News Archive :: Anthropology | The University of New Mexico

Hispanic Heritage Month 2021

Posted: Sep 15, 2021 - 03:00pm

UNM Anthropology Accepting Graduate Students for Fall 2022

Posted: Sep 14, 2021 - 12:00pm

Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management

Posted: Sep 08, 2021 - 09:00am

Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity: A Global Archaeological Perspective

Posted: Sep 07, 2021 - 01:00pm

Ruizhe Liu Awarded NSF Cultural Anthropology Research Experience for Graduates

Posted: Sep 07, 2021 - 12:15pm

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology to Reopen August 17

Posted: Aug 11, 2021 - 12:00pm

UNM Mandates COVID-19 Vaccination

Posted: Aug 03, 2021 - 07:00am

UNM Mandates Mask Wearing on Campus During the Fall 2021 Semester

Posted: Jul 28, 2021 - 09:00pm

Anastasia Theodoropoulos Awarded the 2021-2022 Anthropology Dissertation Fellowship

Posted: Jul 28, 2021 - 01:00pm

Dr. Russell Greaves named Director of the Office of Contract Archaeology

Posted: Jul 28, 2021 - 12:00pm

NM Senator Martin Heinrich Visits OMI to Discuss Improving Identification for Missing and Murdered American Indians Project Using Newly Developed New Mexico Decedent Image Database

Posted: Jul 12, 2021 - 12:00pm

The Pueblo Bonito Mounds: Formation History, Architectural Context and Representational Fields

Posted: Jul 08, 2021 - 12:00pm

In Memoriam: Philip Bock

Posted: Jun 22, 2021 - 12:00pm

Emily Hayes Rich Receives a 2021-2022 Fulbright Award

Posted: Jun 16, 2021 - 01:00pm

Dr. Suzanne Oakdale Receives 2021-2021 Women in STEM Award

Posted: Jun 16, 2021 - 12:00pm

Dr. Catherine Rhodes featured in Society for Linguistic Anthropology Blog

Posted: May 24, 2021 - 01:00pm

Post Doctoral Fellow April Kamp-Whittaker Awarded NSF SPARC Grant and an American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant

Posted: May 24, 2021 - 12:00pm

Thatcher Rogers Awarded NSF Subsidy Grant from the MURR (University of Missouri Research Reactor) Archaeometry Laboratory

Posted: May 21, 2021 - 12:00pm

The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Presents 2021 Awards Virtually

Posted: May 18, 2021 - 12:00pm

UNM Graduate Students Awarded 2021 Archaeological Society of New Mexico Scholarships

Posted: May 10, 2021 - 03:00pm

2021 Cheryl L. Wase Awards

Posted: May 10, 2021 - 01:00pm

UNM Professor Continues to Find Trove of Information from El Mirón Find

Posted: May 10, 2021 - 12:00pm

A Buried Middle Archaic Site in the Tucson Basin

Posted: May 10, 2021 - 12:00pm

Jacque Kocer First Recipient of SAA Bertha Parker Cody Award for Native American Women

Posted: May 06, 2021 - 10:00am

Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month, May 2021

Posted: May 03, 2021 - 12:00pm

Dr. Jane Lancaster, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Posted: Apr 22, 2021 - 12:00pm

Jacque Kocer Awarded an AAUW American Fellowship for 2021/22

Posted: Apr 15, 2021 - 12:00pm

Old Answers to New Questions: Traditional Water Management as a Solution to Climate Change

Posted: Apr 12, 2021 - 12:00pm

New Virtual Exhibit at the Maxwell Museum: Rio Grande Fish: Archaeology Superheroes!

Posted: Apr 06, 2021 - 09:00am

Ancient Maya Houses Show Wealth Inequality Tied to Despotic Governance

Posted: Mar 25, 2021 - 10:00am

Early Experiences Shape Aggression in Young Chimpanzees

Posted: Mar 23, 2021 - 12:00pm

Maxwell Museum Receives Reaccreditation

Posted: Mar 22, 2021 - 09:00am

Women's History Month, March 2021

Posted: Mar 01, 2021 - 12:00pm

Between Casas Grandes and Salado: Community Formation and Interaction at the Pendleton Ruin Site in the Borderlands of the American Southwest/Northwest, AD 1200-1450

