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PaleoAmerica: Papers in Honor of Bruce Huckell
Posted: Feb 20, 2026 - 12:00pm
PaleoAmerica Volume 11, No 3-4 features a special edition with Papers in Honor of Bruce B. Huckell with Guest editors: J. David Kilby (UNM PhD, 2008), Joseph M. Birkmann (UNM PhD, 2025), Briggs Buchanan (UNM PhD, 2005), Marcus J. Hamilton ...read more
New Partial Skeleton of Homo Habilis from the Upper Burgi Member, Koobi Fora Formation, Ileret, Kenya: The Anatomical Record.
Posted: Jan 13, 2026 - 12:00pm
Dr. Osbjorn Pearson of UNM's Department of Anthropology was part of an international team of researchers who analyzed a partial skeleton of Homo habilis from Inert in northern Kenya. Their article, New partial skeleton of Homo habilis fr...read more
E. James Dixon Awarded Fulbright Fellowship
Posted: Dec 01, 2025 - 12:00pm
E. James Dixon, emeritus professor of Anthropology and former director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, has received a Fulbright award to teach and conduct research at the University of Paris during the 2025 fall semester. He has authored four...read more
National Native American Heritage Month, November 2025
Posted: Nov 01, 2025 - 12:00pm
UNM celebrates National Native American Heritage Month, November 2025. Click on the red links below for more information. Scroll down to read about UNM groups, events, Native American Heritage Month history, Native American scholars, research, news ...read more
Dr. Les Field Awarded the Snead Wertheim Endowed Lectureship
Posted: Oct 16, 2025 - 12:00pm
Dr. Les Field has been awarded the Snead Wertheim Endowed Lectureship. This lectureship was created in 1989 by Jerry and Mary Carole May Wertheim and James E. and Georgia Phillips Snead. Wertheim and Snead are UNM alumni and attorneys in ...read more
Hispanic Heritage Month 2025
Posted: Sep 11, 2025 - 09:00am
UNM, a Hispanic serving institution, celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 through October 15, 2025. The red links below will take you to more information. Scroll down to read about UNM Hispanic organizations, events, schola...read more
Exploring the History of Turkey Management and Domestication: A Transatlantic Perspective
Posted: Aug 27, 2025 - 11:00pm
A new edited volume, Exploring the History of Turkey Management and Domestication A Transatlantic Perspective, published by the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris this past June, features articles by a suite of UNM students and former student...read more
Archaeological Fiction and a Scientist’s Dilemma
Posted: Aug 27, 2025 - 02:00pm
In a new article in Sapiens, Dr. Emily Jones discusses the role of fiction and imaginative play in inspring students to learn about ancient pre-history. Archaeological Fiction and a Scientist’s Dilemma, she discusses her experience ...read more
James Chaves Awarded Fellowship with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Posted: Aug 25, 2025 - 12:00pm
James Chaves, graduate student in the Public Archaeology program, has been awarded a fellowship with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) to work on his project FROM OPEN WATERS TO ESTUARIES: INVESTIGATING PREHISPANIC FISHING...read more
Angelyn Bass, Research Assistant Professor, Continues Impressive Funding Record with the National Parks Service
Posted: Aug 20, 2025 - 12:00pm
UNM students Tara Smith (Undergraduate, Anthropology) and Kendal Jacobsen (Graduate, Linguistics) worked with Angelyn Bass this summer on her National Parks Service (NPS) funded project: Cavate Conservation Treatment Assessment and Recommendati...read more
Larkin Chapman Awarded NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
Posted: Aug 06, 2025 - 12:00pm
Larkin Chapman, doctoral candidate in Archaeology, has been awareded an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project Assessing Support for Human-Caused Extinction of Pleistocene Horses in the Radiocarbon Record. AbstractThe cause of the l...read more
In Memoriam: Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025)
Posted: Aug 04, 2025 - 12:00pm
Dr. Jane Lancaster, UNM Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, passed away on August 3, 2025. Dr. Lancaster was a pioneer in the human evolutionary sciences. Her early research on primate behavior developed into groundbreaking ...read more
