Katerina Harvati
Katerina Harvati | |
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Κατερίνα Χαρβάτη | |
Born | 1970 (age 52–53) |
Nationality | Greek |
Alma mater | Columbia University (B.A.) City University of New York (M.A.) |
Known for | Identification of the remains of the first Homo sapiens outside of Africa in the Apidima Cave, Greece |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Paleoanthropology |
Institutions | University of Tübingen |
Doctoral advisor | Eric Delson |
Katerina Harvati (Greek: Κατερίνα Χαρβάτη; born 1970 in Athens) is a Greek paleoanthropologist and expert in early human evolution. She specializes in the broad application of 3-D geometric morphometric and virtual anthropology methods to paleoanthropology. Since 2009, she has been full professor and director of Paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen, Germany.[1]
Life
Harvati is a graduate of Columbia University, New York, where she earned a B.A. in Anthropology 1994 (summa cum laude).[2][3] Four years later, she received her master’s degree in Anthropology at Hunter College, City University of New York. After having been awarded with her Ph.D. at CUNY in 2001[4] she worked as an assistant professor at New York University. From 2004 to 2009, she was senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology[5] in Leipzig, Germany. In 2005, she became also adjunct associate professor at the City University of New York Graduate School[6] and in 2009 she was appointed full professor at the University of Tübingen and director of Paleoanthropology. In 2010, she was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her contributions to Paleoanthropology.[7] Harvati is married to the Greek biotechnology executive Elias Papatheodorou.[8] They have two children.
Research
Harvati´s research focuses on primate and human evolution as well as on evolutionary theory, with emphasis on the paleobiology of Pleistocene humans and modern human origins. She has conducted fieldwork in different parts of Europe and Africa and contributed largely to the understanding of the relationship of morphological variability to population history and the environment. Harvati has led recent breakthroughs in the understanding of modern human origins and Neanderthal behavior. Her recent work on the fossil human remains from Apidima Cave, Southern Greece, pushed back the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe by more than 150 thousand years, showing an earlier and much more geographically widespread early modern human dispersal than was previously known (Harvati et al. 2019 Nature). This work was listed as one of the most important discoveries of the year by The Guardian,[9] Discover Magazine[10] and LiveScience,[11] as well as one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the decade by Gizmodo.[12] She led research overthrowing long held assumptions about increased levels of violence and traumatic injuries relative to modern humans (Beier et al. 2018) and demonstrating that Neanderthals regularly performed precise manipulative activities, contrary to previous beliefs (Karakostis et al. 2018). Other contributions include the assessment of the Neanderthal species status (Harvati et al. 2004 PNAS), the identification of an early modern human in Southern Africa (Grine et al. 2007 Science; a publication that TIME magazine ranked as one out of Top Ten discoveries of the year[13]); and the demonstration that modern humans evolved much earlier than previously thought, around 300,000 years ago in Morocco (Hublin et al. 2017, Nature). Finally, Harvati's work has spearheaded paleolithic and paleoanthropological research in South-East Europe (Harvati and Roskandic 2016, Tourloukis and Harvati 2018). She has received two grants of the European Research Council, one ERC Starting Grant in 2011, and one ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016.[14] In addition, she directs a Centre for Advanced Studies on linguistic, cultural and biological trajectories of the human past since 2015.[15]
Awards
- 1997 Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Doctoral Fellowship
- 1998 American Museum of Natural History Fellowship (Anthropology and Paleontology)
- 2000 City University of New York Dissertation Year Fellowship
- 2009 Hellenes abroad award – Woman of the year 2009, Europe[16]
- 2011 ERC Starting Grant
- 2014 Research Prize of Baden-Württemberg for basic research[17]
- 2016 ERC Consolidator Grant
- 2021 Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)[18]
Publications
- Harvati, Katerina; Röding, Carolin; Bosman, Abel M.; Karakostis, Fotios A.; Grün, Rainer; Stringer, Chris; Karkanas, Panagiotis; Thompson, Nicholas C.; Koutoulidis, Vassilis; Moulopoulos, Lia A.; Gorgoulis, Vassilis G.; Kouloukoussa, Mirsini (2019). "Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia". Nature. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 571 (7766): 500–504. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 31292546. S2CID 195873640.
