anthropology News Archive
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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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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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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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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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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”