Category: Research & Creative Scholarship
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Anthropology and Geography CLA Community Graduate Programs Graduate Student Research News Research & Creative ScholarshipRelease the lichen! CSU Anthropology doctoral candidate Kelton Meyer shows the power of lichen for dating archaeological sites
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Read More: Release the lichen! CSU Anthropology doctoral candidate Kelton Meyer shows the power of lichen for dating archaeological sitesRelease 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…
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Beyond digging in the dirt: CSU researcher uses geophysical, digital exploration to investigate North America’s first city
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Read More: Beyond digging in the dirt: CSU researcher uses geophysical, digital exploration to investigate North America’s first cityGeoarchaeologist Ed Henry and colleagues received a $312K NSF grant to investigate the mounds at Cahokia, the largest and most influential urban settlement of the Mississippian culture in 1050 C.E., using magnetometry instruments that are non-invasive and non-destructive.
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The Audit: CSU’s Prison Agriculture Lab researches the roots, impact of the prison agriculture industry
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Read More: The Audit: CSU’s Prison Agriculture Lab researches the roots, impact of the prison agriculture industryThere are more than 600 prison agricultural programs currently in the United States, but very little data looking at the how, what, and maybe most importantly, why of these programs. Colorado State University’s Prison Agriculture Lab is looking to change that. Co-directors Joshua Sbicca and Carrie Chennault talk about the…
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CSU Anthropologists Host Paleoecology Summit
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Read More: CSU Anthropologists Host Paleoecology SummitCSU Anthropologists Host Paleoecology Summit June 24, 2022 Joshua Zaffos Researchers who study the evolution and adaptations of Homo sapiens and other hominin species across hundreds of thousands to millions of years face a constant challenge: reconstructing long-long-long-ago paleoenvironments. Not surprisingly, ancient fossil records are incomplete and imperfect, and while some…
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Bunn and team win NASA grant to forecast conservation futures in South Africa
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Read More: Bunn and team win NASA grant to forecast conservation futures in South AfricaColorado State University Geography Professor David Bunn and his research group have won a $750,000 award from NASA to develop an “ecological forecasting” system for South Africa’s Kruger National Park and the surrounding region.