3.12.25
Archaeology Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
1.24.25
Michael Frachetti named as new co-director of the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures
10.9.24
Underwater caves yield new clues about Sicily’s first residents
9.30.24
Using drone imagery to help the slow loris
9.26.24
Frachetti receives $2.4 million to study resilience in Asia-Pacific region
8.16.24
Obituary: Patty Jo Watson, professor emerita in anthropology, 92
7.9.24
Archaeologists report earliest evidence for plant farming in east Africa
3.28.24
Movement of crops, animals played key role in domestication
3.8.24
Why do we blame the victim?
12.13.23
Earliest evidence for domestic yak found using both archaeology, ancient DNA
12.8.23
Presidential Curation
11.15.23
Sanz awarded Saint Louis Zoo Conservation Award
11.13.23
Scientists unearth earliest human burial in Kazakhstan
11.13.23
Telling a tale of two cities
11.3.23
Woman the Hunter: WashU alums collaborate to challenge gender stereotypes of early humans
10.24.23
WashU team to study virus transmission, human-wildlife interaction
10.23.23
Photo essay: Researching retirement in the Himalayas
9.29.23
How I Chose My Major
8.24.23
Wiseman-Jones awarded Leakey Foundation grant
8.9.23
Parasites, bacteria infecting high rates of Cahokia Heights residents, study finds
5.16.23
A Traumatized Woman with Multiple Personalities Gets Better as Her ‘Parts’ Work as a Team
4.21.23
Faculty named to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
4.10.23
Early crop plants were more easily ‘tamed’
3.22.23
Quinn awarded grant to compare neurotropic markers in human and primate milk
2.23.23
Front Page Story of Archaeology Magazine: Wheat Irrigation in Ancient China’s Dry Land
2.23.23
Malaria Infection Harms Wild African Apes
2.21.23
WashU great ape, biodiversity research informs decision to expand Congolese park
1.19.23
Reimagining power relations: non-hierarchical social complexity at Poverty Point
12.13.22
Food Globalization Dynamics in Prehistory and the Climate
11.30.22
Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network
11.17.22
WashU Expert: West must grasp Putin’s worldview to avoid further surprise
11.15.22
Thirsty wheat needed new water management strategy in ancient China
11.9.22
Arts & Sciences announces fall 2022 SPEED grant winners
10.26.22
The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Can Inform an Inclusive Future of Science
10.20.22
Inspiring hope through action
10.18.22
Graduate students recognized for research excellence
10.4.22
America’s Lost Crops Rewrite The History of Farming
9.30.22
Study reports first evidence of social relationships between chimpanzees, gorillas
9.21.22
Boyer to study the emergence and persistence of “wild” religions
9.15.22
Baugh named to board of Oxford Dictionary of African American English
8.9.22
Return to the field
8.8.22
One researcher’s artifact is another’s result
7.5.22
Study points to Armenian origins of ancient crop with aviation biofuel potential
6.21.22
May 2022 Anthropology Awards
5.4.22
Gustafson receives Bryce Wood Book Award
4.1.22
2021 Photography Contest
3.9.22
From the Congo to the carpool
3.1.22
Big data arrives on the farm
2.25.22
WashU Expert: Putin is using ‘victim’ narrative to justify Ukraine attack
1.26.22
Crickette Sanz named AAAS Fellow
1.19.22
WashU Experts: What the future holds for Ukraine, Kazakhstan
11.19.21
Researchers of ancient DNA set guidelines for their work
10.28.21
New database highlights underrepresented scholars of African archaeology
10.27.21
Stone receives grant to study perceptions of CRISPR in food production
10.11.21
Rooted in St. Louis: Professor Gayle Fritz illuminates the history of St. Louis human-plant relationships at Cahokia
9.10.21
New evidence supports idea that America’s first civilization was made up of ‘sophisticated’ engineers
8.23.21
Anthropology Open House
8.4.21
’Til the cows come home
7.13.21
What Does Europe Have Against Halal?
