and tectonic framework for the 3.8-0.6 Ma Dikika Research Project area, and its implications for the study of the paleoenvironments of human evolution in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Paleoanthropology Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, USA (27-28 March 2007).

2007: Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Reed, D., Alemseged, Z., Wynn, J. Faunal context of the Pliocene Dikika Locality, Hadar Formation, Ethiopia. Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Paleoanthropology Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, USA (27-28 March 2007).

2005: Alemseged, Z., Wynn, J. A new Australopithecus afarenisis P3 from Dikika, Ethiopia.12th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies (PAA), 3-10 July 2005, Gaborone, Botswana.

2005: Alemseged, Z. Ethical issues in Physical Anthropology research in developing countries. 2nd Conference on Science, Cultural Heritage, Natural Heritage and Tourism, 23-25 June Mekelle University, Ethiopia.

2004: Alemseged, Z. Major issues in Pliocene hominin paleoecology. Workshop on Faunal evidence for hominin paleoecology in East Africa, 21-23 May 2004, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.

2004: Wynn, J.G., Alemseged, Z., Roman, D.C. On the relationship between paleoenvironment and human evolution at Dikika in the Afar, Ethiopia. International Conference on the East African Rift System. June 20-24, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

2004: Bobe, R., Ferraro, J., Bishop, L., Plummer, T., Alemseged, Z. Late Pliocene hominin paleoenvironments of the lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia: new data from bovid ecomorphic studies. Paleoanthropology meetings, Montreal, Canada.

2003: Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Geraads, D. Hominid environments and faunal change in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia: A comparison of the French and American databases Abstracts. 72 nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Tempe, AZ, USA.

2003: Riel-Salvatore, J., Alemseged, Z., Reed, D., Wynn, J. Stone Age Archaeological Survey in the Busidima region, Ethiopia. Paleoanthropological Society of America. Tempe, AZ, USA.

2002: Alemseged, Z. Evidence for a major faunal turnover at around 2.3 Ma in the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia. Abstracts. 71 th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Buffalo, NY, USA.

2002: Orr, C., Alemseged, Z. Estimation of body mass and diet for fossil cercopithecids from the Asbole area of the Afar, Ethiopia. Abstracts. 71 th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Buffalo, NY, USA.

2001: Alemseged, Z., Geraads, D. A new Middle Pleistocene Fauna from the Busidima- Telalak region of the Afar, Ethiopia. Abstracts. pp. 31-32. 70th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Kansas City, KS, USA.

2001: Geraads, D., Alemseged, Z. A hominid from Omo description and systematics of Omo-323-1976-896. Abstracts, pp. 68-69. 70 th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Kansas City, KS, USA.

1998: Alemseged, Z. On the habitat preference of Australopithecus boisei. Dual Congress, Johannesburg, South Africa.

1997: Alemseged, Z. Mammals as indicators of paleoenvironment in the Shungura Formation. Second European Workshop of Paleontology, Quillan, France.

1997: Alemseged, Z., Geraads, D. Mammalian fauna and some taphonomic aspects of the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia. 45th Symposium of Vertebrate Paleontology. Derby, UK.

Interviews and Press reviews (on the web)

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2010/10/science-up-front-zeresenay-alemseged-on-the-afar-and-early-hominin-environments/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10938453

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100811-lucy-human-tools-meat-eating-nature-science/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/science/12tools.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1&sq=alemseged&st=cse&scp=1

http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences-technologies/2010/08/11/01030-20100811ARTFIG00511-lucy-utilisait-deja-des-outils-en-pierre.php

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7939243/Hail-Lucy-the-new-Queen-of-the-Stone-Age.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2010-08-12-butchering12_ST_N.htm

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704216804575423421993711734.html

http://asunews.asu.edu/20100811_bones

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1302184/Scientists-discover-ancient-ancestor-Lucy-used-stone-tools-butcher-animals-3-4million-years-ago.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-lucys-meateating-made-us-what-we-are-now-2050122.html

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5937/136

http://www.springer.com/life+sci/zoology/book/978-1-4020-3097-0?detailsPage=toc

http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/index.html

http://press.nationalgeographic.com/pressroom/index.jsp?pageID=pressReleases_detail&siteID=1&cid=1158761650710

http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/hominiddevelopment/index.html

http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/pressReleases/2006/pressRelease20060920/index.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1529399/Three-years-old---give-or-take-three-million.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5363328.stm

http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=7939767

http://archaeology.about.com/od/hominidancestors/a/dikika_infant.htm

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=finding-lucys-baby-qa-wit

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=special-report-lucys-baby

http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-09/2006-09-21-voa4.cfm?CFID=301750977&CFTOKEN=81471439&jsessionid=0030287cc5dc7ca25777372a3637504d2574

