Dr Curtis W Marean

Dr Curtis Marean’s work focuses on paleoanthropology, studying the origins of modern humans and areas such as hunter-gatherer adaptations to coastal and grassland ecosystems and diet and the downstream impact on human evolution.

He obtained his BA in anthropology from Pennsylvania State University and his MA and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked as an assistant and associate professor at the State University of New York Stony Brook. He is currently a Foundation Professor and Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment in the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University as well as an honorary professor at Nelson Mandela University.

He has published more than 133 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Science and the Journal of Human Evolution and contributed 11 book chapters. He currently serves on the editorial board of journals such as the Journal of PaleoAnthropology, International Journal of Geoarchaeology, and Evolutionary Anthropology. He has also refereed for Nature, Science and PLOS, among others.

In addition to a number of Fellowships, he has won numerous awards, among them the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology; ASU’s Faculty Achievement Award in Defining Edge Research: Social Science; and the Undergraduate Teaching Award from SUNY.