The Endangered Material Knowledge Programme digital repository (British Museum) is now live. Led by Ann B. Stahl & Zonke Guddah, it documents basketry, mat-making, traditional doors, and earthen building. 900+ open-access resources. tinyurl.com/5dksxfsv @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social @uvic.ca

Dr. Ann Stahl (ANTH emeriti/adjunct professor) on the shifting direction of the Banda project in the African Archaeological Review titled "From “Studying Prehistory” to “Making History” to “Co-creating Heritage”: Reflections on a Journey" tinyurl.com/yc2cpb48 @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

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americananthro.org/event/aes-20... #anthropology @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social This conference invites scholars to reflect on experiment as both object and mode of anthropological inquiry. How do anthropologists collaborate, compose, and critique in experimental ways?

UVic Anthropology's April Nowell was interviewed for this story on Neanderthals making fire using pyrite in the UK 400,000 yrs ago: www.livescience.com/archaeology/... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #Neanderthals

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Brian Thom @b-thom.bsky.social interviewed by CKNW-AM about treaty land claims. open.spotify.com/episode/68Y5... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology

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@uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology Today, November 24, 2025 at 11:30 am. Cornett B235 Transformation in Sámi Indigenous salmon fishing community Aslat Holmberg: Sami fishermen, former president of Saami council and current chair of Sami central association of Finland.

🇲🇽Mexico Ethnographic Field School 2026 🇲🇽 Application deadline extended: December 1, 2025 Visit our website for more details and link to the application. tinyurl.com/jj8fcdm6 If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Mélissa Gauthier at [email protected] @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Congratulations to our PhD student Graydon Smith on his peer-reviewed article titled "The Art of (Re-)Making Ruins: Between the Cracks of Cuban Media of Precarity". www.corajournal.com/issue-3/the-... #anthropology @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

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Pucker up! Dr. April Nowell commented on the evolutionary origin of kissing for Live Science's new article "Kissing goes back 21 million years, to the common ancestor of humans and other large apes, study finds" tinyurl.com/3mc6kfjc @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #kissing

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Today at 11:30! Cornett B235! @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

My first time participating in CABA-ACAB, and I had a wonderful experience meeting so many great researchers! Thank you for the opportunity to share our project on sequencing approaches for studying the gut microbiome of wild howler monkeys🐒🦠Huge thanks to the organizers at @uvicanthro.bsky.social

🚨 New issue alert! Anthropologica Vol. 67 No. 1 (2025) is out now. #Infrastructure is no longer invisible. This issue traces the stories, timelines, and tensions embedded in #Canada’s roads, grids, and extractive projects. 🔗 buff.ly/pPmrwX6 #Anthropology #ClimateJustice

Congratulations to Dr. April Nowell and her team, whose work at Koonalda Cave in southern Australia made the cover of Current World Archaeology magazine. www.world-archaeology.com/features/koo... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology

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Congratulations to our alum, Mike Graeme (BA' 2018 in ANTH & ES) on winning the 2025 Webster Award for Excellence in Community Reporting for his article: indiginews.com/features/not... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Congratulations to all the students convocating this week. Thank you to those who chose #anthropology as their degree. Interview with Jennifer Preece, Anthropology major/Indigenous Studies minor grad who walked across the stage today. tinyurl.com/5xzxjb77 @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

First time organizing a primatology session on behavioral flexibility in the Anthropocene, let alone first time organizing a conference! Easy to do with supportive co-organizers @uvicanthro.bsky.social, excellent volunteers and the wonderful CABA-ACAB community! @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES Monday, November 17, 2025 11:30 am – 12:45 pm Cornett B235 @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology

We are now accepting applications for the Mexico Ethnographic Field School 2026. Info here: tinyurl.com/2w2kkxm8 If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Dr. Melissa Gauthier at [email protected] @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #fieldschool #summer

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www.livescience.com/archaeology/... April Nowell comments @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderthals created art: www.newscientist.com/article/2501... April Nowell comments: “You only maintain a point on a crayon if you want to make precise lines or designs,” @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #neanderthals #anthropology

Featuring April Nowell: Differences in red blood cells may have 'hastened the extinction' of our Neanderthal cousins, new study suggests www.livescience.com/archaeology/... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #neanderthal

Dr. April Nowell comments in Live Science on Neandertal diets in an article titled "Did Neanderthals eat anything other than meat?" www.livescience.com/archaeology/... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #neandertal

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Today 11:30-12:45! @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology

thediscourse.ca/cowichan-val... Article featuring Brian Thom's work regarding Cowichan Title and Ye'yumnuts, centered on an interview with Thom and Elder Luchsiim. The article connects to an ongoing, and unprecedented court case @b-thom.bsky.social @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr. Tatiana Degai on the publishing of her new paper, "Multi-level salmon governance and adaptation to institutional change in Indigenous fishing communities in Kamchatka, Russia" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology

Join us for a grad school info session, Nov 3rd, 2025. 3-4pm. @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #gradschool

Check out the Mexico Ethnographic Field school! Info sessions: Oct 22nd and Oct 24th 11:30-12:30. @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #fieldschool #mexico #ethnography

#Anthropology Honours Program Info session, Thursday Oct. 30th, 4:30-5:30PM @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

@noxon.bsky.social is going to be our special in person guest speaker next week, talking about 3D imaging, with some practical tips! If you can be here, come join us!

Next Monday! Dr. Corey Noxon Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan Monday, October 27 11:30 am–12:45 pm Cornett B235 @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology events.uvic.ca/anthropology...

Today we spotlight Dr. Stephanie Calce, UVic’s Bone Boss and our unstoppable Senior Lab Instructor. @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #bioanth #archaeology

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@uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social Mexico Ethnographic Field School May 1 - 22nd, 2026. Application deadline: November 20th, 2025. #anthropology #mexico #fieldschool

This week CSRS Scholars in the Square welcomes Shemine Gulamhusein. Join us Thursday! @uvichumanities.bsky.social; @uvicanthro.bsky.social; @uvic.ca

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Ocean-connected communities: Historical perspectives inform modern relationships. 15–19 June 2026 University of Victoria Hosted by Professors Jason Colby, Loren McClenachan & Iain McKechnie Abstract submissions open early Autumn 2025; decisions in Jan 2026 oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi @uvic.ca

Exploring the Congo River basin's 'jungle of currencies,' Jane Guyer's work inspires a leap into digital currency innovation. #OpenMoney #DigitalCurrency #uvic @uvicanthro.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....