Community Support
Dr. Trenton Holliday
“Lucy is an important fossil because so many people have heard of her. She is the King Tut of prehistory. There is a lot of misinformation about human evolution floating out there in America today. People, as visual creatures, need to see first-hand the physical evidence for human evolution, and this is why bringing Lucy to the United States is so important.”
Trenton W. Holliday, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans
Trenton W. Holliday is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he has been on the faculty since 1998. Prior to coming to Tulane, Professor Holliday taught at the University of Central Florida in Orlando (1997-1998) and the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia (1996-1997). He was awarded his B.A. in anthropology magna cum laude from Louisiana State University in 1988, and completed his M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1995) degrees in anthropology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. His dissertation and ongoing research interests have focused primarily on modern human origins and the fate of the Neandertals, although he has published work dealing with Australopithecus limb proportions, including “Lucy.” As of 2007, he is the author/co-author of 40 journal articles and book chapters, and has been published in the Journal of Human Evolution, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, and Nature. Since 2002, he, his students, and colleagues from the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology have been excavating the Abrigo do Alecrim Upper Paleolithic rock shelter site in Portugal’s Lapedo Valley.
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