Anthropology
- An artifact discovered in 1965 may have been a long-rumored fourth Maya codex. It may also have been a forgery. Archaeologist Gerardo Gutiérrez and his colleagues were on the case.
- She wants to improve the lives of children living in the world’s second largest refugee camp, which is in Uganda and shelters people fleeing violence and unrest in South Sudan.
- Four workshop participants win big National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- ‘Pseudo-archaeology’ is subject of anthropologist’s CU on the Weekend talk on March 16.
- It’s easy enough to marvel at a tapestry of color in your local museum, but «Ƶ students are getting a first-hand look at human history that only an ultra-close examination of color can provide.
- Ask Leo Borasio about his time as a student and he'll tell you it was pretty straightforward. Probe a bit deeper, and he'll mention his internship-turned-job at a startup, his recent trip to LA, or digging up ancient artifacts across the Southwest.
- A cohesive conservation plan protecting the Vietnamese environment—and primates—is now signed legislation, in part due to efforts of a «Ƶ anthropologist.
- Social behaviors and microbiome diversity might be interconnected, according to new research by a CU «Ƶ anthropologist.
- Both Mead’s conservative critics—some of whom went so far as to claim she “caused” the moral degradation of America—and liberal supporters—who tend to see Mead as a feminist icon—have misunderstood her views on these issues, finds Paul Shankman.
- Professors of anthropology and linguistics argue that as both candidate and president, the president has tapped into what they call “nostalgic racism”—nostalgia for the pre-civil-rights, industrial-welfare-state America of the 1950s.