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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...

The Evolutionary Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association awarded UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Siobhán Mattison a New Investigator Award for her presentation at the recent conference of the American Anthropological...

As part of the Ancestors Lecture series, the University of New Mexico Maxwell Museum presents, “The Red Lady of El Mirón Cave”: 19,000 year-old Magdalenian Burial in Northern Spain with speaker Lawrence Guy Straus, UNM Distinguished Professor of ...

University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Anthropology, and curator of Human Osteology at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Heather Edgar has been appointed to the Native American Graves Protection and Reparation Act (NAGPRA) Review Committee ...

From cancer to coffee, the recpients of the 2015 Presidential Award of Distinction have portfolios of research accomplishments that separate the scientists from many others in their fields. Both, C. Jeffrey Brinker amd Patricia Crown, have dedicated...

A new report published in “Science” explores the relationship between Helminth infection and birth rates in women from the Tsimane tribal community. The Tsimane are foragers-horticulturalists living in the Amazon lowland forests in Bolivia. The ...

“They go to sleep several hours after sunset and typically awaken before sunrise.” That’s one of the main conclusions in a new paper published in “Current Biology.” UNM doctoral candidate Gandi Yetish is the lead author in the paper “Natural Sleep and...