Research

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Higher traffic-related air pollution exposure tied to depression
(January 29, 2025)
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Analysis: Everyday life and its variability influenced human evolution at least as much as rare activities like big-game hunting
(May 8, 2024)
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Neighborhood poverty may impact women's ovarian reserves
(March 15, 2024)
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A fading weapon in the HIV fight: Condoms
(February 28, 2024)
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On an island in Southeast Asia, early humans coped with climate change by tailoring their technology
(November 5, 2023)
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New Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science
(September 7, 2023)
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Archaeologists do a reality check on Indiana Jones
(June 29, 2023)
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The myth that men hunt while women stay at home is entirely wrong
(June 28, 2023)
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Milk is an evolutionary marvel
(June 22, 2023)
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Analysis: Drawing, making music and writing poetry can support healing and bring more humanity to health care in US hospitals
(June 8, 2023)
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Infants less likely to contract COVID, develop severe symptoms than household caregivers
(November 1, 2022)
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Smallpox caused devastation among Northwest tribes
(October 26, 2022)
Laada Bilaniuk head shot
In Ukraine, Language is Political
(May 2, 2022)
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Anthropology researchers awarded prize in Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge
(December 8, 2021)
Research Family
Research Family: Bridging accessibility divides in academic research through Indigenous Oceanic paradigms
(November 19, 2021)
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Archaeologists Propose 4,500-Year-Old Burial Mound Was World’s First Military Memorial
(June 27, 2021)
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Archaeologists Propose 4,500-Year-Old Burial Mound Was World’s First Military Memorial
(June 21, 2021)
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Health Care Navigators
(April 23, 2021)
Dimas Romadhon sitting on a railing in Aceh Indonesia
Anthropology Graduate Students Creatively Adapt Their Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(April 23, 2021)
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Anthro Data Science Working Group
(April 23, 2021)
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A year with COVID-19: A chronology of how the UW adapted — and responded — to the pandemic
(March 8, 2021)
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A year with COVID-19: A chronology of how the UW adapted — and responded — to the pandemic
(March 4, 2021)
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Ancient food scraps provide clues to past rainfall in Australia’s Northern Territory
(January 25, 2021)
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Origins of human music linked to our ancestors’ daredevil behaviour
(January 8, 2021)
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Warm oceans helped first human migration from Asia to North America
(December 9, 2020)
Age of Kampuchea Video Exhibit at UW
UW secures competitive $1 million Luce Foundation grant to advance Southeast Asian research and community engagement
(October 5, 2020)
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Now streaming: Alaska Native and First Nations films during online festival
(September 12, 2020)
Project flyer photo of mother holding child in the air with a corona-19 virus in the background
COVID-19 transmission and immunity in mothers and infants
(May 12, 2020)
Hollis Miller piloting a skiff around Old Harbor (Photo credit: Ben Fitzhugh)
Community-Oriented Archaeology in Old Harbor, Alaska
(May 12, 2020)
Boats wait offshore as workers break coral from the Dobo mudflats, and collect clams at the same time.
Coral Breakers in Aru: Reflections on Archaeological Fieldwork in Indonesia
(May 12, 2020)
LEIA project and field school students at a dig site
Landscape, Encounters and Identity project (LEIAp): Landscape Archaeology in Western Mediterranean island of Mallorca
(May 12, 2020)
Ethnoarchaeology students holding up the inflated processed bear intestine. 2020.
The Power and Promise of Ethnoarchaeology
(May 12, 2020)
Covid-19 transmission network model
Dr. Steven Goodreau, Plagues and Peoples, and Covid-19
(May 12, 2020)
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Western states band together in response to the coronavirus. And no, you can’t just visit one friend
(April 14, 2020)
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Visiting ‘just one friend’ could undo goal of social distancing, UW researchers say
(April 14, 2020)
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UW team illustrates the adverse impact of visiting ‘just one friend’ during COVID-19 lockdown
(April 13, 2020)
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Ancient aboriginal aquaculture system older than Stonehenge uncovered by Australia wildfires
(January 21, 2020)
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This Year in Focus: 19 for 2019
(December 23, 2019)
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10 years after the Nobel Prize, telomeres are still a murky lead in longevity research
(December 19, 2019)
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As more people use RVs as homes, should cities find a place for them?
(November 23, 2019)
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Make code accessible with these cloud services
(November 5, 2019)
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UW books in brief: Tribal sovereignty and the courts, mentoring through fan fiction, UW Press paperback editions
(August 22, 2019)
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Without parking, thousands of Americans who live in vehicles have nowhere to go
(July 9, 2019)
Photo of man in front of a microscope
The Age of the Kampuchea Picture
(June 11, 2019)
Photo of man in front of a microscope
The Age of the Kampuchea Picture
(June 11, 2019)
Photo of website that documents Coast Salish Public Art Works in King County
Visible on Ancestral Lands
(June 11, 2019)
Down to Earth, In Turkey
(June 10, 2019)
Deja Edwards on the floor with toys in the Social Cognitive Development Lab.
In Praise of Mentors
(June 9, 2019)
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Seattle's forgotten street community: UW anthropologist talks about the unique circumstances of vehicle residency
(June 6, 2019)
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High radiation levels found in giant clams near U.S. nuclear dump in Marshall Islands
(May 29, 2019)