Briana Pobiner

Briana Pobiner

Research Scientist and Museum Educator, Smithsonian Institution

Briana Pobiner is a paleoanthropologist who studies the evolution of the human diet, particularly meat-eating, with research also covering topics like human cannibalism and chimpanzee carnivory. She has conducted fieldwork across Africa and Indonesia and now leads education and outreach for the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program. Her work also includes evolution education and science communication.

Latest articles by Briana Pobiner

A view of many bones laid out on a table and labeled

Human ancestor was in Eurasia nearly 2 million years ago, cut marks on animal bones suggest

By Briana Pobiner, Sabrina Curran, Virgil Drãgușin published

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years.

Archaeology