Archaeology Faculty

Michael Graves

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Professor
Director, Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies

Email: 
mwgraves@unm.edu
Curriculum Vitae

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).

Bruce Huckell

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Associate Professor

Email: 
bhuckell@unm.edu
Phone: 
505-277-4491
Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Research:

Hunter-gatherer paleoecology, lithic technology, geoarchaeology, Paleoindian and Archaic periods, US Southwest and Plains.

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

Email: 
hmattson@unm.edu
Curriculum Vitae

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

Email: 
ompear@unm.edu
Curriculum Vitae

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

Email: 
kschlehe@unm.edu
Curriculum Vitae

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

Email: 
lptraxler@unm.edu
Curriculum Vitae

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.

Wirt Wills

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Professor and Regents' Lecturer
Director, Chaco Canyon Archaeological Research Lab

Email: 
wwills@unm.edu
Phone: 
505-277-5005
Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Research:

Foraging and early farming societies, economic organization, religion and emergent social complexity, 19th-century Spanish colonial archaeology; US Southwest.