We are in the endgame now! Fundraising ends at 7pm EST. There is still time to support student research in Anthropology at UConn. A BIG thank you to everyone who has donated! Even a little bit makes a big difference for the graduate and undergraduate students in our department. >> https://tinyurl.com/43hrn9v7 #uconn #uconngives #uconngives2022 #anthropology
Today is UConn Gives and there is still time to help support undergraduate and graduate level anthropological research and conference travel! >> https://tinyurl.com/43hrn9v7
Check out the panel on Indigenous Futures in Multimedia hosted by our own Dr. Nathan Acebo! Registration link >> https://tinyurl.com/3c48bkwz
UConn Gives fundraising starts tomorrow! You can help support graduate and undergraduate anthropology research >> https://givingday.uconn.edu/o/university-of-connecticut-32/i/uconn-gives-2022/s/anthropology funds raised previously were recently used to help our graduate students afford the cost of travel to present their research at the AABA and Paleoanthropology conferences. #anthropology #archaeology #uconngives
Post-Doctoral Researcher Raquel Fleskes presenting her paper “Critical Translation and Transparency in Community Centered Ancient DNA Research: Insights from the Anson Street African Burial Ground Project” at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists meeting. #aaba2022
PhD candidate Christina Balentine presenting aDNA analyses of the demographic histories of ancient hunter-gatherer groups from Chilean Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists meeting. Posted with permission from Christina Balentine. #aaba2022
Graduate student Urvi Kaul presenting her research on Cribra Orbitalia prevalence and severity in Bronze Age Arabia at the AABAs. Co-first authored with Brittany Clark from Georgia Southern University. #aaba2022
Professor Christian Tryon presenting new descriptions of Ksar ‘Akil Upper Palaeolithic hominins at the Paleoanthropology meeting. #paleos #paleoanths #paleoanths2022
PhD candidate Jayson Gill (@roadtoruins ) presenting a theoretical paper on optimal transmission, co-authored by Tanner Kovach, at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting. #paleos #paleoanths #paleoanths2022 #archaeology
We were able to send grad students Jayson Gill (@roadtoruins), Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, and Tanner Kovach to the Paleoanthropology Society meeting with department travel grants made possible through fundraising efforts.
Graduate student Tanner Kovach presenting his analysis of stone tools from the Armenian Upper Palaeolithic site of Solak-1 at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting. #Paleos #paleoanths #paleoanths2022 #denver
Graduate student Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville presenting her work on use-wear analysis of abraded coloring materials at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting. #paleos #paleoanths #paleoanths2022
Graduate student Tanner Kovach finally earning his keep by running the registration table at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting. #paleos #paleoanths #paleoanths2022 #denver
Graduate students from the Palaeolithic Studies Lab heading to Denver for the Paleoanthropology Society meeting.
The UConn Anthropology Department is packed full of other interesting research! Dr. Xygalatas has conducted several years of fieldwork in Southern Europe and Mauritius studying rituals, sports, cooperation, the interaction between cognition and culture, and the impact of cultural practices on psychophysiological wellbeing. His research combines laboratory and field methods to study human interaction in real-life settings.
From Turkey to Israel, UConn Anthropology Grad Student Roxanne Lebenzon is experiencing all the world of anthropology and archeology have to offer!
Professor Tryon leads Archaeological surveys in the Kenyan Rift Valley!
Get to know our staff in the UConn Anthropology Department to find out what amazing opportunities await you!
Become an Anthropology major at UConn if you dream of traveling the world and learning about other cultures!
Ash McLeod is a grad student studying indigenous histories and cultures, the anthropology of food and nutrition, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and human rights! She is currently in Minnesota conducting her exciting research. The drum, in the first image, sits behind the bowl of sage that employees light and pass around before each service to smudge, or cleanse of negative energy. These other photos are from her trip to White Earth Reservation (Northern Minnesota) in the Fall where the she and the non-profit crew cooked for the local participants attending a three-day wild ricing camp! Here, they set up tents alongside the other campers near the lake.
Did you know that Jonathan the Husky is an anthropologist? Here he is pictured with a priceless artifact named Gideon Hartman. Picture c. 1910, colorized. #anthropology #uconn #openhouse
Holy cow, people. It's happening! The dream field work location is open for applications! More details here:
https://app.studyabroad.uconn.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=10988
