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Fossil Evidence Suggests Early Homo Had Abandoned Tree-Climbing by 1.8 Million Years Ago
09/17/2026

Fossil Evidence Suggests Early Homo Had Abandoned Tree-Climbing by 1.8 Million Years Ago

Our ANTH 102: World Prehistory class went on a field trip to the Yukon Government Heritage Unit. Thank you to Yukon Pala...
04/17/2026

Our ANTH 102: World Prehistory class went on a field trip to the Yukon Government Heritage Unit. Thank you to Yukon Palaeontologist Dr. Grant Zazula and Yukon Archaeologist Christian Thomas for a super informative and engaging tour of the collections.

Mummified late Holocene porcupine discovered in the Yukon.
04/09/2026

Mummified late Holocene porcupine discovered in the Yukon.

We identified a 3000-year-old specimen from the Traditional Territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in in central Yukon Territory, Canada as the first known mummified remains of an ancient North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), known as “Ts’ey” in the Hän language, using genetic analysi...

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