In mid-June, several UMMAA staff and students participated in a day-long series of tours for attendees of the 12th North American Paleontological Convention, hosted by the Museum of Paleontology. UMMAA and the Museum of Paleontology are both housed at the U-M Research Museums Center, south of the Ann Arbor campus. Tour guides included Fatimah Alhawary, UMMAA museum assistant (pictured here), who discussed her work inventorying and rehousing archaeological material from UMMAA curator Henry Wright's excavations of Tepe Farukhabad, Iran; Michael Galaty, UMMAA director, who showed attendees a 3D print of Homo floresiensis, which is part of the Dean Falk Collection of hominid endocasts at UMMAA; Andrea Blaser, UMMAA collections manager, who showed off a turtle shell salakot (hat) from the southern Philippines; Matthew Michalski, UMMAA museum assistant, who discussed his work at the Belson archaeological site in southwestern Michigan; and Kimberly Swisher, recent UMMAA PhD graduate, who talked about archaeological material from the Singer-Moye site in Georgia.
