Anthropology

If you worry about what you eat, you’re not alone. For most people, easy access to processed foods heightens risk of...

With local healthcare workers facing a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, UNM Art Museum, and Museum of Southwest Biology recently donated their supply of gloves and N-95 masks to UNM Hospital. 

Last year, Kristina M. Jacobsen, associate professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology (Ethnology) at The University of New Mexico, traveled to Italy on a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnomusicology. The grant would allow...

A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico, working with the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda, have found similarities in the way chimpanzees and humans age. In their recently published paper, Wild chimpanzees exhibit humanlike aging of...

Lawrence Straus, the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the UNM Department of Anthropology, along with Mathieu Langlais of the University of Bordeaux, recently published a tri-lingual volume with French and Spanish prehistoric...

In response to the current unprecedented public health situation, curator of exhibits Devorah Romanek at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of NewMexico is creating a new and rapidly evolving virtual exhibition COVID-19: Concepts of...

A researcher from the University of New Mexico is part of a collaborative that is studying one of the most important socio-environmental changes in human history: the dispersal of the domestic horse into the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries....

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology has announced that, with news of the continuing concern of COVID-19, the museum will remain closed to the public until further notice to limit the spread of the virus in the community. C hanges affecting visitation...

Jonathan Dombrosky, a Ph.D candidate and Associate Professor Emily Lena Jones, both from the Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, recently received a National Science Foundation grant for $30,298 to research the impact of a...

Dead men tell no tales, the saying goes. But a new database at UNM will allow researchers and others to gather a wealth of information from deceased men, women, and children. Construction of the New Mexico Decedent Image Database  is complete and the...