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University of New Mexico Press title, Clovis Caches: Recent Discoveries and New Research, edited by Bruce B. Huckell and J. David Kilby, won a Heritage Publication Award from the State of New Mexico Historic Preservation Division (HPD) last month.

High in the Atacama Desert, around 10,000 feet, anyone with a computer and Google Earth can look at the fields around Turi, Chile and see small...

From the tragedy of ancient glaciers disappearing, a new insight into the ancient is gained. Drastic annual temperature increases are contributing to benchmark discoveries of artifacts that have been sheltered in ice for thousands of years. One can vie

The University of New Mexico, like much of the metro area, is still cleaning up and assessing water damage from the storm this past weekend. UNM Physical Plant Department is in the early stages of evaluating the more than 30 buildings...

University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology graduate student Jacqueline Kocer was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship Award. The purpose of the awards, which are given yearly to graduate students in a variety of subject ar

Anthropology graduate student William Taylor is spending his summer field season in Mongolia searching for information about how early inhabitants interacted with horses. Taylor is interested in people of the “Deer Stone-Khirigsuur” culture, who lived ...

Meng Zhang, a second year Ph.D. student in anthropology, is learning the scientific research techniques of an anthropologist under the mentorship of UNM Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Straus. Zhang, who recently won the “C

The National Academy of Sciences has announced that Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Patricia Crown has been elected as a member. This is one of the highest honors accorded to scientists and is given in recognition ...

The research is difficult, the conditions uncomfortable and the results are amazing.  Artifacts that were last seen and used by humans hundreds or thousands of years ago are appearing in the mud and water of melting glaciers in the northernmost reaches...

It began in winter of 1945.  World War II was still raging. The “Southwestern Journal of Anthropology” published its first article, a scholarly work by Franz Weidenreich that began by stating how the Nazis had twisted and misinterpreted ...