September 30, 2021
“There has to be truth before there can be reconciliation”
Prior to the annual Gandhi Lecture on Nonviolence, Dawn Martin-Hill and Rick Monture reflect on the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace and what it means today....
September 27, 2021
Annual Gandhi lecture to explore themes of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous communities
Researchers Dawn Martin-Hill and Rick Monture will speak about environmental responsibility, social justice and the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace in the 2021 Mahatma Gandhi Lecture on Nonviolence....
January 5, 2021
The recent appearance of unexplained monoliths offers connections to the ancient past
Artifacts and art like standing stones through history possess an extraordinary power to capture our attention even as civilizations rise and fall....
July 20, 2020
Scientists trace and identify origin of smallpox vaccine strains used in Civil War
Researchers have pieced together vaccination strains used during and after the American Civil War, ultimately leading to the eradication of smallpox....
February 25, 2020
How the Mediterranean diet became No. 1 — and why that’s a problem
Defining a single Mediterranean diet is tricky business. The Mediterranean region encompasses hundreds of languages and cultures, culinary techniques and styles....
February 20, 2020
The human impacts of epidemics
Samantha Price, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, speaks about the widespread effects epidemics can have on culture, society and the economy....
December 11, 2019
Digging into diets
Researchers analyze artifacts in one of Mesoamerica's earliest villages that suggest the community was in the early stages of establishing a complex social organization....
October 16, 2019
Rewriting history: Scientists find evidence that early humans moved through the Mediterranean much earlier than believed
An international research team led by scientists from McMaster University has unearthed new evidence in Greece proving that the island of Naxos was inhabited by Neanderthals and earlier humans at least 200,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years earlier than previously believed. ...
July 23, 2018
How cutting-edge archaeology can improve public health
An anthropologist's study of rickets from archaeological sites might help dentists spot any signs of vitamin D deficiency in children....
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