The University of Tokyo and other institutions have returned the remains of overseas indigenous people that had been held for ...

By Prince Acquah  Cape Coast, July 01, GNA – The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Cape Coast ...

New temple discovery shows how Tiwanaku connected sacred rituals with Andean trade and political networks. Along the southern ...

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were ...

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 ...

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 ...