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A classics and archaeology major, Kayley Boddy ’22 initially thought she’d one day be working in a museum dusting off artifacts. Today, you’ll find her in the weathered orange landscape of Utah’s Arches National Park where she works as a backcountry ranger.

Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale, with former Hamilton professor Colin Quinn, recently co-led a workshop on “The Archaeology of Property Regimes.”

In its second meeting of the 2023-24 academic year, the Hamilton Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 17 members of the Class of 2024.

Laurie Semple McCarthy ’86 has been living on Cape Cod for almost 20 years. While her day job involves working as the comptroller for a residential builder, her avocation takes her back in time.

A chance foray into a ceramics class at Hamilton transformed the intended career path for Mark Castro ’05, director of curatorial affairs at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va.

Students in a summer archaeological methods field course and summer science researchers agree that being out in the field digging for artifacts is far preferable to sitting in a classroom.

Five Hamilton archaeology majors had the opportunity to present their research at the Society for American Archaeology’s (SAA) 87th annual meeting.

The National Science Foundation has awarded Associate Professor of Geosciences Cat Beck, along with University of Dayton geoscientist Zelalem Bedaso, a three-year, $289,094 grant to study seasonal rainfall variability over the last 200,000 years in East Africa.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Colin Quinn and Emily Hull ’18 are among the co-authors of an article published in the September issue of The SAA Archaeological Record.

Erica Ivins ’21, who studies history and archaeology, seeks to understand where she and the systems around her come from.