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We have a one-year teaching position for a Socio-Cultural Anthropologist at Vancouver Island University. Please share this information with anyone who might be interested, and find details at:

Instructor, Anthropology (2490) | VIU | Vancouver Island University VIU's Faculty of Social Sciences invites applications for a temporary instructor to teach in the Anthropology Department. We seek an experienced instructor to teach one or more undergraduate course(s). Instruction includes preparation and delivery of lectures, assessment and evaluation of students,....

A few tickets left for the ancient beer tasting event! This year's new brew is Aksum Babe! inspired by the ancient brewers of the Aksumite Empire (modern Ethiopia) and it's gluten free (sorghum and millet). Come support VIU Anthropology research and student presentations in this awesome event.

Tickets are live for the 2024 Raise Your Glass to the Past archaeology of beer event! Friendly heads up that the tickets are going fast...
Hope to see you there!

Our monthly Tuesday evening GSAR training for March included a special presentation by David Hopwood, an Anthropology Professor at Vancouver Island University. The session — "The Identification and Interpretation of Human Skeletal Remains: Implications for Search and Rescue" — covered a number of topics extremely relevant for SAR members, including:
* How to recognize human bone
* How to differentiate human bone from other animal bone
* What can be learned from bones
* Hands on experience with real human bone and animal bone

It's back! Anthropology majors, sign up while there is still space!

Interested in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead? There is a free symposium from the Getty that you can watch via Zoom. Here is the link for anyone interested: https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3977.html?fbclid=IwAR16KQhPaddY2_sA0GgJNNbtNdJqvCY6t6RvmkIZmHMGU1FGS9aa0b3-G_w

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Archaeological or Biological Anthropologists on Vancouver Island, please share. We have two sessional openings (1 course each) to teach ANTH 111: Introduction to Archaeology and Biological Anthropology. Please see link below for details.

Instructor, Anthropology (2 of 2) (2150) | VIU | Vancouver Island University VIU's Faculty of Social Sciences invites applications for a temporary instructor to teach in the Anthropology Department. We seek an experienced instructor to teach one or more undergraduate course. Instruction includes preparation and delivery of lectures, assessment and evaluation of students, fac...

Share the news about our Archaeology of the Ancient Near East course! This has great implications for students interested in the ancient world, in museum careers and beyond.

One of the best parts about Anthropology is the ability to learn about different peoples and cultures around the planet. Check out this Spring 2024 course that explores the amazing peoples of Eastern Europe.

New Anthropology course for the Spring 2024 semester! Like monsters?

The 'Ivory Man'—a Powerful Leader Buried in a Lavish Tomb 5,000 Years Ago—Was Actually a Woman Researchers in Spain had previously assumed that the grave belonged to a high-status young man

Which hominin are you?

If you are curious, take this awesome quiz from the Sapiens journal.

Which Hominin Are You? A SAPIENS Quiz We humans have a large and ancient family tree. Take this quiz to find out which relative you are most alike.

Sequential art?

Tiny Snails Help Solve a Giant Mystery Cerne Abbas Giant - Archaeologists may finally know the age and true identity of a geoglyph etched into the British countryside.

Nabta Playa: The World's First Astronomical Site Was Built in Africa and Is Older Than Stonehenge This 7,000-year-old stone circle tracked the summer solstice and the arrival of the annual monsoon season. It's the oldest known astronomical site on Earth.

Archaeology of the Ancient Near East course for the Fall 2023 semester!

Interested in potential careers with museums using your Anthropology degree? Check out this fabulous class offered by Dr. Imogene Lim in the upcoming Fall 2023 semester.

The Horned Helmets Falsely Attributed to Vikings Are Actually Nearly 3,000 Years Old The helmets’ similarities to art from southern Europe shows how goods and ideas traveled during the Nordic Bronze Age

Burrowing Bunnies in Wales Unearth Trove of Prehistoric Artifacts Rabbits on Skokholm Island discovered Stone Age tools and fragments of a Bronze Age cremation urn

The cape of beaten gold from Mold, Wales, is woman-sized, and possibly belonged to a priestess. It is from Bryn yr Ellyllon burial mound near Mold, Flintshire in 1833, and dates to 1900–1600 bce. "The cape was within a Bronze Age burial mound named Bryn yr Ellyllon, which translates to "Goblins' Hill". The gold cape had been placed on the body of a person who was interred in a rough cist (stone-lined grave) within a burial mound. The preserved remains of the skeleton were fragmentary, and the cape was badly crushed.

