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Phalangeal curvature in a chimpanzee raised like a human: Implications for inferring arboreality in fossil hominins
Posted: May 28, 2020 - 01:00pm
Dr. Ian Wallace is first author on a recently published article in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) entitled: Phalangeal curvature in a chimpanzee raised like a human: Implications for inferring ...read more
Laura Steele Awarded Fulbright Fellowship
Posted: May 28, 2020 - 12:00pm
Laura Ward Steele, Archaeology PhD student, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship this year. Her dissertation research explores the ripple effect of imperialism on Indigenous communities along the southern margins of Spanish imperial expansion in ...read more
Dog Life and Death in an Ancestral Pueblo Landscape
Posted: May 05, 2020 - 09:00am
Dr. Emily Jones and Victorial Monagle have co-authored a chapter in Dogs: Archaeology Beyond Domestication, recently published by the University Press of Florida. The chapter, "Dog Life and Death in an Ancestral Pueblo Landscape" e...read more
Dr. Louise Lamphere (UNM) and Dr. Maria Luisa Achino-Loeb (NYU) Guest Edit Special Edition of JAR
Posted: Mar 03, 2020 - 12:00pm
Dr. Louise Lamphere (UNM) and Dr. Maria Luisa Achino-Loeb (NYU) guest edited the first 2020 issue (Volume 76, No 1) of the Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR), which focuses on Omissions and Silences in Ethnographic Fieldwork. In he...read more
James Davenport Awarded a Summer Fellowship in the Pre-Columbian Studies Program at Dumbarton Oaks
Posted: Feb 24, 2020 - 12:00pm
James Davenport, Archaeology Graduate Student, has been awarded a summer fellowship in the Pre-Columbian Studies Program at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C. The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., was e...read more
Now Accepting Applications for the Fall 2020 Chaco Canyon Research Semester
Posted: Feb 24, 2020 - 12:00pm
UNM CHACO RESEARCH SEMESTER, Fall Semester, 2020 The Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico is pleased to announcement that it will again partner with Chaco Culture National Historic Park to offer our Chaco Research Semester imme...read more
Hannah Mattson Southwestern Field School Featured by UNM ADVANCE
Posted: Feb 20, 2020 - 12:00pm
During her 2019 Southwestern field school, Hannah Mattson and her students worked to excavate an ancestral field house and the Diamond Tail Ranch in Placitas. She is also a 2019 Women in STEM award winner, and a video of her excavation has bee...read more
Dr. Heather Edgar and the New Mexico Decedent Image Database (NMDID) featured in Science Node
Posted: Feb 06, 2020 - 12:00pm
The work of Dr. Heather Edgar, Forensic Anthropologist at the University of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator (OMI), establishing a database for deceased people has been featured in Science Node. The article, What the D...read more
Dr. William Taylor's Research Featured in PLOS One and Science News
Posted: Jan 02, 2020 - 02:00pm
The research of Dr. William Taylor, UNM alum and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, was recently featured in Science News. In the article, Th...read more
