A groundbreaking study reveals that leprosy was present in the Americas thousands of years ago, challenging the belief that ...

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...

Cape Coast, July 01, GNA – The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has held its ...

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that ...

The Anthropology faculty in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies offers a Master of Arts degree, with a focus on cultural anthropology. The program is a thesis-driven combination of advanced ...

We all know the feeling: having spent a little too much time on our phones, scrolling aimlessly and without purpose. But what ...

Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy, was long believed to be absent from the Americas prior to European contact. A new ...

Graduate Taught The department offers fifteen postgraduate programmes. Through critical, sensitive debate and analysis, students explore what it means to be human and apply their insights to today's ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan discovered Hungarian ties in a study of human remains, prompting collaboration with ...

Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much earlier than previously believed. A new study using radiocarbon-dated mud ...