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SpongeBob's Bikini Bottom is based on a real-life test site for nuclear weapons
photo of Sasha Welland
Anthropologist explores China's changing art scene in 'Experimental Beijing'
A figure stands in the ruined E.J. Roye Building in Monrovia, Liberia, in 2012. All photos courtesy Danny Hoffman.
Learning to Inhabit Ruins in Postwar Liberia
2017 Donors | Spring 2018
Photo taken at WMCA's youth-led community event Beautify the Block. Photos are by Sara Bernard from the Seattle Weekly
Anthropology at Work in the World … Somali-style
Students | Alumni News 2018
Faculty | Staff News 2018
Photo of Steve Goodreau lecturing
Course Profile: BIOA 206 Plagues and People
"Bear Gutzz Rule" written in fridge magnets
Ethnoarchaeology Class aka the Bear Guts Class
Photo of the attendees at Career Night
Career Night: Anthropology at Work in the World
Anna Zogas
Staying current: Group blogs by sociocultural anthropologists
Assistant Professor Melanie Martin
New Faculty Profile: Melanie Martin
Don Grayson, photo by Mary Levin
Donald K. Grayson — Renowned UW Archaeologist and Quaternary Ecologist Retiring after 43 years
Headshot of Patricia Kramer white background
From the Chair — Spring 2018
A finger bone from an unexpected place and time upends the story of human migration out of Africa
Sex and Death on the Western Emigrant Trail: The Biology of Three American Tragedies
In Press: Sex & Death on the Western Emigrant Trail: A Biology of Three American Tragedies
Book cover of Experimental Beijing, by Sasha Su-Ling Welland
In the Press Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
Birds With Older Fathers Have Shorter Telomeres, Lifespans
Nuclear trauma still fresh for Seattle’s Marshallese community on 64th anniversary of Bikini Atoll tests
A Canadian scientist and amateur hunter has recreated the arrowheads used 8,000 years ago: narrow bone heads, composite bone and obsidian heads and pear-shaped flaked stone points JANICE WOOD/UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Stone Age man’s top tips for felling prey
University of Washington researchers re-created ancient projectile points to test their effectiveness. From left to right: stone, microblade and bone tips.Janice Wood
Reconstructing an ancient lethal weapon
Nuclear Fallout in the Marshall Islands
Why Australians Keep Getting Older
"Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho" Book Cover
In the Press Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho
cover of the book "Mexican Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements"
In the Press, Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements | Decolonial Perspectives