Times Colonist: Dredging of Esquimalt Harbour turns up thousands of artifacts.After dredging the bottom of the Esquimalt Harbour, thousands of artifacts have been found in the sea-material. Some of the artifacts found include naval shipboard crests and memorabilia. Anthropology's undergraduate student, Caitlin Craig is cataloging and caring for the artifacts.
Read more: Caitlin Craig: Identifying Esquimalt Harbour's artifacts
Congratulations to Emily Thiessen whose art work graces the cover of the April 2019 edition of Anthropology News.
Congratulations Thea Monique Lamoureux on your successful MA defense. BA (University of Victoria, 2013) “Difficult and Deadly Deliveries?: Investigating the presence of an ‘obstetrical dilemma’ in Medieval England through examining health and its effects on the bony human pelvis” Department of Anthropology Thursday, April 18, 2019
Read more: Congratulations Thea Monique Lamoureux on your successful MA defense
Congratulation Maya on your successful MA defense. BA (University of Victoria, 2017) Department of Anthropology Wednesday, April 17, 2019 “The Salt Spring Dollar: Money For People, Against the Market”
Read more: Congratulation Maya Cowan on your successful MA defense
As part of the Ye'yumnuts project initiated by Cowichan Tribes in 2017, UVic anthropologist Brian Thom and his graduate students were invited to partner with Elders, school district staff and others to commemorate an ancient ancestral site in the Cowichan Valley and to develop interpretive materials and school curriculum resources.
Three of 10 prestigious 3M National Student Fellowships have been awarded to students in UVic's Faculty of Social Sciences. Cara Samuel (psychology), Maxwell Nicholson (economics) and Michael Graeme (anthropology and environmental studies) join seven others to become Canada's 3M fellowship recipients for 2018.
This May, the second annual REACH Awards will celebrate UVic scientists, scholars and artists for their extraordinary contributions in research and teaching—from a field school in Cuba to a performance atop a glacier in BC's interior.
UVic's "bone lady" retires after more than 30 years of student and community engagement. For more than 30 years, Becky Wigen has built one of the largest and most extensive collections of animal skeletons in the Pacific Northwest.
UVic anthropologist Brian Thom has long worked with Coast Salish First Nations and Parks Canada on cooperative management in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve. Recently, Thom saw an opportunity to more fully integrate Indigenous knowledge and cultural practices into co-management efforts.
This fall, UVic students are making noise again at the Royal British Columbia Museum. Thirty-nine students in Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier's third-year anthropology course are working with museum learning program developers to create soundscapes that will bring sonic life to many objects on exhibit.
