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Bones From Inuit Gravesites Are Returned in Repatriation Ceremony
The College returned the contents of gravesites excavated by a Dartmouth anthropologist in 1967.
Quote of the Day: 7/25/2018 Nathaniel Dominy
"We're taking real tools from biology and applying them in a super serious way. I hope people find the humor in this," says the Charles Hansen Professor of Anthropology.
Prof. Dominy's new paper: "Dr. Seuss and the real Lorax"
The paper released on July 23, 2018, in the prestigious journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post among many other media outlets.
Prof. Dominy and Dartmouth Alumni's Paper Published
The paper published in the ISME Journal stems from work by Jill Britton ’14, Katie Amato ’07, and Charles Hansen Professor of Anthropology Nathaniel J. Dominy.
3-Million-Year-Old Foot Tells Tales About Our Ancestors
Dartmouth News article, published on July 10, 2018 by Joseph Blumberg, about Prof. DeSilva's new study.
Quote of the Day - July 9, 2018 Jeremy DeSilva
“Every so often, we find a fragmentary piece of a kid’s mandible, or some teeth. But this discovery is just extraordinary.” Jeremy DeSilva quoted in The Atlantic article about his recently published study.
Prof. DeSilva's study featured in National Geographic
The article titled, "Foot of 'World's Oldest Child' Shows How Our Ancestors Moved", features lead author Jeremy DeSilva's study published in Science Advances.
2017-18 Honor Theses
The honors project culminates in a substantial independent thesis supervised by a primary faculty advisor. The 2017-18 submissions had varied and interesting topics.
"Virtual Office Hour"
Jeremy DeSilva, associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College, and Briana Pobiner, paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution, co-instructed a free online course on bipedalism.
Recent Publications
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Racing to the top: descent ideologies and why Ladinos never meant to be mestizos in colonial Guatemala
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Yulia Averkieva and Franz Boas: Mutual Affection and Ideological Disagreements.
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