Current Research Projects

Current research involves collaborative descriptions and analyses of new hominins from Chad; developmental and systematic analyses of the hominoid postcranium; continuing description and analysis of mammal faunas and patterns of faunal change through the Neogene, and especially the Neogene of Asia; and ecomorphological analyses of faunas associated with hominoids, including hominins, throughout the Old World.

Research Site Photos

  • Sivapithecus

    John Barry excavating the face of Sivapithecus

  • screenwashing

    Will Downs screenwashing carefully selected sediment for small mammal fossils

  • fieldsite

    Break time in the field

  • Bovid

    Fossil Bovid jaw in situ

  • chinji

    Surface collecting at a fossil locality, Chinji Formation, Pakistan