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Nicholas Puente receives a Student Research Award from the CU Natural History Museum.  This funding will support Nicholas's community museum project at Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexico. The Museo Najil Tucha project will increase pride in

Professor Fernando Villanea awarded a Rio Seed Grant for his project, “Optimizing Computer Simulation for Use in Archaic Genomics.” 

Kelsey Hoppes receives a Student Research Award from the CU Natural History Museum. 

Over a dozen archaeologists from the CU Boulder Department of Anthropology presented their work in poster and paper presentations at the 88th Annual Society for American Archaeology conference in Portland Oregon this past week. Special

On Monday, April 3, Tibetan writer, poet, and activist, Tenzin Tsundue, visited Professor Carole McGranahan's "Anthropology of Tibet" class. He gave an inspiring talk to the students, incorporating his own personal experiences in exile with the

Jack Dalton awarded an NSF DDRIG grant for his project "Cognitive ecology of a nocturnal primate and its implications for primate cognitive evolution."  The DDRIG supports doctoral research including field, laboratory and computational research

Professor Will Taylor awarded a $50,000 Rio Seed Grant for his project, "“Understanding human-animal dynamics and early prehistory in the Inner Asian Altai."

Professor Art Joyce's SAA session co-organized with Roberto Rosado Ramirez (Northwestern University) featured in an in depth news article in Science. The session was entitled "The Vibrancy of Ruins: Ruination Studies in Ancient Mesoamerica."

Tina Ryder received the Spring 2023 GPTI Teaching Recognition Award in honor of her dedication and care in her courses through our department's Continuing Education curriculum. This competitive award recognizes the teaching-related work of

Professor Will Taylor's landmark study on the history of horses in the American West reatured in CU Boulder Today.    A team of international researchers has dug into archaeological records, DNA evidence and Indigenous oral traditions to