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Carla M. Sinopoli, an archaeologist specializing in South Asia, has joined The University New Mexico as director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and professor of Anthropology.  Sinopoli’s survey and excavation projects in southern India examine...

In one year on average, 116,255 people in America are shot in murders, assaults, suicides and suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, or police interventions. The proposed responses to increasingly deadly gun violence have polarized society. If...

This summer children are invited to uncover the mysteries of history and discover the cultures of the world at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico. The Maxwell is offering two unique summer camp programs to keep children...

The Maxwell celebrates two exhibitions in the Current Issues in Anthropology series with an exhibition celebration of Last Supper by C. Maxx Stevens and Ecologies of Resistance by DesertArt LAB on Friday, March 2 from 6–7:30 p.m. The evening begins with...

The 9th annual Navajo Rug Auction, benefitting Navajo weavers and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, will take place Saturday, Nov. 18 at the Prairie Star Restaurant in Bernalillo. More than 200 traditional and contemporary handmade rugs by weavers of...

This year marks 30 years since the discovery of the richest gold burial in Peru – and UNM is welcoming one of the lead researchers of the site for an evening at the Maxwell Museum. Jeffery Quilter is presenting on “Tales of the Moche Kings and Queens:...

In the courtyard of UNM’s Maxwell Museum, a totem pole stood for many decades, weathered by seasons and avian inhabitants. Its beauty and physical condition faded by age, was one concern for university anthropologists—the other, was trying to understand...

Celebrate the opening of “Earth, Fire and Life: Six Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics and Chinese American New Mexicans” on Friday, April 8, at 6 p.m. in a free event open to all. 

University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Anthropology, and curator of Human Osteology at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Heather Edgar has been appointed to the Native American Graves Protection and Reparation Act (NAGPRA) Review Committee ...

This month, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at UNM hosts a variety free events open to the public. The world–renowned Maxwell Museum analyzes the history of humankind and its many cultures with an emphasis on Southwestern history.