April Nowell

April Nowell is an archaeologist and an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria in British, Columbia, Canada. She earned her PhD in 2000 from the University of Pennsylvania and specializes in human evolution. In particular, she is interested in the origins of art, language, and symbol use and in the emergence of the modern mind. While she has excavated sites in many parts of the world from Thule Inuit sites in the Canadian High Arctic to Mayan sites in Belize, her current research takes her to Jordan in the Middle East where she leads an international team in the study of Neanderthal lifeways as the director of the Druze Marsh Paleolithic and Paleo-ecological Project (DMAPP).