Read up about our 2025 Mexico Ethnographic Field School and some of the amazing experiences our students had. www.uvic.ca/socialscienc... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology

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52nd annual conference of the Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology (CABA-ACAB) will be in Victoria, BC November 5-8 Register: tinyurl.com/mhyxbev7 fees go up after Oct 1 www.caba-acab.ca [email protected] #anthropology @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social @uvic.ca

“One of the earliest ideas is that it was just art for art’s sake, that people have this innate need to express themselves artistically and that prehistoric people were no different,” says April Nowell www.history.com/articles/las... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology

Daromir Rudnyckyj on a new publication, "Payment ecologies: From pathways in a jungle of currencies to vectors of community money." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory15(2): 557-561, 2025. @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology @rudnyckyj.bsky.social

Brian Thom (ANTH) was interviewed by Take 5 Magazine about ongoing collaborations with the Land and Language program in SD68 issuu.com/take5publica... @b-thom.bsky.social @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology

Continuing our back-to-school theme, we turn to our attention to Dr. Mélissa Gauthier! #BackToSchool @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social @uvic.ca

@b-thom.bsky.social In the spirit of back to school, we wanted to share that even professors are always finding excitement in learning new things!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwDi... Dr. April Nowell was interviewed for Global TV about a new Neandertal study.

Congrats, Dr.Stephanie Calce on your Civic Award from Victoria Police Department for your help over the past 5 years with their Forensic ID section. Your expertise is highly appreciated by the community. @uvicanthro.bsky.social #forensic #anthropology #uvic www.uvic.ca/socialscienc...

Senior Lab Instructor Stephanie Calce interviewed about the work she led in the archaeology and forensic anthropology effort in the St. Joseph Residential School Investigation (Deninu Kue First Nation in the NWT) www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Congratulations to our senior lab instructor, Stephanie Calce for receiving a Civic Service Award from Victoria Police Department for her help of the last 5 years with their Forensic ID section to determine human from non-human bone material and faunal identification.

Tommy Happynook records 2 songs in the UVic CReaTe Lab for the nunuukʷin (we sing): (re)connecting to the natural and spiritual worlds through song exhibition, Sept 18 - Dec 6, 2025 Legacy Gallery, Downtown Victoria 630 Yates St., Lekwungen Territory tinyurl.com/5cz4daz2 Thanks, Stella Drinkwater

Brian Thom speaks with Vancouver Sun on Cowichan/Hul’qumi’num seasonal village known as Tl’uqtinus on the Fraser River vancouversun.com/news/cowicha... @b-thom.bsky.social

Brian Thom on CBC speaking on how Supreme Court needs to determine relationship between Aboriginal title and private owners. Supreme Court needs to determine relationship between Aboriginal title and private owners, @b-thom.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Brian Thom on CBC's On The Island discussing the significance of the new BC Supreme Court decision on Cowichan title at the old Tl'uqtinus village site on the Fraser River. @b-thom.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Exploring the secrets of our pelvis: #uvic research reveals how environment, growth, and genetics shape us from birth. @uvicanthro.bsky.social #Anthropology #HumanEvolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dr. Brian Thom was quoted on CHEK-TV in an article titled "‘I was disappointed’: SȾÁUTW̱ First Nation says artifacts dug up on Salt Spring Island". cheknews.ca/i-was-disapp...

Hakai Institute researcher and Adjunct Professor Duncan McLaren is the lead author on a new article revealing 14,000 year old stone tools on an inland riverbank on northern Vancouver Island - among the earliest archaeological deposits on the coast with salmon remains tinyurl.com/32s5rs3u

New 10-min video "To Do As We Have Always Done" by Anne Salomon & Hanna Kobluk shares Coastal Voices work in Kyuquot/Cheklesahht. Linked to UVic via ANTH faculty Iain McKechnie & Tommy Happynook, supporting UVIC ANTH PhD candidate Dylan Hillis' dissertation research. tinyurl.com/3xbuyb9c

UVic coverage of former Banting post doc Kristina Barclay's publication emerging out of the 2022 Tseshaht-UVic Archaeology field school in Barkley Sound www.uvic.ca/socialscienc...

Congratulations to PhD student Mavis Underwood, elected to council at Tsawout First Nation. Mavis has been a passionate advocate for ameliorating the inequities that people in her community continue to be faced with and building a positive future. More on Mavis here: tinyurl.com/58armhnh

Some major web hosting services seem to support prevention of crawling ai bots for now (until they get paid) “if they don’t get access to the content, then their product will be worse” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/t...

