The museum will be closed Monday, March 24 – Friday, March 28 to complete a maintenance project.
We will reopen with regular operating hours on Saturday, March 29.
Archaeozoology Laboratory
The newly-established Archaeozoology Laboratory at the CU Museum of Natural History provides a scientific facility for the identification and study of ancient faunal remains, in order to better understand the world we live in today. Our laboratory focuses on the study of animal domestication and the application of emerging technologies in archaeological science, including 3D scanning/visualization/printing, biomolecular archaeology, and collagen fingerprinting.
Check back on this page for updates about ANTH 4220/5220 (Archaeozoology), and our progress towards establishing a new facility for collagen-based taxonomic fingerprinting (ZooMS).
Lab News
- Archaeology and genomics together with Indigenous knowledge revise the human-horse story in the American West (The Conversation)
- Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Plains and northern Rockies (Science)
- How horses changed history - William T. Taylor (Youtube)
- Colorado Experience: Native Horses (PBS)
- Researchers use medical technology to offer 3D online images of world’s creatures (Denver 7 ABC)
- Melting Mongolian ice reveals fragile artifacts that provide clues about how past people lived (The Conversation)
- Even though the CU Museum of Natural History is closed, you can still see one of its most popular exhibits (9News)
- Frozen artifacts emerging from Mongolia's "eternal ice" (The Altai Prehistory Project) (YouTube)
- 3D scan sheds new light on Boulder’s own Triceratops (CU Boulder Today)
- Mongolian reindeer herders on list of climate change victims, CU Boulder researcher reports (Daily Camera)
- How Dan the Zebra Stopped an Ill-Fated Government Breeding Program in Its Tracks (Smithsonian.com)
- Vanishing ice puts Mongolia's reindeer herders at risk (CNN)
About Dr. Taylor
CU Museum of Natural History Room 208
303-492-6481
william.taylor@colorado.edu
Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Plains and northern Rockies
Emerging Technologies Student Blogs
Student Spotlight
Chance Ward, a graduate student in the University of Colorado Boulder’s Museum and Field Studies Program, has received an award from the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists (CCPA) to support his studies.
Anthropology Ph.D. student Sasha Buckser was announced as the winner of the Student Poster Competition at the Plains Anthropology Conference, held this year at the Embassy Suites in Boulder.