News
- UWM Anthropology Colloquium Series Event: Friday, February 3 @ 3:30 PM - The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in West Africa Professor Amanda L. Logan Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Northwestern University Friday, February 3, 2023 @ 3:30 pm Sabin Hall G28 (3413 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee) Abstract: African foodways... Read More
- Vikings in Africa - By Aislinn Sanders Vikings, the Middles Ages Norse explorers, have a long history of exploration and contact with other civilizations. They settled from the Greenland to the western coast of Canada. Their history in Africa, however, remains a forgotten part... Read More
- Did Homo naledi use fire? - By Aislinn Sanders Fire and Homo naledi Homo naledi, the hominin discovery published in 2015, has sparked a heated debate for nearly a decade. The remains of at least 15 individuals, dated to approximately 300,000 years... Read More
- The Origins of the Thanksgiving Meal - By Aislinn Sanders As the temperatures drop and snow begins to fall, people are undoubtedly imbued with the classic holiday spirit that comes with this time of year. Thoughts of holiday-specific food and drink, story telling with friends and family,... Read More
- Evidence of Cooking 780,000 Years Ago Found in Israel - By Aislinn Sanders When did hominins utilize fire for cooking? A new study published on November 14th, 2022, suggests that hominins mastered fire for cooking 600,000 years earlier than previous research claimed. Previously, the estimated date of the use of... Read More
- UWM Anthropology Searching For Assistant/Associate Professor in Great Lakes Archaeology - UWM Anthropology is searching for qualified candidates to apply for the position of Assistant/Associate Professor in Great Lakes Archaeology. This is an important position within the department and will be the cornerstone of our Midwest Archaeological program. Please follow the... Read More
- Uncovering the Neanderthal Diet - By Aislinn Sanders What Neanderthals ate has been an ongoing debate in research communities. A new study on Neanderthal teeth has attempted to provide an answer to this question. Led by Dr. Klervia Jaouen, a researcher at the Observatory Midi... Read More
- Svante Pääbo wins Nobel Prize for Sequencing of the Neanderthal Genome - By Aislinn Sanders https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/svante-paabo-wins-nobel-prize-for-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-neanderthal-dna-180980883/ On October 3rd, 2022, Svante Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on ancient human genomes. Pääbo’s work on the hominin genome founded the new scientific discipline of paleogenomics, a... Read More
- Midwest Archaeological Conference comes to La Crosse - By Aislinn Sanders Update: The MAC conference went fantastically and over 20 current and former UWM personnel were present to honor Bob Jeske’s long and distinguished career. Our many sessions and symposia were well-attended and received great feedback. Please... Read More
- Ancient Beer and Brewing with Bettina Arnold - By Aislinn Sanders Recently, Bettina Arnold was interviewed by the Wisconsin Public Radio Morning Show and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for her knowledge on ancient beer brewing methods. It is her hope that she can get those uninterested in conventional... Read More
Events
- UWM Anthropology Colloquium Series Event: Friday, February 3 @ 3:30 PM - The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in West Africa Professor Amanda L. Logan Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Northwestern University Friday, February 3, 2023 @ 3:30 pm Sabin Hall G28 (3413 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee) Abstract: African foodways... Read More
- Save the Dates: Department Colloquia are back! -
- Join us for this year’s GIS Days Programming! - This week, from April 6-8, UWM’s Golda Meir Library Conference Center will be hosting GIS Days. This year’s theme is “Empowering Communities Through GIS”. This year, the event is going to be a hybrid of in-person and online sessions. On... Read More
- Department Colloquium: Dr. Melanie Beasley, April 8th 3:00PM - On Friday, April 8th the Department of Anthropology will be holding its first in-person colloquium in Sabin Hall, room G28, at 3:00 PM. We have invited Dr. Melanie Beasley from Purdue University to speak about her current work with stable... Read More
- Anthropology Student Union Colloquium 2022 - This year’s ASU Colloquium will be taking place on March 27th from 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM in SAB G90 with a reception immediately following in the UWM Student Union Ballroom. ASU 2022 Colloquium Program Register Here
- Reimagining Leadership Through Games - As part of the Honors College’s efforts to make the HC a more radically welcoming and equitable space, the Equity Team and the Digital Cultures Collaboratory are hosting a game night designed to foster deeper conversations about the nature and... Read More
- Upcoming AIA Lecture, October 17th - This Sunday, October 17th, the Archaeological Institute of America-Milwaukee Society will be hosting a free online lecture by Lesley A. Gregoricka titled, “Aridity and Adaptation among Arabian Bronze Age Communities: Investigating Mobility and Climate Change Using Isotope Analysis”. See below... Read More
- Professor Jordt will join other Burma Experts in Virtual Flash Panel on Feb. 9th - Ingrid Jordt will join other Burma and democracy experts to discuss the recent coup in Myanmar. Drawing on research from a book she is completing entitled, Karmic Kings: Pretenders to the Throne in Post-Independence Burma, Dr. Jordt will discuss how Burmese Buddhist ideas... Read More
- Virtual Colloquium: The Warrior that Wasn’t: Politics and the Archaeology of Gender presented by Dr. Bettina Arnold - UWM Department of Anthropology Virtual Colloquium Series Presents: The Warrior that Wasn’t: Politics and the Archaeology of Gender Bettina Arnold, PhD Professor, Department of Anthropology University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Adjunct Curator of European Archaeology – Milwaukee Public Museum Friday,... Read More
- Virtual Colloquium: A Retrospective: Twenty-Eight Years of the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery Project presented by Dr. Patricia B. Richards - Come join us for our first-ever virtual colloquium presented by Dr. Patricia B. Richards on October 9th at 2:30 PM via Zoom! A Retrospective: Twenty-Eight Years of the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery Project From 1878 through 1974 Milwaukee County... Read More