DARRYL de RUITER

Assistant Professor
Anthropology

Department of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
TAMU 4352
College Station, TX 77843-4352
Office: 310F Anthropology (map)
Phone: 979.845.4940
E-mail: deruiter@tamu.edu
Department Web page

Keywords: cranio-dental and post-cranial anatomy of early African hominids; Australopithecine paleobiology; zooarchaeology; taphonomy; isotope ecology of modern and ancient African ecosystems

Disciplines: Community Ecology & Population Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Paleobiology

Courses:
ANTH 201: Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 225: Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANTH 312: Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution
ANTH 625: Zooarchaeology
ANTH 689: Australopithecine Paleoecology

Selected publications:
de Ruiter, D.J., Steininger, C. and Berger, L.R. (2005). A Cranial Base of Australopithecus robustus from the Hanging Remnant of Swartkrans, South Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, in press.

Codron, D., Luyt, J., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Sponheimer, M., de Ruiter. D.J. and Codron, J. (2005). Utilization of savanna-based resources by baboons during the Plio-Pleistocene. South African Journal of Science, in press.

Codron, J, Lee-Thorp, J.A., Sponheimer, M., Grant, C.C., Codron, D., & de Ruiter, D. (2005). Seasonal and Geographical Differences in African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) and Sympatric Herbivore Diets in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Journal of Mammalogy in press.

Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J. and de Ruiter, D.J. (2005). Chapter 8: Icarus, isotopes and australopithecine Diets. In: Ungar, P. (editor) Evolution of Hominin Diet: The Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable. Oxford University Press, in press.

Codron, J., Codron, D., Lee-Thorp, J. A., Sponheimer, M., Bond, W. J., de Ruiter, D, & Grant, R. (2005). Taxonomic, Anatomical, and Spatio-Temporal Variations in Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Plants from a Typical Savanna. Journal of Archaeological Science, in press.