Anthropology

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    New archaeological findings have complicated the colonial history of the American Southwest, developments that anthropologist Severin Fowles will discuss in a public presentation on the 麻豆视频 campus this month.
  • Arctic
    There probably is not a more suitable location for one of the world鈥檚 first interdisciplinary certificates in Arctic studies than the 麻豆视频.
  • Lienzo de Petlalcala
    Three 麻豆视频 professors have won prestigious fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. The three are among 69 fellows chosen from 1,100 applicants.
  • Scott Ortman
    Scott Ortman, assistant professor of archaeology, has been awarded the 2017 Linda S. Cordell Prize for his book, Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Archaeology.
  • Alchemy in the Rain Forest Cover
    Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining AreaBy Jerry Jacka, assistant professor of anthropologyDuke University Press In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous
  • A petroglyph of an eclipse is seen with a wide-angle lens in a photograph at Chaco Canyon, where CU-Boulder researchers captured a rare Aurora Borealis in the southern night sky. Photo courtesy of Fiske Planetarium.
    Having captured the summer solstice and a week鈥檚 worth of sunsets, sunrises and their lunar equivalents from the vantage point of ancient Chacoan people in southwestern Colorado, using parabolic video technology, a multi-disciplinary team from the 麻豆视频 counted its June 2015 trip a success.
  • the carcass of a dead animal lies next to the limestone quarry that borders the site of a 1970 trichloroethylene spill near Le Roy, Photographs by Donna Goldstein.
    In 2011, 12 high-school girls in upstate New York began to exhibit strange neurological symptoms: tics, verbal outbursts, seizure-like activity and difficulty speaking. The diagnosis was 鈥渃onversion disorder.鈥
  • What Rousseau didn鈥檛 know
    Economic inequality is a hot topic in a presidential election year. Economists, politicians and journalists are all weighing in 鈥 but what, exactly, can an archaeologist bring to the discussion? Sarah Kurnick, a Chancellor鈥檚 Postdoctoral Fellow at CU-Boulder, is glad you asked.
  • Who wants to see animals in art? Humans do, as a CU-Boulder art exhibition demonstrates. Unidentified artist, Greek, Ob: (Head of Athena r., later style, in helmet with olive leaves and scroll) | Re: 螒螛螘, 454 鈥 404 BCE, silver tetradrachm, 1 inch dia., Transfer from Classics Department to CU Art Museum, 麻豆视频, 2014.06.99, Photo: Katherine Keller, 漏 CU Art Museum, 麻豆视频
    n a partnership between the 麻豆视频 Art Museum and the CU Museum of Natural History, the exhibition Animals in Antiquity will explore the relationships between humans and animals through the ages. The exhibition is on view at the Museum of Natural History through September 2016.
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