Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill (Ph.D., London 1975) is Professor of Anthropology, Chair of
the Anthropology Department, and Curator of Anthropology in the Peabody
Museum. 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 2000 (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.
Email: andrew.hill@yale.edu