Anthropology

Bolivia, one of the poorest nations in the Americas, is currently experiencing the worst rainy seasons in decades, with disastrous floods and mudslides destroying roads and communities in the Amazon basin. Indigenous Tsimane (pronounced chi-MAH-nay) ...

The University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology just completed a major grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Department chair Michael Graves said the department spent the last few years working with 23 graduate students

The University of New Mexico has received new five-year, $800,000 grant for its Andrew W. Mellon Foundation sponsored program in the humanistic social sciences. The objective of the grant is to increase the rate of completion and the number of new Ph.D

The discovery of 4.5 million year-old Ardipithecus ramidus in Ethiopia and its detailed analysis sheds significant light on the question of when our early ancestors began to walk on two legs. C. Owen Lovejoy, professor of anthropology at Kent State Uni

The Musicology Colloquium Series kicks off on Thursday, Feb. 6 from 2 – 3:30 p.m. in the University of New Mexico Hibben Center, room 110. The opening program features Alexander Dent, associate professor of anthropology at George Washington ...

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Louise Lamphere received the Franz Boas Award for exemplary service to Anthropology recently from the American Anthropological Association. The award is presented annually by the AAA to its members whose careers ...

Ann B. Stahl, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria, Canada will present the Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the UNM Anthropology Lecture Hall

New research led by UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Sherry V. Nelson examines carbon and oxygen stable isotopes in the tooth enamel from a chimpanzee community to understand the environment of fossil apes and early humans. Nelson's research, “C

Many people think of North America and Eurasia as two worlds that were isolated from one another until about 500 years ago. However, people living in Asia and North America have exchanged ideas, technology, and trade goods, for more than 14,000 years ...

The team excavated the remaining deposits in the area where 19,000 year-old human remains had been found in 2010-11 and found about 10 more hand and foot bones from the adult woman whose bones and jaw had been collected by her band or family members after flesh decomposition, then stained with red ochre and reburied during the Lower Magdalenian period.