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Are hobbits real?

  • Geoff McMaster, Folio
  • 16 December 2022
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Consider This: Taking a closer look at pseudoarchaeology

  • Andre Costopoulos
  • 8 December 2022
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Anthropology PhD Candidate receives 2021-2022 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

  • Arts Staff
  • 5 December 2022
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Lost city of Atlantis myth gains popularity thanks to Netflix series

  • Express
  • 2 December 2022
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Less than half of the over $200M requested for burial searches at residential schools funded

  • CBC
  • 3 October 2022
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Why these Indigenous youth are part of the search for missing children from residential schools

  • CBC
  • 15 September 2022
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Indigenous Americans ruled democratically long before the U.S. did

  • Science News
  • 8 September 2022
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Pets we call our 'fur babies' offer us more than just companionship

  • CBC
  • 6 September 2022
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The Evolution of Dog Diets: Interview With Researcher Robert Losey

  • 30 August 2022
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Ground-penetrating radar search begins at former Blue Quills residential school in Alberta

  • CBC
  • 10 August 2022
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FACULTY MEMBERS APPOINTED TO NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON MISSING CHILDREN AND UNMARKED GRAVES

  • Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
  • 20 July 2022
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A year of pain and healing since 751 unmarked graves announced at Cowessess First Nation

  • CBC
  • 24 June 2022
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What Klingon and Other Constructed Languages Reveal

  • Bob Holmes
  • 24 June 2022
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Pioneers: Ruth Gruhn and Alan Bryan

  • Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
  • 14 June 2022
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Congratulations to Aleksa Alaica on her Assistant Professorship appointment at UBC

  • M. Whitecotton-Carroll
  • 8 June 2022
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Opinion: Fighting 'denialists' for the truth about unmarked graves and residential schooling

  • Kisha Supernant
  • 3 June 2022
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Early dogs may have doubled in size to protect livestock

  • Science Magazine
  • 29 May 2022
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How archaeologists look for unmarked graves in Indigenous communities

  • Globe and Mail
  • 27 May 2022
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawchuk Appointed to Join Cleveland Museum’s Interdisciplinary Research Team

  • 17 May 2022
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Opinion: Another Species of Hominin May Still Be Alive

  • Gregory Forth
  • 20 April 2022
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Anthropology Student Juliette Bedard wins Outstanding Reconciliation Research Award

  • 30 March 2022
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Search for unmarked graves at former residential schools in Canada and what the next steps are

  • 22 March 2022
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U of A anthropologist uncovers oldest human DNA ever found in Africa

  • 22 March 2022
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Elizabeth Sawchuk co-authors an article about how ancient DNA helps reveal social changes in Africa 50,000 years ago

  • 24 February 2022
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Anderson Cooper features The Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology in 60 Minutes segment on residential schools

  • 11 February 2022
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Beads made from ostrich eggshells reveal oldest known social network

  • 21 January 2022

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