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By Ellie Koewler ’15 Dr. Elliot Abrams and Dr. AnnCorinne Freter-Abrams, two professors of Anthropology, are retiring at the end of this semester and entering semi-retirement. Abrams earned a B.A. Anthropology from SUNY-Buffalo, and a master’s and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. His areas of specialization include Mesoamerican Archaeology, Ohio […]

The first talk in the Ohio: Sense of Place Speaker Series is Tuesday, Sept. 16, from 5 to 6 p.m. in Morton Hall 235. Dr. Elliot Abrams, Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, will discuss “A Sense of Place and Neolithic Societies of the Ohio River Valley.” All societies have […]

Bradley T. Lepper, curator of archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society, wrote about research by two Ohio University anthropologists on June 15 in an op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch titled “Ancient cultures affected by climate change, too.” Climate change must have presented challenges as well as opportunities for ancient cultures […]

Picture Athens County today. Dense forests and rolling hills. But it hasn’t always looked like this. Climate change and human activity have combined, research suggests, to alter the hills of Southeastern Ohio many times over the past 3,000 years. Prairie grassland? Ragweed gardens? Park-like woods without dense undergrowth? Clear-cut forests? […]

  Patton Bog, as it is known locally, is a small natural wetland in Athens County. Today it is surrounded by dense forest in a relatively unpopulated area, but it hasn’t always been so. It was once home to villages of Native Americans who used its clay to make their […]