Trenton W. Holliday’s Corner of the Web
I am currently Professor of
Anthropology at 
Tulane
University.
As a human
paleontologist and paleoanthropologist who
specializes in Late Pleistocene human evolution, my primary
research interests lie in the study of Eurasian Neandertals
and the earliest modern humans who succeed them, in
particular the so-called “Cro-Magnons” associated with
early Upper Paleolithic (Aurignacian and Gravettian)
industries.
In
recent years, I have focused on the postcranial
skeleton of Neandertals and early modern humans in order
to address questions not only of a phylogenetic nature (i.e.,
those surrounding modern human origins and the role of the
Neandertals therein), but also to address adaptive questions,
particularly with regard to cold adaptation, as well as issues
surrounding bone strength, or postcranial “robusticity”,
and its relationship to behavioral shifts in the Late Pleistocene.
I have also been interested in hybridization
among extant
mammalian species and its implications for
the nature of the
interactions between Homo sapiens
and H.
neanderthalensis.
To
these ends, I have most recently been working with 
fossil material associated with the Gravettian industry from
both the Czech Republic and Portugal, and beginning in 2002,
along with my doctoral students and colleagues from the Instituto
shelter (Abrigo do Alecrim) in
This page continues to be a work in progress! Last
modified 5 July 2011