This RSS news feed maintained by uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 20 UW news releases about Anthropology. http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByAuthorId&departmentID=70&numToShow=20 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2009 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:56 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand how people settled and interacted in the inhospitable Kuril Islands. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50505 Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50505 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:04:08 GMT The University of Washington has transferred the remains of eight individuals whose bones were in the archives of a UW forensic anthropologist working at the UW from 1968 to 1991 to the King County Medical Examiner's Office. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47463 Campus Robert Roseth (roseth@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47463 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:25:23 GMT Researchers have developed a model that suggests shuffling emerged millions of years ago as a precursor to walking on two feet as a way of saving metabolic energy by a common ancestor of today primates. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42166 Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42166 Thu, 29 May 2008 17:35:32 GMT A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it isn't necessarily the fastest or easiest path to follow, especially when a hill is involved. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39870 Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39870 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:00:00 GMT A cave in South Africa dating to 164,000 years ago has yielded the oldest evidence of modern human behavior -- harvesting food from the sea, making complex small stone tools and using red pigments symbolically. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37362 Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37362 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:33:18 GMT The tiny rabbit-like pika, an animal species considered to be one of the best canaries in a coal mine for detecting global warming in the western United States, appears to be veering toward the brink of extinction in the Great Basin. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21490 Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21490 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:00:00 GMT A language is a terrible thing to lose, and that's why nearly two dozen community members of Northwest Indian tribes and nations will spend the next week learning way to breathe new life into endangered indigenous languages http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11943 Social Science Education Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11943 Tue, 06 Sep 2005 07:00:00 GMT With increasing global warming Rudolph and the rest of Santa Claus' reindeer will disappear form large portions of their current range and be under severe environmental stress by the end of the century. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6732 Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6732 Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:00:00 GMT Nearly 90 teachers of 30 different American Indian and Canadian First Nations languages will participate in an intensive three-day computer camp that will help them produce culturally appropriate language materials using a variety of modern technological tools. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5337 Social Science http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5337 Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT New findings indicate that the endangered callimicos are not a missing link between small and large New World monkeys. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4718 Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4718 Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:00:00 GMT