Anthropology

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,...

The University of New Mexico's Office of the Vice President for Research and the University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) Department annually compiles a Year-in-Review for its research features during the course of the calendar year. Below is the...

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...

Archeological researchers at The University of New Mexico secured a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management to study the prehistory of the under-researched southeast region of New Mexico and nearby west Texas. “A...

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...

Water remains the single-most fundamental factor in the rise and fall of civilizations throughout history. It enables the existence of people, places and things. To that end, the XLIX Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture features...

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...

It’s fair to say that Lawrence Straus has made his mark in the anthropological world with his share of incredible discoveries during an illustrious academic career spanning nearly five decades. For Straus, that curiosity began at an early in his life...