About the Group

The Paleoanthropology Research Group at CSUN was founded in 2023. It is a new Research Group open to your ideas to continue developing!

Timeline

03/31/2024        Students start joining the group! Check out their bios on our Meet the Group Members page

02/27-29/2024  First meetings of TPRG@CSUN in person and on Zoom

11/10/2023        The TPRG@CSUN Canvas course goes live

10/27/2023        Creation of a Canvas course to serve as a collaborative platform for the Group Members

08/27/2023        Foundation of the Group

Past News

03/11/2024 at 11am PST     Dr. Rougier will give a talk on Zoom titled 'Were we involved in the disappearance of Neandertals?' for the Online Talks series of the Creswell Crags Museum & Heritage Center (Nottinghamshire, UK). To register, go to Eventbrite Links to an external site.

02/14/2024        CSUN Today has covered Dr. Rougier's recently published research! Check out their story: CSUN Prof’s Research Finds Evidence Homo Sapiens Were in Northwest Europe More Than 45,000 Years Ago, Years Before Neanderthals Disappeared

01/31/2024        TPRG@CSUN member Dr. Rougier contributed to three new articles just published in Nature and Nature Ecology & Evolution about the discovery of 45,000+ year old Homo sapiens at the Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany, and their paleoecological and paleoclimatic context. Check out the articles on our Publications page!