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Overview
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MSU's Saints' Rest
Archaeological Project
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Consortium for Archaeological
Research
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Great Lake Ethnohistory
The Department of Anthropology's archaeology program focuses primarily on prehistoric and historic periods of the Great Lakes region. The faculty also conduct active fieldwork in southern Africa, western Mexico, California, the southeast and southwest United States, and England.
The graduate program in physical anthropology is particularly strong in skeletal biology, osteology, and forensic anthropology. Physical anthropology faculty and graduate students also work closely with faculty in the MSU medical colleges and in the School of Criminal Justice.
The wide-ranging interests of faculty and students are united by a common interest in cultural adaptations to different environmental and social contexts, and changes in the relationships between humans and their natural and cultural environments over time. Graduates of the doctoral program in archaeology teach in colleges and universities in the US and abroad, and work in a variety of settings outside academia, including museums, state and federal government agencies, non-profit organizations, and in cultural resource management.
The Consortium for Archaeological Research (CAR) was founded in 1995 to integrate the use of different disciplines in furthering an understanding of the past. Archaeology faculty from Anthropology join with faculty from Art History, History, Geography, and the MSU Museum to facilitate research and dissemination of knowledge about past human societies through the use of written documents and the material remains of past human behavior.
Recent Research
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