Recent News

Megan Cole Receives the Frieda D. Butler Award

Posted: Oct 21, 2020 - 10:00am

Megan Cole, Doctoral student in Evolutionary Anthropology, has received the 2020 Frieda D. Butler Award. She will present her talk Healthy Cardiovascular Profiles Across the Lifespan in Wild-born Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)  on a future ...read more

Sarah Leiter Receives New Mexico Folklore Award

Posted: Oct 21, 2020 - 10:00am

Sarah Leiter, Doctoral student in Ethnology, has received the 2020 New Mexico Folklore Award.  Sarah will present her lecture Spanish Blood: Grounding Ethnohistorical Claims to New Mexico in Genealogical Descent at a future date to be determin...read more

Jon Dombrosky Receives the Ruth E. Kennedy Award

Posted: Oct 21, 2020 - 09:30am

Jon Dombrosky, Doctoral student in Archaeology, has received the 2020 Ruth E. Kennedy Award.  He will present his talk Fishing for Foodways: The Nature/Culture Dichotomy in Ancestral Pueblo Food Studies  at a future date to be determined.&...read more

Paulina Przystupa Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Alexandria Archive/Open Source

Posted: Oct 21, 2020 - 09:00am

Paulina Przystupa, graduate student in archaeology, has received a three-year postdoctoral position at the Alexandria Archive/Open Source. She will be their Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Visualization and Reproducibility helping to lead their Data...read more

The Organization of Production for Inka Polychrome Pottery from Pachacamac, Peru

Posted: Oct 21, 2020 - 09:00am

James A. Davenport (Ph.D. Candidate, Archaeology) has an article published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology entitled The Organization of Production for Inka Polychrome Pottery from Pachacamac, Peru.Abstract: This study investigates...read more

New Research Explores How Fish Became a Bigger Part of Pueblo People's Diet

Posted: Oct 16, 2020 - 10:00am

In his latest published research, Jonathan Dombrosky, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, examined how a change in climate may have changed the diets of Ancestral Pueblo people. The recently published...read more

Dr. Blaire Topash Caldwell Joins the Newberry as Mellon Public Humanities Fellow

Posted: Oct 12, 2020 - 10:00am

The Newberry is pleased to announce that Dr. Blaire Topash-Caldwell (UNM PhD, 2020) has joined the library’s staff as Mellon Public Humanities Fellow. In this role, Topash-Caldwell will contribute to a multiyear project to expand access to the...read more

Dr. Jada Benn Torres (UNM PhD, 2006) Elected Vice President of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics and Recieves the 2021 Robert W. Sussman Award for Scientific Contributions to Anthropology

Posted: Oct 05, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. Jada Benn Torres (UNM PhD, 2006) of the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University has been elected Vice President of the Executive Committee of the American Association for Anthropological Genetics.  Dr. Benn Torres has also been ...read more

Landscape, Typologies, and the Social Meaning of Castles

Posted: Oct 01, 2020 - 12:00pm

Scott D. Kirk (UNM Archaeology Doctoral Student), Evan S. Sternberg, and Paulina F. Przystupa (UNM Archaeology Doctoral Student) have co authored Landscape, Typologies, and the Social Meaning of Castles in The Journal of Anthropological Archaeology....read more

Resource Risk and Stability in the Zooarchaeological Record: The Case of Pueblo Fishing in the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico

Posted: Sep 30, 2020 - 10:00am

Jonathan Dombrosky (UNM Archaeology doctoral student) and co authors, including Cyler Conrad (UNM PhD Alum, 2018) have published Resource Risk and Stability in the Zooarchaeological Record: The Case of Pueblo Fishing in the Middle Rio Grande, New Me...read more

The Early Aurignacian Dispersal of Modern Humans into Westernmost Eurasia

Posted: Sep 29, 2020 - 10:00am

The University of New Mexico Ph.D. candidate Milena Carvalho was with a team of archaeologists excavating a site in Portugal when she found an archaeological “smoking gun” that, along with the team’s other finds of stone tools, sho...read more

Cribra Orbitalia and Porotic Hyperostosis are Associated with Respiratory Infections in a Contemporary Mortality Sample from New Mexico

Posted: Sep 28, 2020 - 10:00am

Lexi O'Donnell PhD, Ethan C. Hill PhD, Amy S. Anderson Anderson MA, and Heather J. H. Edgar PhD have co authored Cribra Orbitalia and Porotic Hyperostosis are Associated with Respiratory Infections in a Contemporary Mortality Sample f...read more

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Evolution of the Primate Ageing Process

Posted: Sep 23, 2020 - 10:00am

Dr. Melissa Emery Thompson has co-edited the recent edition of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Evolution of the Primate Ageing Process.  About this Issue: The world’s population is ageing rapidly, presenting an urg...read more

UNM Anthropology Launches You Tube and Twitter Accounts

Posted: Sep 11, 2020 - 03:00pm

The UNM Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the launching of our You Tube and Twitter pages.  Visit our You Tube page to see recordings of our Colloquia Speaker Series, and join our Twitter feed for updates and news....read more

Dr. Jane Lancaster, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Honored in Human Nature

Posted: Sep 11, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. Jane Lancaster, Distinguished Professor Emerita, has been honored in the latest edition of Human Nature, the interdisciplinary journal she founded in 1990. Read the UNM News article hereDr. Louis Alvarado, current editor and UNM Alum (PhD, 2015)...read more