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In a world where news travels instantly and interpreted on the fly, it’s hard to grasp the slow and careful work of archeologists. Lawrence Straus, UNM Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,...

The team excavated the remaining deposits in the area where 19,000 year-old human remains had been found in 2010-11 and found about 10 more hand and foot bones from the adult woman whose bones and jaw had been collected by her band or family members after flesh decomposition, then stained with red ochre and reburied during the Lower Magdalenian period.

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, ...

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 ...