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.
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- 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'...
- 2018-02-10 - The faculty of the Department of Anthropology stands in solidarity with GEO and with our graduate students. Our graduate students are a vital part of the research, teaching and community service missions of this institution. As instructors they inspire, engage and support our undergraduate community. As researchers they collaborate on and produce cutting edge work that pushes our fields...
- 2018-02-02 - TIMOTHY PAUKETAT | Anthropology Professor, Associate Director of Research, Illinois State Archaeological Survey CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new exhibit at the U. of I.’s Spurlock Museum offers a glimpse of the artistic and spiritual legacy of the American Indian people who built Cahokia, a great, thousand-year-old urban center on the Mississippi River. “Cahokia’s...
2017-10-26 - Johanson (BA, '66, anthropology) spotted the fragment of an elbow sticking from the ground, and he immediately recognized that it came from a human skeleton. A careful dig followed, and Johanson and his team wound up uncovering 40 percent of a skeleton that was approximately 3.2 million years old—the oldest and most complete skeleton ever discovered...- 2017-10-05 - We the undersigned faculty members of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign condemn the Trump Administration's recent decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). We recognize that this decision is likely to criminalize many of our already vulnerable students, and we oppose that. Each and every student...
2017-07-21 - Allie says "We really had a great group of 15 students: 9-12th graders from across Illinois. I really tried to give the students hands on experience in 4 field anthropology. We worked with forces of evolution, dog domestication, genetics, human paleontology, tool use, forensic scene recovery, biological profiles, cultural object analysis, museum studies and so much more! It was a great...
2017-07-14 - Nicole Cox wins the Graduate Student Paper Prize at 2017 Central States Anthropological Society Meetings for her paper "Troubling Tradition: Questions of Authority, Costume and Embodiment in Kathak"
2017-07-06 - Dr. David W. Plath, Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign new documentary film So Long Asleep; waking the ghosts of a war has been selected for screening in October during the annual Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York’s...