2018-10-23
- "Nancy Blomberg, who as a curator at the Denver Art Museum treated American Indian artworks as aesthetic creations, not artifacts, and championed the artists who made them, died on Sept. 2 at her home in Breckenridge, Colo. She was 72..."
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- 2018-10-23 - Dr. Stanley H. Ambrose contributed to research published in Nature. See “Ancient Herders Enriched and Restructured African Grasslands”. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0456-9
- 2018-10-18 - 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 Philadelphia in western Illinois – the first known U.S. town platted and legally registered by a black man. When McWorter visited the family farm, he saw the false wall in the dirt basement, and he...
- 2018-09-26 - Dr. Gilberto Rosas "Fugitive Work: On the Criminal Possibilities of Anthropology." featured on Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology website, September 26, 2018. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1529-fugitive-work-on-the-criminal-possibilities-of-anthropology...
2018-09-18 - Congratulations to Floyd Mansberger, recipient of the Illinois Archaeological Survey's 2018 Charles Bareis Distinguished Service Award! Floyd has made outstanding contributions to Illinois archaeology and in civic engagement with broad, public audiences to enhance our citizens’ appreciation of Illinois history and archaeology. The Department of Anthropology was a primary sponsor of the 62d Annual...- 2018-09-14 - Read our Fall 2018 Newsletter!
- 2018-08-10 - 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. READ MORE
2018-08-09 - 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 unknown and unexplored. READ MORE- 2018-08-09 - 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, Madagascar, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Out of these species, 60 percent are threatened with extinction, including chimpanzees, orangutans, and Western lowland gorillas....
2018-07-23 - 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 primates and other mammalian model organisms. His work contributes to a better understanding of the evolution and development of human locomotor function and the neurological,...
2018-06-12 - 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 millennia before mixing again. This historic “reconvergence” occurred before or during their expansion to the southern continent. ...- 2018-05-13 - 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 new initiatives in law and medicine to help dogs who might be at risk. You can find the full Op Ed titled "Surprising Victims of the Opioid Crisis" here: htttp: www....
- 2018-04-09 - 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 developed for transferring culturally affiliated human remains and associated funerary objects, unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony to Indian...
2018-03-07 - Kathryn Clancy, professor of anthropology, has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives in a hearing devoted to sexual harassment and misconduct in the sciences. The hearing, held by the...- 2018-02-22 - "Both anthropology and computer science majors are problem-solvers by nature, said UIUC's Anthropology Professor Jessica Greenberg, director of undergraduate studies. They bring different skills to analyze fundamental challenges such as: What makes us human? How can technology improve social life and what are its ethical challenges?" Learn more about the article, "UI's 'CS + X'...