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, […]
Preserving the Planet… One Point Cloud at a Time Dr. Chris Fisher’s keynote at Geo Week 2022 expressed the urgency of documenting and studying the planet as completely as possible – before it is irrevocably changed. APRIL 19, 2022 Carla Lauter This article was originally published at GeoWeek News. Reprinted with permission. At the 2022 […]
As appearing in SAPIENS | 12.11.19 Why the Earth Must Be Mapped There is an urgent need to digitally capture the planet’s surface, providing a record for future ecologists, archaeologists, and historians. The Earth Archive project plans to do just that. VIEWPOINT Chris Fisher Professor, Department of Anthropology and Geography, Colorado State University The climate […]
As 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 by CSU’s Dr. Chris Fisher uncovered […]
Dr. Chris Fisher and Dr. Kathleen Galvin on The Hadza: Last of the First panel discussion with Alyssa Crittenden and Bill Benenson about the last full-time hunter-gatherers in Africa. “The Hadza: Last of the First” intro and panel dicussion from October 7, 2014 from SoGES Colorado State University on Vimeo.
As Appearing in Heritage Daily | April 2014 THE SUBLIME SOUNDS OF A JINGLING RATTLE SILENCED FOR MORE THAN 500 YEARS HELPS TELL THE STORY OF AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION IN WESTERN MEXICO AND TIES TOGETHER MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS OF DISCOVERY BY A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS LED BY A COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHAEOLOGIST. The copper and bronze […]
Some of the most inhospitable land in the world is found in Nicaragua. Home of the most poisonous snakes on the planet, deadliest spiders and angry, stinging plants. It also happens to be home to an ancient city, known to many as la Ciudad Blanca, or the White City. There has been much speculation […]
