Please join the Department of Anthropology in congratulating Megan Anne Conger on her upcoming Dissertation Defense on November 7th at 11:00am. Megan will be defending her Dissertation entitled: "Radiocarbon Dating Early Trade and World System Expansion in Iroquoian Southern Ontario, Canada, AD 1550-1650".  Way to go Megan !

The article from ScienceNews discusses the Indigenous history behind Georgia’s Lake Oconee, and their “rule by the people long before the U.S Constitution was written.” Indigenous American research from members of UGA’s Department of Anthropolog

The Department of Anthropology is excited to host our Photo Contest Gallery Show!!!

Stop by Friday, September 9th from 1-3 pm at the Anthropology Main Office (250 Baldwin Hall) to view our undergraduate and graduate galleries, vote for this year's winners, and enjoy sweet treats and refreshments!

Voting starts Friday, September 9th @1pm and ends Friday, September 16th @5 pm

Winners will be announced on Monday, September 19th!!!!

Jon Micon will defend his Dissertation, "Reconsidering the Depopulation of the St. Lawrence River Valley Using a Radiocarbon and Material-Based Perspective", on Friday, November 11th at 2:00pm. Please join us in supporting his hard work and congratulate him on this accomplishment. Way to go Jon!

Dr. Suzanne Pilaar Birch is a co-Principal Investigator of “Disciplinary Improvements for Past Global Change Research: Connecting Data Systems and Practitioners” which has just been funded under the National Science Foundation’s Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable Open Science Research Coordination Networks (FAIROS RCN) program.

Katharine Napora, PhD is an environmental archaeologist at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Napora specializes in coastal societies to better understand how people interacted with the Atlantic coastlines of North America and Europe. Her passions include developing collaborative, interdisciplinary projects, advancing heritage science methodologies, and using information about the ancient past to improve resilience, sustainability, and social justice. 

Congratulations to Dr. Laura German, whose NSF Research Team seminar proposal, Advancing the Anthropology of Contract was selected for funding by the School for Advanced Research (SAR).

I graduated from the College of Wooster in 2018 with a BA in archaeology and classical studies (emphasis on classical languages). Since graduating, I have worked at a public library as a youth services associate (yes, this included organizing story times for young children) and then lived in Paraguay for two years with my partner who is Paraguayan.

The ScienceNews story, "Zoo gorillas use a weird new call that sounds like a sneezy cough," features a published article by Dr. Roberta Salmi and colleagues.

To read Dr. Salmi's full article, "A novel attention-getting vocalization in zoo-housed western gorillas," click here!