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UNM Professor Osbjorn Pearson on Team Studying Neandertal Remains

Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 11:00am

Dr. Osbjorn Pearson is part of a team studying Neandertal remains.  His article,  A Partial Neandertal Foot From the Late Middle Paleolithic of Amud Cave, Israel,  was recently published in PaleoAnthropology and featured by UNM News.&...read more

UNM Anthropology and the Maxwell Museum welcome Dr. Kari Schleher

Posted: Jul 28, 2020 - 02:00pm

The UNM Department of Anthropology and the Maxwell Museum are pleased to welcome Dr. Kari Schleher, who has been hired as Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Curator of Archaeology.  Dr. Schleher, a UNM Alum (2010) will join the dep...read more

Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor Patricia Crown Dicusses Chocolate with SAR

Posted: Jul 27, 2020 - 12:00pm

How do we deepen our understanding of humankind while we are "social distancing"? One way is through making continued connections. The  School for Advanced Research  recently sat down to talk with our 2019-2020 Weatherhead Fellow, Dr. Pat...read more

Cassie Smith receives the Rogers Research Award

Posted: Jul 24, 2020 - 12:00pm

Cassie Smith, doctoral student in Ethnology, has received the  Rogers Research Award.  Ms Smith has also been awarded a Hibben Doctoral Fellowship.  Both the Rogers Research Award and the Hibben Doctoral Research Award support her doc...read more

Dr. Heather Edgar awarded Women in STEM Grant from UNM ADVANCE

Posted: Jul 23, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. Heather Edgar has been selected to receive the  Women in STEM  faculty development award from  UNM ADVANCE  for her project  "Improving identification for missing and murdered American Indians."  This project focuse...read more

Dr. Marit Munson Discusses Edited Volume Color in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest

Posted: Jul 14, 2020 - 12:00pm

Editors Marit Munson (UNM PhD, 2002) and Kelley Hays-Gilpin along with David Witt and Will Russell hosted a virtual book launch on July 15 to discuss the book  Color in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest.   Color attracts attention, evokes emo...read more

Dr. Melissa Emery Thompson featured by UNM ADVANCE

Posted: Jul 14, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. Melissa Emery Thompson is leading a project funded by the  National Institute on Aging  examining the human aging process by studying one of our closest relatives — chimpanzees. Her research is featured by  UNM ADVANCE.&#160...read more

Dr. Joshua Shapero Awarded the Snead-Wertheim Endowed Lectureship

Posted: Jul 13, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. Joshua Shapero, Ethnologist, has been awarded the 2020-2021  Snead-Wertheim Endowed Lectureship  for his proposal,  “The Ground Beneath Our Words: Environment, Communication, and Subjectivity in the Cordillera Blanca mountai...read more

UNM Anthropology Stands Against Racism, Violence, and Denial of Human Rights

Posted: Jun 18, 2020 - 12:00pm

The Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, stands against all forms of racism, violence, and denial of human rights in our nation and around the world. Our goal as anthropologists is to use our deep understanding of human biology and...read more

Trade Relationships and Gene Flow at Pottery Mound Pueblo, New Mexico

Posted: Jun 04, 2020 - 12:00pm

Lexi O'Donnell (2019 PhD Graduate, Archaeology), Jana Meyer (PhD Student, Archaeology) and Corey Ragsdale (2015 PhD Graduate, Evolutionary Anthropology) have published their article,  "Trade Relationships and Gene Flow at Pottery Mound Pueblo, ...read more

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

Genevieve Woodhead and Thatcher Rogers Awarded Grants from the Archaeological Society of New Mexico

Posted: May 05, 2020 - 12:00am

The Archaeological Society of New Mexico  has awarded two grants to UNM Archaeology doctoral students: Genevieve Woodhead has been awarded a scholarship to fund travel to museums to collect data on stylistic versus technological variability amo...read more

Will Marquardt and Thatcher Rogers Awarded Grants from the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society

Posted: May 05, 2020 - 12:00am

The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society  hasawarded two research grants to UNM Archaeology graduate students: Will Marquardt received an award to process three radiocarbon dates from the site of Pottery Mound, and Thatcher Rogers was ...read more