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The Big Game Theory
The ASOM team just completed their first Big Game Theory summer camp at the PAST Foundation, where they used games and agent-based models to train students to find sustainable and…
“Imagining and enacting Indigenous futures: diversity and the challenge of inclusion”
Written by Shane A. Scaggs, Anthropology PhD student, NSF Graduate Research Fellow
The Ohio State University Anthropology Department, the Kirwan Institute, and the Center for Ethnic…
Anthropology 5685: Summer Field School in Archaeology
Anthropology 5685: Summer Field School in Archaeology3 Credit hours, No pFor any questions concerning OSU enrollment, required documents, and applications please contact:: Angel.29@…
Professor Sam Stout's Retirement Reception
Sam Stout’s Retirement Reception
Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University
Comments presented by Clark Larsen
10 December 2018
Professor Sam Stout, an internationally-known…
Dr. Julie Lesnik, Edible Insects and Human Evolution
Julie Lesnik didn’t set out to change the world using paleoanthropological research, but with her recent book, Edible Insects and Human Evolution, penchant for public talks, and recent fellowship…
“Sensing Seconds and Epochs with Semi-Wild Orangutans and their Caretakers: A 21st Century Ethnographic Approach to Cross-Disciplinary Anthropology”
Conservation efforts are becoming increasingly urgent, making Juno Parreñas' talk about orangutan conservation efforts in Sarawak timely—and the temporal scales between the epochs was indeed a…
“Living with Livestock: Development Models in China” and Why Cultural Context Matters
On September, 14, Shengyu Pei, an associate professor at the South-Central University for Nationalities in Wuhan, China, gave a talk at the Department of Anthropology. Dr. Pei discussed findings…
International Workshop in Anthropology and Soil Science at Ohio State University
From June 22-27, 2018, an international interdisciplinary workshop in anthropology, archaeology and soil science has taken place at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, on the topic "Soil…
Anthropology in action: playing “The Milpa Game” in Crique Sarco, Belize.
As part of ongoing anthropological research project into the human and ecological dynamics of swidden (aka, “slash-and-burn”) agriculture, Dr. Sean Downey (Ohio State U.), Drew Gerkey (Oregon…