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Ohio State doctoral candidate Samantha Kirgesner earns prestigious Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellowship
Samantha Kirgesner, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at The Ohio State University, has received a highly competitive Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellowship(opens in new window),…
How did our ancestors move through the trees?
New research from The Ohio State University Department of Anthropology sheds new light on one of the biggest questions in human evolution: How did our earliest ancestors move through the…
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…
A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows how culture and local norms help small farming communities manage forests sustainably
The study reflects more than a decade of work by Associate Professor of Anthropology Sean Downey, with support from an NSF CAREER award, and finds that social norms in small-scale societies can…
Associate Professor Sean Downey Awarded Writing Fellowship at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study
Associate Professor Sean Downey (Department of Anthropology) has been selected as a Writing Resident at the [Paris Institute for Advanced Study (Paris IAS)] one of Europe's most prestigious…
A Story Written Below the Skull: Silver Fox Bones May Reveal Domestication's Deeper Reach
A study co-authored with Scott Maddux (University of North Texas Health Science Center), Robert Franciscus (University of Iowa), Anastasiya Kharlamova and Lyudmila Trut (Institute of Cytology and…