News

November 17, 2022
Gao Yufang, PhD candidate in the combined doctoral program in Anthropology and Environment, was recently awarded the 2022 Roy A. Rappaport Prize at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association for his paper, “Snow leopards and Tibetan Herders: Ontological Differences between... Read more
October 31, 2022
Serena Tucci,  assistant professor of biological anthropology and evolutionary biology at Yale received a $2 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support her research in human genomics. The Tucci lab will use this award to bridge... Read more
October 31, 2022
Recently published research by Dr. Ellery Frahm and Christina Carolus has been featured in Yale News. Obsidian artifacts excavated during the 1960s at two prominent archaeological sites in southwestern Iran suggest that the networks Neolithic people formed in the region as they developed... Read more
October 12, 2022
Professor Jessica Thompson has been featured in a Q&A by Science News. She spoke about her experience bringing her children into the field. Read more here. Her experiences—both challenging and rewarding—have led her to reflect on how fieldwork-intensive disciplines raise unique questions for... Read more
October 12, 2022
Professor Jessica Thompson’s work has been featured in an Atlas Obscura article. The article discusses her work on the discovery and analysis of glass beads found in Malawi, which she and her collaborators determined to be of European origin.
September 28, 2022
Serena Tucci, Patrick Reilly and Anthro graduate students Audrey Tjahjadi and Samantha Miller published an invited review article on the contribution of Neanderthal introgression to modern human traits, in the prestigious journal Current Biology. In this article, the authors discuss the most... Read more
September 20, 2022
Alison Richard, Professor Emerita, has published a new book, The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present, with The University of Chicago Press.