University Scholars
Over the past three semesters, Robin McLauchlin, a University Scholar in the Department of Anthropology, has participated in the curation and inventory of departmental artifacts, and was essential in preparing the new Bioarcheology Laboratory. Robin has also helped prepare dental casts, including the assembling putty crucibles of the dental molds, and pouring in the centrifuged epoxy resin and hardener to make dental casts. These dental casts can help reconstruct past dietary behaviors of Plio-Pleistocene primate fossils using low-magnification stereomicroscopy and light refractive technology. Robin has been instrumental in obtaining bibliographic references for a number of topics, such as the dietary behavior of chimps, gorillas, capuchins and baboons, genetic divergence dates for cercopithecid monkeys and the fossil origins of Papio. She also investigated the Costa Rican artifacts curated by the department, and more recently, she has sought after ethnographic accounts of fatherhood behaviors among hunter gatherers and horticulturalists. She is currently studying the diet of Pliocene, Pleistocene and extant Theropithecus in the Dental Microwear Lab at Georgia State University.
