Participant Info
- First Name
- Paige
- Last Name
- Madison
- Country
- United States
- State
- AZ Arizona
- pamadiso@asu.edu
- Affiliation
- Arizona State University
- Website URL
- fossilhistorypage.com
- Keywords
- history of science, paleoanthropology, anthropology
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Paige Madison is a PhD Candidate at Arizona State University, studying the history of science, focusing on paleoanthropology. Her dissertation research examines three controversial fossils: the first Neanderthal (1856), the first Australopithecine (1924), and the original Homo floresiensis (2003). By comparing these three episodes, separated by vast stretches of space and time, Paige explores the ways fossils occasionally disrupt scientific consensus and instigate new ideas about human evolution. Her work situates these fossil discoveries within imperial history, as well as European, South African, and Indonesian history more broadly.
- Recent Publications
“The Most Brutal of Human Skulls: Measuring and Knowing the First Neanderthal.” The British Journal for the History of Science 2016, 49, no. 3: 411–432 doi: 10.1017/S0007087416000650
“The Forgotten Fossil: The Wild Homo calpicus of Gibraltar.” Endeavour 2016, 40, no. 4: 268–270 doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2016.09.005
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @FossilHistory
- Country Focus
- Europe, South Africa, Indonesia
- Expertise by Geography
- Africa, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Science
