Abstract Archaeological interpretations regarding violence often rely on limited views on the role of women. Women are often portrayed as passive victims-as sacrificial objects, casualties in conflict ...

In 2020, the School of Anthropology supported a Faculty Research Grant to create a series of 22 videos highlighting the ecological knowledge and expertise of wildlife guides in Ranomafana National ...

Associate Professor Eric Plemons will give a paper in the Trans/Medicine workshop in the Johns Hopkins University Department of the History of Medicine. The paper is titled “The Allegory of the ...

The School of Anthropology is proud to present the latest SoA Wenner-Gren recipients, Ashleigh Thompson and Paula Ugalde. Hearty congratulations to both! Here’s a look at their projects. With the ...

SoA Professor Terry Hunt's research was featured in multiple news articles regarding the emergence of a previously unresearched moai statue. The statue became visible when a dried lakebed allowed ...

SoA Associate Professor Robin Reineke, who is also Associate Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center in the School of Global Studies, joined the Voices of Fronteridades podcast to discuss ...

Join us to celebrate the start of the new semester and academic year! Come meet new Anthropology community members and catch up with old friends. We will also introduce new staff and faculty members.

In her latest publication in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, SoA Assistant Professor Stefanie Graeter tracks lead toxicology from the United States to Peru to show how transnational discourses of lead ...

From the team that brought you the oldest and largest Maya monument, Aguada Fénix in Tabasco, Mexico, now we have…“ nearly 500 ancient ceremonial sites in Southern Mexico,” to quote the headline from ...

Professor Vance Holliday was profiled in the latest issue of Mammoth Trumpet, a quarterly science news magazine focused on the peopling of the Americas and published by the Center for the Study of the ...

Abstract: Recent research in developmental biology and epigenetics indicates that environmental factors may exert significant influence over processes of growth and development. In particular, the ...