Jan 6th, 2025
Research by Professor Thomas Plummer and his team was recently featured on CBS Saturday Morning. Professor Plummer’s work demonstrates compelling evidence for the earliest tool use by our hominin ancestors 3 million years ago on the Homa Peninsula in western Kenya, findings that were also recently published in Science. This work has also been featured in Nature and PBS News.
Welcome back to the Fall 2024 semester
August 28th, 2024
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Thomas Plummer received NSF Award
August 21st, 2024
Thomas Plummer receives NSF Award for his ongoing research project “Collaborative Research: Early Emergence of Tool Use”. The goal of this collaborative project is to understand the significance of tool technology in the human lineage by investigating a site that dates between approximately 3 and 2.6 million years ago. Findings from this research promise to provide a more comprehensive understanding of early hominin behavior at the dawn of stone tool technology.
Explore our specialized minors
August 16th, 2024
In addition to an Anthropology major and minor, students may sign up for specialized minors including Human Ecology, Power Inequality, Cultural Heritage, and Health in Culture. For more information on our majors and minors, click here.
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General | Human Ecology | Power and Inequality | Cultural Heritage and Memory | Health and Culture