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Elizabeth A. Holdsworth, PhD, Spark Award Recipient
Elizabeth A. Holdsworth, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She applied for a Spark Award to support her project “Daily Milk Composition and Infant Growth.”
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A young individual, perhaps a religious figure, is the first major funerary discovery in this season's excavation of Lucus Asturum in Llanera
A new find has emerged from the local soil: the remains of a young individual, who researchers suspect may have held a religious or clerical role, marking an incredibly rare and significant first…
The U.S. has pastoralists. We usually call them ranchers.
What do American ranchers, Mongolian herders, and Navajo shepherds all have in common? They are all pastoralists.
The United Nations has declared 2026 the International Year of Rangelands…
Nick Passalacqua Makes No Bones about Anthropology’s Value
Nick Passalacqua, associate professor of anthropology, discusses how anthropologists recover and analyze skeletal remains to build biological profiles including age, sex, stature, and ancestry. He…
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