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Anthropology faculty participate in reinterment of poorhouse remains
10/10/17

The Buffalo News interviews Anthropology faculty Dr. Douglas Perrelli and Dr. Joyce Sirianni about their work in the exhumation and upcoming reinterment of the individuals buried at the former Erie County Almshouse site located at what is now the university's South Campus.

UB to reinter remains from poorhouse
10/9/17

The ceremony and service will commemorate the lives of 372 people buried near the university’s South Campus.

Archaeological Survey sets out to find first US gas well
9/18/17
The Buffalo News published a story covering members of UB's Archaeological Survey who recently spent two days in Fredonia, NY, working to uncover evidence of the first natural gas well in the United States. Although the team of archaeologists did not make any large discoveries, according to Archaeological Survey director, Dr. Douglas Perrelli, he expects to return to the site before winter and would like to bring back a larger field crew to conduct excavations next summer.
Von Cramon-Taubadel comments on farming and skull shape study
8/16/17

Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel provides a commentary in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in response to a new study theorizing how an agricultural-based diet effected skull morphology.

Archaeologists put sound back into a previously silent past
7/6/17

Many attempts to explain how past people experienced their wider world have focused on sight at the expense of sound, but researchers from the University at Albany and UB have developed a tool that puts sound back into the ancient landscape.

Bird feeders
6/30/17

UB archaeologist Caroline Funk talks about a recent study that gives new meaning to the term “social science.”  

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