Anthropology and Geography

Tewabe Negash Kassaw

Graduate Instructor

About

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  • Office Hours

    Friday. 10:00-11:00 AM & 2:00-4:00 PM

  • Role

    Graduate Student

  • Position

    • Graduate Instructor
    • PhD Candidate

  • Concentration

    • Biological Anthropology

  • Department

    • Anthropology and Geography

  • Education

    • Ph.D. Candidate, Colorado State University
    • M.Sc. in Paleoanthropology, Addis Ababa University
    • B.A. in Archaeology and Heritage Management, Addis Ababa University

  • Curriculum Vitae:

Biography

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Biological Anthropology at CSU. For the first two years of my Ph.D., I was a Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellow. I have participated in various paleoanthropological and archaeological field projects, including at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, Afar and Shinfa in Ethiopia, and the Washakie Wilderness in Wyoming.

To learn more about my research:

https://anthgr.colostate.edu/2024/07/tewabe-kessaw-summer2024/

https://leakeyfoundation.org/announcing-the-2021-baldwin-fellows/

https://leakeyfoundation.org/2022-baldwin-fellows/

https://africacenter.colostate.edu/fellowship-recipients/tewabe-negash/

Publications

Keevil, T. L., Pelissero, A. J., Gniewek, E., Muttart, M. V., Orlikoff, E. R., Gumrukcu Uslu, M., Negash, T., Osborne, I., Tolley, A., Capaldo, S. D., & Pante, M. C. (2026). TaphoSource: An open-source database of experimentally generated bone surface modifications for modeling taphonomic processes. Journal of Human Evolution, 219, 103876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2026.103876

Veatch, E. G., Alamsyah, N., Pante, M., Pelissero, A., Negash, T., Pobiner, B., Betts, C. R., Jatmiko, Sutikna, T., & Tocheri, M. W. (2026). Taphonomic analysis at Liang Bua reveals the behavioral and technological capabilities of Homo floresiensis. Science Advances, 12(27), eaeb7219. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb7219

Keevil, T. L., Pelissero, A. J., Negash, T., Orlikoff, E. R., Osborne, I., Tolley, A. M., Pobiner, B., & Pante, M. C. (2026). A comparative bone surface modification database for revealing the origins and evolution of human carnivory. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 1681814. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo. 2026.1681814

Kappelman, J., Todd, L. C., Davis, C. A., Cerling, T. E., Feseha, M., Getahun, A., Johnsen, R., Kay, M., Kocurek, G. A., Nachman, B. A., Negash, A., Negash, T., et al. (2024). Adaptive foraging behaviours in the Horn of Africa during Toba supereruption. Nature, 628(8007), 365–372. https://doi.org/10.1038/ s41586-024-07208-3