College of Arts & Sciences

In a new study published this week in the journal “Nature,” UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Melissa Emery Thompson is one of a group of researchers analyzing the way humans store fat and expend the energy from food.  

A new article in the journal “Nature” this week paints the outlines of a group of people who began to populate the land we know as modern day Europe starting 45,000 years ago. The article pieces together the work of researchers from dozens on...

Samantha Ascoli, a student at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded the SAA Cheryl L. Wase Memorial Scholarship for the Study of Archaeology.  

Victoria Bowler and Milena Carvalho both arrived last fall at The University of New Mexico excited to begin graduate work in the Department of Anthropology. Bowler had been a U.S. Park Service ranger at sites throughout the southwest and was ready to do...

Celebrate the opening of “Earth, Fire and Life: Six Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics and Chinese American New Mexicans” on Friday, April 8, at 6 p.m. in a free event open to all. 

Shaggy, heavy-shouldered bison have grazed the wide open spaces of the American Southwest for thousands of years. They made a tempting target for the hunters who walked the empty landscape between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago. The bison were attracted to a...

University of New Mexico Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Guy Straus found his life’s work as a young boy allowed into the study of his long-deceased French grandfather where he alone could look in the cabinet drawers, at the...

Inside an aged, unassuming laboratory in The University of New Mexico’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, a group of scientists look to the dead for answers. UNM’s Laboratory of Human Osteology is one of the largest in the country, according to Curator...

Peggy Levitt, professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, and Fellow at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations at Harvard University, presents the spring Journal of Anthropological Research...

It began with a man walking along a shallow wash near Abiquiu, New Mexico one afternoon and noticing some flakes of what looked like bone. He happened to be walking near the property line, maybe on his neighbor’s property. So he went to visit his...