- Beier, Judith; Anthes, Nils; Wahl, Joachim; Harvati, Katerina (2018). "Similar cranial trauma prevalence among Neanderthals and Upper Palaeolithic modern humans". Nature. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 563 (7733): 686–690. Bibcode:2018Natur.563..686B. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0696-8. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 30429606. S2CID 53306963.
- Karakostis, Fotios Alexandros; Hotz, Gerhard; Tourloukis, Vangelis; Harvati, Katerina (5 September 2018). "Evidence for precision grasping in Neandertal daily activities". Science Advances. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 4 (9): eaat2369. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.2369K. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aat2369. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 6157967. PMID 30263956.
- Tourloukis, Vangelis; Harvati, Katerina (2018). "The Palaeolithic record of Greece: A synthesis of the evidence and a research agenda for the future". Quaternary International. Elsevier BV. 466: 48–65. Bibcode:2018QuInt.466...48T. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2017.04.020. ISSN 1040-6182.
- Benazzi, Stefano; Douka, Katerina; Fornai, Cinzia; Bauer, Catherine C.; Kullmer, Ottmar; Svoboda, Jiří; Pap, Ildikó; Mallegni, Francesco; Bayle, Priscilla; Coquerelle, Michael; Condemi, Silvana; Ronchitelli, Annamaria; Harvati, Katerina; Weber, Gerhard W. (2011). "Early dispersal of modern humans in Europe and implications for Neanderthal behaviour". Nature. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 479 (7374): 525–528. Bibcode:2011Natur.479..525B. doi:10.1038/nature10617. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 22048311. S2CID 205226924.
- Hublin, Jean-Jacques; Ben-Ncer, Abdelouahed; Bailey, Shara E.; Freidline, Sarah E.; Neubauer, Simon; Skinner, Matthew M.; Bergmann, Inga; Le Cabec, Adeline; Benazzi, Stefano; Harvati, Katerina; Gunz, Philipp (8 June 2017). "New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens" (PDF). Nature. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 546 (7657): 289–292. Bibcode:2017Natur.546..289H. doi:10.1038/nature22336. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 28593953.
- Reyes-Centeno, Hugo; Harvati, Katerina; Jäger, Gerhard (11 November 2016). "Tracking modern human population history from linguistic and cranial phenotype". Scientific Reports. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 6 (1): 36645. Bibcode:2016NatSR...636645R. doi:10.1038/srep36645. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5105118. PMID 27833101.
- Harvati, Katerina (2016). Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia : human evolution and its context. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. ISBN 978-94-024-0874-4. OCLC 969738482.
- Harvati, Katerina (24 December 2014). "Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries". Handbook of Paleoanthropology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 2243–2279. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39979-4_56. ISBN 978-3-642-39978-7.
- Reyes-Centeno, H.; Ghirotto, S.; Detroit, F.; Grimaud-Herve, D.; Barbujani, G.; Harvati, K. (21 April 2014). "Genomic and cranial phenotype data support multiple modern human dispersals from Africa and a southern route into Asia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (20): 7248–7253. Bibcode:2014PNAS..111.7248R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1323666111. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4034217. PMID 24753576.
- Harvati, Katerina (2006). Neanderthals revisited : new approaches and perspectives. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-5120-3. OCLC 209943947.
- Harvati, K.; Frost, S. R.; McNulty, K. P. (26 January 2004). "Neanderthal taxonomy reconsidered: Implications of 3D primate models of intra- and interspecific differences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101 (5): 1147–1152. Bibcode:2004PNAS..101.1147H. doi:10.1073/pnas.0308085100. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 337021. PMID 14745010.
References
- ^ "Department of Geosciences at the University of Tübingen". uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ Harvati, Katerina (2021). "Profile at AcademiaNet". academia-net.org. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
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- ^ "News release NYU 2004". nyu.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ "New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP)". gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ "News AAAS 2009". aaas.org. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
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- ^ "Scientists Find the Oldest Human Skull Outside of Africa". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
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- ^ Mahr, Krista (2007-12-09). "Top 10 Everything of 2007 – TIME". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
- ^ "Press release of the University of Tübingen 2016". uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae". www.wordsandbones.uni-tuebingen.de/. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ "News Article 2009". helleniccomserve.com. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
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- ^ "Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou". www.dfg.de. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
External links
- "Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Palaeoanthropology Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology". uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- "Katerina Harvati at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past"". www.wordsandbones.uni-tuebingen.de/. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
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