Anthropology

Anthropologist Will Give Talk Advocating Working Slowly

By • Apr 25, 2019

Organizations often privilege fast results from employees. So, making an argument for working slowly might seem counter-intuitive. But that's exactly what anthropologist Paul Stoller is doing.

When Modern Brewing Meets Ancient Ales, Strange Things Happen

By • Feb 28, 2019

The closest that Travis Rupp came to getting fired, he says, was the time he tried to make chicha. The recipe for the Peruvian corn-based beer, cobbled together from bits of pre-Incan archaeological evidence, called for chewed corn partially fermented in spit. So, Rupp’s first task had been to convince his colleagues to gather round a bucket and offer up their chompers for the cause.

Wyoming Researchers Contribute To Study Of Human Populations

By • Oct 9, 2018
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Two researchers at the University of Wyoming have contributed to a study that paints a picture of human population over the last 10,000 years.

Artifacts And Human Remains Collected Years Ago To Be Returned To Tribes

By • Sep 11, 2018

The National Park Service is giving museums and universities across the country grants to return ancestral artifacts and human remains taken from Native American tribes over the years.

Archeology Detectives Follow Clues To Solve Mystery Of Missing Mammoth

By • Aug 24, 2018
Todd A. Surovell

University of Wyoming anthropologists are putting out a call out for help looking for a lost mammoth. How do you lose a six-ton extinct animal that lived 13,000 years ago? Well, you find a few of its bones but lose track over the decades of exactly where they were found. But now some clues have come to the surface. Wyoming Public Radio’s Melodie Edwards sat down with the University of Wyoming anthropology professor Todd Surovell, the detective trying to put all the clues together. 

Dubois Outfitter Eats Paleo Diet, Creates Replicas Of Prehistoric Tools

By • Jul 21, 2017
Melodie Edwards

Dubois author and wilderness outfitter Tory Taylor has released a new book called On The Trail Of The Mountain Shoshone Sheep Eaters: A High Altitude Archaeological Odyssey. The book is a gripping read about Taylor’s personal role in the discoveries of how this prehistoric tribe thrived in Wyoming’s highest elevations, and on how Taylor experimented with a Mountain Shoshone lifestyle.

Wyoming Preserves Ancient Hunting Tool

By • Mar 16, 2015

Rare Mammoth Site Excavated In Douglas

By • Jun 27, 2014
Melodie Edwards

In 1986, a large mammoth rib bone was found jutting out of the bank of a creek a few miles from Douglas.  The state archaeologist, Dr. George Frison, did a hasty 4-day excavation at the time.  But a thorough excavation has never been done because the land owners weren’t interested in hosting an archaeology dig on their property.  That left archaeologists with a big question--was LaPrele Creek a mammoth kill site?  But recently the land sold and archaeologists have finally been allowed to dig.