Anthropology

In a world where news travels instantly and interpreted on the fly, it’s hard to grasp the slow and careful work of archeologists. Lawrence Straus, UNM Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,...

UNM Professor of Anthropology Wirt H. Wills, and two former graduate students, Brandon L. Drake and Wetherbee B. Dorshow, have authored a paper released by the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences today that challenges the notion that the Anc

University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology graduate student Jacqueline Kocer was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship Award. The purpose of the awards, which are given yearly to graduate students in a variety of subject ar

When it comes to making risky decisions, even the experts listen to the crowd, concludes a study published this month in the journal “Evolution and Human Behavior.”

Anthropology graduate student William Taylor is spending his summer field season in Mongolia searching for information about how early inhabitants interacted with horses. Taylor is interested in people of the “Deer Stone-Khirigsuur” culture, who lived ...

Meng Zhang, a second year Ph.D. student in anthropology, is learning the scientific research techniques of an anthropologist under the mentorship of UNM Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Straus. Zhang, who recently won the “C

The National Academy of Sciences has announced that Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Patricia Crown has been elected as a member. This is one of the highest honors accorded to scientists and is given in recognition ...

The research is difficult, the conditions uncomfortable and the results are amazing.  Artifacts that were last seen and used by humans hundreds or thousands of years ago are appearing in the mud and water of melting glaciers in the northernmost reaches...

University of New Mexico Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rhonda Brulotte will travel to Oaxaca, Mexico this later this year. 

It began in winter of 1945.  World War II was still raging. The “Southwestern Journal of Anthropology” published its first article, a scholarly work by Franz Weidenreich that began by stating how the Nazis had twisted and misinterpreted ...