The UConn Anthropology Club had fun carving pumpkins using stone tools from the Lithic Technology Lab for their Halloween meeting! Join us Mondays from 6pm to 7pm in Beach 447A, and check out our Linktree at linktr.ee/uconnanthro for our UConntact page and department website!

Former UConn undergraduate Rebecca Kraus (BA ’22) published the results of her Senior Honors thesis in Anthropology in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports! For more information and to read the article, check out our post on the website: anthropology.uconn.edu/2023/11/09/ant…

UConn Prof. César Abadía-Barrero, Prof. Camilo Ruiz, and Prof. Sarah Willen all have exhibits up at the American Anthropological Association’s conference in Toronto this year! For more information about the exhibits, check out our website: anthropology.uconn.edu/2023/11/16/uco…

Are you a UConn student who’s interested in Anthropology, and might be interested in applying to graduate school? Check out our Research Apprenticeship Program and see if you’re eligible! Applications due 12/1/23 at 5pm. Check out this link for more info: anthropology.uconn.edu/research-appre…

LAST DAY TO APPLY: DUE AT 5PM TODAY! Are you a UConn student who’s interested in Anthropology, and might be interested in applying to graduate school? Check out our Research Apprenticeship Program and see if you’re eligible! anthropology.uconn.edu/2023/12/01/las…

Seeking student volunteers for planned fieldwork this summer at a Middle Palaeolithic site in Armenia!

UConn Anthropology Club officers Abby, Nick, Anna, and Glass all helped represent the club at the Spring Involvement Fair! Join them on Mondays 6-7pm in Beach Hall 447A for their meetings! For more info, check out the post on our website here: anthropology.uconn.edu/?p=9147

Kelly Ruesta, an individualized major who has done work with the Anthropology department, was recently featured in a new podcast called Indie Major! For more information, check out the post on our website here: anthropology.uconn.edu/?p=9154

The Pandemic Journaling Project, co-founded by Prof. Sarah Willen, is in the news! Check out our website for these new articles in UConn Today and UConn Magazine: anthropology.uconn.edu/2024/02/26/pan…

UConn Anthropology graduate student Lia Plankenhorn-Farrell presenting her review of early childhood burials at the PaleoAnthropology meetings in LA. #archaeology #paleoanth2024 #paleoanthropology

UCONN Anthropology PhD Candidate Tanner Kovach presenting his research on modelling diverse interactions between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens at the PaleoAnthropology meetings in LA. #Archaeology #paleoanth2024 #paleoanthropology

UConn Anthropology Ph.D. Candidate Johan Jarl at the PaleoAnthropology Society meetings in LA presenting his research on using phytoliths as environmental proxies in the Armenian Upper Palaeolithic. #Archaeology #Paleos2024 #paleoanthropology

UConn Anthropology alum and current Visiting Assistant Professor Boise State Anthro Dr. Jayson Gill (Dr Jayson Peter Gill) presenting research on measuring the optimality of early Levallois technology at the PaleoAnthropology Society meetings in LA. #paleo2024 #paleos2024 #archaeology

UConn Anthropology Professor Christian Tryon at the PaleoAnthropology Society meetings in LA giving a talk in honor of the life and legacy of late UConn Anthropology Professor Sally McBrearty.

Graduate student Elena Skosey-LaLonde presented her research on Paleotemperature reconstruction in Middle Stone Age-Later Stone Age contexts in Mozambique at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting this year!

UConn graduate student Elic Weitzel will be defending his dissertation Monday, April 8th. Check it out!

UConn Anthropology Major Chelsea Betts has been awarded a competitive Zooarchaeology internship at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, CO for the summer of 2024. Congratulations Chelsea, we are so proud of you!

UConn Gives is this week! The Anthropology department appreciates any donations--your donations help students participate in excavations, conduct ethnographic field research, and more! Please share widely: we could use your support! Donate here: givingday.uconn.edu/.../s/anthropo…

Archaeology PhD student Tanner Kovach was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant titled Investigating the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in the southern Caucasus. Find out more at anthropology.uconn.edu/2024/04/29/phd…!

Recent UConn Anthropology graduates 🎓 Hope Romain and Allison De Angelis are spending the summer working on Middle Palaeolithic sites in Armenia as part of Dr Jayson Peter Gill ‘s Behavioral Landscapes of Northern Armenia project, funded by The Leakey Foundation.