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New Book: Intrepid Women: Adventures in Anthropology

07 March 2025
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Professor David Zeitlyn on Divination, Oracles, Omens & Answers

07 March 2025
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Professor Alpa Shah talks about her acclaimed book The Incarcerations at the Oxford Literary Festival

14 February 2025
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Some chimpanzees are better at cracking nuts than others

08 January 2025
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Welcome Dr Yasmeen Arif

06 January 2025
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2024 edition of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford out now

18 December 2024
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Lack of partner support is the most important reason for delaying having children in the UK

06 December 2024
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New exhibition dedicated to divination explores our universal need to find answers

06 December 2024
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Welcome Dr Shireen Walton

27 November 2024
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Study shows brains grew faster as humans evolved

27 November 2024

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BBC | 27 May 2026
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Scientists finally decode why most humans are right-handed

Article based on research published by  Dr Thomas A. Püschel, Rachel M. Hurwitz at Oxford's School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, with Professor Chris Venditti at the University of Reading,

The Independent | 19 May 2026

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