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The answer to a topic of debate among researchers about the anatomy of our ancient human ancestors may lie in the quirky life of a wealthy New York socialite who raised a chimpanzee named Suzy to live like a human child in the 1930s.

With local healthcare workers facing a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, UNM Art Museum, and Museum of Southwest Biology recently donated their supply of gloves and N-95 masks to UNM Hospital. 

In response to the current unprecedented public health situation, curator of exhibits Devorah Romanek at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of NewMexico is creating a new and rapidly evolving virtual exhibition COVID-19: Concepts of...

A researcher from the University of New Mexico is part of a collaborative that is studying one of the most important socio-environmental changes in human history: the dispersal of the domestic horse into the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries....

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...