Anthropology

Spanish settlement of the Middle Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico changed the way people lived, but a new paper in the journal, The Holocene" by UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Emily Jones suggests the change did not come quickly.  

University of New Mexico Press title, Clovis Caches: Recent Discoveries and New Research, edited by Bruce B. Huckell and J. David Kilby, won a Heritage Publication Award from the State of New Mexico Historic Preservation Division (HPD) last month.

High in the Atacama Desert, around 10,000 feet, anyone with a computer and Google Earth can look at the fields around Turi, Chile and see small...

It may be difficult to imagine a time before university campuses were as diverse as they are today, but the time when they were the sole preserves of men is still well within living memory. Dr. Louise Lamphere, professor emerita at the University of New...

James Dixon, director of the University of New Mexico’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, has been appointed to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advisory Committee on Geosciences.

Clues left behind in a cave in central America have allowed an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers, including several at the University of New Mexico, to produce a new paleoclimate rainfall record that illustrates the contribution of ...

University of California Riverside Professor of Anthropology Wendy Ashmore will speak on “What were Maya landscapes really like?” on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the University of New Mexico Anthropology Lecture Hall (Room 163.)

The University of New Mexico Maxwell Museum of Anthropology hosts the Ancestors Lecture with senior archaeologist for the Yukon Government, P. Gregory Hare on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hibben Center. This event is free and open to all. ...

In the wide open spaces of southeastern Arizona you can see for miles under endless blue skies. But a team of archeology students from the University of New Mexico is looking for the story beneath their feet at the Chiricahua and Ft. Bowie National Monuments, and the Coronado National Memorial. All three are owned and

Lin Lecheng, one of the world’s leading fiber artists, presents a visual review of his work Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of New Mexico Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Hibben Center. Lecheng is a professor at Tsinghua University ...