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The AABA IDEAS Program Workshop is back! We have expanded the Program to include 9 …

The abstract submission portal for the 2024 conference in Los Angeles is now open! See here for complete abstract preparation and submission instructions: https://bioanth.org/meetings-and-webinars/93rd-annual-meeting-los-angeles-california-2024/abstract-submission-deadline-october-15-2023/ Abstracts are due October 15, 2023 by 11:59 PM PDT.

Registration is open for the online edition of the course “Introduction to RNA-seq bioinformatic pipelines”. …

The Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), a collaboration …

The National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Marta Alfonso-Durruty as a rotator Program Director for Biological Anthropology. Dr. Alfonso-Durruty received her PhD at the State University of New York, Binghamton, in 2008. Following her PhD, she served as visiting …

We are happy to announce the new Transmitting Science course: Palaeoproteomics and Zooarchaeology by Mass …

On October 24, 2023 at Stony Brook University, the seventh Rohlf Medal for Excellence in …

We are excited to announce our new course on “Introduction to the Analysis of Morphological …

The AABA Invited Symposium Proposal Portal is now open and accepting submissions until August 15, 2023 (11:59pm PDT). More information on how to submit your proposal here: https://bioanth.org/meetings-and-webinars/93rd-annual-meeting-los-angeles-california-2024/symposium-proposal-instructions-2024-annual-meeting/

The year 2024 will mark the centenary of the discovery of the ‘Taung Child’, a cranium and mandible of a juvenile individual attributed to the species Australopithecus africanus by Raymond Dart and published in Nature the following year (1925: vol. 115, pp. 195–199). Highly controversial from the start, the specimen …

Registration is open for the online edition of the course Care and Management of Natural …

University of Kent, School of Anthropology and Conservation is accepting applicants for an MSc in …

This May, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (PCMA UW) is holding a speaker series about bioarchaeological perspectives on life in ancient Nubia. The series will be held online over three consecutive weeks. For those interested in attending, please contact Robert Stark ([email protected]) to obtain …

This August FACTS is hosting a special workshop entitled Applied Biostatistics Using R taught by …

The Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State (FACTS) in San Marcos, Texas is excited to announce that there is still space available in two of our summer courses including the Forensic Anthropology Methods week-long course and the 12-hour Entomology and Taphonomy of Texas course. Both courses are taking place in …

This is a hands-on laboratory course introduces participants to basic human osteology and differences with non-human skeletal elements. The course is designed for students and law enforcement and focuses on how to distinguish human from non-human skeletal remains. No previous knowledge required. $550