Andrew Somerville

Search for clues may explain the collapse of ancient city in Mexico

Andrew Somerville, assistant professor of anthropology in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, leads the international research team.

September 21, 2022

Andrew Somerville’s research spotlighted in Forbes Magazine article

An article published in Forbes Magazine features an interview with Andrew Somerville, assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures. The article, “Why is your pet rabbit of European Descent? Researchers have a possible explanation,” examines Somerville’s research that was published in the May…

July 28, 2021

Andrew Somerville publishes article in the latest issue of “Animal Frontiers”

Andrew Somerville, assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, has published an article “Why Were New World Rabbits Not Domesticated?” The article was published in the latest issue of Animal Frontiers. Animal Frontiers is the official journal of the following globally active professional animal science…

July 7, 2021

New evidence may change timeline for when people first arrived in North America

Assistant Professor Andrew Somerville discovers that the first humans may have arrived in North America more than 30,000 years ago, nearly 20,000 years earlier than originally thought.

June 1, 2021