A study co-authored by Dartmouth anthropologist, Laura Ogden and environmental studies professor, Nicholas Reo, cited in a Vox story that explores whether the term "invasive species" is appropriate in an era of climate change and habitat loss. https://dartgo.org/dnewsogden1201
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In a story debating the oldest archeaological site, anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva argues for Kenya's Lomekwe 3 where stone artifacts were found, while he asknowledged, "some of our colleagues remain unconvinced of the intiquity of these tools." https://www.livescience.com/oldest-archaeological-site.html
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Pottery vessels that had held beer were found with human remains in a platform mound.
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Sergei Kan has been invited to join the Scientific Committee of the 2022 Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia in late May-early June 2022. https://www.waunet.org/iuaes/
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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."
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