John H. Relethford is an American biological anthropologist and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Oneonta (SUNY Oneonta).
Relethford received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany in 1980.
[1] For example, he has proposed his own version of the "Out of Africa" model, the standard theory for the evolution of modern humans; he has described his model as placing human origins "mostly out of Africa".
[3] Relethford received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1994-1995, and the first recipient of SUNY Oneonta's Susan Sutton Smith Prize for Academic Excellence in 1995.
In 2017, he received the American Association of Physical Anthropologists' Gabriel Lasker Distinguished Service Award.