Anthropology

The Anthropology Graduate Student Union hosts its second annual alumni talk featuring alumna Stacie Hecht on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. in Hibben 105. The lecture, I told you I’d get a job with my anthropology degree, Dad! Navigating the challenges of a...

The UNM Department of Anthropology will hold its second annual Job Fair on Monday, Feb. 24, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student Union Building Ballroom B.  Students with a major or minor in Anthropology or a related field can meet recruiters, learn...

In 2018, the National Museum of Brazil was ravaged by a fire that destroyed a huge collection of irreplaceable historical artifacts. In a New York Times article, Dalton de Souza Amorim, a professor of biology at the University of São Paulo, was quoted as...

From cave to castle, the house has been a fundamental part of life for humans throughout the ages. UNM professor and anthropologist James L. Boone will discuss A Natural History of Houses Thursday, Jan. 30, as part of the Ancestors Lectures hosted by the...

Celebrate our evolutionary past! Children will be able to travel 4 million years back in time this weekend and discover our ancient human ancestors at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on the UNM campus. The popular radio program The Children’s Hour,...

The University of New Mexico's Office of the Vice President for Research and the University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) Department annually compiles a Year-in-Review for its research features during the course of the calendar year. Below is the...

UNM Professor Lawrence Straus recently received a pleasant surprise recently when he found out a newly published book was dedicated to him. Human Adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum was derived from a symposium held in his honor in Portugal last...

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology will hold special evening hours Friday, Dec. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. during the UNM Hanging of the Greens, when the campus will be illuminated by more than 13,000 luminarias.  Visitors are welcome to the museum to enjoy...

Archeological researchers at The University of New Mexico secured a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management to study the prehistory of the under-researched southeast region of New Mexico and nearby west Texas. “A...

Chances are, if you think of Native American arts, the Navajo rug comes to mind. Every rug is a unique work of art that starts with raising the sheep and goats for wool, which is then shorn, carded, spun, dyed, and finally woven, all by hand, into a rug...