Gordon explores the recent Brazilian trend of purchasing electrical tape bikinis (constructed directly onto one’s body) to achieve “a marquinha perfeita” (perfect little tan lines). To further explore ...

A recent article in History reviews 8 of the world's oldest archaeological objects. SoA Professor Emeritus Dr. Steve Kuhn provided insights into these objects and the communities who created them.

In a new video, SoA Professor Emeritus Dr. Vance Holliday discusses the groundbreaking discovery of fossilized human footprints and White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Their dating rewrites the ...

For centuries, Rapanui oral traditions said the statues “walked” from the quarry—but Western scholars dismissed this as myth, assuming instead that log rollers were used. Research by Dr. Terry Hunt ...

Kathleen Barvick (current PhD candidate), Rebecca Harkness (current PhD candidate), Dr. Evan Giomi (PhD 2022), Scott Ortman, and Dr. Barbara Mills (UA) have published a new open access article in ...

In a new book, Mac Schweitzer: A Southwest Maverick and Her Art (UA Press, 2025), Ann Hedlund (retired faculty, SoA and ASM) draws from the artist's papers to tell of her creative, adventure-filled ...

Associate Professor Maribel Alvarez was interviewed for a recent article in Truthout. Read more here.

Associate Professor Eric Plemons will give a paper in the Trans/Medicine workshop in the Johns Hopkins University Department of the History of Medicine. The paper is titled “The Allegory of the ...

Professor Vance Holliday was profiled in the latest issue of Mammoth Trumpet, a quarterly science news magazine focused on the peopling of the Americas and published by the Center for the Study of the ...

The School of Anthropology and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research offered “Dendroarchaeology” field camp (Anth/Geos 497i/607j) during Presession 2022 for the 20 th time!! The course teaches the ...

The School of Anthropology is proud to present the latest SoA Wenner-Gren recipients, Ashleigh Thompson and Paula Ugalde. Hearty congratulations to both! Here’s a look at their projects. With the ...

For a recent episode of the “Heritage Voices” podcast, host Jessica Yaquinto interviews Dr. Edward A. Jolie (Oglala Lakota and Hodulgee Muscogee), the Clara Lee Tanner Associate Professor at School of ...