Ohio State Professor Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Anthropology

Clark Spencer Larsen, chair and professor of the Department of Anthropology at Ohio State, is the recipient of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists' (AAPA) Gabriel W. Lasker Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service to the field of anthropology and to the AAPA.

Larsen is a nationally and internationally recognized authority on bioarchaeology. His research is primarily focused on biocultural adaptation in the last 10,000 years of human evolution. He is the co-director of Ohio State's History of Global Health Project, an international collaboration involved in the study of ancient skeletons from all continents in order to track health changes.

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