Katya Zhao: Summer 2024

Katya Zhao Summer 2024 Anthropology in the Temple People in the U.S. and other Western countries aren’t shy when it comes to borrowing Buddhist practices, like meditation and mindfulness practice, to find some inner peace. But what health benefits do Theravada, or Thai, Buddhists themselves get from their relationships to temples and monks in the […]

Alex Pelissero: Summer 2024

Alex Pelissero Summer 2024 Winning Awards and Droning to Study Early Humans Can drones help anthropologists look back in time to understand early humans’ migrations and encounters? Doctoral candidate Alex Pelissero is using drone technology to map sites of early human interactions at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania — and earning research support for his novel, […]

Grace Ellis: Summer 2024

Grace Ellis Summer 2024 Identifying Pre-contact Ports and Construction in the Amazon Doctoral candidate Grace Ellis is the lead author on a new archaeological study, published Spring 2024, that has identified the first known occurrence of pre-European-contact, constructed wharves at the port site, Macurany, located along the Middle Amazon River in Brazil. The open-access article, […]

Robert Madden: Summer 2024

Robert Madden Summer 2024 How Past Cultures Rolled the Dice Master’s student Robert Madden studies and documents prehistoric, Indigenous North American games of chance, dice, and gambling. As part of that work, Madden visited archival repositories at the Smithsonian and the University of Wyoming during Summer 2024 to examine and photograph 12,000-year-old artifacts of gaming, […]

Aleah Kuhr: Summer 2024

Aleah Kuhr Summer 2024 Digging Into Porcupine Creek Nearly 45 years after Colorado State University faculty and students excavated at a Summit County archaeological site, Anthropology master’s student Aleah Kuhr and others are revisiting the area and findings. Kuhr and fellow students working with Professor Jason LaBelle and the CSU Center for Mountain and Plains […]

Archaeology at 11,000 Feet!

Archaeology at 11,000 Feet! CSU crew surveys the high country in Rocky Mountain National Park February 15, 2023 Josh Zaffos In Summer 2023, a crew of CSU Archaeology students and alumni, led by Professor Jason LaBelle, surveyed in Rocky Mountain National Park to record evidence of past peoples’ uses of areas within the park dating […]

Exploring Healthcare in Northern India

Exploring healthcare in northern India Kaitlyn Coons, CSU Anthropology major and winner of the 2023 Amanda Jones Field Study Award, shares her summer abroad learning experience February 9, 2024 By Kaitlyn Coons During Summer 2023, Anthropology undergraduate Kaitlyn Coons traveled to northern India to study with the Himalayan Health Exchange program to learn about and […]

Release the lichen! CSU Anthropology doctoral candidate Kelton Meyer shows the power of lichen for dating archaeological sites

Release the lichen! CSU Anthropology doctoral candidate Kelton Meyer shows the power of lichen for dating archaeological sites in new study August 7, 2023 Joshua Zaffos CSU Anthropology doctoral candidate Kelton Meyer is enlisting some tiny organisms in the grand challenge of dating hunting sites in the Southern Rocky Mountains. In a new, open-access article in the […]