Anthropology at Trent

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The Department of Anthropology consists of 15 full-time faculty divided into three major research areas: Archaeology and Bioarchaeology (11), Sociocultural Anthropology (3), and Linguistic Anthropology (1). Included among the faculty is a Canada Research Chair in Environmental Archaeology (Paul Szpak).

We specialize in:

Human/ environment relationships:

• Long-term archaeological perspectives on the relationship of human settlement and mobility with resource use, agricultural ecosystems, urbanism, food, and health.
• Cross-cultural studies of the constitution, use, and meanings of landscape, space, and place

Food, diet, and human health:

• Long-term, cross-cultural perspectives on diet and human health
• Food and drink studies

Materiality & the world of things:

• New Materialism, or semiotic interrogations of the meaning potentials of materiality
• The production and consumption of material culture, including behavioural chains, usewear, taphonomy, and technological analyses.