Paläoanthropologie

Prof. Fred H. Smith, Ph.D.

Function: Angegliederte Mitarbeiter

Address:
Illinois State University
Department of Sociology & Anthropology

61790-4660 Normal, IL

Office:
Tel.: +1-309-438-8668
E-Mail: fsmith[at]ilstu.edu

Consulting hours:


Fields of interest

Paleoanthropology, Primate Evolution, Human Osteology and Functional Anatomy, Paleolithic Archaeology.

Geographic Areas: Europe, Africa

Field and museum research

1969

Excavation of Bronze Age cemetery at Mokrin, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia.

1970

Excavation of multicomponent mortuary complex at Velebit, Yugoslavia.

1971

Study of the Krapina Neandertals and other Croatian fossil hominids in Zagreb.

1973

Study of fossil hominid remains in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Greece, England, and Croatia with special reference to the Central European specimens.

1976

Analysis of African Middle and Late Stone Age skeletal material in England, Kenya, and Tanzania and Plio-Pleistocene hominid remains from Kenya and Tanzania at the National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi.

1978

Excavation of Vindija Cave, Croatia, and study of hominid fossil remains from Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Austria.

1979

Examination of Upper Pleistocene fossil hominids in the Musèe de l'Homme, Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, and the Université de Paris VI, Paris, France.

1982-1983

Study of fossil hominid remains from Belgium, Germany, France, and Croatia, with emphasis on the German specimens.

1985

Study of hominid fossil remains in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Croatia.

1986

Study of fossil hominid remains in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Croatia, Belgium and France, with emphasis on the Mladeč hominids.

1987

Study of Mladeč hominid remains in Austria.

1988

Study of Croatian fossil hominids.

1991

Study of the Vogelherd (Stetten) hominid remains, Germany

1993

Study of Plio-Pleistocene hominids in South Africa and Middle and Late Pleistocene hominids in South Africa and Tanzania.

1996

Study of Middle and Late Pleistocene human remains in Israel.

1997- 2004

Excavation of the Mousterian site of Mujina Pećina in Croatia

1998

Study of Late Pleistocene South African fossil remains.

2000-present

Collaboration on human remains from Paleolithic sites – Universität Tübungen, Germany

2000

Study of Vogelherd and African fossil remains, Germany

2001, 2002, 2004, 2006

Study of Neandertal remains from Feldhofer Grotte, Germany

2005-present

Excavation of the Paleolithic site of Zala in Croatia

2010

Analysis of Syrian Epipaleolithic remains in Tübingen, Germany