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t's one of those identifying flashes that connect us instantly with the past. As early as 1050 A.D. inhabitants of North America, specifically east of St. Louis, Mo., were seeking out, brewing and ritually ...

Lawrence Guy Straus has been named the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. He is the fourth person to hold the chair, which is the oldest named chair in the College of Arts and Sciences. The chair was held previously by James Spuler, ...

Each summer University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Anthropology Keith Prufer and his students travel to the ancient Mayan city of Uxbenká, located in southern Belize where they labor to understand what happened to the Mayas who lived there when ...

William F. Hanks, distinguished professor of Anthropological Linguistics at the University of California Berkeley will speak on "The Birth of a Language: The Formation & Spread of the Colonial Yucatec Maya Language" on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 at 7:30 ...

The gaps in what anthropologists know about the Magdalenian Age in Europe are still great after 150 years of research on this Upper Paleolithic culture so famous for its cave and portable art. For example, few human burials have been found, and the ...

Diana Rabenold, a graduate student working on her Ph.D. in Anthropology is challenging conventional wisdom about the diet of Paranthropus boisei, a large-toothed species of early hominid found in East Africa between 1.4 and 2.5 million years ago.In a ...

New research from a team at the University of New Mexico and the University of Tennessee is answering questions about how we identify race in other people. Heather Edgar, assistant professor of Anthropology and Curator at the Maxwell Museum of ...

Sally McBrearty, professor and head of the Anthropology Department at the University of Connecticut, will give a lecture on "Debunking the Human Revolution: The Last Ten Years" on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Anthropology Lecture Hall, room ...

UNM Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Straus, and Professor Frank E. (Ted) Goebel, professor of Anthropology and endowed professor of First American Studies at Texas A&M, recently published a special issue of Quaternary International ...

The UNM community is invited to meet three African Kings from Zambia on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 3 p.m. in Hibben 105. His Majesty Nzamane will speak on "The Experience of the Ngoni," His Majesty Mukini will speak on "The Experience of the Toka Leva" and ...