Department of Anthropology

Kyki Li came to the UW from China for the freedom to explore. It was everything she'd hoped for.

University of Washington anthropology student Darren Byler chronicles artistic culture in Northwest China amid a massive security crackdown.

Analysis from Professor of Anthropology, Holly Baker

Interview with Sasha Welland, associate professor in anthropology and gender, women and sexuality studies about her new book.

Ben Marwick, Associate Professor with UW Department of Anthropology weighs in on the new find and the study that produced it.

Dan Eisenberg, associate professor at the University of Washington Department of Anthropology, weighs in on the experimental design of this study.

Holly Barker, a UW anthropology lecturer and advocate for Marshallese rights weighs in on new bill.

UW archeologists have re-created the weapons used by hunter-gatherers in the post-Ice Age Arctic some 14,000 years ago.

UW professor Holly Barker on the lasting health impacts of mid-20th century U.S. nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands.

Research involving UW faculty and students shows evidence of humans in Australia much earlier than previously thought.

A team of researchers, including a faculty member and seven students from UW, have found artifacts in Australia that indicate humans arrived there about 65,000 years ago.

Anthropology professor, Janelle Taylor, started researching dementia about 10 years ago, after her own mother's diagnosis of dementia.

An international team of scientists, including one from the UW, has announced the discovery of additional remains of a new human species.

Marcos Llobera brings landscapes of the past to life through cutting-edge computational methods and digital archeology 

UW study suggests that monitoring, and potentially treating, the monkeys that co-exist with humans in affected parts of the world may be part of the global strategy.