UW-Madison Anthropology News
2018-2019 Anthropology Newsletter is Here!
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J. Mark Kenoyer to be recognized with a 2019 Society for American Archaeology Award
Congratulations to J. Mark Kenoyer! Today, the Society for American Archaeology announced that he will receive the Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis on April 12, 2019, at the annual business meeting in Albuquerque. Mark Kenoyer …
Ancient Poop at Cahokia and Climate Change
A new study shows climate change may have contributed to the decline of Cahokia, a famed prehistoric city near present-day St. Louis. And it involves ancient human poop.
UW-Madison Archaeologists in Oman
Learn more about new finds by an international team of researchers that includes Professor J. Mark Kenoyer and UW-Madison graduate student Alan Lee.
Learn more about undergraduate Sam Ropa’s summer 2018 internship with the American Anthropological Association and the Smithsonian Institution
Congratulations to undergraduate Sam Ropa who was awarded a 2018 Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies Fellowship and who interned with the American Anthropological Association and the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife and Cultural …
Welcome to the 2018-2019 Academic Year!
Welcome to all of our students, staff, friends, and faculty! We will kick off the new academic year with First Friday events on September 7, 2018: New Grad Student Meetings: Archaeology Section from noon-1 pm …
Nam C. Kim and Marc Kissel’s new 2018 book, “Emergent Warfare in Our Evolutionary Past,” published
Why do we fight? Have we always been fighting one another? This new book published by Nam C. Kim and Marc Kissel (Routledge Press) examines the origins and development of human forms of organized violence …