Piecing It Together Sebastian Schipman: BLM Collections Technician Intern By Joshua Zaffos Sebastian Schipman (ANTH: Archaeology BA ’23) completed an internship with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management during his final semester as an undergraduate. As an intern, Schipman worked to rehouse collections from a 1979 survey project in northwestern Colorado, which had not been […]
Cutting-edge drone-based lidar allowed archaeologists to capture stunning details of two newly documented trade cities high in the mountains of Uzbekistan.
Emily Wilson Named Honors Professor of the Year October 2024 By Josh Zaffos Emily Wilson, Ph.D., Anthropology Senior Instructor, has been named CSU Honors Professor of the Year for the 2024-25 academic year. As part of the recognition, Wilson will give the Honors Professor Lecture on Monday, November 4, 7-8 p.m., in the Lory Student […]
Welcoming New Department Chair Michael Pante A Look Towards the Future Michael Pante, Ph.D., is the new chair of the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Colorado State University, beginning Summer 2024. A faculty member since 2013, Pante is a paleoanthropologist and biological anthropologist who directs the department’s 3D Imaging and Analysis Lab and Zooarchaeology […]
End of an Era After more than a decade as department chair, Professor Mica Glantz leaves a legacy of growth and adaptation September 2024 Josh Zaffos The fields of anthropology and geography are, essentially, studies in adaptation and change. So, it’s no surprise that Professor Mica Glantz encountered and embraced plenty of departmental evolution and […]
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 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 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 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 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 […]
