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A selection of dried fish and seafood displayed for sale in a Southeast Asian market.

U of M research projects net more than $4.1M for groundbreaking work

June 1, 2018 — 
The federal government has announced more than $158 million in funding for over 800 research projects across Canada

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A selection of dried fish and seafood displayed for sale in a Southeast Asian market.

Faculty of Arts

Food for Thought: Dried fish matters

February 20, 2018 — 
Second talk in series focuses on the social economy of dried fish for livelihoods and food security

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Dispatch: DNA research helps understand how the Americas were first populated

April 3, 2017 — 
Former U of M President, Emőke Szathmáry, still doing top-notch research

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A temple in the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria is destroyed by ISIS

Destroying antiquities, explaining ISIS

February 8, 2017 — 
Professor Tina Greenfield gave a recent campus lecture arguing why we should care about ISIS destroying artifacts in the “cradle of civilization"

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Faculty of Arts

CBC, CTV: Anthropology students digging at Lockport site for connections to Aboriginal agriculture

June 22, 2016 — 
Nine anthropology students from the University of Manitoba have spent the past month digging at a heritage site on the Red River

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St. Paul's College

WFP: Discovery of biblical city shares local connection

August 17, 2015 — 
U of M professor worked at site where David slew Goliath

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Sonar image of one of Sir John Franklin's lost ships.

Faculty of Arts

Why did Sir John Franklin’s last expedition fail?

March 16, 2015 — 
Free public lecture today: The archaeology of Sir John Franklin's last expedition

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PhD Student, Amy Scott

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Amy Scott, an explorer into the past

January 20, 2015 — 
Anthropology PhD student Amy Scott likes the challenge of trying to solve “the ultimate puzzle”

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