Posted: Feb 23, 2021 - 12:00pm

The Maxwell Museum Presents the People of the Southwest Virtual Museum Visit

Posted: Feb 15, 2021 - 12:00pm

Black History Month, February 2021

Posted: Feb 05, 2021 - 12:00pm

Sarah Leiter Appointed Graduate Student Contributing Editor for American Anthropologist

Posted: Feb 04, 2021 - 11:11am

Galapagos Giant Tortises: The Era of Exploitation (1535-1959)

Posted: Feb 04, 2021 - 11:00am

A Meta-Analysis Approach to Understanding Maya Fish Use on the Yucatán Peninsula

Posted: Jan 18, 2021 - 01:00pm

Moby-Dick and the Galápagos Tortoises

Posted: Dec 23, 2020 - 12:00pm

Community Formation and Interaction in the Borderlands of the American Southwest/Northwest Mexico, A.D. 1200-1450

Posted: Dec 21, 2020 - 12:00pm

New Video Leads Maxwell Virtual Visitors Through Early Human History

Posted: Dec 21, 2020 - 12:00pm

Vaccines, Broadband Access, Mysterious Bird Deaths

Posted: Dec 18, 2020 - 02:00pm

In Memoriam: J. Stanley Rhine

Posted: Dec 16, 2020 - 10:00am

History on a Plate: How Native American Diets Shifted After European Colonization

Posted: Dec 10, 2020 - 12:00pm

The Museum Research Traineeship

Posted: Dec 09, 2020 - 12:00pm

Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies Call for Proposals

Posted: Dec 06, 2020 - 11:00am

Chery Wase Scholars 2020-2021

Posted: Dec 02, 2020 - 12:00pm

UNM Researchers Show Gender Norms that Favor Women Reverse Gender Disparities in Health

Posted: Nov 18, 2020 - 12:00pm

New Radiocarbon Dates from Prehistoric Non Nok Tha, Don Kok Pho and Don Pa Daeng, Upper Nam Phong Watershed, Khon Kaen Province, Northeast Thailand

Posted: Nov 11, 2020 - 01:00pm

How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Nicholas Barron

Posted: Nov 11, 2020 - 01:00pm

Asia Alsgaard Awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Posted: Nov 11, 2020 - 10:00am

The House of the Cylinder Jars: Room 28 in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon

Posted: Nov 05, 2020 - 11:00am

Beau Murphy Awarded New Mexico Research Grant

Posted: Nov 02, 2020 - 12:00pm

Architecture and the Organization of Labor at Tsegi Phase (AD 1250-1300) Cliff Dwellings, Navajo National Monument

Posted: Oct 30, 2020 - 11:00am

Genetic Ancestry: Our Stories, Our Pasts

Posted: Oct 28, 2020 - 11:10am

Dr. Jada Benn Torres (UNM PhD, 2006) Wins 2021 AAAS Robert W. Sussman Award

Posted: Oct 28, 2020 - 11:00am

Genevieve Woodhead Awarded GPSA General Priority New Mexico Research Grant

Posted: Oct 26, 2020 - 11:00am

Thatcher Rogers Awarded a Fall 2020 High Priority New Mexico Research Grant

Posted: Oct 26, 2020 - 11:00am

Sarah Leiter Awarded a New Mexico Research Grant

Posted: Oct 26, 2020 - 11:00am

Social Selectivity in Aging Wild Chimpanzees

Posted: Oct 22, 2020 - 04:00pm

Megan Cole Receives the Frieda D. Butler Award

Posted: Oct 21, 2020 - 10:00am

Sarah Leiter Receives New Mexico Folklore Award

Posted: Oct 21, 2020 - 10:00am

Jon Dombrosky Receives the Ruth E. Kennedy Award

Posted: Oct 21, 2020 - 09:30am

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

Posted: Oct 21, 2020 - 09:00am

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

Posted: Oct 21, 2020 - 09:00am

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

Posted: Oct 16, 2020 - 10:00am

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

Posted: Oct 12, 2020 - 10:00am

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

Landscape, Typologies, and the Social Meaning of Castles

Posted: Oct 01, 2020 - 12:00pm

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

The Early Aurignacian Dispersal of Modern Humans into Westernmost Eurasia

Posted: Sep 29, 2020 - 10:00am

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

Posted: Sep 28, 2020 - 10:00am

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

Posted: Sep 23, 2020 - 10:00am

UNM Anthropology Launches You Tube and Twitter Accounts

Posted: Sep 11, 2020 - 03:00pm

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

Posted: Sep 11, 2020 - 12:00pm

Trade Relationships and Gene Flow at Pottery Mound, New Mexico

Posted: Aug 31, 2020 - 12:00pm

UNM Resources on Discrimination and Harassment

Posted: Aug 24, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. Cyler Conrad, UNM Alum and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Awarded Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Grant

