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. The grant will advance ethical scientific practices in the use of paleoecological, contemporary ecological, paleoclimatic, and archaeological data.

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 am a fifth year PhD student in Anthropology from Cleveland, Ohio. I received my BA in archaeology from the College of Wooster in Ohio in 2018. Following graduation, I worked in youth services at a public library, and then lived in Paraguay for two years before moving to Athens. 

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!

I am a first-year PhD student in the Integrative Conservation and Anthropology program at UGA. I hold an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester and for the past 4 years have worked as a freelance documentary filmmaker and videographer, telling the stories of mission-driven institutions and creatively communicating scholarly research. My research interests include multispecies relationality, multimodal ethnography, and the legacies of colonialism in agrarian contexts.