6.4.21
Lois Beck Quoted in June 2021 Issue of Smithsonian Magazine
5.19.21
May 2021 Anthropology Awards
5.19.21
2021 Anthropology Graduation Ceremony
5.10.21
Wealth, status could not shield 19th-century families from parasitic infection
5.3.21
Class Acts: The Researchers
4.30.21
Now Streaming: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Petra Vaiglová, An archaeologist’s view: how connectivity drove our human past
4.16.21
Highlands hunt for climate answers
4.8.21
Study: Scant evidence that ‘wood overuse’ at Cahokia caused local flooding, subsequent collapse
3.31.21
A tale of two forests could reveal path forward for saving endangered lemurs
3.30.21
WashU Expert: How to cope with pandemic anniversary emotions
3.4.21
Africa Initiative awards new round of pilot grants
2.26.21
Under climate stress, human innovation set stage for population surge
2.24.21
Trust your gut: A healthy sense of disgust can prevent sickness
2.22.21
New Postdocs and Academic Positions in Sociocultural Anthropology
2.2.21
Now Streaming: Assistant Professor Helina Woldekiros, The Kingdom of Aksum: Africa's trading empire
2.1.21
Rebecca Lester mentioned in an article about the Rites of Passage in the New York Times
1.28.21
Faculty Spotlight with Krista Milich, Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology
1.22.21
2020 Anthropology Awards Ceremony
12.18.20
Alyse Kuhlman and Krista Milich Win Dean's Community Response Award
12.14.20
Holland-Lulewicz discovery named Top 10 in 2020
11.23.20
Secrets of the ‘lost crops’ revealed where bison roam
11.10.20
David Strait in a New York Times story about ancient human cousins
11.9.20
Newly discovered fossil documents small-scale evolutionary changes in an extinct human species
11.5.20
Local cooking preferences drove acceptance of new crop staples in prehistoric China
10.27.20
A major, yet minor, life decision
10.22.20
Bolivia in the Age of Gas By Bret Gustafson
10.21.20
Krista Milich honored with Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award
10.16.20
Parikh co-edits collection documenting Ferguson uprising, afterlives
9.17.20
Chelsey Carter and Allison Mickel: Statues memorialize everything in a person's history, including torture
9.11.20
Fritz wins book award for ‘Feeding Cahokia’
9.11.20
COVID-19 course moved beyond the science to explore virus’s impact on society
8.25.20
COVID-19 human milk studies should continue without stopping breastfeeding, researchers say
8.21.20
Lester’s book on eating disorders wins Victor Turner Prize
8.21.20
Natalia Guzmán Solano Wins ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship
8.19.20
Termite-fishing chimpanzees provide clues to the evolution of technology
8.14.20
Wrighton named inaugural holder of Wertsch professorship
8.7.20
Announcing new course about the COVID-19 pandemic
8.5.20
Monkeying around: Study finds older primates father far fewer babies
8.4.20
Rewriting history: New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization
7.31.20
Professor Rebecca Lester's book won 3rd prize in the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing
7.28.20
Pandemic Fear Grips Nepal's Remote Villages
7.27.20
A Nepalese Region Reclaims Its Holy Water
6.16.20
Anthropology statement on Black Lives Matter, racism and inequality
5.14.20
May 2020 Anthropology PhD
5.6.20
Students tackle anthropology of COVID-19
5.6.20
Close encounters in the forest: western lowland gorillas
5.1.20
Spring 2020 Senior Honors Thesis
4.30.20
H. Kathleen Cook Graduate Student Prize Awardee 2019-2020
4.27.20
Marshall elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
4.20.20
Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago
4.3.20
Fossil discoveries rewrite our family history
4.2.20
Lifestyle trumps geography in determining makeup of gut microbiome
3.23.20
Tang Dynasty noblewoman buried with her donkeys, for the love of polo
3.16.20
Long-term analysis shows GM cotton no match for insects in India
2.12.20
No clear path for Golden Rice to reach consumers
2.7.20
The Life and Legacy of a Himalayan Buddhist Master: Pema Döndrub (1668 –1744)
1.31.20
Green in tooth and claw
1.21.20
2019 Photography Contest
1.21.20
Now Streaming: Professor Geoff Childs, Anthropological Demography in Nepal
