Michael Rogers

Michael Rogers is a Professor of Anthropology at Southern Connecticut State University, specializing in the archaeology of human origins. With over 20 years of field experience in East Africa, he focuses on discovering, excavating, and analyzing the earliest archaeological sites globally. His research spans lithics, zooarchaeology, and landscape archaeology, with a strong emphasis on Early and Middle Stone Age studies.

Rogers' work explores the behavioral variability of early hominins through stone tool analysis and fossil bone studies. He has contributed to understanding the Oldowan-Acheulian transition, hominin land use in the Turkana and Awash Basins, and the co-occurrence of Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts with Homo erectus fossils.

His scholarship includes collaborations with researchers like S. Semaw, D. Stout, and N. E. Levin. Though no scientific awards are listed, his grants from the Leakey Foundation and various Connecticut State University departments have supported fieldwork in Ethiopia's Gona region.

Rogers has presented his findings at international conferences, addressing paleoenvironmental evidence from faunal analysis and postcranial fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus. His publications highlight technological variation in the earliest Oldowan tools and the African Acheulean.