An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...

Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. This article appears alongside new research that estimates that more than three-quarters of the world's glacier mass ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have addressed a longstanding challenge in CRISPR ...

A new study published by archaeologists at Bournemouth University (published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology) has ...

New research brings together 7,000 years of history in South Arabia to show how ancient pastoralists changed placement and ...

Wild chimpanzees change the meaning of individual calls by combining them in different ways, a behavior that reflects how ...

In response to repeated stress, our bones tend to thicken in those areas. To study how ancient humans used their hands, scientists used 3D scanning to measure and analyze the bone thickness of fingers ...

In book after book, he reshaped the foundations of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the social study of religion,” said João Biehl, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and department chair.

In 1988, the anthropology department split into the department ... year-long residential fellowship with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Following that, he was appointed ...

and the remainder is a combination of Anthropology electives, project credits and independent study. Students must complete an MA Project, namely, a final culminating paper. The MA Project must be ...