Alannah Pearson

PhD Candidate
The School of Archaeology and Anthropology
College of Arts and Social Sciences
Australian National University
ph: 04 4888 5711
e: alannah.pearson@anu.edu.au

Research interests:

Palaeoanthropology
Primatology
Phylogenetics
Palaeoneurology
Geometric Morphometrics
Biogeography

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Research Interests
Publications
Prizes and Scholarships
Presentations

I have a Bachelor in Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology from University of New England and completed my honours in Biological Anthropology from the Australian National University in 2012.

I began my PhD at the Australian National University in 2013. My research projects include an honours degree in craniometrics, multivariate statistics in Indian and global populations examining the inter-and intra-population variation across 20 populations with 10 subcontinent populations. Current PhD research is in individual cranial bone morphology and morphology of the brain lobes taken from endocasts of hominoids. Research includes fieldwork to Ethiopia, Tanzania and South Africa in 2014 as well as research trips to Indonesia in 2014. I am also interested in the phylogenetic signal from individual cranial bones and the individual lobes of the brain in hominoids.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

2013 Pearson, A.K. A craniometric study of inter- and intrapopulation variation of India. HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology 64: 157.
PRIZES

2013 The Rhys Jones Fieldwork Endowment Fund. Awarded by Archaeological Research Centre, The Australian National University, Australia.
2009 The Katherine Dolan Memorial Award for studies in Ancient History. Awarded by the Humanities Department, The University of New England, Australia.

SCHOLARSHIPS

2012 Enterprise Access Undergraduate Scholarship. Received from the Australian National University.
2009-2011 Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarship. Received from the University of New England, Australia.
CONFERENCES

2012 The Australasian Society for Human Biology, Port Vila, Vanuatu.
2013 The Australasian Society for Human Biology, Sydney, Australia.