Sergei Kan has been invited to join the Scientific Committee of the 2022 Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and...

Desert locusts Schistocerca gregaria are threatening the food security of millions of people and devastating economies in eastern Africa and northern India. The ongoing outbreak is the largest in seven decades. These events give us cause to reflect on the natural history of locusts, our fraught relationship with them, and how they are represented in American popular culture and others.

Dartmouth alumna, Anjali M Prabhat and EEES PhD candidate, Kate Miller are lead authors of a newly published anthropology paper titled, "Homoplasy in the evolution of modern human-like joint proportions in Australopithecus afarensis."

Dartmouth archaeologists have been awarded a Neukom Institute CompX grant to support remote sensing of ancient settlements in the Upper Connecticut River Valley.

A "New York Times" reviewer writes that in DeSilva's new book, "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human," the associate professor of anthropology "proposes that our bipedalism is at the root of our uniqueness as a species ... neatly braiding his own research with the wider narrative and history of human evolution."

Dale Eickelman is honored and recognized for his exceptional service to the field of Middle East Studies. Over 18 years at NYU, 27 at...

Professor Zaneta Thayer has been awarded the 2020 Human Biology Association Michael A. Little Early Career Award. The award, established in...

PhD student, Luke Fannin, has been awarded a 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The National Science Foundation...

Dartmouth's Neukom Institute announced next year's class of Neukom Postdoctoral Fellows, recruited out of a pool of 106 applicants. Incoming...

Lucy's Brain Was Part Ape, Part Human The famous 3.2-million-year-old Lucy specimen has captivated scientists since it was discovered in...