Trenton Holliday


Trenton Holliday is a paleoanthropologist who was involved in the discovery of Homo naledi, found in the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa in 2015. Holliday, along with his team, analyzed the body size and proportions of the fossil.
Holliday is a professor and Anthropology Department Chair at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he teaches human evolution, function morphology, and modern human adaptation and variation. He studies the origins of Homo sapiens, origin of the genus Homo, the fate of the Neanderthals, hybridization among extant mammals, and late Australopithecus.
Holliday got his B.A. in anthropology from Louisiana State University and M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology in the University of New Mexico.

Selected publications

Publication dateName of publication
July 2023
September 2015
August 2014
April 2013
December 2012
November 2009
January 2008
December 2003
December 2003
August 2002
August 2001
August/October 2000
May 1999
December 1998
December 1998
May 1997
May 1997
September 1996
August 1995