Anthropology at JAC

Follow our dedicated academic team as they create and teach challenging and enriching Anthropology-r WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY?

Anthropology is an integral part of the John Abbott College Social Science Program. Our dedicated academic team create and teach challenging and enriching Anthropology courses in a stimulating learning environment. Anthropology is, literally, the study of humankind. It studies all aspects of human life-the biological, the social and the humanistic- at all times and in all places. Students in Anthr

opology learn about human evolution as well as the physical and genetic diversity of living human beings. Students gain an appreciation of ancient, historic, and modern peoples and how their lives changed over time. And students also learn about the arts, religions, and philosophies of all these people. Anthropology provides students with the broadest basis for understanding human diversity and their place within it.

08/17/2025

Ancient teeth found in Ethiopia belong to a never-before-seen species in the Australopithecus genus of human ancestors

08/05/2025

02/08/2023

Too cute not to share…

11/30/2022

Wild chimpanzees were observed sharing an object with one another just for the sake of sharing that experience, a trait once believed to be only found in humans, according to a new study.

11/27/2022

11/27/2022

Un important site gaulois a été découvert lors des fouilles archéologiques réalisées à Saint-Christophe-La Prestière à Vallet.

11/23/2022

In a new book, Growing Up Human, a bioarchaeologist chronicles the most surprising evolutionary adaptations of babies and parents.

11/23/2022

A recent Netflix series entitled ‘Ancient Apocalypse’ has reignited an equally ancient controversy: by suggesting that megalithic temples such as Ggantija, may actually be the remnants of a 10,000-year old ‘lost civilization’ (possibly, the mythical Atlantis). But Professor A...

11/23/2022

On the 100-year anniversary of unearthing King Tut's tomb, archaeologists discover hundreds of tombs and mummies buried in Giza.

11/23/2022

It's long been believed that mummification was meant to preserve the dead. It turns out that notion is dead wrong.

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