College of Arts & Sciences

The University of New Mexico hosts a talk by Alice Dreger titled, “Galileo’s Middle Finger: Why Social Progress Depends on the Protection of Academic Freedom,” Thursday, Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. in Anthropology rm. 163. Dreger is an historian of medicine and...

National Geographic explorers Mark Synnot and Kenny Broad discuss their adventures as National Geographic explorers Saturday, Sept. 19. The free event will take place at 7 p.m. in lecture hall 163 in the Anthropology building on the UNM campus. Doors ...

This month, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at UNM hosts a variety free events open to the public. The world–renowned Maxwell Museum analyzes the history of humankind and its many cultures with an emphasis on Southwestern history.

There were not large numbers of people in the eighth century living in what is now the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico, but the inhabitants who were there really valued cacao and holly beverages which were both high in caffeine. A new...

National Geographic Society representatives will be on campus Friday, Sept. 18 to teach students how to apply and win grants from the Young Explorers Program.

For nearly two decades, University of New Mexico Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence G. Straus, his colleague Manuel R. Gonzalez Morales from the University of Cantabria and their students have spent part of every summer in Spain, in a cave that once held penned goats. They have been searching for a glimpse of the inhabitants who lived in this part of the world between 40 and 3,000 years ago.

Siobhán Mattison an assistant professor in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico has received funding from the National Science Foundation to support a three-year project that seeks to understand how social inequality evolves from relatively...

Spanish settlement of the Middle Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico changed the way people lived, but a new paper in the journal, The Holocene" by UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Emily Jones suggests the change did not come quickly.  

University of New Mexico Press title, Clovis Caches: Recent Discoveries and New Research, edited by Bruce B. Huckell and J. David Kilby, won a Heritage Publication Award from the State of New Mexico Historic Preservation Division (HPD) last month.

High in the Atacama Desert, around 10,000 feet, anyone with a computer and Google Earth can look at the fields around Turi, Chile and see small...