Anthropology

The world’s population is aging rapidly, presenting an urgency to address the health problems of the aged. Critical insights on these problems can be gained by examining how the aging process has been shaped over evolutionary time, and how it is...

The Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) announced the guest speaker for its 50th installment of the JAR Distinguished Lectures. The series founded by Lawrence Straus, the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the University of New Mexico...

The University of New Mexico (UNM) has received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an innovative graduate education program centered in the University’s science museums. The Museum Research Training Program (MRT) is a...

Dogs have been companions to humans for centuries and played many roles as guardians, pets, hunting companions, and more. University of New Mexico Archaeology student Victoria Monagle has examined these relationships and recently collaborated with...

When radioactive materials are released into the environment after, for example, above-ground nuclear testing, they may be then accumulated in various organisms through breathing air, or via ingestion of water, sediments and plants. A group of...

Somewhere around 55,000 to 60,000 years ago, a woman lived in a cave in what is now called Israel. Mostly likely, she was a Neandertal, probably a little over 5 feet tall and weighing an estimated 130 pounds. In an excavation that started in 1991, a...

Eight faculty members at The University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2020 Women in STEM awards. Their work includes research on the impact of global warming on alpine stream biology, the creation of a better way to identify missing and...

Right now during a pandemic shutdown, people don’t have to actually visit the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on The University of New Mexico campus to “visit” the museum. Like most museums, the Maxwell is closed right now because...

Almost any grocery store is filled with products made from corn, also known as maize, in every aisle: fresh corn, canned corn, corn cereal, taco shells, tortilla chips, popcorn, corn sweeteners in hundreds of products, corn fillers in pet food, in soaps...

The answer to a topic of debate among researchers about the anatomy of our ancient human ancestors may lie in the quirky life of a wealthy New York socialite who raised a chimpanzee named Suzy to live like a human child in the 1930s.