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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Professor Emeritus Mark Nichter has recently published several new articles, including "Confronting the material and structural leakiness of plastics: insights from multi-sited ethnography in India, ...

From the team that brought you the oldest and largest Maya monument, Aguada Fénix in Tabasco, Mexico, now we have…“ nearly 500 ancient ceremonial sites in Southern Mexico,” to quote the headline from ...

Lewis Borck (Ph.D. 2016) is excited, and surprised, to announce that in mid-August he will be starting in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Norman as the Horizon ...

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 ...