anthropologists

DR JANE Goodall barely needs an introduction: The world famous anthropologist has become synonymous with animal welfare and environmental protection over the years. This year, she featured on the Google Doodle promoting the 48th Earth Day, a global initiative which urges people to think about the ...

A forensic anthropologist is scheduled on Monday to examine the human remains found in Stoney Creek this week. Hamilton police sent out a news release Friday announcing the examination. Once it is completed, the police said they will provide an update. The remains were discovered near the shore in ...

Anthropologists working in northern Italy have revealed a cutting-edge medieval approach to surviving the sudden loss of a limb. A male skeleton unearthed in 1996 and dating from some time in the 6th to 8th century AD showed evidence of a man who not only survived his right hand being chopped off, ...

What does a forensic anthropologist do? Dr Soren Blau, Senior Forensic Anthropologist at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, explains what it's like to study human remains in a forensic setting. Hint, it's a lot less glamorous than the way it's portrayed in the television series Bones. Duration: 9min ...

From 1973 through 1988, the American anthropologist Katherine Verdery spent a total of more than three years conducting fieldwork and research in Romania, studying things like the social life of Transylvanian villages and how the writing of history shaped national identity. During that time, two people she ...

Using anthropologists and behavioral scientists to assist in UX design isn't exactly a new concept. Decades ago, Xerox PARC relied on social scientists to help design copy machines. Major tech companies like Dell, Microsoft and Intel have long employed social scientists. And two years ago, Cognizant ...

Tanya Rodriguez is senior cultural anthropologist for Hormel Foods Corp., the Austin, Minn.-based maker of Spam and other national and global food brands. Her job is to understand consumers and why they make the choices they do. Rodriguez recently sat down with the Business Journal to talk about her ...

Kate Fox, a social anthropologist, reveals the words upper-class people would never use in her book. "Watching The English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour" explains what they would use instead. Business Insider has rounded up the most surprising everyday terms that are frowned upon in ...

“I love Opus for local roasters. I like Sweetwater as well,” says Chris LeClere. “For research purposes, Volta, hands down.” Chris LeClere tastes a lot of coffee, with a personal record of around 50 cups in a day. He's a coffee anthropologist working on an interdisciplinary Ph.D. at the University of Florida.

Back in the mists of 1973, it seemed a pretty novel idea for an anthropologist to place 11 demographically diverse strangers on a bare-bones raft for 100 days, and task them with crossing the Atlantic Ocean as tempers flare and sexual sparks fly between them. 45 years later, the so-called Acali Experiment ...

But after years of studying the solitary primates, Boston University biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott, 55, knows orangutans intimately and fears for their survival as their numbers have dwindled. Collecting the urine from female orangutans is part of her research on whether the availability of food ...

But after years of studying the solitary primates, Boston University biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott, 55, knows orangutans intimately and fears for their survival as their numbers have dwindled. Collecting the urine from female orangutans is part of her research on whether the availability of food ...

Dan Sayers is changing the way we view anthropology—and those who follow vegan lifestyles. As an energy-drink addicted, beer-guzzling chain-smoker who sometimes goes an entire day without eating, Dan Sayers doesn't fit the profile of a typical vegan. “I just don't think about eating when I'm doing ...

LeClere is a coffee anthropologist, whose doctoral research at the University of Florida delves into what kinds of coffee we drink, where and why. That information is important for economic reasons: Americans spend $5 billion a year on coffee and another $32 million in coffeehouses, and major chains have ...

“Due to the advance decomposition of the body detectives have called a forensic anthropologist to assist with the investigation,” spokeswoman Teri Barbera wrote in an email. The sheriff's office ... The sheriff's office kept the scene secure overnight until the anthropologist arrived in the morning. Once they ...

Anthropologists believe this basic hand ax was used for a variety of purposes, including cutting through joints of large animals, chopping down trees and ... Michael Petraglia, an anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany who was not involved in the research, ...

Just three years after Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared in 1937, a forensic anthropologist name D. W. Hoodless studied some bones found off the island of Nikumaroro. He concluded they were from a male, so they weren't hers; ever since then, the mystery has deepened and ...

