Researchers are finding chimpanzees have more in common with humans that was previously thought. Jacob Negrey (SoA Assistant Professor) discusses how chimpanzees transition to old age and how that ...

You’ve probably seen the image known as "the sleepy Mexican," a man wearing a Sombrero, sitting down with his knees in his chest, sleeping. It’s been used over the years to portray a negative ...

University of Utah Press in Reassessing the Aztatlán World: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Continuity in Northwest Mesoamerica (edited by Michael D. Mathiowetz John M. D. Pohl). Coauthored with Cristina ...

Diane Austin is an applied environmental anthropologist whose work focuses on community dynamics amid large-scale industrial activity and environmental change; alternative technologies and education ...

The School of Anthropology enjoys a long tradition of academic excellence, and today is ranked one of the top five programs in the United States.

Eve Carter is from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and has worked and traveled as an archaeologist from the top of Maine down the eastern seaboard right on through to Texas. They received a Bachelor’s ...

The School of Anthropology Residential Scholar Program is located at its National Register-eligible adobe home, adjacent to the University Indian Ruin (UIR). The UIR is a Classic period Hohokam ...

I am a biological/evolutionary anthropologist. I started teaching at the University of Arizona in 2012 and worked as the laboratory manager for LEEP (Laboratory for the Evolutionary Endocrinology of ...

Rowe, Matthew J., Finley, Judson B. 2021 Enhancing Cultural and Environmental Justice Outcomes Under NEPA and NHPA. In the Edited Volume: EJ in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures ...

Professor Terry Hunt focuses on human and environmental histories of the Pacific Islands, where he has conducted field research throughout the region for more than four decades. Dr. Hunt has conducted ...

My research examines health and disease in prehistoric populations through their skeletal remains. I am specifically interested in understanding prehistoric human adaptations in desert ecosystems and ...

My research interests focus on the study of the sociopolitical development of small sedentary societies and societies that were more hierarchically organized, as well as prehistoric economic systems.