Gordon explores the recent Brazilian trend of purchasing electrical tape bikinis (constructed directly onto one’s body) to achieve “a marquinha perfeita” (perfect little tan lines). To further explore ...

For centuries, Rapanui oral traditions said the statues “walked” from the quarry—but Western scholars dismissed this as myth, assuming instead that log rollers were used. Research by Dr. Terry Hunt ...

Dr. Kelsey Hanson (PhD 2024, now at University of Texas at Arlington), Kathleen Barvick (current PhD candidate), Rebecca Harkness (current PhD candidate), Dr. Evan Giomi (PhD 2022), Scott Ortman, and ...

In a new video, SoA Professor Emeritus Dr. Vance Holliday discusses the groundbreaking discovery of fossilized human footprints and White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Their dating rewrites the ...

A recent article in History reviews 8 of the world's oldest archaeological objects. SoA Professor Emeritus Dr. Steve Kuhn provided insights into these objects and the communities who created them.

In a new book, Mac Schweitzer: A Southwest Maverick and Her Art (UA Press, 2025), Ann Hedlund (retired faculty, SoA and ASM) draws from the artist's papers to tell of her creative, adventure-filled ...

Spring 2021 Ph.D. Daniel Horschler has been awarded a Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the amount of $138,000 from the National Science Foundation for his ...

Professor Vance Holliday was profiled in the latest issue of Mammoth Trumpet, a quarterly science news magazine focused on the peopling of the Americas and published by the Center for the Study of the ...