Research

A group of individuals stand in the foreground high on top of a mountain with several mountain tops and clouds behind them
International Collaborative Archaeological Project in Jiuzhaigou
December 22, 2025
UW quad with cherry trees blooming
Meet Our 2025 Graduate Medalists
July 1, 2025
ArtSci Roundup: May 2025
ArtSci People & Research in the Media: Winter Quarter Roundup
May 21, 2025
Stone tools discovered in China resemble Neanderthal technology used in Europe, creating a middle stone age mystery
April 4, 2025
Analysis: Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were innovating during the Middle Paleolithic, like in Europe and Middle East
April 2, 2025
Analysis: Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were innovating during the Middle Paleolithic, like in Europe and Middle East
April 2, 2025
The importance of Indigenous curators
April 1, 2025
Discovery of Quina technology challenges view of ancient human development in East Asia
Discovery of Quina technology challenges view of ancient human development in East Asia
March 31, 2025
Higher traffic-related air pollution exposure tied to depression
January 29, 2025
Analysis: Everyday life and its variability influenced human evolution at least as much as rare activities like big-game hunting
May 8, 2024
Neighborhood poverty may impact women's ovarian reserves
March 15, 2024
A fading weapon in the HIV fight: Condoms
February 28, 2024
On an island in Southeast Asia, early humans coped with climate change by tailoring their technology
November 5, 2023
New Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science
September 7, 2023
Archaeologists do a reality check on Indiana Jones
June 29, 2023
The myth that men hunt while women stay at home is entirely wrong
June 28, 2023
Milk is an evolutionary marvel
June 22, 2023
Analysis: Drawing, making music and writing poetry can support healing and bring more humanity to health care in US hospitals
June 8, 2023
Infants less likely to contract COVID, develop severe symptoms than household caregivers
November 1, 2022
Smallpox caused devastation among Northwest tribes
October 26, 2022
Laada Bilaniuk head shot
In Ukraine, Language is Political
May 2, 2022
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
Archaeologists Propose 4,500-Year-Old Burial Mound Was World’s First Military Memorial
June 27, 2021
Archaeologists Propose 4,500-Year-Old Burial Mound Was World’s First Military Memorial
June 21, 2021
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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
Anthro Data Science Working Group
April 23, 2021
A year with COVID-19: A chronology of how the UW adapted — and responded — to the pandemic
March 8, 2021
A year with COVID-19: A chronology of how the UW adapted — and responded — to the pandemic
March 4, 2021
Ancient food scraps provide clues to past rainfall in Australia’s Northern Territory
January 25, 2021
Origins of human music linked to our ancestors’ daredevil behaviour
January 8, 2021
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
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
Western states band together in response to the coronavirus. And no, you can’t just visit one friend
April 14, 2020
Visiting ‘just one friend’ could undo goal of social distancing, UW researchers say
April 14, 2020
UW team illustrates the adverse impact of visiting ‘just one friend’ during COVID-19 lockdown
April 13, 2020
Ancient aboriginal aquaculture system older than Stonehenge uncovered by Australia wildfires
January 21, 2020
This Year in Focus: 19 for 2019
December 23, 2019
10 years after the Nobel Prize, telomeres are still a murky lead in longevity research
December 19, 2019
As more people use RVs as homes, should cities find a place for them?
November 23, 2019
Make code accessible with these cloud services
November 5, 2019
UW books in brief: Tribal sovereignty and the courts, mentoring through fan fiction, UW Press paperback editions
August 22, 2019