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In 2018, the National Museum of Brazil was ravaged by a fire that destroyed a huge collection of irreplaceable historical artifacts. In a New York Times article, Dalton de Souza Amorim, a professor of biology at the University of São Paulo, was quoted as...

Celebrate our evolutionary past! Children will be able to travel 4 million years back in time this weekend and discover our ancient human ancestors at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on the UNM campus. The popular radio program The Children’s Hour,...

UNM Professor Lawrence Straus recently received a pleasant surprise recently when he found out a newly published book was dedicated to him. Human Adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum was derived from a symposium held in his honor in Portugal last...

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology will hold special evening hours Friday, Dec. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. during the UNM Hanging of the Greens, when the campus will be illuminated by more than 13,000 luminarias.  Visitors are welcome to the museum to enjoy...

Chances are, if you think of Native American arts, the Navajo rug comes to mind. Every rug is a unique work of art that starts with raising the sheep and goats for wool, which is then shorn, carded, spun, dyed, and finally woven, all by hand, into a rug...

The photography of Diné photographer Rapheal Begay presents an account of the Navajo Nation—without ever directly portraying any people—by focusing on the land and the material and...

Professor W. H. “Chip” Wills will launch Maxwell Museum’s Celebration of International Archaeology Day with the presentation Chaco Canyon and The University of New Mexico: 90 Years of Discovery. He’ll discuss the ongoing exploration of researchers from...

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology is hosting a lecture on The Transformation of a Wolf Killer into a Wolf Protector: Wolves, Conversation and Ernest Thompson Seton by David L. Witt on Saturday, March 23 at 1 p.m. at the Museum.    Perhaps no other...

The goal of this job fair is to help current anthropology students — undergraduate and graduate — and recent alumni in archaeology, museum studies, ethnology, and evolutionary anthropology connect with potential local employers.  The Anthropology...

Open to the public, this coming Friday gives The University of New Mexico community a rare opportunity to experience three art openings in one invigorating evening. From a rotation of innovative films, to exploring the timeless connection between wolves...