Posted: Aug 18, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. Nicole Thompson Gonzalez has been Awarded a Bruce McEwen Career Development Fellowship

Posted: Aug 18, 2020 - 12:00pm

Frank C Hibben Fellowships 2020-2021

Posted: Aug 17, 2020 - 01:00pm

‘We’ve Already Survived an Apocalypse’: Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi

Posted: Aug 17, 2020 - 12:00pm

Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History: What Chocolate-Drinking Jars Tell Indigenous Potters Now

Posted: Aug 17, 2020 - 12:00pm

Manny Lopez Ainza Receives Provost Excellence in Advising Award

Posted: Aug 07, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. Frances Hayashida Appointed Director of the UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII)

Posted: Aug 07, 2020 - 12:00pm

UNM Anthropology Faculty Promoted

Posted: Aug 01, 2020 - 12:00pm

Katie Brewer Awarded Center for Regional Studies Fellowship

Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 12:00pm

UNM Professor Osbjorn Pearson on Team Studying Neandertal Remains

Posted: Jul 31, 2020 - 11:00am

UNM Anthropology and the Maxwell Museum welcome Dr. Kari Schleher

Posted: Jul 28, 2020 - 02:00pm

Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor Patricia Crown Dicusses Chocolate with SAR

Posted: Jul 27, 2020 - 12:00pm

Cassie Smith receives the Rogers Research Award

Posted: Jul 24, 2020 - 12:00pm

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

Posted: Jul 23, 2020 - 12:00pm

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

Posted: Jul 14, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. Melissa Emery Thompson featured by UNM ADVANCE

Posted: Jul 14, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. Joshua Shapero Awarded the Snead-Wertheim Endowed Lectureship

Posted: Jul 13, 2020 - 12:00pm

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

Posted: Jun 18, 2020 - 12:00pm

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

Posted: Jun 04, 2020 - 12:00pm

Phalangeal curvature in a chimpanzee raised like a human: Implications for inferring arboreality in fossil hominins

Posted: May 28, 2020 - 01:00pm

Laura Steele Awarded Fulbright Fellowship

Posted: May 28, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dog Life and Death in an Ancestral Pueblo Landscape

Posted: May 05, 2020 - 09:00am

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

Posted: May 05, 2020 - 12:00am

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

Posted: May 05, 2020 - 12:00am

Paulina Przystupa and Erin Hegberg Published in Kiva: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History

Posted: May 04, 2020 - 12:00pm

UNM Research Examines Fishing in Ancient Agricultural Pueblo Community

Posted: Mar 13, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. Louise Lamphere (UNM) and Dr. Maria Luisa Achino-Loeb (NYU) Guest Edit Special Edition of JAR

Posted: Mar 03, 2020 - 12:00pm

James Davenport Awarded a Summer Fellowship in the Pre-Columbian Studies Program at Dumbarton Oaks

Posted: Feb 24, 2020 - 12:00pm

Now Accepting Applications for the Fall 2020 Chaco Canyon Research Semester

Posted: Feb 24, 2020 - 12:00pm

Hannah Mattson Southwestern Field School Featured by UNM ADVANCE

Posted: Feb 20, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. Heather Edgar and the New Mexico Decedent Image Database (NMDID) featured in Science Node

Posted: Feb 06, 2020 - 12:00pm

UNM Anthropology Research Featured in 2019 Research Year-in-Review

Posted: Jan 15, 2020 - 12:00pm

Dr. William Taylor's Research Featured in PLOS One and Science News

Posted: Jan 02, 2020 - 02:00pm

Adam Reynolds Awarded 2019 AAA Student Presentation Prize

Posted: Dec 03, 2019 - 01:00pm

Jonathan Dombrosky publishes "A ~1000-year 13C Suess Correction Model for the Study of Past Ecosystems" in The Holocene

Posted: Dec 02, 2019 - 01:00pm

Dr. Robert Dello Russo and Alexander Kurota Awarded U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management Grant

Posted: Nov 22, 2019 - 01:00pm

Holly Brause Awarded the 2020 Ruth Kennedy Award

Posted: Nov 12, 2019 - 01:00pm

Thatcher Rogers Awarded 2019 PaleoWest Foundation Scholarship

Posted: Nov 12, 2019 - 12:00pm

Paulina Przystupa Selected to Attend Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Workshop in Research Methods

