UMass Amherst Anthropology

The UMass Amherst Anthropology Department’s Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Field School invites you to our field site! Our students are learning how to excavate human skeletal remains (they use plastic skeletons) using archaeological techniques at our unique taphonomy lab on UMass Campus. Come explore our lab, the excavation, and see what it’s all about! 🪏☠️

Directions:

The site is located in a wooded area on UMass Campus. It is an area used by the agriculture department and includes popular walking paths.

To get there, head north on North Pleasant Street, and turn right at the College of Education on Furcolo Road. Drive through the first parking lot you enter (Lot 66) and you should come to parking lot 44A. This lot has solar panels that you can park under.

Park there, then walk along the path following the signs. This is likely a 10-minute walk. Please dress appropriately for a walk in a wooded area. There are bugs, mosquitos, and potential ticks.

Please come join us in celebrating another wonderful academic year with the Department of Anthropology! There will be food, awards, and a raffle with great prizes!

Tomorrow May 12th 12-2pm ‼️
Marriott Center room Campus Center

We hope to see you there! 🏆📚 🎟️

Events! Events! Events! Come and join us for a guest lecture with Dr. Sharon DeWitte from the University of Colorado Boulder!

April 24th in Machmer Hall E24 @ 4-5:30pm 🗓️

Join us in welcoming guest speaker Agnieszka Pasieka to the Amherst Room in the UMass Campus Center for her talk on “Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe”!

Agnieszka Pasieka is an assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal. Her work focuses on political mobilization, activism and social movements, and explores how different social actors mobilize to address inequality and power hierarchies and what kind of alternative world they envision.

April 16th at 4pm
See you there! 🫡

Mark your calendars 🗓️

Dr. Barbara Piperata will be joining us and speaking on Ecoculturing Infant Microbiomes on Thursday, April 9th!

Hor d’oeuvres will be served!

In honor of National Women’s Month the UMass Anthropology Department is remembering The Trimates. Chosen by Louis Leakey, these three remarkable women studied humanity’s closest living relatives and revolutionized primatology.

Here’s to Leakey’s Angels ✨🪽

It’s World Anthropology Day! Here are some reasons why our students love Anthro 🙈

We’ve evolved… but the Valentine’s puns remain💌

Celebrate your loved ones! xoxo, UMass Anthropology

Join us for hands-on training in biological anthropology, archaeology, and forensic science – working directly with human remains alongside UMass Chan Medical School and experts across law, government, law-enforcement, and more! 🦴📚🪏

ANTHRO 210: Economies and Cultures dives into economic systems, social life, politics, and ritual from a global perspective. Expand the way you understand the world - and how it works. Register now on SPIRE 📝📚