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.
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Trent University respectfully acknowledges it is located on the treaty and traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg. We offer our gratitude to First Peoples for their care for, and teachings about, our earth and our relations. May we honour those teachings.

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