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25.01.2022 Research seminars next week! Anthropology: "Foragers or farmers? Dark Emu and the Debate over Aboriginal Agriculture" by Ian Keen, ANU, Mon 31 Aug 2020, 34pm: https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au//foragers-or-farmers-dark Biological Anthropology: "The consequences of male-biased sex ratios" by Pauline Grosjean, UNSW Business School. Thu 03 Sep 2020, 45pm: https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au//consequences-male-biased

24.01.2022 Last year, one of our Master of Archaeological and Evolutionary Science students, Bryce Campbell, worked on crocodile tooth histology for his ARCH8030 project. This month's Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Newsletter features two of a series of visually interesting images taken as part of the project led by Bryce!

24.01.2022 Congratulations to all recipients of the 2020 ARC Special Research Initiatives (round 2)! We are thrilled to announce that our own Professor Matthew Spriggs and collaborator Professor Lynette Russell secured funding towards their project on the importance of Aboriginal knowledge in the development of Australian archaeology. All the announced funded projects can be browsed here: https://rms.arc.gov.au//1b0c8b2e-7bb0-4f2d-8f52-ad207c/222

24.01.2022 Archaeologists from the ANU School of Archaeology & Anthropology have found evidence that Torres Strait Islanders cultivated bananas over 2,000 years ago. Lead ...researcher, Kambri-Ngunnawal scholar and ANU Alumni Robert Williams says the findings help dispel the view that Australia's first peoples were "only hunter gatherers". He adds: "Food is an important part of Indigenous culture and identity and this research shows the age and time depth of these practices. I hope it will spark interest in these food traditions and might move people back towards them." Read more: https://www.anu.edu.au//indigenous-banana-cultivation-date

22.01.2022 Next Anthropology research webinar titled "Fashion Forward: rewriting history and place in Oceania" by Kalissa Alexeyeff from The University of Melbourne will take place on Monday 12 Oct 2020, 34pm AEST: https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au//fashion-forward-rewritin

22.01.2022 Are you interested in studying at ANU? ANU disciplines of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Development Studies ranked top 20 in the QS World University Rankings 2020. Don't miss out on Virtual Open Week from August 22, with essential information and interactive online sessions. Register Now.

20.01.2022 New ANU Reporter issue features a short piece about Dr Justyna Miszkiewicz's ongoing research into social inequality and bone health using medieval human remains from England: https://reporter.anu.edu.au/canterbury-skeletons-tell-tales

20.01.2022 Indigenous banana cultivation dates back over 2,000 years - results reported in a new collaborative paper by ANU and UQ researchers is now out in Nature Ecology & Evolution. The paper is led by Rob Williams - a First Australian author. https://www.anu.edu.au//indigenous-banana-cultivation-date

20.01.2022 Upcoming Anthropology seminar: #Anthropology seminar 'Here I can Like Watermelon: Culinary Redemption among African Hebrew Israelites' Mon 17 Aug 2020, 34pm by Nir Avieli, Ben Gurion University of the Negev: https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au//here-i-can-watermelon-cu

19.01.2022 Welcome to the start of a new semester in this brave new world we're all now living in. When learning went online earlier this year, we spoke to ANU School o...f Archaeology & Anthropology student Yoli Estela about a very interesting at-home exercise she did for her first year archaeology class. It involved replicating, at small scale, the famous Garbage Project. For one week, Yoli collected her non-organic rubbish - and then logged and analysed it, to see what it revealed about her lifestyle and behaviour. What did she find out and what did Yoli think of this exercise? Read more in our story below

18.01.2022 The Friends of the ANU Classics Museum and The ANU (Canberra) Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens invite to an online lecture by Dr Joseph Lehner on The Legacy of the Cape Gelidonya Wreck and Bronze Age Maritime Trade in the Mediterranean: https://www.anu.edu.au//the-legacy-of-the-cape-gelidonya-w Thu 6 Aug 2020, 67pm

15.01.2022 CASS researchers on top in ARC Special Research Initiative grant round: https://cass.anu.edu.au//cass-researchers-top-arc-special-

14.01.2022 Short piece about recent bone histology workshops is out in Evolutionary Anthropology - by moving the workshops online & using open access software, DECRA Fellow Justyna Miszkiewicz reached >300 participants from around the world, supporting ECRs during the COVID19 pandemic

