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A fresco depicting the sale of bread in ancient Rome.

More flamingo, anyone? How to dine like the ancient Romans

February 6, 2024 Author -Stacy Nick

Food has always been the great unifier. We gather around the table and work things out by breaking bread. For students in Colorado State University archaeology/anthropology instructor Emily Wilson’s class, food is teaching them a lot about what has – and hasn’t – changed in the past 2,700 years.

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CLA Faculty Commencement Speaker for Fall 2023: Kate Browne

December 12, 2023 Author -SOURCE Contributor

We proudly introduce Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Geography Kate Brown as our College of Liberal Arts Fall 2023 Commencement Speaker.

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Insights Speaker Series: Elevating award-winning work

December 4, 2023 Author -Ellie Crowley

As part of the Insights Speaker Series, four award-winning CLA faculty talk everything from Korean media to the power of community.

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A miner points to mercury-gold amalgam.

Mercury rising: How does gold mining in Ghana impact health, environment?

September 13, 2023 Author - Josh Zaffos

CSU Associate Professor of Geography Heidi Hausermann and colleagues have won a $1.537 million National Science Foundation grant to study the health, social and environmental effects of rapidly expanding, small-scale gold mining and mercury pollution in Ghana and beyond.

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fossil bone and closeup of cut marks

Bone reveals possible cannibalism among ancient relatives of humans

September 8, 2023 Author - Josh Zaffos

The analytical method behind this discovery was created by CSU paleoanthropologist Michael Pante, who studies feeding behavior of early humans.

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Lake Naivasha in Kenya.

CSU team launches online tool to help prepare for, adapt to climate changes in African forests

September 7, 2023 Author - Josh Zaffos

In June, a NASA-funded team of Colorado State University researchers traveled to Kenya to unveil a new interactive, online tool to help land managers and foresters working in Kenyan and African forests. 

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Hazy view of New York City and Empire State Building from June 2023

When it comes to wildfires, history isn’t as useful as it used to be

July 31, 2023 Author -Stacy Nick

The impacts of wildfire can be devastating, but the widespread nature of those impacts and their full costs to society are still being researched.

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Pinion Trees

Saving the mysterious piñon pines of Owl Canyon

July 1, 2023 Author - Josh Zaffos

A pine grove in Owl Canyon is 150 miles away from the next closest stand of piñons. So, how the heck did it get there?

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Were early humans cannibals? CSU paleoanthropologist talks about new findings regarding the oldest taboo

June 29, 2023 Author -Stacy Nick

Colorado State University paleoanthropologist Michael Pante talks about this important discovery, what it means for future fossil research, and what was it that led our early ancestors to eat each other.

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Ancient bone and closeup of marks

A case of cannibalism?

June 27, 2023 Author - Josh Zaffos

Smithsonian, CSU researchers uncover how humans’ relatives butchered one another 1.45 million years ago.

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