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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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