Susan Antón

Professor of Anthropology; Director, MA program in Human Skeletal Biology, NYU Anthropology Editor, Journal of Human Evolution Member, Center for the Study of Human Origins, NYU
PhD 1994, M.A., 1991, B.A., 1987, University of California, Berkeley.

Office Address: Rufus D. Smith Hall 25 Waverly Place New York, NY 10003
Email:
Phone: 212-992-9786
Fax: 212-995-4014

Areas of Research/Interest

Physical anthropology; skeletal biology; evolution of genus Homo; dispersal; evolutionary morphology; human osteology and anatomy; growth, development and life history patterns. Field programs in Asia and the Pacific.

Affiliated with other departments or programs

Director, MA program in Human Skeletal Biology, NYU Anthropology Editor, Journal of Human Evolution Member, Center for the Study of Human Origins, NYU

Publications

2010 Stanford, C.B., Allen, J.S. and Antón, S.C. Exploring Biological Anthropology: the Essentials, 2nd edition. Prentice Hall.


2010 Indriati, E. and Antón, S.C., The calvaria of Sangiran 38, Sendangbusik, Sangiran Dome, Java. Homo: J. Comparative Human Biology.  

2009 Stanford, C.B., Allen, J.S. and Antón, S.C. Introduction to Biological Anthropology: A Natural History of Humankind, 2nd edition. Prentice Hall.


2008 Indriati, E. and Antón, S.C., Earliest Indonesian facial and dental remains from Sangiran, Java: a description of Sangiran 27. Anthropological Science.  116:219-229. ONLINE ISSN:1348-8570

2008 Griffin, N., Gordon, A., Richmond, B., Antón, S.C.  Cross-sectional geometric analysis of a foot bone assemblage from Mangaia, Cook Islands. Homo:  Journal of Comparative Human Biology. 59:27-40.  (doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2006.08.008) 

2008 Antón, S.C.  Framing the Question: Diet and Evolution in early Homo. In: Primate Craniofacial Function and Biology:Papers in Honor of Bill Hylander.  Vinyard, C.J., Wall, C.E., and Ravosa, M.J., eds.   Springer Science. (peer reviewed) pp.443-482.

2007 Spoor, F., Leakey, M.G., Gathogo, P.N., Brown, F.H., Antón, S.C., McDougall, I., Kiarie, C., Manthi, F.K., and Leakey, L.G.  Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, East Lake Turkana (Kenya).  Nature 448:688-691.

2007 Antón, S.C., Climatic influences on the evolution of Early Homo?  Folia Primatologica.  (Special Issue on Climate and Primate Evolution.  Christophe Soligo, ed.) 78:365-388 (DOI: 10.1159/000105150).

2007 Antón, S.C., Spoor F., Fellmann, C.D., and Swisher, C.C. III. Defining Homo erectus: Size Considered. In. Henke, Rothe and Tattersall (eds). Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Volume 3, Chapter 11. pp 1655-1693. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 



2003 Antón, S.C. A Natural History of H. erectus. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 46:126-170.



2003 Antón, S.C. and Steadman, D.W. Mortuary patterns in burial caves on Mangaia, Cook Islands. International J. Osteoarchaeology. 13:132-146.

Current News / Projects

Updated July 2010

With the Koobi Fora Research Project (KFRP) I am working on new fossil Homo discovered on the east side of Lake Turkana.   Along with Fred Spoor (UCL and Max Planck), Chris Dean (U College London) and Meave and Louise Leakey (KFRP, National Museums Kenya) we are examining new fossil material discovered by the KFRP and following up on our work published in Nature in 2007.   The group’s work can be found at http://www.kfrp.com/

Dr. Etty Indriati ( University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta Indonesia) and I continued our work on the anatomy and the context of Homo erectus on Java.  Dr. Indriati spent part of her sabbatical in my lab at NYU in Fall 2009.  And we presented papers on our new age results for the Solo River Terraces at the 2010 AAPA and Paleoanthropology meetings. 

Josh Snodgrass (U. Oregon) and I hosted our fourth annual workshop “Bones and Behavior IV” in Albuquerque, NM in the Spring of 2010.  The group presented the protocols at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in February 2010, and a number of research projects and dissertations are now using the protocols.  A synopsis of the work done by the ‘Bones and Behavior Working Group’ and the protocols can be found at http://www.bonesandbehavior.org/    

Members of the fifth class of the MA program, which I direct, graduated in the spring and summer of 2010.  First year students are developing their thesis projects, and six new students join the program in the Fall of 2010.   The Human Skeletal Biology seminar series sponsored by the MA program hosted talks by: Drs.Christian Crowder and  Kristen Hartnett of the New York Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; and Dr. Etty Indriati of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta Indonesia, who is the principal forensic anthropologist of that country.