Europe
Vance Hutchinson
I received my B.A. in Archaeology from Simon Fraser University, 1997, and my M.A. in Anthropology from Northern Illinois University, 2000.
I suppose I could be considered a paleoanthropologist and human paleontologist.
My primary interests lie in the biological and demographic aspects of the archaic-modern
human transition. My undergraduate research focused mainly on East Asian Homo
erectus. My M.A. thesis investigated the taxonomic affiliation of a Middle
Paleolithic Morrocan child from the site of Mugharet el 'Aliya and the skeletal
morphology of Neandertal children in general. I have been excavating two Middle
Paleolithic sites in Portugal with Dr. Trenton Holliday, with the express hope
of uncovering human fossil material. Currently, Dr. Holliday and myself are
in our second field season at the Lagar Velho Norte Alto site in east central
Portugal. It is up the road fromt the now famous Lagar Velho main site and we
are interested in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of the area, but desperately
hope to find Neandertal(s)
vance666@hotmail.com