Recent News
Beau Murphy Receives UNM OVPR Globally-Engaged Research Award
Posted: May 30, 2023 - 01:00pm
Beau Murphy was selected for a 2023 graduate student Globally-Engaged Research Award from The Office of the Vice President for Research in partnership with the Global Education Office. The Globally-Engaged Research Awards aim to highlight the d...read more
Scientists Revive Stone Age Molecules: UNM's Straus Discovered Prehistoric Remains Used in Study
Posted: May 08, 2023 - 12:00pm
Breakthroughs in ancient genome reconstruction and biotechnology are now revealing the rich molecular secrets of Paleolithic microorganisms. In a transdisciplinary study, scientists are rebuilding microbial natural products up to 100,000 yea...read more
Md. Khaled Bin Oli Bhuiyan Awarded NSF Research Experience for Graduate Student Grant
Posted: May 02, 2023 - 12:00pm
Md. Khaled Bin Oli Bhuiyan has received an NSF Research Experience for Graduate Student Grant to investigate the effects of markets on the timing of life history events among ni-Vanuatu. He will be joining Profs. Mattison and Wallace in Vanuatu this...read more
Emily Moes Awarded the Turner/Cambridge University Press Award from the Dental Anthropology Association
Posted: Apr 25, 2023 - 09:00am
Emily Moes has been awarded the Turner/Cambridge University Press Award from the Dental Anthropology Association. The prize is for best student dental anthropology poster at the meetings of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists meet...read more
Amanda Dobrov Runner Up for Society for Archaeological Sciences R.E. Taylor Poster Award
Posted: Apr 17, 2023 - 12:00pm
The runner-up for this year’s RE Taylor Poster Student Award at the Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, is Amanda Dobrov, MA Student in Public Archaeology at the UNM Department of Anthropology. Aman...read more
Agricultural Intensification, Regional Differentiation, and Incipient Village Formation: Early Formative Period Patterning in the San Carlos Safford Area, Southeastern Arizona
Posted: Apr 07, 2023 - 12:00pm
Thatcher Rogers (UNM PhD Candidate) and Joseph S. Crary have published Agricultural Intensification, Regional Differentiation, and Incipient Village Formation: Early Formative Period Patterning in the San Carlos Safford Area, Southeastern Ariz...read more
Less Predictable Rainfall May Have Caused Disintegration of Early Maya Societies
Posted: Apr 07, 2023 - 11:00am
Reduced predictability of seasonal rainfall might have played a significant role in the disintegration of Classic Maya societies about 1,100 years ago. Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies is a...read more
Early Dispersal of Domestic Horses into the Great Plains and Northern Rockies
Posted: Apr 05, 2023 - 02:00pm
UNM PhD Alum (2016) Dr. William Taylor, Dr. Emily Jones, Victoria Monagle (Archaeology graduate student), and Caroline Gabe (UNM PhD, 2019) are among the co-authors of a new new article Early Dispersal of Domestic Horses into the Great Pla...read more
Hannah Cantrell, recent Anthropology Undergraduate, Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Posted: Apr 05, 2023 - 02:00pm
Hannah Cantrell, a recent graduate of UNM’s Anthropology Department, has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. They are headed to the University of Oregon this fall to obtain their PhD in Biological Anthrop...read more
