Archaeology Faculty
Michael Graves
Professor
Director, Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies
Areas of Research:
Evolution of prehistoric agriculture, social organization and complexity; geospatial studies; architectural and ceramic stylistic analysis; history of archaeology; Oceania (Hawai’i, Micronesia), US Southwest.
Frances M Hayashida
Professor
Director, Latin American and Iberian Institute
- Email:
- fmh@unm.edu
- Phone:
- 505-277-6692
- Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Research:
States and empires, political economy, political ecology, ancient agriculture and water management in arid evironments, human impacts on the environment, craft production, beer brewing, ethnohistory, ethnoarchaeology, archaeometry; Andean South America (Peru and Chile).
Bruce Huckell
Associate Professor
- Email:
- bhuckell@unm.edu
- Phone:
- 505-277-4491
- Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Research:
Hunter-gatherer paleoecology, lithic technology, geoarchaeology, Paleoindian and Archaic periods, US Southwest and Plains.
Emily L Jones
Professor and UNM Regents' Lecturer
Director, Zooarchaeology Lab
- Email:
- elj@unm.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Research:
Human-environment interactions, zooarchaeology, historical biogeography, evolutionary ecology; Stone Age Europe, American Southwest/Northwest; public archaeology and outreach.
Hannah Mattson
Assistant Professor
Areas of Research:
Ceramic technology, personal adornment, materiality, social identity, ritual practice, agricultural production and agrarian settlement organization, public archaeology, US Southwest.
Osbjorn Pearson
Professor and Regents' Lecturer
Areas of Research:
Paleoanthropology, origin of modern humans, skeletal biology, functional morphology, quantitative methods; Africa, Europe
Keith Malcom Prufer
Professor
Director, Environmental Archaeology Lab
- Email:
- kmp@unm.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Research:
Environmental archaeology, paleoecology, paleoclimate, Neotropics
Kari Schleher
Assistant Professor
Faculty Curator of Archaeology, Maxwell Museum
Areas of Research:
Southwest US Archaeology (Northern Rio Grande and Mesa Verde regions), pottery analysis, public archaeology and outreach, petrographic analysis.
Carla Sinopoli
Professor
Director, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
- Email:
- csinopoli@unm.edu
- Phone:
- 505-277-4405
- Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Research:
Complex societies, political economy, empires, material culture, ceramics, museum studies, South Asia
Loa P Traxler
Associate Professor
Director, Museum Studies Program
Areas of Research:
Complex societies in the Americas, architecture and the built environment. Mesoamerica, Maya civilization. Museum studies, archaeological collections, cultural heritage and public museums.
Wirt Wills
Professor and Regents' Lecturer
Director, Chaco Canyon Archaeological Research Lab
- Email:
- wwills@unm.edu
- Phone:
- 505-277-5005
- Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Research:
Foraging and early farming societies, economic organization, religion and emergent social complexity, 19th-century Spanish colonial archaeology; US Southwest.