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6110009

http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?m=20060920

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/920/1

http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-09/2006-09-21-voa4.cfm?renderforprint=1&textonly=1&&JSESSIONID=8830a5718b0718a681012b6d6f632e459483&CFID=21617472&CFTOKEN=21146709&jsessionid=8830a5718b0718a681012b6d6f632e459483

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/21/1158431810008.html

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2006/09/21/meet_the_earliest_baby_girl_ever_discovered.html

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/09/21/girl_33_million_years_old_offers_clues/?p1=MEWell_Pos5

http://english.pravda.ru/news/science/21-09-2006/84547-childfossil-0

http://www.researchsea.com/html/article.php/aid/1025/cid/1/research/%E2%80%A8human_evolution___lucy_s_baby__found_in_remote_ethiopian_outpost.html?

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060921/news_1n21selam.html

http://www.acikradyo.com.tr/default.aspx?_mv=prn&aid=15610

http://www.asu.edu/news/stories/200609/20060921_lucy.htm

http://www.asu.edu/news/stories/200609/20060920_iho.htm

http://www.supercars.net/PitLane?viewThread=y&gID=4&fID=0&tID=102435

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704974/posts

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article645643.ece

http://ethiomedia.com/carepress/baby_lucy_discovered.html

http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/pressReleases/2006/pressRelease20060920/genPDF.pdf#search=%22zeresenay%20alemseged%22

http://lettrist.blogspot.com/2006/09/33-million-years-later-skeleton-of.html

Books

Peer reviewed articles

In press: Denis Geraads, Zeresenay Alemseged, René Bobé, Denné Reed. A new canid from the middle Pliocene of Dikika, Lower Awash, Ethiopia, J. Vert. Paleo.

In press: Alemseged, Z. Australopithecus in Ethiopia. Springer, Dordrecht.

2009: Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R. Diet in early hominin species: a paleoenvironmental perspective. In: Hublin, J.-J., Richards, M.P. (Eds.), The Evolution of Hominid Diets: Integrating Approaches to the Study of Palaeolithic Subsistence, Springer Science + Business Media B.V., pp. 179–186.

2008: Mbua, E., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R. A New Association for East African Paleoanthropology and Paleontology. Evol. Anth. 17, 123-124.

2008: Wynn, J.G., Roman, D.C., Alemseged, Z., Reed, D., Geraads, D., Munro, S. Stratigraphy, depositional environments and basin structure of the Hadar and Busidima Formations at Dikika, Ethiopia. In: Quade, J., Wynn, J.G. (Eds.), The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa: Geological Society of America Special Paper 446, p. 1–32, doi: 10.1130/2008.2446(04).

2007: Frost, S.R., Alemseged, Z. Middle Pleistocene fossil Cercopithecidae from Asbole, Afar Region, Ethiopia. J. Hum. Evol. 53, 227-259.

2006: Alemseged, Z., Spoor, F., Kimbel, W.H., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Reed, D., Wynn, J.G. A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 443, 296-301.

2006: Wynn, J.G., Alemseged, Z., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Reed, D., Roman, D.C. Geological and palaeontological context of a Pliocene juvenile hominin at Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 443, 332-336.

Related

2003: Alemseged, Z. An integrated approach to taphonomy and faunal change in the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia) and its implication for hominid evolution. J. Hum. Evol. 44, 1-28.

2002: Alemseged, Z., Coppens, Y., Geraads, D. A hominid cranium from Omo description and taxonomy of Omo-323-1976-896. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 117, 103-112.

2000: Alemseged, Z., Geraads, D. A new Middle Pleistocene Fauna from the Busidima-Telalak region of the Afar, Ethiopia. Compte Rendu de l’academie des Sciences 331, 549-556.

2000: Alemseged, Z. Plio-Pleistocene Hominids and Their Environment in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Annales d’Ethiopie 20, 1-5.

1999: Alemseged, Z. La basse valle de l’Omo (Ethiopie). In : Les Australopitheques. Berillon, G., Bacon, A.M., Marchal, F., Deloison, Y. (Eds.). Editions Artcom.

1998: Alemseged, Z ., Geraads, D. Theropithecus atlanticus (Thomas, 1884) (Primate : Cercopithecidae) from the late Pliocene of Ahl al Oughlam, Casablanca, Moroco. J. Hum. Evol. 34 (6), 609-621.

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