Abstract
The University of Arizona hosted the 2003 American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) conference at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, in Tempe, Arizona. According to John H. Relethford, the Program Committee Chair and Editor, this year’s meeting was the largest held with 682 podium and poster presentations in 55 sessions, with a total of 1300 authors participating. Speakers were students and members of staff from universities and other related professionals from Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South America, the United Kingdom and the United States. Some of the main topics for the poster and podium sessions were human, skeletal, and primate biology; hominid and primate evolution; primate behaviour; dental anthropology and morphology; genetics and paleopathology. Over the three-day conference there were 29 poster and 26 podium sessions, which ran four or five at time. This review only refers to the sessions attended, in conjunction with information from the conference programme and abstracts (American Association of Physical Anthropologists 2003).
Highlights
Several different symposia were held during the conference
This paper proposed that teachers need to present material in a way that “non-science” majors can be fully informed and not confused by the science of human evolution
Harris lines and enamel hypoplasia are recognised as non-specific indicators of stress (Ortner and Putschar 1985)
Summary
Several different symposia were held during the conference. this year there was special recognition of the Wiley-Liss publishing company, with the establishment of an Annual Wiley-Liss Symposium. The study of human remains is increasingly the subject of debate, sessions like this are very constructive. J. Wescott from the University of Missouri-Columbia presented a paper on the misconceptions that many undergraduate students have concerning basic human evolution.
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