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From athletes to couch potatoes: humans through 6,000 years of farming

08 Apr 2014

Research into lower limb bones shows that our early farming ancestors in Central Europe became less active as their tasks diversified and technology...

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Museum embarks on cultural exchange

25 Nov 2013

From 11 – 14 November 2013 the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, welcomed five students from the Torres Strait Islands. The...

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The importance of university museums

22 Nov 2013

University of Cambridge museums are among those highlighted as examples of best practice in a new report focusing on the outstanding contributions...

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Mountains and mankind

18 Nov 2013

For centuries mountains have been observed, imagined and explored. Today, these extreme environments are studied by scientists as indicators of...

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Yamada following the disaster. Homepage banner image taken in Ofunato by Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew Bradley in 2011, via Flickr

Rescuing normality: Day-to-day life inside Japan’s disaster shelters

08 Nov 2013

Life inside Japan’s disaster shelters following the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima disaster has been revealed by the only researcher to stay...

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Plastic hair comb, 21st century, bought in Nigeria

Origins of the Afro Comb: 6,000 years of culture, politics and identity

02 Jul 2013

The 6,000-year history of the Afro Comb, its extraordinary impact on cultures worldwide, and community stories relating to hair today are being...

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Books at Belton House, Lincolnshire

An enchantment with Italy: one family and their books

02 Jul 2013

Belton House boasts one of the most extensive libraries among National Trust properties, representing 350 years of book collecting. Dr Abigail...

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Russia: Up close

18 May 2013

A new book prize aimed at furthering our understanding of the Russian-speaking world will help the West to come to terms with the complexity of post-...

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Samuel Butler celebrated

07 May 2013

The completion of the Samuel Butler Project will be celebrated in an exhibition at St John’s College on 11 May. In accompanying talks, Roger Robinson...

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Life on the divide: the Buriad people and the world’s longest border

07 Apr 2013

A major project – Where Rising Powers Meet – looks at life along the border that separates Russia, China and Mongolia. Among the researchers involved...

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Books in the Murray Edwards Duse Collection

The lost library of Eleonora Duse

23 Jan 2013

How her personal library informed the phenomenal talent of the Italian actress Eleonora Duse is revealed in a newly-published book that catalogues...

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Xmas eve on Gjoa, 1903, taken from Roald Amundsen's book The North West  Passage, vol.1

Having a Polar Christmas

25 Dec 2012

With Christmas upon us, Cambridge historian Dr Shane McCorristine and geographer and psychologist Dr Jane S.P. Mocellin take us back to the heroic...

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