We have an extensive, museum-quality natural and replica collection of modern humans and hominins, a large natural bone human skeletal collection, and a non-human primate skeletal collection. Our lab is fully equipped to function as a classroom.
Miriam Belmaker, PhD
Collection Curator and Lab Director
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Henry Kendall College of Arts & Sciences
Harwell Hall, Room 105
918-631-3759
miriam-belmaker@utulsa.edu
Miriam Belmaker is an Associate Professor at The University of Tulsa. She is the curator and lab director of the Human Osteology Collections, Zooarchaeology and Paleoanthropology Collections and heads a research group on Surface Metrology and Tribology.
Dr. Belmaker is a Paleolithic archaeologist and paleoanthropologist. Her research focuses on environmental change primarily in the past 2 million years and how it affected hominid biological and cultural evolution. She analyzes fossil faunal remains obtained from archaeological and paleontological sites to reconstruct ancient environments through space and time and to ask questions about human evolution.
She earned a BA in prehistoric archaeology and ecology from Haifa University, Israel, and an MSc and PhD in Evolution and Ecology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and has been at TU since 2012.
Belmaker has conducted archaeological fieldwork at Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic sites in Israel, Jordan, Armenia, Caucasus, Central and East Asia. Her professional interests include human evolution, paleoecology, climate and human interactions, zooarchaeology of vertebrates, and taphonomy.
