Provost Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

Indiana University Professor, Cognitive Science Program , Neuroscience Program , and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior , Indiana University

Dr. Allen received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. He is a philosopher who is interested in the philosophy of biology, psychology, and cognitive science, especially animal cognition and evolution (cognitive ethology), and artificial moral agents.

Co-Director, The Stone Age Institute and Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology

Indiana University Professor, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University

Dr. Schick received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984. She is an archaeologist with interests in Old World prehistory, paleoanthropology, archaeological site formation, zooarchaeology, lithic technology, and primate studies.

Associate Professor, Anthropology Department , Cognitive Science Program, and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior

Indiana University Research Scientist, The Stone Age Institute and Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, Indiana University

Dr. Schoenemann received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997. He is a biological anthropologist whose research interests focus on the evolution of primate and hominin brains, functional morphology of the brain, mathematical image analysis, human variation, and the evolution of human cognition and language.

Director and Provost Professor, Cognitive Science Program , Indiana University

Provost Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University

Dr. Todd received his Ph.D. in Psychology at Stanford University in 1992. He is a psychologist whose research focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that people use to search for and make decisions about evolutionarily important resources—including information, mates, and food—in space and time.

Co-Director, The Stone Age Institute and Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, Indiana University

Professor, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University

Dr. Toth received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. He is an archaeologist with research interests in African prehistory, Paleolithic studies, the evolution of human intelligence, lithic technology, experimental archaeology, microscopic approaches to archaeology, zooarchaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and primate studies.

Professor, Anthropology Department

Indiana University Research Scientist, The Stone Age Institute and Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, Indiana University

Director, Semliki Chimpanzee Project

Dr. Hunt received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1989. He is a biological anthropologist whose research focuses on chimpanzee behavior and ecology, functional morphology, the origins of bipedalism, and human evolution.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Stone Age Institute and Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, Indiana University

Dr. Putt received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Iowa in 2016. She is a biological anthropologist whose research interests include human evolution, Paleolithic technology, the evolution of human language and cognition, cognitive neuroscience, functional neuroimaging, experimental archaeology, and primate tool use behaviors.

Director, Department of Paleoanthropology

Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dr. Gao received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1999. He is an archaeologist with research interests in lithic technology, human evolution, sedimentology, human behavioral ecology, and Pleistocene archaeology in China. He is involved in research at Zhoukoudian (Peking Man site) and the Nihewan Basin.

Director General, Georgian National Museum

Director, Dmanisi Project

Dr. Lordkipanidze received his Ph.D. in Geography from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1992. He is an archaeologist whose research focuses on human evolution at the site of Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia.

Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences, Indiana University

Co-Director, Olduvai Gorge Coring Project

Research Scientist, The Stone Age Institute and Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, Indiana University Director General, Georgian National Museum

Dr. Njau received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2006. He is an archaeologist whose research interests include human evolution, hominid paleolandscapes in East Africa, vertebrate taphonomy, zooarchaeology, and crocodilian feeding behaviors in relation to hominins at Olduvai Gorge.

Graduate Fellow, Cognitive Science Program and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences , Indiana University

Lindsey Kitchell received her M.Sc. in Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. She is a Ph.D. student with interests in the evolution of the human brain, the relationship between the endocranial and brain surfaces, brain asymmetry, osteology, eye tracking, and geometric morphometrics.

Graduate Fellow, Cognitive Science Program and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University

Jared Lorince received his B.A. in Cognitive Science at the University of California at Berkeley in 2009. He is a recent Ph.D. student whose research focuses on how people search for information in Web environments and their decision-making strategies.

Graduate Fellow, Cognitive Science Program and Anthropology Department

Lana Ruck received her M.A. in Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University in 2015. She is a Ph.D. student whose research focuses on the evolution of human cognition, brain lateralization, lithic technology, and handedness.

Graduate Fellow, Cognitive Science Program and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research

Amanda A. Winburn has a B.A. in Biological Anthropology from Emory University and an M.A. in Biological Anthropology from Vanderbilt University. She is a Ph.D. student whose interests are in how humans and groups search through and exploit information to solve complex problems.