"An estimated 200–300 amber beads, in rows, were on the cape originally, but only a single bead survives at the British Museum. Also associated with the cape were remains of coarse cloth and 16 fragments of sheet bronze which are likely to have been the backing for the gold: in places the gold was riveted onto the bronze sheeting with bronze rivets. There also were two gold 'straps' among the artefacts found. An urn with large quantities of burnt bone and ash was 60–90 cm (24–35 in) from the grave.

"The cape is 458 mm (18.0 in) wide. It was designed to fit someone of a very slight build, perhaps a teenager, and although the [s*x] of the person buried in this grave remains unclear, the associated finds are likely, by comparison with similar contemporary graves discovered, to be those accompanying the burial of a woman. [So tentative!] The cape shows signs of having been worn, and appears to have had a leather lining."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold_gold_cape

Tickets are going fast, but if you want tickets to this year's Raise Your Glass to the Past ancient beer tasting event, buy your tickets here:

Raise Your Glass to the Past | Nanaimo Craft Beer S Come taste the past in this ancient ales inspired event hosted by Dr. Marie Hopwood, VIU Department of Anthropology, and Dave Paul, Brewer of LoveShack Libations.

Getting ready for the Raise Your Glass to the Past event on May 4th? Check out this National Geographic (German edition) article where our Marie Hopwood was interviewed about her research into the archaeology of beer. The article is in German, but if you go to the top right corner of the screen it should let you select English. Here is the link:

Jahrtausendealtes Kultgetränk: Wie das Bier nach Deutschland kam Bereits vor Tausenden von Jahren wurde in Mesopotamien ein bierähnliches Getränk gebraut. Seither hat Bier in vielen Kulturen eine wichtige Rolle gespielt. Wie wurde Deutschland zur Biernation?

A prehistoric method for tailoring clothes may be written in bone A punctured bone fragment was probably a leatherwork punch board. Perforated leather sewn together may have been seams in clothing.

Great things from older stored materials. You don't always have to excavate, but can explore museum storage too.

New clues suggest people reached the Americas around 30,000 years ago Ancient rabbit bones from a Mexican rock-shelter point to humans arriving on the continent as much as 10,000 years earlier than often assumed.

Curious about how archaeology can be used to recreate ancient beer? Check out the Raise Your Glass to the Past tasting event. Tickets are live!

Nanaimo Craft Beer Week is back -- April 30-May 7, 2023!

The Nanaimo Craft Beer Society is excited to again celebrate the craft beer community in Nanaimo with a series of intimate, intriguing, and flavourful events at various locations in Nanaimo.

Schedule and tickets: https://www.nanaimocraftbeersociety.com

Some favourites from last year return, including Wolf Brewing Company's Picks 'n Pints, the 'Brewed Right Here' Homebrewing showcase, 'Crafterdark' beer cocktails (now at blackrabbit.kitchen), 'Raise Your Glass to the Past' ancient-inspired ales, and Craft Fare's 'Tap Secret' tap takeover. We're also bringing back a re-imagined version of our Women & Beer evening!

New events include a beer flavour infusion contest with White Sails Brewing, a burger 'n brews special at Longwood Brew Pub & Restaurant, the launch of a Nanaimo brewery collaboration beer at Firehouse Grill, and finishing off the week with a celebratory morning libation and special benny at Top Notch Burgers. (There may be another event or two added to this list!)

While some of these events are day-long or multi-day celebrations with no tickets required, our ticketed events are purposefully designed to be smaller affairs with plenty of opportunities to be social and discuss beers and brewing.

Thank you for your continued support of craft beer in Nanaimo!

The 2000-year-old clothes of the Huldremose Woman, a bog body recovered in 1879 from a peat bog near Ramten in Denmark. It consists of a checked woollen skirt, a checked woollen scarf and two skin capes. Now on display at the National Museum of Denmark

More: https://bio.link/museumofartifacts

What we can learn from dirt...

DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared First nuclear DNA from sediment shows turnover, migration among ancient cave dwellers in Spain

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