While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...

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Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and ...

Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s ...

The long American century is over. Across the world, affiliations and institutions staked in blood and soil, faith-based (as ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

The Evolutionary Connections of Humans and Other Species (ECHOS) lab group investigates the evolutionary roots of behavior, cognition, and emotion by examining connections both within and across ...

The Department of Anthropology supports a series of lab groups bringing together undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty to research topics of broad public relevance. Students can receive 1-3 ...

Learn more about the Annual India Lecture and how Charles Wallace scholars enrich Anthropology in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics. Charles Wallace Fellow 2024-2025 Dr ...

Social anthropology is the study of social and cultural life in the various forms this takes in relation to the many contexts where this is found. As social anthropologists, we aim to answer questions ...

What is the current status of Bangladesh Studies? Bangladesh Studies as a field is a relative newcomer in Western academia, compared to Indian Studies or even the more recent South Asian Studies. A ...