13/09/2026
๐ฌ๐ชโ๏ธ Orozmani โ At the Epicenter of World Paleoanthropology!
โOn the concluding day of the international conference "Homo erectus: 100 + 35," the Orozmani archaeological site welcomed leading researchers in paleoanthropology and prehistory, international scientific figuresโboth old and new friends of Orozmani.
โRight on site, by the excavation trenches, I personally introduced them to the discovery of Orozmani, the ongoing research at our 1.8-million-year-old site, and our teamโs latest findings:
โโข Michel Brunet (Collรจge de France / Universitรฉ de Poitiers) โ Discoverer of the 7-million-year-old Toumaรฏ (Sahelanthropus tchadensis) and Australopithecus "Abel" (Australopithecus bahrelghazali), whose discoveries in Central Africa reshaped perspectives on the geography and origins of human evolution
โข Bernard Wood (George Washington University) โ World-renowned scholar and patriarch of hominin evolutionary studies
โข Nick Toth & Kathy Schick (The Stone Age Institute / Indiana University) โ Our longtime friends, mentors, and pioneers of experimental archaeology and lithic technology
โข Juan-Luis Arsuaga (Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Museo de la Evoluciรณn Humana) โ Director of the Atapuerca and Sima de los Huesos research projects
โข Fred Spoor (Natural History Museum, London / Max Planck Institute)
โข Julia Lee-Thorp (University of Oxford)
โข Katerina Harvati (University of Tรผbingen)
โWe were also joined on site by colleagues from leading international research centers and universities:
โโข Reid Ferring (University of North Texas)
โข Jackson Njau (Indiana University)
โข Michael Pante (Colorado State University)
โข Mohamed Sahnouni (CENIEH)
โข Deborah Barsky (IPHES / Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
โข Bienvenido Martรญnez-Navarro (ICREA / IPHES)
โข Robert Sala-Ramos (IPHES / Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
โข Mehmet Cihat Alรงiรงek (Pamukkale University)
โข Sandrine Prat & Antoine Balzeau (Musรฉum national d'Histoire naturelle / CNRS)
โข Adam Van Arsdale (Wellesley College)
โข Brian Villmoare (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
โข Enrico Cappellini (University of Copenhagen)
โข Alessandro Urciuoli (Institut Catalร de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
โข Jukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki)
โข Clรฉment Zanolli (Universitรฉ de Bordeaux)
โข Nicole Torres-Tamayo & Kristian Carlson (University of Southern California)
โข Boyang Sun (IVPP, Beijing)
โข Martha Tappen (University of Minnesota)
โข Amanda Henry (Leiden University)
โข Larisa DeSantis (Vanderbilt University)
โข Saverio Bartolini-Lucenti (University of Florence)
โข Luca Pandolfi (University of Basilicata)
โข Christine Hertler (Senckenberg Research Institute)
โข Ian Stanistreet (University of Liverpool)
โข Angela Bruch (ROCEEH / Senckenberg)
โข Christopher Ruff (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
โThe international recognition of Orozmani continues to grow. Thank you all for your genuine professional interest, inspiring discussions, and collaboration. More extensive fieldwork and exciting discoveries lie ahead!
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