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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

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 ...

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.

UNM Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor, Lawrence G. Straus is the editor of a book just released book, "The Magdalenian Settlement of Europe," co-edited with Thomas Terberger of Universitat Grefswald, Germany and Denise Leesch of Universite de ...

Lawrence Straus receiving bronze 'baston de mando.' Photo courtesy of Ana Belen Marin-ArroyoLeslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Straus was given a "homenaje" by the Sociedad Prehistroica de Cantabria in Santander, Spain. The ...

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 ...