Angela Lieverse, member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists

Elite Honours for four U of S researchers

Angela Lieverse, Department Head and Associate Professor in Archaeology and Anthropology is one of four renowned professors and researchers from the University of Saskatchewan the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) is honouring as new members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Angela Lieverse (College of Arts and Science) will be elected to the RSC’s College at the annual general meeting Nov. 17-19 in Kingston, Ont.

The department head and associate professor in archaeology and anthropology at the U of S, Lieverse is one of the foremost bioarchaeologists in the country. Lieverse’s breakthrough research discoveries in middle Holocene (7000-1000 BC) foragers and Neolithic to Bronze Age (5800-1700 BC) hunter-gatherers garnered world-wide academic acclaim and drew major media interest, including her work in Siberia in 2012 that identified the oldest set of twins in the archaeological record, dating back 8,000 years. She also discovered evidence of cancer in skeletal remains of a man dating back 4,500 years, contrary to the previous prevalent view that cancer is largely a modern disease.

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