World Archaeoprimatology: Interconnections of Humans and Nonhuman Primates in the Past

Author Biography

Bernardo Urbani is Associate Researcher at the Center for Anthropology of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Caracas, Venezuela, and an elected member of the Global Young Academy. Recently, he was selected as a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research/German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany. He has received the Martha J. Galante Award of the International Society of Primatology and the Early Career Achievement Award of the American Society of Primatologists. Dionisios Youlatos is Professor of Vertebrate Zoology in the School of Biology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has done field and laboratory research on both extant and extinct primates and other mammals in South America, Europe, East Africa, and South East Asia. His research has been financially supported by both national and international funding. He is the author of more than a hundred articles and book chapters on the ecology, behavior, anatomy, and evolution of mammals. Andrzej T. Antczak is Associate Professor in Caribbean Archaeology in the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, and Senior Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV-KNAW) in Leiden, the Netherlands. He is co-curator at the Unit of Archaeological Studies, Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, Venezuela, and recently served as chair of the Department of World Archaeology at Leiden University.