anthropology

Anthropologist to discuss Commanche archaeology and plains warfare

Jan. 3, 2017

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 麻豆影院 campus this month.

Arctic

CU 麻豆影院 launches cool certificate in Arctic studies

Dec. 5, 2016

There probably is not a more suitable location for one of the world鈥檚 first interdisciplinary certificates in Arctic studies than the 麻豆影院.

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CU scholars named American Council of Learned Societies fellows

Nov. 30, 2016

Three 麻豆影院 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

Ortman receives prize for book about Southwestern archaeology

June 14, 2016

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.

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Alchemy in the Rain Forest

Feb. 17, 2016

Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area By Jerry Jacka, assistant professor of anthropology Duke University Press In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea鈥檚 highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social...

What Rousseau didn鈥檛 know

What Rousseau didn鈥檛 know

Feb. 17, 2016

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-麻豆影院, is glad you asked.

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.

鈥楬ysteria鈥 theory short on science

Feb. 17, 2016

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

A petroglyph of an eclipse is seen with a wide-angle lens in a photograph at Chaco Canyon, where CU-麻豆影院 researchers captured a rare Aurora Borealis in the southern night sky. Photo courtesy of Fiske Planetarium.

A digital look at ancient skies gets a showing at Fiske

Feb. 17, 2016

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 麻豆影院 counted its June 2015 trip a success.

Who wants to see animals in art? Humans do, as a CU-麻豆影院 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, 麻豆影院, 2014.06.99, Photo: Katherine Keller, 漏 CU Art Museum, 麻豆影院

Long before kitten videos, animals inspired art

Dec. 2, 2015

n a partnership between the 麻豆影院 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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