Did you know that Beach Hall used to house UConn’s library? In 1929, the library was moved to Beach Hall, where it would remain until the construction of the Wilbur Cross Library ten years later (University of Connecticut Library Records). To find more captivating photos from UConn’s history, check out the Connecticut Digital Archive! Images […]

Geoarchaeologist and past UConn Ph.D. student Tiziana Matarazzo was featured in UConn Magazine’s recent article, Know the Land on Which You Stand. Congrats Dr. Matarazzo! Image courtesy of UConn Magazine

This summer, Anthropology students Mya Seara, Abigail Rodriguez, Claire Cathers, Mary Gresh, and Morgan Tirrell participated in UConn’s archaeological field school at the Hollister Site. Students learned the techniques of a professional excavation, and all about contact period archaeology from Dr. Kevin McBride.

The summer field school was designed by anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas to connect ancient Greece and modern Greek culture- UConn Today

Archaeology PhD student Tanner Kovach was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant titled Investigating the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in the southern Caucasus. Tanner will investigate how technological strategies changed between the Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic, and what these differences can tell us about cultural transmission between Neanderthals and Homo […]

UConn Anthropology Major Chelsea Betts has been awarded a competitive Zooarchaeology internship at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, CO for the summer of 2024. Congratulations Chelsea, we are so proud of you!

Graduate student Elena Skosey-LaLonde presented her research on Paleotemperature reconstruction in Middle Stone Age-Later Stone Age contexts in Mozambique at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting this year!