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University of New Mexico Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Guy Straus found his life’s work as a young boy allowed into the study of his long-deceased French grandfather where he alone could look in the cabinet drawers, at the...

As part of the Ancestors Lecture series, the University of New Mexico Maxwell Museum presents, “The Red Lady of El Mirón Cave”: 19,000 year-old Magdalenian Burial in Northern Spain with speaker Lawrence Guy Straus, UNM Distinguished Professor of ...

University of California Riverside Professor of Anthropology Wendy Ashmore will speak on “What were Maya landscapes really like?” on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the University of New Mexico Anthropology Lecture Hall (Room 163.)

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,...

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 ...

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, ...