Dung-rich sediment provides definitive evidence of millet farming in the region.
Anne Johnakin '23 made a stone and clay oven to test fuels used in ancient ceramics.
Centuries before the pharaohs emerged in Egypt, the local elites used a thick porridge-like beer in their ceremonies.
Findings of research on the Dronkvlei Cave System in South Africa, which was funded by the Claire Garber Goodman Fund for the Anthropological Study of Human Culture, have been published in the November/December Issue of the South African Journal of Science.
Paleoanthropologist, Jeremy DeSilva quoted in a "New York Times" story about his co-authored study that found that prints discovered in Tanzania in 1976 may have been made by an unidentified early human ancestor about 3.6 million years ago.
A study co-authored by Dartmouth anthropologist, Laura Ogden and environmental studies professor, Nicholas Reo, cited in a Vox story that explores
A study shows how the rulers transformed cities to reshape memories of the landscape.
Dartmouth NewsIn a story debating the oldest archeaological site, anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva argues for Kenya's Lomekwe 3 where stone artifacts were found, wh
Pottery vessels that had held beer were found with human remains in a platform mound.
Sergei Kan has been invited to join the Scientific Committee of the 2022 Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sc
