Suzanne Pilaar Birch and an international research team awarded significant funding for an ancient Near East project An international research team that includes assistant professor of anthropology and geography Suzanne Pilaar Birch has been awarded Arts and Humanities Research Council UK funding for their four-year project on Radical Death and Early State Formation in the Ancient Near East. Read more about Suzanne Pilaar Birch and an international research team awarded significant funding for an ancient Near East project
Listening to the Dead: Biocultural Anthropology, Violence Studies, and the Political Lives of Dead Bodies “The body is parchment where violence is written.” Read more about Listening to the Dead: Biocultural Anthropology, Violence Studies, and the Political Lives of Dead Bodies
“Family Farms, Family Land: Customary Land Tenure and Change in Sierra Leone” Apero: African Brown-Bag Lecture, as part of the African Studies Institute lecture series. Lecture Flyer Read more about “Family Farms, Family Land: Customary Land Tenure and Change in Sierra Leone”
Jessica Cook Hale Sheds New Light on the Mysteries of Underwater Archaeology In her newest Southeastern Archaeology publication, Jessica Cook Hale explores the underwater world of the Econfina Channel site in Apalachee Bay, Florida. Hale takes the plunge into offshore submerged sites to obtain valuable data concerning many questions of interest to archaeology, including what form coastal occupations may have taken during periods before the establishment of modern coastlines and late Holocene climate and ecological conditions. Read more about Jessica Cook Hale Sheds New Light on the Mysteries of Underwater Archaeology
West meets East: Commerce Between Ancient Rome and South Asia Read more about West meets East: Commerce Between Ancient Rome and South Asia
Graduate students presenting research at Symposium on Integrative Conservation Several Anthropology-ICON graduate students will participate in the fifth annual Symposium on Integrative Conservation conference on Friday, January 26th. Read more about Graduate students presenting research at Symposium on Integrative Conservation
Anthropology Day Anthropology Day is a day for anthropologists to celebrate their discipline while sharing it with the world. The Department of Anthropology at UGA has organized activities and displays to showcase how this field helps in understanding humanity's past, present and future. Read more about Anthropology Day
Anthropology major is UGA’s Student of the Week Shivani is a junior double-majoring in anthropology and biology with a certificate in nonprofit management. Her passion for social justice continues to give her life at the university depth and meaning. She's already begun a vital role that she'll address as a physician: working to alleviate the vast healthcare disparity between rural and larger communities Learn more about Shivani here. Read more about Anthropology major is UGA’s Student of the Week
Evolution of a Fishery and Decline of an Estuary: Archaeology and Historical Ecology of the Chesapeake Bay Torben Rick is the director and curator of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Read more about Evolution of a Fishery and Decline of an Estuary: Archaeology and Historical Ecology of the Chesapeake Bay
Jennifer Birch and graduate assistant are “Dating Iroquoia” UGA’s Jennifer Birch and Cornell University’s Sturt Manning are investigators for a National Science Foundation grant, “Establishing a High-Resolution Framework for Age Determination.” A team including graduate assistant Megan Anne Conger works to date Northern Iroquoian sites to new, acutely accurate placements now possible with astonishing developments in radiocarbon dating techniques. Read more about Jennifer Birch and graduate assistant are “Dating Iroquoia”
