11/04/2018 - How did dogs get to America? And how were they used when they got here? That’s what UI researcher Ripan Malhi aims to find out by sequencing canine DNA. -By PAUL WOOD. To View the whole article,...
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10/23/2018 - Dr. Stanley H. Ambrose contributed to research published in Nature. See “Ancient Herders Enriched and Restructured African Grasslands”. ...
10/23/2018 - "Nancy Blomberg, who as a curator at the Denver Art Museum treated American Indian artworks as aesthetic creations, not...
10/18/2018 - October 18, 2018 U. Illinois News Bureau "CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Gerald McWorter grew up hearing stories about the family patriarch who bought his way out of slavery and founded the town of New...
09/26/2018 - Dr. Gilberto Rosas "Fugitive Work: On the Criminal Possibilities of Anthropology." featured on Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology website, September 26, 2018. ...
09/18/2018 - Congratulations to Floyd Mansberger, recipient of the Illinois Archaeological Survey's 2018 Charles Bareis Distinguished Service Award! Floyd has made outstanding contributions to Illinois...
09/14/2018 - Read our Fall 2018 Newsletter!
08/10/2018 - Scholars from across the world came to Illinois for the Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute to delve deeper into the implications and discoveries from their studies of human-animal relations....
08/09/2018 - According to a new study published this month by Paul Garber and colleagues in PeerJ, while wild primates occur in 90 countries, 65 percent of wild primate species live in just four countries—Brazil...
08/09/2018 - YALBAC RANCH, Belize – The jungles of central Belize contain thousands of species of insects, birds, reptiles, mammals, trees and flowers. They also contain ancient Maya cities, some of which remain...
07/23/2018 - Dr. John Polk’s research focuses on human locomotor biomechanics, with particular interest in relating locomotor behavior to brain size and development and skeletal morphology in humans, nonhuman...
06/12/2018 - A new genetic study of ancient individuals in the Americas and their contemporary descendants finds that two populations that diverged from one another 18,000 to 15,000 years ago remained apart for...
05/13/2018 - On April 20, 2018 Professor of Anthropology Jane Desmond, a specialist in human-animal relations, published an Op Ed on CNN.com highlighting the dangers of the Opioid epidemic for police dogs and...
04/09/2018 - UIUC Anth. Dept Statement: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), as passed in 1990, requires museums and other institutions to follow a process...
03/07/2018 - Kathryn Clancy, professor of anthropology, has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives in a hearing devoted to sexual harassment and misconduct...
