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Department of Anthropology

Department of Anthropology

Nick McLean, Jesse Driver, and Mark Shriver

Liberal Arts student helps develop augmented reality app for anthropology labs

ANTH 021 AR App

ANTH 021 Augmented Reality App

The team of researchers working on the ADAPT4 study in Shriver Laboratory.

Factors that shape facial variation: More than what meets the eye

Shriver Laboratory ADAPT4 Study Research Team

Shriver Laboratory ADAPT4 Study

Joan Richtsmeier

Richtsmeier receives anatomist's science award

Jablonski impact video still

More alike than different: Penn State researcher shifting understanding of race

The evolution of skin color

The evolution of skin color

Cueva del Chileno rock shelter

Ancient ritual bundle contained multiple psychotropic plants

Amazonia skeleton

Human settlements in Amazonia much older than previously thought

scuba diver with bowl

Rise of religion pre-dates Incas at Lake Titicaca

banded hare-wallaby

Indigenous hunters have positive impacts on food webs in desert Australia

Batwa young woman

Short stature in rainforest hunter-gatherers may be linked to cardiac adaptation

Santhosh Girirajan receives award

Girirajan awarded C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching

Middle Neolithic pottery

Evidence of 7,200-year-old cheese-making found on the Dalmatian Coast

Restored statue platform with standing moai on the south coast of Rapa Nui. Note that one of the moai is adorned with a red scoria pukao.

Hats on for Easter Island statues

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