April Nowell is a Paleolithic archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the U. of Victoria (Canada). She specializes in the archaeology of children, cognitive archaeology, lithics, UP art and the relationship between science, pop culture and the media. She excavates Paleo sites in Jordan where they discovered the world's oldest identifiable protein on stone tools and she collaborates on the study of UP art in Australia & France and OES beads in South Africa.