Forensic anthropologists are tasked with examining human skeletal remains in a medicolegal context. Typically such work can include identifying the sex, age, ancestry, and stature of an unidentified set of remains. They also regularly assist in evaluating trauma, to include blunt and sharp force trauma, ...

Breakthrough in decades-old mystery of missing aviator Amelia Earhart, claims anthropologist. Thu, Mar 8. share. Source: Associated Press. Bones found in 1940 on a western Pacific Ocean island are very likely to be remains from famed aviator Amelia Earhart, a new analysis concludes. American aviatrix Amelia Earhart ...

In a 200-year-old building in the center of Copenhagen, overlooking the Rosenberg Castle, a group of anthropologists, sociologists, and experts in other human sciences stand around a large, white table to discuss the deepest anxieties of the world's best-known companies. The young, distinctly ...

They announce the dark arrival of their populist challengers as the rise of “post-truth”. Some anthropologists and other academics in the Anglo-American world argue that we are suffering from the onset of a “post-knowledge” environment. Fortunately, some see straight through the “bullshit” that has been ...

Anthropologist and university lecturer Dr Herbert Gayle is describing the various non-governmental organisations involved in crime management as mop-up groups for the corruption that result from the country's growing crime problem. In presenting a preliminary report done on at-risk communities ...

Bones hold many facts, and under a discerning eye they can also help tell a story. Anthropology professors Jeanne McLaughlin and Pat O'Grady are going to the far corners of the world to help find and tell those stories. Using their expertise in archaeology and forensics, they're about to launch a new field ...

Shalardchai was one of Thailand's most respected anthropologists and a prominent advocate of women's rights for half a century. After receiving a masters of arts in Cultural Anthropology from Cornell University in 1973, he began teaching at Chiang Mai University's Department of Sociology and ...

How to Think Like an Anthropologist is intended for a "a wider audience, a wider public" to anthropology, to quote Engelke in his acknowledgments section. Doing this — informing and perhaps occasionally startling readers who aren't themselves anthropologists — is a profoundly important goal. Engelke ...

IT was already working on the development of eHealth services based on HIE regional infrastructure implementation, the first opportunity to put that approach in action came up when we began to think of a new service based on the existing ePrescription infrastructure,” said Pozzo, an anthropologist and ...

Then one day his professor, renowned anthropologist Robert Braidwood, had a sudden opening on an archaeological dig in the foothills of Iraq that would change Adams' life. Adams, PhB'47, AM'52, PhD'56, was picked because he knew how to work on cars, but the chance trip would lead to decades of ...

The year is around 10,000 B.C. You're a hunter-gatherer, living in what is today Alaska, and you've gone out into the frozen wilds with a group of other hunters. You're looking for dinner. There are plants and berries to be foraged, but you're more likely to find caribou, wild horses, and reindeer. You have ...

Grunin Center To Screen "The Anthropologist" With Director Q&A (TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- Award-winning writer, producer, director Seth Kramer brings his 2016 documentary The Anthropologist: Looking at Climate Change through a Global Lens to Ocean County College on Thursday, April 19 ...

In the latest session of the Hot Springs Village Ouachita Speaker Series, Dr. Thomas Holland gave an excellent presentation on forensic anthropology and how it works to identify missing-in-action service men and women and other forensic cases. Holland, also the author of two novels, is presently the ...

Anthropologists show how migrant communities physically grow taller when they leave hardship behind. Date: March 8, 2018; Source: Loughborough University; Summary: A new study has shown that migrant populations moving to more affluent countries grow physically taller over relatively short periods of time. Share:.

First Sculpture is curated by Tony Berlant, a Los Angeles artist who collects indigenous art, and Thomas Wynn, a prominent anthropologist at the University of Colorado. Berlant and Wynn began their collaboration for the exhibition in 2013, focusing on the aesthetics of Acheulean handaxes, and later ...

An anthropologist, he did years of fieldwork in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. And now he's found his third academic home at UCSB. As the new SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences, Hale oversees 12 academic departments and programs with more than 6,500 ...