ESHE 2017

Luca Fiorenza
September 25, 2017

Last week I had the pleasure to attend the 7th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE) that was held in the beautiful Leiden in the Netherlands.

It was a three intensive-days conference with many interesting talks and posters. We had several contributions:

Luca Fiorenza, Huynh N. Nguyen, Stefano Benazzi. Macrowear and biomechanical analyses of great ape molars.

Almudena Estalrrich, Luca Fiorenza, Ulrike Menz, Antonio Rosas, Ottmar Kullmer. Dental behavior and long-term dietary reconstruction of El Sidrón Neandertals derived from molar macrowear patterns.

Rita Sorrentino, Caterina Minghetti, William Parr, Kevin Turley, Stephen Wroe, Colin Shaw, Jaap Saers, Anne
Su, Luca Fiorenza, Francesco Feletti, Stephen Frost, Kristian J. Carlson, Giovanna M. Belcastro, Timothy Ryan,
Stefano Benazzi. Evaluating behavioral effects on modern human shape tali through GMM.

We were lucky to be in The Stadsgehoorzaal, a beautiful historic building that was chosen by Leiden University for the conference venue. I have attached a couple of photos below.

Luca Fiorenza

Luca is Head of the Palaeodiet Research Lab and he received his Bachelor/Master degree in Natural Sciences in 2003 at La Sapienza University in Rome (Italy), and completed his PhD in Biological Sciences between the Goethe University and the Senckenberg Research Institute (Frankfurt, Germany) at the end of 2009. During his doctoral degree he was part of an outstanding multidisciplinary network called EVAN (European Virtual Anthropology Network), where he mastered cutting-edge techniques for the study of anatomical variability, including medical imaging, 3D digitisation, display, modelling and programming. Luca’s research interests mostly focus on functional morphology of the masticatory apparatus in human and non-human primates, and on the importance of the role of diet in human evolution.