The Museum's scientists continue to receive accolades for their work! We're proud to share that Dr. Emma Finestone, Curator and the Robert J. and Linnet E. Fritz Endowed Chair of Human Origins, has been awarded an Early Career Researcher Paper Prize by The Journal of Human Evolution. The prize aims to inspire and recognize outstanding research in paleoanthropology and related fields by those in the beginning stages of their career and is awarded to authors of research papers determined by the editors to have made the most significant contributions to the journal in that year.
Dr. Finestone is one of the four recipients of the Highly Commended Prize for the paper “New Oldowan locality Sare-Abururu (ca. 1.7 Ma) provides evidence of diverse hominin behaviors on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya.” The study, led by Dr. Finestone, describes a newly discovered 1.7-million-year-old Early Stone Age site that shows toolmakers used diverse strategies for producing stone tools in a grassland-dominated setting. This paper provides important insights into early hominin behavioral variability and ecological adaptation in Eastern Africa. As part of this recognition, the journal has also made Dr. Finestone’s paper freely available to read online for a whole year. Read more about the prize and access the paper at this link!
