Archaeology Faculty
Michael Graves
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Professor
Director, Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies
Areas of Research:
Evolution of prehistoric agriculture, social organization and complexity; geospatial studies; architectural and ceramic stylistic analysis; history of archaeology; Oceania (Hawai’i, Micronesia), US Southwest.
Frances M Hayashida
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Professor
Director, Latin American and Iberian Institute
- Email:
- fmh@unm.edu
- Phone:
- 505-277-6692
- Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Research:
States and empires, political economy, political ecology, ancient agriculture and water management in arid evironments, human impacts on the environment, craft production, beer brewing, ethnohistory, ethnoarchaeology, archaeometry; Andean South America (Peru and Chile).
Emily L Jones
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Professor and UNM Regents' Lecturer
Director, Zooarchaeology Lab
- Email:
- elj@unm.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Research:
Human-environment interactions, zooarchaeology, historical biogeography, evolutionary ecology; Stone Age Europe, American Southwest/Northwest; public archaeology and outreach.
Hannah Mattson
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Assistant Professor
Areas of Research:
Ceramic technology, personal adornment, materiality, social identity, ritual practice, agricultural production and agrarian settlement organization, public archaeology, US Southwest.
Osbjorn Pearson
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Professor and Regents' Lecturer
Areas of Research:
Paleoanthropology, origin of modern humans, skeletal biology, functional morphology, quantitative methods; Africa, Europe
Keith Malcom Prufer
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Professor
Director, Environmental Archaeology Lab
- Email:
- kmp@unm.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Research:
Environmental archaeology, paleoecology, paleoclimate, Neotropics
Kari Schleher
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Assistant Professor
Faculty Curator of Archaeology, Maxwell Museum
Areas of Research:
Southwest US Archaeology (Northern Rio Grande and Mesa Verde regions), pottery analysis, public archaeology and outreach, petrographic analysis.
Carla Sinopoli
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Professor
Director, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
- Email:
- csinopoli@unm.edu
- Phone:
- 505-277-4405
- Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Research:
Complex societies, political economy, empires, material culture, ceramics, museum studies, South Asia
Loa P Traxler
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Associate Professor
Director, Museum Studies Program
Areas of Research:
Complex societies in the Americas, architecture and the built environment. Mesoamerica, Maya civilization. Museum studies, archaeological collections, cultural heritage and public museums.