Department of Anthropology

Anthropologists study human beings and their connections to the world around them. Our department focuses on two fields of anthropology: archaeology and cultural anthropology. Archaeology is the study of artifacts and other physical remains of earlier societies in order to unravel the mysteries of human cultural diversity and adaptation. Cultural anthropology is the comprehensive study of human beings and their cultures, both past and present, in a comparative, cross-cultural and holistic light. Together, these related fields help us to understand people across human history. Archaeology and physical anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan focus on the past peoples of western Canada and the broader Circumpolar North. Our cultural anthropology program focuses on medical, environmental, and practicing and applied anthropology both locally and around the globe.
Jim Waldram, one of our faculty member was featured in Thinking: A Research, Scholarly and Artistic Work Collaboration Collider.


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A Cree family's canoe is returned, after sitting in a University of Saskatchewan storage room for years 

It was repatriated to the First Nations community whose members had built it nearly 50 years earlier

USask researcher studies ancient northern reindeer herding culture 

An international team led by Dr. Tatiana Nomokonova (PhD) will investigate the 2,200-year history and ongoing importance of reindeer herding to Indigenous Nenets and Khanty peoples in the Iamal peninsula of Arctic Siberia

Ancient spinal injury: A story of survival 

It was a single fragment of bone, but to Angela Lieverse, it told an 8,000-year-old tale of violence and compassion.