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From Ohio University News Early human ancestors (hominins) dispersing from Africa into Eurasia 2 million years ago would have found a hospitable environment to enter Europe through southern Romania along the Danube River and its tributaries, says an Ohio University anthropologist. An international research team is working to find evidence […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. In Athens Madeleine Hordinski ’20 discovered a wonderful place “full of incredible people and ethereal nature.” Now she’s heading west to a city of more than 4 million people, joining the […]

If early human ancestors (hominins) dispersing from Africa into Eurasia 2 million years ago moved through southern Romania, they would have found monkeys on foot rather than in trees, short-necked giraffes, rhinos, and saber-toothed cats—quite different from the Europe of today. During the early Pleistocene of Eurasia, these hominins also […]

Dr. Sabrina Curran, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, received a grant from the Leakey Foundation that helps fund her work on a site in Romania. Curran and her team went to Romania in July and will return again next summer to look for traces of a rare primate […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. Rachel Meyer ’16 is a second year master’s student in Anthropology at the University of Cincinnati. She graduated from the College of Arts & Sciences at […]

Dr. Sabrina Curran, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, presents “Renewed explorations of the Mid-Pleistocene site, Isimila, Tanzania” at a joint meeting this month of the Paleoanthropology Society and American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Austin, Texas. The Paleoanthropology Society was founded in 1992. It recognizes that paleoanthropology is multidisciplinary in nature […]

The new Anthropological Sciences Laboratories in the Central Classroom building are open, and research is in full swing on collections of artifacts that help researchers reconstruct ancient environments—including those nearby in Southeastern Ohio. Faculty and students from Sociology, Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and the Heritage College of Medicine attended an […]