Katerina Harvati

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Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou ( Greek Κατερίνα Χαρβάτη-Παπαθεοδώρου Katerína Charváti-Paptheodórou , * 1970 in Athens , Greece ) is a Greek palaeoanthropologist with special interests in the study of the evolution of the Neandertal . Since 2009 she has been Professor of Paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen and Deputy Head of the Senckenberg Center of Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment , which emerged from the research center The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans (ROCEEH), which was established in 2008.

Career

Katerina Harvati studied anthropology at Columbia University in New York City (Bachelor's degree in 1994) and at the City University of New York (Master's degree from Hunter College 1998). She then did her PhD at the City University of New York in the field of primate evolution. In 2009 the habilitation and the appointment to a professorship for paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen followed.

Katerina Harvati carried out research from 2001 to 2004 as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University , since 2005 she has taught paleoanthropology at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, and since 2004 she has also been Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for evolutionary anthropology in Leipzig .

She is married to the entrepreneur Elias Papatheodorou, the couple have two children.

research

Katerina Harvati researches the tribal history of humans , in particular the emergence of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ) and the Neanderthals, and in doing so links the description of morphological variations with - for example ecological or climatic - changes in the environment, which lead to the development of specific characteristics for each species and their variants have caused. She also deals with morphometry and the 3-D visualization of fossils. She also conducts field research at two excavation sites in Greece.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • with Marlijn Lisanne Noback: The contribution of diet to global human cranial variation. In: Journal of Human Evolution. Volume 80, 2015, pp. 34-50, doi: 10.1016 / j.jhevol.2014.11.005
  • New Neanderthal remains from Mani peninsula, Southern Greece: The Kalamakia Middle Paleolithic cave site. In: Journal of Human Evolution. Volume 64, No. 6, 2013, pp. 486-499, doi: 10.1016 / j.jhevol.2013.02.002
  • with Chris Stringer et al .: The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and Chronology. In: PLoS ONE. Volume 6, No. 9, 2011: e24024, doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0024024
  • Mark Hubbe, Walter A. Neves, Katerina Harvati: Testing Evolutionary and Dispersion Scenarios for the Settlement of the New World. In: PLoS ONE. Volume 5, No. 6, 2010, doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0011105
  • Neanderthals and their contemporaries. In: Winfried Henke and Ian Tattersall (Eds.): Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Vol. 3: Phylogeny of Hominines. Springer, 2007, pp. 1717-1748.
  • Frederick E. Grine, Richard M. Bailey, Katerina Harvati et al .: Late Pleistocene Human Skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa and Modern Human Origins. In: Science . Volume 315, No. 5809, 2007, pp. 226-229, doi: 10.1126 / science.1136294
  • Neanderthal taxonomy reconsidered: Implications of 3D primate models of intra- and interspecific differences. In: PNAS . Volume 101, No. 5, 2004, pp. 1147-1152, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.0308085100

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ERC Consolidator Grant for Katerina Harvati. On: idw-online from December 16, 2016
  2. Top 10 Scientific Discoveries On: time.com from December 9, 2007
    Katerina Harvati from the Max Planck Institute among the TOP 10 from the international TIME Magazine. On: dhwv.de , December 2007
  3. ^ AAAS Members Elected as Fellows. On: aaas.org of December 18, 2009
  4. State Research Award 2014. On: mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de of October 29, 2014