Category: News
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Chris Fisher: City of the Jaguar
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Read More: Chris Fisher: City of the JaguarAs appearing on Chautauqua | Fall 2016 Date: Thursday, February 16, 2017 Time: 7:00 PM Location: Chautauqua Community House Over the past year, the excavation of an ancient city in Honduras has yielded a trove of remarkable stone artifacts from a mysterious, unnamed Pre-Columbian civilization. A joint American-Honduran team of archaeologists led…
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An interview with Chris Johnston, History Colorado’s new Assistant State Archaeologist
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Read More: An interview with Chris Johnston, History Colorado’s new Assistant State ArchaeologistChris Johnston, Department of Anthropology alumnus, recently accepted the position of Assistant State Archaeologist with History Colorado. Receiving his M.A. in archaeology in the Spring of this year, Chris completed his thesis research, “Running of the Buffalo: Investigations of the Roberts Ranch Buffalo Jump (5LR100), Northern Colorado,” with Dr. Jason LaBelle…
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CSU anthropology professor named lead author on intergovernmental science-policy project
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Read More: CSU anthropology professor named lead author on intergovernmental science-policy projectAs appearing in SOURCE | September 15, 2016 CSU professor of anthropology Kathleen Galvin has been named as a lead author to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ (IPBES) Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Galvin, director of The Africa Center in CSU’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability,…
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Dr. Browne awarded NSF grant for workshop in October
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Read More: Dr. Browne awarded NSF grant for workshop in OctoberNational Science Foundation has awarded Dr. Kate Browne, Principal Investigator and Dr. Caela O’Connell, Co-Principal Investigator, funding to host a workshop at Colorado State University in mid-October 2016. The workshop will convene 12 anthropologists and practitioners for 2.5 days to collaborate about the need to integrate cultural insights into the…
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To find a Palaeosinopa, stare at the ground in the Badlands
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Read More: To find a Palaeosinopa, stare at the ground in the Badlandsby Rachel Bockrath On the morning of June 26, 2016, we set out for the field, another day of collecting. The tops of the hills look like freshly made brownies, in colors of red, orange, grey, and even deep purple. It looks like the set of a movie taking place on another planet.…
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Conservation and Anthropology Meet in Utila, Honduras
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Read More: Conservation and Anthropology Meet in Utila, Hondurasby Suzanne Kent Faculty member Suzanne Kent, Ph.D. and M.A. candidate Cheri Smarr-Foster assisted with an ethnographic research project on the small island of Utila, Honduras in July of 2016. They worked in collaboration with a team, including the research lead, Keri Brondo, Ph.D. of the University of Memphis. Luis…
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A New Field Season Record: Students Find Over 640 Fossils
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Read More: A New Field Season Record: Students Find Over 640 Fossilsby Kimberly Nichols Working in fossil beds dating to 56-53 mya in the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming, the 2016 Colorado State University (CSU) Paleontology Field School crew, with the addition of visitors from the CSU Department of Anthropology, Dr. Joe Sertich of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and…
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Amanda Jones Scholarship Makes International Field Experience a Reality
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Read More: Amanda Jones Scholarship Makes International Field Experience a RealityAs appearing in the CLA Magazine | 04.27.16 by Katie Horton Kellyn Davis is a senior Anthropology and Biomedical Sciences double major as well as Anthropology Club’s financial officer and volunteer coordinator for the Honors Student Association. Last summer, Kellyn traveled to Kenya to attend a six-week paleontology field…
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Dr. Browne received the 2016 Ann Gill Excellence in Teaching Award
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Read More: Dr. Browne received the 2016 Ann Gill Excellence in Teaching AwardAs appearing in SOURCE | May 10, 2016 College of Liberal Arts faculty honored at 2016 awards ceremony by Rachael Johnson Ann Gill, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, announced the recipients of the College’s 2015-16 awards at the Spring Faculty and Staff Meeting and Awards Celebration on…