Research just published by Marla MacKinnon and Helen Kurki looks at how environmental factors impact growth of the pelvis in forager populations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to our PhD student Fabiola Sánchez Balderas on being a co-author of a published peer reviewed article titled "Antes y después de Palenque: La colectividad maya en Mensabak, Chiapas, México." Read it here: tinyurl.com/bdhudjpf (page 11)

Prof. Daromir Rudnyckyj is co-hosting a series of the “Mergers & Acquisitions” podcast with Counter Currency Lab research associate Ferdi Nur Demirci. The final episode “Every Dollar Has Its Own Problem:” Navigating Multicurrency Zimbabwe” is available at: tinyurl.com/n773344u

Dr. April Nowell is quoted for the online version of the UK paper the Daily Mail in an article on what life would be like if Neanderthals did not go extinct. Link to the article here: tinyurl.com/33h4395b

Anthropology students showcasing their final projects in Mearns-McPherson student lounge. Image: Anuk David and Lily Roemer present their poster, ANTH 449: Following paths into the past: Grease trails of the Northwest Coast as networks of power and exchange. Read the article: tinyurl.com/y3ths96b

Why do chimps throw stones at trees? UVic's Ammie Kalan uncovers this unique behavior, offering insights into primate communication and tool use, linking it to our evolutionary past. Image Credit: A.Kalan. @uvicanthro.bsky.social @ammiekalan.bsky.social Full article: news.uvic.ca/2025/great-a...

🗺️ Historically, maps have shaped land and power through a colonial lens. A new map at UVic is changing that narrative by centring Indigenous communities and the complex treaty and non-treaty relationships that shape the Salish Sea. ➡️ Learn more: ow.ly/14ky50We9aA

Funding cuts to national science funding in American archaeology will impact archaeological research capacity globally www.science.org/content/arti...

Field-based primatologist Ammie Kalan is one of only three great ape experts in Canada. She investigates the behaviours of wild great apes as they, for example, lob rocks at trees or patrol territory boundaries. news.uvic.ca/2025/great-a...

Discover the untold stories of Japanese Canadians through the award-winning work of UVic's Djuna Nagasaki. #JapaneseCanadianHistory #Anthropology www.uvic.ca/socialscienc... @uvicanthro.bsky.social Image Credit: Djuna

Animal culture is real and elder fish are necessary to keep a school alive.

what is a good word for "convincing, but truth-insensitive content" and how is that useful... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

dedicated archaeology student at Lund University: "has gone to extra lengths [5000 km over 3 years] to show that Vikings were capable of sailing further than previously thought possible" cosmosmagazine.com/history/arch... & published a paper about it link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In the U.S., Archaeology Stares Down an Uncertain Future Federal layoffs and grant terminations threaten efforts to understand and preserve the nation’s past. “We are getting cut off at the knees,” said one archaeologist 🧪🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/s...

newly published book: "The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog harbourpublishing.com/products/978... will be launched at a sold out event tomorrow at the Courtenay Museum & Palaeontology Centre www.courtenaymuseum.ca/upcoming-lec...

"There was a fever over the land, a fever of disgrace, of indignity, of hunger. We had a democracy, yes, but it was torn by elements within." - Janning's Testimony, Judgment at Nuremberg (USA 1961): ▶️ youtu.be/DQicYslxGgE

Indigenous led archaeological work in Comox reveals a perfectly preserved splitting wedge submerged in ground water for almost 4000 years komoks.ca/press-releas...

"you know you are living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why you're safe" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

exciting new Crab🦀 science🧪 publication led by @barnaclebarclay.bsky.social Banting postdoc working to apply paleobiology techniques to learn about Indigenous crab fisheries via the scars left on clam shells

“When you sell wildlife in the heart of cities, you’re going to have a pandemic every so often” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/s...

The Ancient Oaks of England: Distribution and density map of 3,300 oaks in England with a girth greater than 6 metres Map production: Justin Moat, GIS Unit, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

potential for drowned archaeological landscapes in Vancouver harbour and Burrard Inlet is considerable but won't be protected if future dredging is permitted - let alone dropping massive tanker anchors over the past several decades vancouversun.com/news/should-...

Do you know what happens to your waste once it leaves your house? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

two very different approaches to a deceased grey whale 1) National Parks Service (Parks Canada): www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p...

💡 Did you know? The word "robot" comes from a 1920 Czech play—and it means "forced labor." From ancient automata to AI today, we’ve always wrestled with the idea of non-human workers. www.sapiens.org/culture/requ... #AnthroFacts #AI #HistoryOfIdeas

cooperative hunting behaviour 200,000 years ago www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪🏛️🫧

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” ― David Graeber