D Magazine Originally Posted: December 2017 issue Dr. Sunday Eiselt—a field archaeologist, SMU professor, and former Marine—has a friendly disposition and long hair that falls to her waist. I went to meet her last summer on campus because she’d discovered something that I’d spent weeks searching for, something that had been missing for decades. Inside […]
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SMU News Originally Posted: December 4, 2017 DALLAS (SMU) — SMU senior Benjamin H. Chi was named a 2019 Schwarzman Scholar, one of 140 students selected globally to receive the honor. Schwarzman Scholars are selected based on their academic aptitude, intellectual ability, leadership potential, entrepreneurial spirit, ability to anticipate and act on emerging trends and […]
Department of Anthropology Facebook Page Originally Posted: November 15, 2017 “Rachel’s research examines the affects of population aggregation on food acquisition behavior. Food security, the availability of and access to safe and healthy food, is a key question in global social theory and a primary concern for developing nations. As the world’s population increases, longitudinal […]
SMU Magazine Originally Posted: November 1, 2017 SMU anthropologist Caroline Brettell celebrated her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences during a ceremony at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 7. The 228 new fellows and foreign honorary members — representing the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs and the nonprofit sector — were announced in […]
MSN News Originally Posted: October 31, 2017 Ancient ruins in the middle of the Pacific ocean could be the remenants of a legendary race or dare we say….Atlantis. Clips from the Science Channel series What on Earth? reveal images of a mysterious location just off the coast of the tiny nation of Micronesia. The remote island […]
Dallas Innovates Originally Posted: October 26, 2017 At least 34,000 years ago, human hunter-gatherer groups minimized inbreeding by developing sophisticated social and mating networks. David Meltzer That’s according to a new study conducted by an international team of academics that included Southern Methodist University archaeologist David Meltzer. The team was led by the University of […]
SMU Research Originally Posted: October 3, 2017 Better integration of ancient DNA studies with archaeology promises deeper insights. DNA testing alone of ancient human remains can’t resolve questions about past societies. It’s time for geneticists and archaeologists to collaborate more fully in the face of ever greater advancements in ancient DNA research, according to SMU […]
SMU Research Originally Posted: October 10, 2017 A new study has sequenced the genomes of individuals from an ancient burial site in Russia and discovered that they were, at most, first cousins, indicating that they had developed sexual partnerships beyond their immediate social and family group. A new study has identified when humans transitioned from […]
SMU News Originally Posted: October 6, 2017 DALLAS (SMU) — Noted SMU anthropologist Caroline Brettell will be inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences during a ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 7, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Brettell joins 228 new fellows and foreign honorary members — representing the sciences, the humanities and the arts, […]
Originally Posted: September 22, 2017 “As an undergraduate at SMU, I knew many opportunities existed for me to conduct research… Dr. Smith-Morris immediately encouraged me in my ideas and refined my research.”-Katie Logsdon, #DedmanCollege ’17, whose manuscript on her undergraduate research in Amsterdam with the SMU Department of Anthropology‘s Dr. Smith-Morris was published in the October edition of Midwifery […]