Anthropology

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...

Martin Pfeiffer, or Marty as he prefers to be called, knows his way around our state’s nuclear fallout site—he’s dug through the debris left behind in this remote part of the desert. You could call him curious, but the fact is, as Ph.D. student in...

Elizabeth Ferry presents the XLII Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture, “Glitter, Grit and Graphics: How do the gold and gold market look from the perspective of a historic Mexican mining city,” on Thursday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m....

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...

Time, Newsweek, Health Magazine—and many other international media outlets from the United Kingdom to Australia—are all talking about the recent findings by a group of doctors and Anthropologists who have found why a South American population has the...

Louise Lamphere is being honored with the Bronislaw Malinowski Award, presented by the Society for Applied Anthropology, on Friday, March 3—followed by a lecture she is delivering from 7-9:30 p.m. in the La Fonda Hotel Ballroom in Santa Fe. The award...

UNM anthropology major Jamie Stevens was awarded a $5,000 scholarship by the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Native American Undergraduate Scholarship in what is an international competition. “Thanks to this scholarship, the financial burden of...

Sift through ruins and explore ancient culture while learning about the indigenous history in New Mexico during an exciting two-day Chaco Canyon adventure.

Nearly two decades ago, researchers at The University of New Mexico took interest in a project that took them to the lush jungles of southwestern Uganda. Not far from the borders of the Congo, these desert-dwelling Anthropologists established...