David S. Weaver, professor emeritus of anthropology at Wake Forest University, will give a lecture titled “Fossil Hunting in Ethiopia” March 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the university’s Museum of Anthropology. The event is free and open to the public.
Weaver will outline his anthropological efforts in searching for fossils of human ancestors in lowland Ethiopia. He will use fossils found in 4 to 6 million-year-old strata of Ethiopian desert to help provide a look at the lifestyle of the local nomads.
Weaver is a physical anthropologist specializing in the evolutionary history, development and treatment of human bone diseases. He retired from Wake Forest in 2002.
While at Wake Forest, he had a joint appointment in the department of pathology at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He was also director of the university’s physical anthropology laboratory, which houses a large collection of non-human primate skeletons intended for research use.
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