
Every semester, the Anthropology Club organizes cultural dinners to allow our students to have a more immersive experience of the rich food culture we have in Los Angeles. Last week, we had Bricia Lopez come speak to our Club. She Read More …
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Every semester, the Anthropology Club organizes cultural dinners to allow our students to have a more immersive experience of the rich food culture we have in Los Angeles. Last week, we had Bricia Lopez come speak to our Club. She Read More …
Students from the SMC Anthropology Club regularly attend the CARTA symposia at the Salk Institute in UCSD. Students were accompanied by professors Ciarán Brewster and Jeanelle Uy. CARTA organizes free public symposia addressing particular aspects of human origins and uniqueness. Read More …
This past weekend, the SMC Anthropology Club under the supervision of professors Brewster and Melendez traveled to San Diego. On the Friday, we attended the CARTA symposium at UCSD entitled “Extraordinary Variations of the Human Mind: Lessons for Anthropogeny”. Read More …
There’s a place in the northwestern portion of the San Fernando Valley that has more skeletons than living people. That place is not the Oakwood Memorial Cemetery but rather a little known business called Bone Clones. Located in Canoga Park, Read More …
The behaviors of our distant ancestors don’t preserve in the archaeological record but the products of these behaviors sometimes do. Much of what we can say about early human behavior is based on the material artifacts they left behind, particularly Read More …
Imagine for the next few months being woken up at 3 am every morning, coaxing your body to lumber in the darkness through dense forest populated with hundreds of species of stinging insects, as the rising humidity suffocates your every Read More …
One of the highlights of the semester for the SMC Anthropology Club are the cultural dinners. A visit to an Ethiopian restaurant in the spring proved to be a massive hit. Last night, members of the Club met up for Read More …
Last weekend our Anthropology Club took a trip to UC San Diego to attend the CARTA symposium on Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health. The students were accompanied by Professors Brewster and Fouts. The topics ranged from heart health in hunter-gatherers Read More …