Department of Anthropology Content

Humans Are Unique but Not Exceptional Species of Mammal

Karen Michele Nikos — May 22, 2023 - 1:15pm

Humans' day-to-day behavior and child-rearing habits are not much different than other mammals who hunt, forage for food, and rear and teach their children.

‘Unfold’ Podcast, Episode 4: Female Big-Game Hunter Discovery Challenges Ancient Gender Roles

Katherine E Kerlin — October 19, 2021 - 8:00pm

Nine thousand years ago, a woman was buried in the Andean mountains of Peru next to tools normally associated with big-game hunting. Before you think she was just a badass, ��ϲʿ��ͼ researchers found that many females in the early Americas were big-game hunters and we shouldn’t be so quick to project our own gender stereotypes and current cultural values on ancient societies.

Early Big-Game Hunters of the Americas Were Female, Researchers Suggest

Karen Michele Nikos — November 04, 2020 - 11:00am

A 9,000-year-old female hunter burial in the Andes Mountains challenges the concept that men were hunters and women were gatherers.