Posted: Nov 12, 2019 - 12:00pm

Alum Patrick Staib Receives an Emmy Award for A Taste of History Episode

Posted: Nov 11, 2019 - 03:00pm

Alumna Dr. Jill Ahlberg Yohe co-curates Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Posted: Nov 11, 2019 - 12:00am

Dr. Cymene Howe Documents Loss of 700 Year Old Okjokull Glacier in Iceland

Posted: Oct 08, 2019 - 12:00pm

Amy Thompson Appointed Post Doctoral Fellow at the Field Museum

Posted: Sep 30, 2019 - 01:59pm

Dr. Jill Jordan Appointed the George Stuart Residential Scholar

Posted: Sep 30, 2019 - 10:00am

Jacque Kocer Awarded American Indian Graduate Center Special Higher Education Program Grant

Posted: Aug 26, 2019 - 09:30am

Amy Thompson Recieves Graduate Student Success Scholarship

Posted: Aug 20, 2019 - 02:00pm

Genevieve Woodhead Awarded 2019 Pecos Conference Linda Cordell Prize

Posted: Aug 12, 2019 - 12:00am

Rethinking Psychological Anthropology

Posted: Aug 09, 2019 - 12:00am

Linking Late Paleoindian Stone Tool Technologies and Populations in North, Central and South America

Posted: Jul 22, 2019 - 12:00am

Thatcher Rogers awarded a Grant from the New Mexico Archaeological Council

Posted: Jul 10, 2019 - 12:00am

Festschrift in "Honor of Lawrence Guy Straus" published by Quaternary International

Posted: Jul 01, 2019 - 12:00am

Katie Brewer receives a Center for Regional Studies Fellowship and a Grant from the New Mexico Archaeological Council

Posted: May 29, 2019 - 12:00am

Cassie Smith receives a Center for Regional Studies Fellowship

Posted: May 29, 2019 - 12:00am

Carly Stewart receives a Center for Regional Studies Fellowship

Posted: May 29, 2019 - 12:00am

Stephanie Fox Awarded Leaky Foundation Grant and Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Posted: May 17, 2019 - 10:00am

James Davenport Awarded Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Posted: May 17, 2019 - 09:50am

Hope Casareno receives an Institute for American Indian Research (IFAIR) Award

Posted: May 17, 2019 - 12:00am

Katie Williams receives an Institute for American Indian Research (IFAIR) Award and a Center for Regional Studies Fellowship

Posted: May 17, 2019 - 12:00am

Sarah Leiter published in The International Journal of Latin American Religions

Posted: May 15, 2019 - 12:00am

Kristin Sabbi Awarded 2019 2020 UNM Anthropology Dissertation Fellowship

Posted: May 09, 2019 - 02:30pm

Dr. Keith Hunley Appointed Department Chair

Posted: May 09, 2019 - 01:10pm

Paulina Przystupa Awarded Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research

Posted: May 09, 2019 - 01:00pm

Dr. Hannah Mattson Awarded 2019 Women in STEM Award from Advance at UNM

Posted: May 09, 2019 - 12:00am

Cassie Smith co-organizes "Teaching Mexican American Studies through Local Archives and Community-Based Pedagogy" Symposium

Posted: May 08, 2019 - 05:00pm

Recent Undergraduates Addy Dominguez and Jamie Stevens awarded the Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award

Posted: May 02, 2019 - 12:00am

Advance at UNM features Dr. Frances Hayashida on You Tube

Posted: May 02, 2019 - 12:00am

Dr. Siobhan Mattison Awarded School for Advanced Research (SAR) Research Team Seminar Award

Posted: May 01, 2019 - 12:35pm

Megan Cole Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Posted: Apr 15, 2019 - 12:00am

Jillian Rutherford Awarded Superior Undergraduate Student Award from UNM Sigma Xi

