Dartmouth College anthropology professor Sergei Kan was born in the Soviet Union just a few months after the death of Stalin. He came to the United States in 1974 at the age of 21 and received his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He teaches courses at Dartmouth on the native peoples of Alaska, on the Jewish diaspora, and on Russia. Next year—the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Gulag Archipelago—Dr. Kan will teach a course titled "Red Terror: The History and Culture of the Stalin Labor Camps." Dr. Kan has been kind enough to offer our viewers a preview of the seminar in advance.

Deborah (Deb) L. Nichols, William J. Bryant 1925 Professor of Anthropology, passed away on Wednesday, July 27. She was 70 years old.

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...

Study shows that multiple species of hominins co-existed there 3.7 million years ago.