Announcements

The Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology celebrated its sixth annual retreat this summer at Ringberg Castle in Bavaria. With a focus on emerging areas of research and the future […]

The Nobel Symposium “Palaeogenomics: charting the future of ancient DNA” took place on 26-30 May 2025 at Villa Aske in Stockholm, Sweden and brought together leading experts to discuss the future of the field. Christina […]

A huge congratulations to undergraduate student Émilie Blondin who has been awarded the Paul Williams Scholarship to study the MPhil in Archaeological Science at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge! Emilie completed her senior honors thesis […]

Congratulations to Melina Seabrook for successfully defending her PhD thesis on “Know Thy Herd: The Lives of Sheep and Goats from Tepe Yahya, Iran, and the Benefits of Multi-Methodological Approaches” in the Department of Anthropology […]

I’m very happy to announce that in addition to my professorship in Anthropology at Harvard I have also joined the faculty of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology! I’m so excited to now have disciplinary […]

Congratulations to Björn Reichhardt for successfully defending his PhD thesis on “Ferments, Fences, Futures: Ecologies of Transformation in Rural Mongolia” at the University of Fribourg! We are so proud of you, Björn!

Visiting Master’s student Aurore Galtier received top marks on her MS thesis about ancient dental calculus at the École Normale Supériure de Lyon and has secured a PhD scholarship from the International Max Placnk Research […]

A huge congratulations to Megan Michel who successfully defended her PhD in Human Evolutionary Biology! We are so proud of you!

Congratulations to all the participants of SPAAM6 at this year’s EAA meetings in Rome for another successful satellite meeting on ancient metagenomics! It’s so wonderful to see this talented group of early career researchers grow […]

Job call for Laboratory Research Assistant in Harvard’s Anthropology Department! We’re seeking a Laboratory Research Assistant in Harvard’s Anthropology Department to support student and faculty research in our archaeological science laboratories! Applicants with prior experience […]