Department of Anthropology News
Anthropology focuses on the spectrum of the human experience - past and present. An anthropology degree balances practical, applied, and theoretical research within liberal arts, as well as interdisciplinary education.
Current Anthropology News
Social science researchers offer recommendations for navigating ethical dilemmas in studying global societies.
UNLV Honors College student Nathalie Martinez reflects on the stories and impact of Latinex artists.
A collection of news stories from February highlighting the people and research of UNLV.
A collection of stories featuring interesting discoveries driven by UNLV that have made news in 2019.
A collection of local, national, and international news stories highlighting the people and programs of UNLV.
MGM College Opportunity Program at UNLV offers a flexible and affordable way for the company's employees to complete their degrees.
Anthropology In The News
A study entitled The Impact of Fathers on Children by Peter B. Gray, PhD. and Kermyt G. Anderson, PhD., found that there are many positive impacts that can be seen from the involvement of fathers as parents on their children, such as building social behavior, ethics, and self-awareness.
Stephanie won a 3-year Post-Doc fellowship from the REinforcing Women In REsearch (REWIRE) COFUND Programme, a Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions COFUND project funded by the European Commission.
ACCORDING TO PIERS MITCHELL, A paleopathologist from the University of Cambridge, scientists have been extracting data from ancient human poop for over a century. “In the past, we’ve been able to look at a single coprolite from a single person”—that is to say, a preserved turd—”and study the microbiome of that one individual.” (The microbiome is the complex collection of microbes living in every animal’s digestive tract.) Now, in a newly released paper in Philosophical Transactions B, Mitchell and co-authors Susanna Sabin and Kirsten I. Bos have blown the lid off of single-turd analysis: by analyzing two medieval latrines’ worth of number two.
A group of social scientists who conduct cross-cultural research are casting a critical lens on their own practices.
A group of social scientists who conduct cross-cultural research are casting a critical lens on their own practices.
A life without bees is no life at all. Literally. Not only are they essential for pollination of plants but they are intricately entwined with the evolution of our species. University of Nevada paleoanthropologist Alyssa Crittenden argues that honey and bee larvae consumption are what “made it possible for early Homo to nutritionally out-compete other species of hominid and may have provided critical energy to fuel their enlarging and evolving brains”.
