Harvard Anthropology Professor Christina Warinner recently returned from a trip to Nepal where she, along with the Warinner Group, met with and presented at multiple schools and community groups.
After 15 years of conducting archaeological fieldwork and ancient DNA research in the Upper Mustang of Nepal, Harvard Anthropology professor Christina Warinner returned to Nepal in March 2024 to deliver the results of her ancient DNA findings on human population history, pathogen history, and food fermentation history in the High Himalayas. She was accompanied by Harvard PhD student Megan Michel, Seoul National University PhD student Juhyeon Lee, postdoc Maxime Borry from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Professor Emeritus Mark Aldenderfer of UC Merced.
The team shared their results at two university symposia hosted by Tribhuvan University and Pokhara University, met and discussed their results with Tibetan descendant communities through the Lo Gyalpo Jigme Foundation, presented their results to the ambassador’s staff at the US Embassy, and partnered with three K-12 schools to provide science-themed classroom activities to more than 180 students at the Ullens School and Rato Bangala School in Kathmandu, and at the Himalayan Buddhist Academy in Pokhara, Nepal.
To learn more and view the full photo album, visit Warinner's website here.