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These cut marks, dating to approximately 1.95 million years ago, represent some of the earliest evidence of tool use and meat processing in Eurasia.

Research team led by OHIO’s Sabrina Curran finds new evidence that pushes back the arrival of early hominins in Europe; discovery published in Nature Communications

January 24, 2025 4 min

Research led by Ohio University Associate Professor of Anthropology Sabrina Curran reveals new evidence of early hominin activity in Europe, suggesting that hominins were present on the continent far earlier than previously thought.

Sea port of Marseille, France in the evening

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Between the waves of migration and tourism: OHIO researcher explores challenges of Mediterranean cities

March 11, 2024 5 min

As Mediterranean cities grapple with rising migration and an increase in mass tourism, Ohio University researcher Smoki Musaraj, Ph.D., is working with experts in the region to understand the effects of these transformations on the everyday lives of migrant and poor residents—and how they are fighting back.

Archaeologist David Lamp works in a one-meter square part of a dig near Lancaster.

Student David Lamp makes discovery of a lifetime: fluted point from first peoples in Ohio

June 26, 2023 6 min

David Lamp was on his hands and knees, trowel in hand, back at OHIO as a graduate student on June 2, when he made the discovery of a lifetime.

Women Who Tell Our Stories: Madeleine Hordinski

March 29, 2023 5 min

Madeleine Hordinski BA ’20, BSVC ’20, has been taking pictures of people ever since she was in her young teens. Now, the freelancer's work has appeared in multiple national publications.

Archaeology students at ancient Virginia site

OHIO students get taste of archaeology at ancient Virginia site

January 6, 2022 4 min

A select group of professors, students and alumni traveled to Virginia to take part in an archaeological dig on a 13,000-year-old site from Nov. 4-13.

Sabrina Curran and Claire Terhune work on a lab table covered with fossils

Curran searches for clues to human dispersal into Europe along the Danube River

June 28, 2021 5 min

Early human ancestors 2 million years ago would have found a hospitable environment to enter Europe through southern Romania along the Danube River and its tributaries, says an OHIO anthropologist.

Aerial image of students and faculty with the Archaelogical Field School at a dig site

Archaeological Field School offers hands-on experience with discovery of new sites

February 17, 2020 5 min

For more than 30 years, Ohio University’s Archaeological Field School has trained hundreds of anthropology students how to excavate and preserve artifacts from southeastern Ohio sites.