Elliot Greiner
Postdoc
Abteilung für Menschliche Ursprünge
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
E-Mail:
elliot_greiner@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
- Paleoecology
- Hominoid Evolution
- Functional Anatomy
- Mammalogy
Curriculum vita
Education
| 2017-2024 | Ph.D., Biological Anthropology, University of Michigan |
| 2023 | Master of Arts (embedded), Biological Anthropology, University of Michigan |
| 2013-2017 | B.S. Cum Laude, Biological Anthropology, Minor in Creative Writing, The George Washington University |
Research Experience
Fieldwork
| 2024 | Mountain Gorilla Skeletal Excavation, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Excavation and preparation of mountain gorilla skeletal material buried over the past ~25 years in Bwindi for the construction of an on-site skeletal research collection. Overseen by Tracy Kivell, Shannon McFarlin, and Martha Robbins. |
| 2023-present | Oaxaca Valley Ecological Survey, Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Fieldwork characterizing organismal dietary variation in modern and archeological (100-1100 AD) ecological contexts within the Valley of Oaxaca. CO P.I. (With J. Weston Wardle) |
| 2020-2024 | TheBelson Site, Mendon, Michigan, United States. Excavation of Michigan’s first potential Clovis site. P.I. Brendan Nash |
| 2023 | Buttonwood Site, Perrysburg, Ohio, United States. Excavation of a late Woodland fishing village (~AD 1250) on the Maumee River. P.I. Laura Bossio. |
| 2023 | Washakie Basin, Wyoming, United States. Survey and excavation of middle Eocene (48-45 Ma) mammals, with emphasis on tooth enamel collection for isotopic analysis. P.I. Melissa Wood. |
| 2023 | Crna Bara Prkos, Crna Bara, Serbia. Excavation of Neolithic tell. Oversaw analysis of Medieval (~600-800 AD) osteological material. P.I. Iride Tomazic. |
2018-2022 | Baringo Basin, Kenya. Ph.D. fieldwork collecting, excavating, and analyzing mammalian fossil material from the eastern African Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene. P.I. Dr. John Kingston. |
| 2016 | Olduvai Gorge Field School, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (The Olduvai Paleoanthropology Project), P.I. Dr. Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Excavated Plio-Pleistocene mammalian and hominin sites. |
| 2014 | Koobi Fora Field School, Ileret, Kenya, P.I. Dr. Stephen Merritt. Survey and excavation of Plio-Pleistocene fossils, researching instances of anthropogenic bone modification on faunal specimens. |
Lab work
| 2017-2024 | University of Michigan Paleoecology Lab, Ann Arbor, Michigan. P.I. Dr. John Kingston. Enamel isotopic analysis of Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene teeth for dietary reconstruction. |
| 2016-2017 | George Washington University Hominin Paleobiology Lab, Washington, DC, P.I. Dr. Andrew Barr. Geometric Morphometric modeling and analysis of East African bovid femora for ecomorphological study (Senior thesis work). |
| 2015-2017 | George Washington University Archaeology Lab, Washington, D.C, P.I. Kathryn Ranhorn. Assisted in the manufacture and analysis of experimental lithic nodules used in a Middle Stone Age behavioral transmission study. |
| 2015 | Anthropology Department, The National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C. P.I. Dr. Briana Pobiner. Analyzed, catalogued, and photographed anthropogenic and tooth marks on recent East African faunal assemblages. |
| 2014 - 2015 | Entomology Department, The National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C. P.I. Dr. Allen Norrbom. Identified, sorted, and prepared Peruvian, Brazilian, and Bolivian fly specimens. |
Research Grants
| 2021 | National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($12,648) |
| 2021 | L.S.B Leakey Foundation Grant ($12,660) |
Projects & Partners
- Mountain Gorilla Skeletal Excavation. (Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda)
T. Kivell, S. McFarlin, M. Robbins - Oaxaca Valley Ecological Survey (Oaxaca, Mexico)
J. Weston Wardle - Isotopic Ecology of the Washakie Fm. (Wyoming)
M. Wood, S. Tomiya - Belson Archaeological Site. (Mendon, Michigan)
B. Nash, T. Talbot, I. Beggen, H. Wright