Anthropology Department
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The oral history wasn't a myth. Tsunamis hit this tribal village five times, new study shows | A legend about a great flood has been passed down through the centuries among the Klallam people on the north side of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. As re-told by Klallam elder Ed Sampson on a recording preserved by… |
2019-05-08 | |
Study: Tsunamis battered tribal village | The team from Portland State University, Western Washington University and the University of Rhode Island have examined more than 1.2 million remains from shell, fish, bird and mammals since 2012. Those remains represent more than 100 animal… |
2019-05-02 | |
Mueller’s investigation has created an underworld of online sleuths | Sorting through the data of the dead — their pots, their knives, and the rocks they cooked on — in order to reconstruct how they once lived, is not so different from tracking the Special Counsel investigation. |
2019-02-26 | |
WWU's Josh Fisher Travels to Nicaragua to Study the Complex Web of City Life | 2018-07-20 | ||
As Retirement Approaches, Daniel Boxberger Looks Back on a Career ‘He Just Sort of Fell Into’ | 2018-06-04 | ||
In Memoriam: Dr. Joan C. Stevenson | 2017-12-13 | ||
WWU Anthropology students win national awards | 2017-12-04 | ||
WWU’s Mike Etnier Receives $100k NSF Grant to Research Climate Change in the Aleutians | 2017-10-17 | ||
Boxberger Named Visiting Research Chair at VIU; to Work with First Nations this Fall | 2017-08-29 | ||
Rad Cunningham’s Path from Bugs, to Bikes to Buildings | Rad Cunningham’s path to public service was an adventurous one. After graduating from Western Washington University with a degree in… |
2017-05-11 |