by Dr. Jason LaBelle, Hallie Meeker, and Aaron Whittenburg Dr. LaBelle’s Center for Mountain and Plains Archaeology (CMPA) had an active summer, conducting archaeological research in a variety of ecosystems in central and northern Colorado. The crew was composed of Department of Anthropology students, Hallie Meeker, Aaron Whittenburg, and Kelton Meyer, alumna Michelle Dinkel, with Julia Kenyon […]
The 2015 Paleontology Field School was extremely successful. This year’s crew set a record for field accessioned fossil specimens (over 500), assisted with quarrying (a first for the field course), and helped to determine the boundaries and potential of one of the most important Colorado State University field localities. The Department of Anthropology’s Paleontology Field […]
During the summer 2015 field season, Dr. Mark Mitchell, Research Director of the Paleocultural Research Group, was asked to run the Department of Anthropology Archaeology Field School with the assistance of Chris Johnston and Julia Kenyon, two graduate students working with Dr. Jason LaBelle, Associate Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology. The field […]
Dr. Jeffrey Snodgrass, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, is the editor of a new series, Bioculturalism, for the collaborative blog, Somatosphere. “This series aims to get anthropologists and closely-related others talking seriously, and thinking practically, about how to synergize biological and social scientific approaches to human health and well-being, and to what positive ends.” The […]
The final report of the American Anthropological Association’s Global Climate Change Task Force concluded that human decisions, actions, and cultural behaviors are now the most important causes of the rapidly changing climate. “We’re not going to solve our environmental problems until we incorporate the social sciences, because it starts with people,” said Dr. Kathleen Galvin, […]
Luke Weaver, an anthropology major with a minor in geology, presented his capstone research project, “Lateral and temporal distribution of early Eocene primates in relation to relative paleosol maturity, Willwood Formation, Bighorn Bason, Wyoming,” at the Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists (WAVP) Conference Luke Weaver, an anthropology major with a minor in geology, presented his […]
Faculty and staff at Colorado State University showed positive support for contingent faculty members on February 25, 2015. Dr. Ann Magennis, a biological anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology, said that she supports her colleagues “because they are not getting the pay, recognition, or job security they deserve.” Dr. Magennis continued, “It is clear there […]
Kathleen Galvin held an international workshop January 28-31, 2015 on Dryland Collaborative Institutions and Innovative Transformations to Sustainability. A group of academics, scholars, managers and practitioners of dryland collaboratives from Mongolia, Kenya and the US met to ‘discover, dream, design and deliver’ research for a Knowledge Network to address natural resource problems in rangelands. Collaboratives/conservancies constitute […]
As part of her senior Honors thesis, Dr. Snodgrass’ Colorado State University Honors Program student, Madison Brandt, has created and self-published an ethnographic cookbook. For this book, Madison cooked with and interviewed the people and chefs of Fort Collins (both professional and non-professional) to document their food, recipes, lives, communities, and culture. The book really captures […]
Dr. Snodgrass has been researching the connection between video games and stress relief. As appearing in The Guardian | November 14, 2014 Don’t let me buy Warlords of Draenor, please by Alex Hern Every two years or so, I’m put to the test. Unbidden memories start to surface, of talent trees, epic mounts, and raiding. Hotkey […]
