News & Events

Professor Fernando Villanea gave an online HOT (Human Origins Today) Topic - talk, "Archaic Introgression in Modern Humans: What It Can Tell Us About Archaic Humans and About Ourselves," for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Every person alive today inherited some portion of their genomes from Neanderthals, Denisovans, and...

Professor Jerry Jacka's chapter, “"Don't Look Down": Green Technologies, Climate Change, and Mining,” published in Anthropology and Climate Change from Transformations to Worldmaking, Routledge. Description: In this third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change , Susan Crate and Mark Nuttall offer a collection of chapters that examine how anthropologists work...

Paige Edmiston (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) receives the Carol B. Lynch Memorial Fellowship for fall 2025. The Carol B. Lynch Memorial Fellowship Fund was established to honor Dr. Lynch for her tireless dedication to graduate education and research at the national level and at the University of Colorado at Boulder...

Professor Steve Leigh was awarded the Gabriel W. Lasker service award for his service as AABA president during COVID. Dr. Leigh's nomination emphasized "his unwavering generosity, and the incredible level of graciousness he brought to his leadership roles." He was serving as VP and Program Chair when the COVID pandemic...

Jack Dalton (Biological Anthropology, PhD Candidate) recently teamed up with a German film crew for a special wildlife project in South Africa. Joining forces with them, he embarked on a journey to uncover the mysteries of bush babies for the German children's show, Anna Und Die Wilden Tiere. Watch the...

Nicholas Puente (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) has been awarded the CARTTS ( Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences ) Graduate Student Award. This honor will fund his fieldwork as part of the Punta Laguna Caves Project.

Georgia Butcher (Cultural Anthropology, PhD Candidate) has made it to the finals of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition! Georgia will showcase her groundbreaking thesis research, "Drone Pilots and the Side Effects of Remote War," in just three minutes!

Professor Fernando Villanea's co-authored article published in GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution). This article is a collaboration between his lab and Dr. Katrina Claw, who is an anthropologist at the School of Medical Sciences at CU Anschutz. Abstract Modern humans carry both Neanderthal and Denisovan (archaic) genome elements that are...

Professor Will Taylor and a team of Mongolian researchers have uncovered one of the earliest known frame saddles, shedding light on ancient equestrian practices in the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia. He and his colleagues, including scientists from 10 countries, published their findings Dec. 12 in the journal Antiquity. Learn...

CU Boulder representation in AAA leadership continues with two new elected officers. Professor Sarah Jackson, archaeologist and Dean of the Social Sciences is the newly elected Archaeologist on the AAA Executive Board. Professor Carole McGranahan, cultural anthropologist and Chair of the Department is President-Elect of the American Ethnological Society. Our...