News

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.
August 17, 2022
In July, 2022, Professor Ned Blackhawk and members of the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project hosted the annual Institute for Constitutional Studies—the nation’s premier institute dedicated to ensuring that future generations of Americans understand the substance and historical development... Read more
August 17, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Cerdeña, who received her PhD in Anthropology from Yale in 2021, for winning the 2022 Sam Dubal Memorial Award for Anti-Colonialism and Racial Justice. The award is given annualy by the American Anthropological Association. Read more about the award and Dr. Cerdeña... Read more