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Rob Weiner's Co-Authored Research Article Featured in CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Today

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Graduate student Rob Weiner's co-authored Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports research article, "Were Timbers Transported to Chaco Using Tumplines? A Feasibility Study,"Ìýfeatured in CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Today.Ìý

In a new study, several researchers at CUÌýºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ reenacted a small part of a trek that people in what is today the SouthwestÌýUnited States may have made more than 1,000 years ago.

Rodger Kram, associate professor emeritus of integrative physiology, and James Wilson, then an undergraduate studying biochemistry, spent the summer of 2020 training for an impressive test of endurance: Together, they carried a ponderosa pine log weighing more than 130 pounds for 15 miles up and down a forest road in ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ County, Colorado—and they did it using only their heads in a technique inspired, in part, by sherpas in Nepal.

Read the article inÌý CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Today