Curriculum
Vitae
Gerald Gilbert Eck
Date of Birth:
March 8, 1942
Place of Birth:
Marinette, Wisconsin.
Education:
University of Chicago: 1960 - 1964.
University of Oregon: 1964 - 1966.
University of California, Los Angeles: 1966 - 1968.
University of Chicago: 1969 - 1970.
University of California, Berkeley: 1970 - 1974.
Degrees:
B.A., University of Chicago: June, 1964.
M.A., University of California, Berkeley: June, 1974.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley: June, 1977.
Dissertation Title:
Morphometric Variability in the
Dentitions and Teeth of Theropithecus
and Papio.
Employment:
1987 - Present
Adjunct Associate Professor, Quaternary Research Center, University of
Washington.
1984 - Present
Senior Visiting Scientist, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State
University.
1983 - Present
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.
1993 - 1995
Senior Paleontologist, Hadar Research Project.
1989
Consultant, Olduvai Research Expedition.
1985 - 1988
Co-director, Olduvai Research Expedition.
1977 - 1983
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.
1974 - 1977
Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.
Field Work and Data Collection:
2000 – 2001
Paleontological survey of the Hadar Formation; Institute of Human Origins and
National Science Foundation.
1993 - 1995
Paleontological survey of the Hadar Formation; Institute of Human Origins and
National Science Foundation.
1991
Study of fossil and modern faunae at the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi;
Institute of Human Origins.
1990
Preparations for paleontological survey in northern Tanzania; Institute of
Human Origins.
1985 - 1989
Paleontological survey of Olduvai Gorge; Institute of Human Origins and
National Science Foundation.
1982
Member, Awash Research Expedition; National Science Foundation.
1980
Analysis and description of the fossil cercopithecoids from the Hadar
Formation; Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
1978
Data collection in South Africa, Kenya, London, and Cleveland for project on
the description of the skull of Theropithecus brumpti; University of Washington and the Omo Research
Expedition.
1973
Participant, workshop conference on Stratigraphy, Paleoecology and Evolution in
the Lake Rudolf Basin, Nairobi, Kenya; Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research.
1972 - 73
Collection of dissertation data, South Africa, Kenya, Italy, Switzerland,
Germany, Belgium, France, and England; Omo Research Expedition.
1968 - 71
Paleontological survey, lower Omo basin, southwestern Ethiopia; Omo Research
Expedition.
1968
Preparation of data from Combe Grenal, Les Eyzies, France; L. R. Binford.
1966
Excavation in northern California; University of Oregon.
1965
Excavation at Grasshopper Site, Arizona; University of Arizona.
Publications:
Howell, F. C., L. S. Fichter, and G. G.
Eck 1969 Vertebrate assemblages from the Usno Formation, White Sands and Brown
Sands localities, lower Omo Basin, Ethiopia. Quarternaria, 9:65-88.
Eck, G. G. and F. C. Howell 1972 New
fossil Cercopithecus material from the lower Omo basin, Ethiopia. Folia
primatologia, 18:325-355.
Eck, G. G. 1976 Cercopithecoidea from Omo
Group deposits. In Earliest Man and Environments in the Lake Rudolf Basin. Y. Coppens, F. C. Howell, G. L. Isaac, and R. E.
F. Leakey, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. pp. 332-344.
Eck, G. G. 1977 Diversity and frequency
distribution of Omo Group Cercopithecoidea. Journal of Human Evolution, 6(1):55-63.
Eck, G. G. 1977 Morphometric
Variability in the Dentitions and Teeth of Theropithecus and Papio.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of
California, Berkeley.
Shuey, R. T., F. H. Brown, G. G. Eck, and
F. C. Howell 1978 A statistical approach to temporal biostratigraphy. In Geological
Background to Fossil Man. W. W.
Bishop, ed. The Geological Society of London, London. pp. 103-124.
Brown, F. H., F. C. Howell, and G. G. Eck
1978 Observations on problems on correlation of late Cenozoic hominid-bearing
formations in the north Rudolf basin. In Geological Background to Fossil Man. W. W. Bishop, ed. The Geological Society of
London, London. pp. 473-498.
Eck, G. G. and F. C. Howell 1982 Un
primate des formations plio-pléistocènes d’Afrique orientale: Theropithecus brumpti (Arambourg), (Primates, Cercopithecidae). Comptes rendus des
séances de l’Académie des Sciences,
II, 295:397-400.
Eck, G. G. and N. G. Jablonski 1984 A
reassessment of the taxonomic status and phyletic relationships of Papio
baringensis and Papio
quadratirostris (Primates:Cercopithecidae).
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 65:109-134.
Johanson, D. C., F. Masao, G. G. Eck, T.
D. White, R. C. Walter, W. H. Kimbel, B. Asfaw, P. Manega, P. Ndessokia, and G.
Suwa 1987 New partial hominid skeleton of Homo habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Nature, 327(6119):205-209.
Eck, G. G. 1987 Plio-Pleistocene
specimens of Cercopithecus
from the Shungura Formation, southwestern Ethiopia. Cercopithecidae de la
formation de Shungura. Les faunes plio-pléistocènes de la vallée de l’Omo, Tome
3:141-146. Cahiers de Paléontologie,
Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
Eck, G. G. 1987 Theropithecus oswaldi from the Shungura Formation, lower Omo valley,
southwestern Ethiopia. Cercopithecidae de la formation de Shungura. Les faunes
plio-pléistocènes de la vallée de l’Omo, Tome 3:123-140. Cahiers de
Paléontologie, Editions du Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
Eck, G. G. and N. G. Jablonski 1987 The
skull of Theropithecus brumpti
compared with those of other species of the genus Theropithecus. Cercopithecidae de la formation de Shungura. Les
faunes plio-pléistocènes de la vallée de l’Omo, Tome 3:10-123. Cahiers de
Paléontologie, Editions du Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
Eck, G. G. 1993 Theropithecus darti from the Hadar Formation, Ethiopia. In Theropithecus: The rise and fall of a primate
genus. N. G. Jablonski, ed.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 15 - 83.
Delson, E., G. G. Eck, M. G. Leakey, and
N. G. Jablonski 1993 A partial Catalogue of Fossil Remains of Theropithecus. In
Theropithecus: The rise and fall of a primate genus. N. G. Jablonski, ed. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge. pp. 499 - 525.
Kimbel, W. H., R. C. Walter, D. C.
Johanson, K. E. Reed, J. L. Aronson, Z. Assefa, C. W. Marean, G. G. Eck, R.
Bobe, E. Hovers, Y. Rak, C. Vondra, T. Yemane, D. York, Y. Chen, N. M. Evensen,
and P. E. Smith 1996 Late Pliocene Homo and Oldowan tools from the Hadar
Formation (Kada Hadar Member), Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution, 31:549-561.
Kramer, P.
A., and G. G. Eck 2000 Locomotor energetics and leg length in hominid
bipedality. Journal of Human Evolution.
Bobe, R. and
G. G. Eck 2001 Patterns of abundance and diversity in Pliocene Bovidae from the
Shungura Formation, lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Paleobiology.
Grants:
1978
Anatomical Comparison of the Skull of Theropithecus brumpti to that of other Species of the Genus. University
of Washington, Graduate School Research Fund. $3703.
1987
Renewed Paleoanthropological Research at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. National
Science Foundation. Two Years—$140,000.
1988
Paleoanthropological Research at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Mr. Gordon Hanes.
$15,000.