User:Matt Sponheimer

Sponheimer’s research focuses on the ecology of early human ancestors in Africa. He is currently director of a multi-disciplinary project investigating the community paleoecology of Australopithecus africanus at Makapansgat Limeworks, South Africa, and co-director of a research group examining the neoecology of large mammals in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. He is also co-director of two projects using heavy isotopes to study early hominin land use at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and the Sterkfontein Valley, South Africa.