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Assistant Professor Roberta Salmi works with the producers of movies in the Planet of the Apes franchise

Assistant Professor Roberta Salmi has been working with the producers of the latest two movies in the Planet of the Apes franchise, using her primatology fieldwork and research to provide authenticity to the movies’ gorilla portrayals.

Artifacts found at the Singer-Moye field site

July 28—Day of Georgia Archaeology

Today, through August 4, join us in celebrating this year’s appreciation of archaeology in the state of Georgia. Here at UGA the work is always intense.

Interior view of reconstructed Iroquois longhouse

Assistant Professor Birch awarded National Science Foundation grant to develop high-precision Northern Iroquoian chronology through radiocarbon dating

Assistant Professor Jennifer Birch has been awarded an National Science Foundation grant for a project called “Establishing a High-Resolution Framework for Age Determination.” This research will, for the first time, construct a high-precision radiocarbon chronology for select Northern Iroquoian…

Suzanne Pilaar Birch in the field in Cypress at six months pregnant.

Suzanne Pilaar Birch discusses working in the field while pregnant—and shares other women's fieldwork stories—in the internationally read Guardian newspaper

Assistant Professor of anthropology and geology Suzanne Pilaar Birch had a dilemma. She’d just been offered her grant-funded fieldwork opportunity in Cypress, yet her son’s birth was just three months away. Was it safe?

Samm Holder in the Bioarchaeology lab

Samm Holder Featured in Archaeology Magazine

One of Sammantha Holder’s research projects is her bioarchaeological engagement with massed remains of Napoleon's Grand Army soldiers and troop followers who were killed at once by the brutal onset of the Lithuanian weather while attempting an invasion of Russia.