UNM Distinguished Professor of, Anthropology Jane LancasterUNM Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Jane Lancaster has been presented with the Human Behavior and Evolution Society's Lifetime Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution. The ...
Each summer University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Anthropology Keith Prufer and his students travel to the ancient Mayan city of Uxbenká, located in southern Belize where they labor to understand what happened to the Mayas who lived there when ...
The gaps in what anthropologists know about the Magdalenian Age in Europe are still great after 150 years of research on this Upper Paleolithic culture so famous for its cave and portable art. For example, few human burials have been found, and the ...
Diana Rabenold, a graduate student working on her Ph.D. in Anthropology is challenging conventional wisdom about the diet of Paranthropus boisei, a large-toothed species of early hominid found in East Africa between 1.4 and 2.5 million years ago.In a ...