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Andrew
Hill (Ph.D., London 1975) is the J. Clayton Stephenson Professor of Anthropology, Other affiliations
are with the Council on Archaeological Studies and
the Council on African Studies. Before coming to Yale
in 1985 he had held research positions at the National
Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, and at Harvard. He is
interested in the whole range of human evolution,
particularly in the environmental and ecological context
in which it occurred. Since 1968 he has carried out
field work in eastern Africa, in Pakistan, and in
the United Arab Emirates. For many years he has directed
the Baringo Paleontological Research Project, a multidisciplinary
research program operating in the Tugen Hills, Kenya.
This ongoing work was the topic of a special double
issue of the Journal of Human Evolution in 2002, and
he co-edited Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia in 1999
(YUP). He teaches courses on different aspects of
human evolution, faunal analysis, and taphonomy. In
1994 he received the Yale College-Lex Hixon '63 Prize
for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences. |
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