12.01.2022 Our School has been busy preparing an SOAA sign for the 2020 Satellite Selfie happening this week! #satelliteselfie Guess which animal we have created? The tarps were held down with our archaeology field school tools. We have two more opportunities this week - Wed 19 Aug 2020, 10.2510.35am, and Fri 21 Aug 2020, 10.1010.20am. If you’re around in the Banks building on those days and times, join us in the carpark next to the lower ground HDR office. More information here: https://www.anu.edu.au//satellite-selfie-updated-satellite

11.01.2022 Wednesday’s scheduled SatelliteSelfie flyover has been cancelled due to the weather condition.

11.01.2022 First #biologicalanthropology research seminar of the new semester - Thurs 6 August 4-5pm AEST - online! Don't miss this opportunity to hear from Dr Laura Wilson of UNSW who will discuss the interaction between skeletal shape, size and age over the course of ontogeny

11.01.2022 Looking to study with us? Don't miss the ANU Virtual Open Week 2020 - anthropology, archaeology, development studies, and bioanthropology will have live information sessions. Register now! https://www.anu.edu.au/study/events/virtual-open-week-2020

11.01.2022 Upcoming research seminars: #Anthropology seminar 'Our village name is spreading like fire: Gold fever in a Sepik society, PNG' Mon 10 Aug 2020, 34pm by Darja Hoenigman, ANU: https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au//our-village-name-spreadi... #BiologicalAnthropology seminar 'Quantifying the shape of growth' Thu 06 Aug 2020, 45pm by Dr Laura Wilson, University of New South Wales: https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au/e/quantifying-shape-growth

10.01.2022 Research seminars next week: Anthropology- Monday 17 August 3-4pm AEST by Dr Nir Avieli "Here I can Like Watermelon: Culinary Redemption among African Hebrew Israelites" https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au//here-i-can-watermelon-cu Biological Anthropology - Thursday 20 Aug 4-5 AEST by Dr Mathew Stewart "Bones, stones, and the prehistory of the Arabian Peninsula" https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au//bones-stones-and-prehist

09.01.2022 Warm congratulations to all successful ARC DP recipients announced last week! We are thrilled to share that Dr Duncan Wright and Prof Phil Piper from our School are amongst them! Dr Wright's leading a project titled "Waiet: Archaeology of a Torres Strait Islander ritual pathway", which also includes collaborators from ANU CAP (Prof Geoffrey Clark) and Griffith University (Dr Jillian Huntley). Prof Piper is a co-investigator on an externally led project titled "Resolving the ...archaeological enigma of Indonesia’s ‘Toalean’ culture". The project is led by Prof Adam Brumm of Griffith University, and includes other collaborators from Griffith (Dr Michelle Langley), and UNE (A/Professor Mike Moore). All projects can be browsed here: https://rms.arc.gov.au//a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aa/218

06.01.2022 Please join us in congratulating our own Dr Guillaume Molle, an expert in Pacific Archaeology, on his successful promotion to Senior Lecturer

05.01.2022 Some super cool research about primate brains by our own PhD Candidate Alannah Pearson

05.01.2022 A feature story in 'World Archaeology' magazine on ANU/Melbourne/Lao research at the Plain of Jars.

04.01.2022 #Anthropology seminar via Zoom "Blood ties: Kinship, reciprocity and love on heritage breed farms" Mon 24 Aug 2020, 34pm AEST by Catie Gressier, University of Western Australia: https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au//blood-ties-kinship-recip

04.01.2022 This is the first of a series of workshops scheduled for 2020 and 2021 exploring ways in which Traditional Custodians from the Blue Mountains can protect and promote important heritage from bushfires. It has been organised by Blue Mountains communities (in particular Wayne Brennan from Burramoko) with invitations extended to Francesca Merlan, Patrick Guinness, Duncan Wright from the ANU School of Archaeology & Anthropology and Dave Johnston from the Australian Indigenous Archaeology Association.

03.01.2022 Dr Guillaume Molle and his collaborators from the International Centre for Polynesian Archaeological Research and the Teti'aroa Society have been busy identifying and mapping new archaeological sites in Tahiti:

01.01.2022 Robert Williams discusses the recent findings that Torres Strait Islanders cultivated bananas for thousands of years in this ABC Drive interview:

01.01.2022 Biological anthropologists in our School welcome a new Lecturer in Bioarchaeology - Dr Stacey Ward! Stacey starts on Monday next week- don't be shy to say hi if you see her in the Banks building