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Through fieldwork, laboratory work, and close study, faculty in the Department of Anthropology guide students in the examination and analysis of the global varieties of human thought and activity, as well as the evolutionary origins of the human biology. Anthropologists at BU are experts in issues relating to religion in the modern world, the effects of religion on politics and society, grassroots civil societies, democratic transitions, and evolutionary biology. The department offers two tracks of study between social anthropology and biological anthropology.
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Department chair: Tom Barfield
Campus address: 232 Bay State Road
Phone: 617-353-2195
Fax: 617-353-2610
Website: www.bu.edu/anthrop
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Clams and climate in the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska: insights from oxygen isotope sclerochronological analysis of S. gigantea from middle to late holocene archaeological deposits
(2016)The paleoenvironmental record reflects fluctuating marine conditions throughout the Gulf of Alaska during the Late Holocene. The effects of changes in regional climate patterns, as well as human responses to such change, ... -
Integrating archaeology and ancient DNA analysis to address invasive species colonization in the Gulf of Alaska
(WILEY, 2017-10-01)The intentional and unintentional movement of plants and animals by humans has transformed ecosystems and landscapes globally. Assessing when and how a species was introduced are central to managing these transformed ... -
Goddess unbound: Chinese popular religion and the varieties of boundary
(University of Chicago Press, 2019-01-02)Mazu is an important deity who spread widely within and beyond China. The hardening of internal and external boundaries during the Cold War greatly limited the flow of the cult on the mainland, and completely cut the tie ... -
El desarrollo de la sociedad urbana en el Altiplano Central mexicano durante el Formativo y la transición al Clásico
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), 2018-11-19)During the two millennia designated the Formative period (1500 BC – AD 100) and the Classic period (AD 100–650), societies of the central Mexican highlands undertook many of the key transformations typically associated ... -
Multiethnicity and migration at Teopancazco: investigations of a Teotihuacan neighborhood center
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Arqueologías de la mobilidad: cruzando los límites espaciales y temporales
(Revista Latino-Americana De Arqueologia Historica, 2016-12-31)En este artículo se delinea la historia de los enfoques arqueológicos sobre el movimiento y la movilidad y se discute la reciente aparición de un “nuevo paradigma de movilidades” en muchas disciplinas, incluyendo la ... -
Estudio Integral de una casa del Formaivo en La Laguna, Tlaxcala
(2018-10-02)El estudio integral de un sitio del Periodo Formativo Terminal (100 a.C. – 150 d.C.) en Tlaxcala, México a partir de técnicas de prospección arqueológica, permitieron reconocer la mayor parte de las estructuras enterradas ... -
Major John Bradford Homestead archaeological collections report
(2018-06-01)This report describes a collections management project undertaken on archaeological finds excavated at the Major John Bradford Homestead in 1972 and 1973. One of the chief goals of the project were to clean all artifacts ...
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