The Royal Tyrrell Museum Speaker Series is discussing a topic seldom studied in Drumheller: our own species, Homo sapiens.
To that end the Tyrrell Museum has invited its first out-of-town speaker of the new year, Dr. Gary Haynes of the University of Nevada-Reno, to speak.
Dr. Haynes, a professor of anthropology, research focuses on the earliest people of the Americas. The talk will look at the current knowledge and conjecture about the timing and nature of the earliest appearance of Homo sapiens in North America, more than 13,000 years ago.
Dr. Haynes will also explore the effects that the migration had on the large mammals, such as mammoths and sabre-toothed cats, that lived in North American at the time. A question that has lingered for years is whether the arrival of humans was responsible for the extinction of the large Ice Age mammals.
The Speaker Series will be held in the Royal Tyrrell Museum auditorium on Thursday, February 9, at 11:00 a.m. For more information about the Speaker Series visit www.tyrrellmuseum.com.