Posted: Apr 15, 2019 - 12:00am

Dr. Patricia Crown Awarded the SAR Weatherhead Resident Scholar Fellowship

Posted: Apr 11, 2019 - 12:00am

William Taylor Awarded the UNM Popejoy Prize

Posted: Apr 11, 2019 - 12:00am

Anna Rautman Awarded the Albert A. Dahlberg Prize

Posted: Apr 11, 2019 - 12:00am

UNM Represents at the SAA Annual Meetings

Posted: Apr 09, 2019 - 12:00am

Stephen West Awarded Fullbright Fellowship

Posted: Mar 27, 2019 - 12:00pm

Anthropology Students Awarded LAII Fellowships

Posted: Mar 07, 2019 - 12:00am

Jacque Kocer awarded Arthur C. Parker Scholarship

Posted: Feb 28, 2019 - 12:00pm

Now Accepting Applications for the 2019 Southwestern Field School

Posted: Feb 15, 2019 - 12:00pm

Thatcher Rogers Awarded the Nancy Coinman Grant

Posted: Feb 12, 2019 - 12:00am

New Publication: Rabbit Exploitation in the Middle Paleolithic at Gruta Nova da Columbeira, Portugal

Posted: Jan 18, 2019 - 12:00am

Anthropology Student Awards Announced

Posted: Jan 15, 2019 - 12:00am

Anthropology Undergraduate Student Ashley Harris Writes About Her UNM Summer Field School Experience

Posted: Jan 15, 2019 - 12:00am

Drs. Ann Ramenofsky and Kari Schleher Win Book Prize

Posted: Nov 19, 2018 - 12:00am

Dr. Patricia Crown receives prestigious AV Kidder Award from the American Anthropological Association

Posted: Nov 19, 2018 - 12:00am

UNM Anthropology Ranked 17 out of 260 Best Schools for Veterans

Posted: Nov 13, 2018 - 12:00am

UNM Students Sweep SW Association of Biological Anthropologist Conference Awards

Posted: Nov 13, 2018 - 12:00am

Linking Early Holocene Human DNA in Belize to Earliest Populations in North and South America

Posted: Nov 08, 2018 - 12:00am

Jon Dombrosky Awarded GPSA New Mexico Research Grant

Posted: Nov 02, 2018 - 12:00am

Katie Brewer Awarded GPSA New Mexico Research Grant

Posted: Oct 31, 2018 - 12:00am

UNM Welcomes Dr. Carla Sinopoli, New Director of the Maxwell Museum

Posted: Oct 23, 2018 - 12:00am

Dr. Patricia Crown Featured in New PBS Series: Native America

Posted: Oct 22, 2018 - 12:00am

Dr. Hannah Mattson Featured on ¡COLORES!

Posted: Oct 22, 2018 - 12:00am

Dr. Les Field Awarded EAGER Grant from the National Science Foundation

Posted: Oct 17, 2018 - 12:00am

Jill Jordan Awarded Wenner Gren

Posted: Oct 11, 2018 - 12:00am

What Makes a Dog? UNM Researchers Explore the History of Dogs at 14th Century Site

Posted: Oct 09, 2018 - 12:00am

Doomed to Mad Maxian World? Dr. Siobhan Mattison discusses the Evolution of Inequality

Posted: Oct 08, 2018 - 12:00am

UNM President Dr. Garnett Stokes Visits Chaco Canyon as Part of her Statewide Listening Tour

Posted: Sep 28, 2018 - 12:00am

Holly Brause receives grant from the New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute

Posted: Sep 27, 2018 - 12:00am

Adjunct Assistant Professor Matt Schmader Awarded American Battlefield Protection Program Planning Grant

Posted: Aug 24, 2018 - 12:00am

Research by Marylin Riggs featured in American Archaeology Summer Edition

Posted: Aug 15, 2018 - 12:00am

Carlyn Stewart Awarded the Powers Prize at the 2018 Pecos Conference

Posted: Aug 13, 2018 - 12:00am

Marcus Hamilton, UNM alum, Appointed to Tenure-Track Faculty Position at the University of Texas, San Antonio

Posted: Jul 19, 2018 - 12:00am

UNM Archaeologist Dello-Russo Honored by the State for His Service and Noteworthy Discoveries

Posted: Jul 19, 2018 - 12:00am

Amy Thompson Lead Author on Journal of Archaeological Science Article

Posted: Jul 16, 2018 - 12:00am

Hope Casareno Awarded the Ortiz Center Community Engagement Scholarship

Posted: Jul 10, 2018 - 12:00am

Dr. Heather Edgar Develops UNM Database of Deceased People, a National First

Posted: Jul 06, 2018 - 12:00am

In Memoriam: Dr. Marta Weigle

Posted: Jun 15, 2018 - 12:00am

Students Awarded Fellowships from the UNM Center for Regional Studies

Posted: Jun 06, 2018 - 12:00am