“72nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists”, Tempe, Arizona 23rd-26th April 2003

The University of Arizona hosted the 2003 American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) conference at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, in Tempe, Arizona. According to John H. Relethford, the Program Committee Chair and Editor, this year’s meeting was the largest held with 682 podium and poster presentations in 55 sessions, with a total of 1300 authors participating. Speakers were students and members of staff from universities and other related professionals from Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South America, the United Kingdom and the United States. Some of the main topics for the poster and podium sessions were human, skeletal, and primate biology; hominid and primate evolution; primate behaviour; dental anthropology and morphology; genetics and paleopathology. Over the three-day conference there were 29 poster and 26 podium sessions, which ran four or five at time. This review only refers to the sessions attended, in conjunction with information from the conference programme and abstracts (American Association of Physical Anthropologists 2003).