Anthropology

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Louise Lamphere received the Franz Boas Award for exemplary service to Anthropology recently from the American Anthropological Association. The award is presented annually by the AAA to its members whose careers ...

Ann B. Stahl, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria, Canada will present the Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the UNM Anthropology Lecture Hall

New research led by UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Sherry V. Nelson examines carbon and oxygen stable isotopes in the tooth enamel from a chimpanzee community to understand the environment of fossil apes and early humans. Nelson's research, “C

Many people think of North America and Eurasia as two worlds that were isolated from one another until about 500 years ago. However, people living in Asia and North America have exchanged ideas, technology, and trade goods, for more than 14,000 years ...

The team excavated the remaining deposits in the area where 19,000 year-old human remains had been found in 2010-11 and found about 10 more hand and foot bones from the adult woman whose bones and jaw had been collected by her band or family members after flesh decomposition, then stained with red ochre and reburied during the Lower Magdalenian period.

Alejandro Lugo presents, "Border Landscapes: The Outsider Within and the Occupied Borderlands," on Thursday, April 4 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hibben Center room 105.Lugo is a professor of anthropology and Latina/o studies at the University of Illinois ...

Nancy ParezoProfessor of American Indian Studies & Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona Nancy Parezo will present the 36th Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture on "The Indian Fashion Show, Fighting Cultural ...

The University of New Mexico Maxwell Museum presents a Ruth E. Kennedy Memorial lecture, "Soiled Doves and Sympathetic Cops: Discourses of Punishment and Redemption in Housing for the Urban Poor," with Andrea M. Lopez, on Thursday, March 7 at 4 p.m. at ...

Lynne Sebastian, an adjunct associate professor in the UNM Department of Anthropology has been chosen to become an Expert Member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP). She is director of Historic Preservation Programs at ...

The University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology presents, "Aging and Post-reproductive Life in a Traditional World: Behavior, Physiology and Theory" with UNM anthropology professor Hillard Kaplan on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Maxwell ...