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Rivaling the elephant dung fight in the lore of fortuitous paleoanthropological discoveries, this nearly two-million-year-old hominin was discovered in 2008 by then nine-year-old Matthew Berger.

From Scientific American • Nov. 5, 2022

She was once the scion, and is now matriarch, of the Leakey dynasty, three generations of paleoanthropological royalty.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2020

While many in the paleoanthropological community dispute Berger’s theories and methods, there is no doubt that his book’s lively prose will win new fans for paleoanthropology.

From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2017

And the specimens in question were found not in East Africa, which has become synonymous with a sort of paleoanthropological Garden of Eden, but clear on the other side of the continent—and the Sahara—in Morocco.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 7, 2017

Linguistic archaeology, anthropological and especially paleoanthropological history, computational history, are only some of the post-literate forms of practical experiences constituting a new domain of history.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai