Tag: Biological Anthropology
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Alex Pelissero: Summer 2024
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Read More: Alex Pelissero: Summer 2024Alex Pelissero Summer 2024 Winning Awards and Droning to Study Early Humans Can drones help anthropologists look back in time to understand early humans’ migrations and encounters? Doctoral candidate Alex Pelissero is using drone technology to map sites of early human interactions at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania — and earning…
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Tewabe Negash Kessaw: Summer 2024
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Read More: Tewabe Negash Kessaw: Summer 2024Tewabe Negash Kessaw Summer 2024 Bones to Pick about Surviving a Supervolcano A study published March 2024 in the journal Nature shares the discovery of a “trove” of 74,000-year-old stone points and fossil bones in Ethiopia that demonstrates the adaptability of early humans following a major disaster. Doctoral student Tewabe…
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Astute and Unafraid: Remembering Professor Emerita Ann Magennis
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Read More: Astute and Unafraid: Remembering Professor Emerita Ann MagennisAstute and Unafraid: Remembering Professor Emerita Ann Magennis Spring 2024 Josh Zaffos Professor Emerita Ann Magennis, an enduring and admired faculty member at Colorado State University Department of Anthropology and Geography, passed away on February 27, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colorado, following a brief illness. Magennis taught biological anthropology…
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Take a tour of the Frayer Collection
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Read More: Take a tour of the Frayer CollectionFive Things! Take a tour of the Frayer Collection Anthropology doctoral student Alex Pelissero showcases his favorite fossil casts from new department collection September 1, 2022 Alex Pelissero This summer, the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Colorado State University inherited a large collection of fossil casts from David Frayer,…
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CSU Anthropologists Host Paleoecology Summit
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Read More: CSU Anthropologists Host Paleoecology SummitCSU Anthropologists Host Paleoecology Summit June 24, 2022 Joshua Zaffos Researchers who study the evolution and adaptations of Homo sapiens and other hominin species across hundreds of thousands to millions of years face a constant challenge: reconstructing long-long-long-ago paleoenvironments. Not surprisingly, ancient fossil records are incomplete and imperfect, and while some…
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Galvin Wins University Distinguished Professor Award
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Read More: Galvin Wins University Distinguished Professor AwardGalvin Wins University Distinguished Professor Award Award recognizes 30-plus-year career integrating anthropology and conservation and serving CSU May 23, 2022 Josh Zaffos A pioneer in interdisciplinary anthropological research, Dr. Kathleen Galvin has been recognized as a University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. Galvin, who has been faculty since 1994…
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Anthropology and Geography Exhibition Gallery and Student Lounge Opens
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Read More: Anthropology and Geography Exhibition Gallery and Student Lounge OpensDepartment Exhibition Gallery and Student Lounge Opens Josh Zaffos This spring, the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Colorado State University opened a new public exhibit space and student lounge inside the Andrew G. Clark Building. Students and professors curated and prepared materials from department collections of stone tools, cultural…
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Ready Primate One: Role-playing video game levels up biological anthropology
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Read More: Ready Primate One: Role-playing video game levels up biological anthropologyReady Primate One Joshua Zaffos Video gaming may be a diversion from research and coursework for some, but Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Alex Pelissero is another species, so to speak. Pelissero recently published a video-game review in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, offering his well-qualified commentary on Ancestors: The Humankind…
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How Apes Reveal Human History
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Read More: How Apes Reveal Human HistoryAs appearing in SAPIENS | 24 June 2021 How Apes Reveal Human History Great apes provide a window into the story of human evolution—and that’s one more reason to protect them. REFLECTIONS Mary Shirley Mitchell When I was a kid, every trip to the zoo featured a visit to the…
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Cannibalism, ritual, or both: The Neandertal debate continues at Krapina Cave
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Read More: Cannibalism, ritual, or both: The Neandertal debate continues at Krapina CaveAs seen in the College of Liberal Arts Magazine | Winter 2019/ Spring 2020 Cannibalism, ritual, or both: The Neandertal debate continues at Krapina Cave Tony Phifer and Joshua Zaffos A cave site in hilly, northern Croatia may offer clues about the rituals and sacred spaces of the Neandertals, an…