NEW YORK, May 14 -- Columbia University issued the following news: * * * A New Way of Looking at the Role of Animals in the Rise of Modern Societies With Live Stock and Dead Things, Hannah Chazin challenges familiar narratives. In Live Stock and Dead Things, Anthropology Professor Hannah Chazin combines zooarchaeology and anthropology to challenge familiar narratives about the role of animals in the rise of modern societies. Conventional views of this process tend to see a mostly linear deve  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, May 14 -- The Georgia Department of Community Affairs issued the following news release on May 13, 2025: * * * Georgia adds Albany, Dixie, Danburg, Fayetteville, Thomson, Whitesburg resources to Georgia Register of Historic Places Atlanta, GA - Six new listings were added to the Georgia Register of Historic Places, accentuating the state's extensive variety of historic resources. The listings were approved at the meeting of the Georgia National Register Review Board on May   more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 12 -- The University of Michigan posted the following news: * * * Michigan Minds podcast: Tiny Lesotho a target of Trump's trade war Archaeologist Brian Stewart, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, has conducted research in the small southern African country of Lesotho for 15 years. There, he is investigating the world's earliest evidence of human behavioral complexity: the behaviors, actions and beliefs that make us human. Through his  more