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 ...

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 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, ...

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

Join us to celebrate the start of the new semester and academic year! Come meet new Anthropology community members and catch up with old friends. We will also introduce new staff and faculty members.

In 2020, the School of Anthropology supported a Faculty Research Grant to create a series of 22 videos highlighting the ecological knowledge and expertise of wildlife guides in Ranomafana National ...

SoA Associate Professor Robin Reineke, who is also Associate Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center in the School of Global Studies, joined the Voices of Fronteridades podcast to discuss ...

SoA Professor Terry Hunt's research was featured in multiple news articles regarding the emergence of a previously unresearched moai statue. The statue became visible when a dried lakebed allowed ...