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.
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How history keeps repeating itself, and the ways it hasn't: Alberta's COVID-19 pandemic
Pandemics almost always follow the same pattern for the first few months, says Dr. Pamela Downe (PhD) of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
NY Times profiles USask researchers using radar to discover unmarked residential school graves
A video from the New York Times features the work being done by a team of archaeologists led in part by Dr. Terence Clark (PhD) of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology in the College of Arts and Science