Anthropology News

Dr. Otañez (anthropology) and Dr. Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México published a co-edited collection of four books Breaking Stigmas: Art and Cannabis in North America. The books cover activism, public/private spaces, storytelling, film, television, imagery, and music. CISAN is...

Empowering Voices: Leveraging Storytelling to Support First-Gen Lynxes This PD workshop is meant for faculty and staff to better support first-generation students at CU Denver using storytelling as a vehicle to promote student success. Friday, November 8, 2024 10-11:30am Mountain Time In person: Room 3301 CU Denver Building ( 1250...

Boulder Weekly highlights Associate Professor Marty Otañez's fascinating study on how the legalization of psychedelics for therapeutic use in Colorado affects BIPOC and low-income populations, as most individuals in clinical trials as well as those profiting from the psychedelic medical industry are white.

MA student, Nikketa Burges, repurposed her final paper for an ethnographic theory class into a powerful piece published in Deceleration.

Dr. Jamie Hodgkins and co-investigator Dr. Caley Orr talk about the discovery of a 10,000-year-old female infant burial in Italy.

Professor of Anthropolgy Charles Musiba's Laetoli Research was featured in Science Magazine this month. You can read the full article here . Science , Apr. 4

While researching his new book, So Much Stuff , Chip Colwell, Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, studied the purpose of gift giving in human history. "Why would people simply hand over something precious or valuable when they could use it themselves?" he asks. See his full article in The Conversation...

Jamie Hodgkins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has been interviewed by another archaeologist about her review of the Homo Naledi research for a YouTube channel (39,476 views). An international podcast called Science VS. (#1 science podcast on Spotify) also interviewed her for its most recent episode .

A detailed review of evidence, slated to be published in the Journal Evolutionary Anthropology , challenges the obstetrical dilemma - the theory of trade‐off between selection for a larger birth canal (permitting successful passage of a big‐brained human neonate) and the smaller pelvic dimensions required for bipedal locomotion. In the...

Jamie Hodgkins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, is one of four scientists who voiced concerns about the research behind the recent, popular Netflix documentary Cave of Bones . In the documentary high-profile researchers say small-brained Homo naledi exhibited advanced behaviors such as burials. But the peer-reviewers of the paper making those...