Anthropology

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...

Debra Martin, the Lincy Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas presents the XLI Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture, titled “Hard Times in Dry Lands: Apocalypse in the Ancient Southwest or Business as...

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...