Tag archive for ‘Department of Anthropology’
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April 15, 2013
The Knoxville News Sentinel profiles the mass grave research project being conducted the Forensic Anthropology Center. For the next three years, scientists will monitor fresh burial sites made at the...Read More »
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March 7, 2013
The UT Amnesty International chapter will celebrate its third annual Human Rights Week March 11 through 20 with speakers on issues ranging from due process rights in foreign lands to...Read More »
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November 12, 2012
Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, will be giving lectures on November 13 and 14 as part of the Department of Anthropology's annual capstone courses....Read More »
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October 29, 2012
Faculty, staff, students, and alumni are sharing the big ideas that make a difference in their world. Bill Bass, a professor emeritus of forensic anthropology, had the big idea to...Read More »
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June 8, 2012
National Geographic featured a study by UT forensic anthropologists that has found American heads are getting larger. The article chronicles the evolution of human head sizes....Read More »
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June 6, 2012
NBC late night talk show host Jay Leno had his own interpretation of a study by UT forensic anthropologists that has found American heads are getting larger....Read More »
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May 30, 2012
White Americans' heads are getting bigger. That's according to research by forensic anthropologists at UT. Researchers examined 1,500 skulls dating back to the mid-1800s through the mid-1980s. They noticed US...Read More »
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May 15, 2012
In a trend that can be identified going back to the mid-1800s, U.S. skulls have gotten bigger, taller and narrower as seen from the front, said Richard and Lee Jantz,...Read More »
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November 14, 2011
The history of the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be explored next week through a public lecture and concert at UT Knoxville. The...Read More »
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March 31, 2011
The National Endowment for the Humanities invites the public's input on an NEH-funded study of three sites in Virginia where former slave quarters are thought to have stood. Barbara Heath,...Read More »
