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Anthropology is the systematic study of the humanity both past and present. The course introduces students to the four subfields of anthropology, which include archaeology, biological, linguistic and cultural anthropology. Students will learn about the concepts and methods that anthropologists use to study our species and gain a broader perspective on the human experience.

Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 4: Social and Behavioral Sciences.

This course provides a basic introduction to the broad field of biological anthropology. The research interests of biological anthropologists include the history and development of modern evolutionary biology, molecular and population genetics, modern primates, the primate and human fossil record, and modern human biological diversity.

Biological Anthropology concentration students are required, and others are encouraged, to enroll concurrently in 1135L.

Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 3: Physical and Natural Sciences.

This laboratory course expand on the topics covered in lecture course and uses scientific methods and principles to examine evidence for the process of evolution, the nature of heredity, human evolutionary history and family tree relationships, primate ecology and behavior, and modern human diversity. Hands-on experience with fossil and skeletal material will be an important part of the learning process.

Recommended, but not required, that this be taken concurrently with 1135. Two hours lab.

Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 3: Physical and Natural Sciences.

This is an introductory course that provides an overview of cultural anthropology as a subfield within the broader discipline of anthropology and as a research approach within the social sciences more generally. The course presents core concepts and methods of cultural anthropology that are used to understand the ways in which human beings organize and experience their lives through distinctive cultural practices. More specifically, this course explores social and cultural differences and similarities around the world through a variety of topics such as: language and communication, economics, ways of making a living, marriage and family, kinship and descent, race, ethnicity, political organization, supernatural beliefs, sex and gender, and globalization. This course ultimately aims to present a broad range of perspectives and practices of various cultural groups from across the globe.

Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 4: Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Dinwoodie, Gorbet.

This is an introductory course which provides an overview of the discipline of Linguistic Anthropology. The course will discuss the implications of language within anthropology, as well as within the sciences and social sciences more generally. The course explores the core concepts and methods of linguistic anthropology, such as the basic structure of language, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, and social and regional variations that are used to help students understand what it means to be human and the role of language in human societies.

Biology and behavior of the human life course, including the evolution of the life history patterns specific to humans and the impact of population growth and of adaptation to local conditions in promoting human diversity.

Students are encouraged, but not required, to enroll concurrently in 1170L.

Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 3: Physical and Natural Sciences.

Introduces the computer as a tool in biological and social science research, provides first-hand experience in data collection, analysis and modeling behavior. No prior computer experience required.

Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 3: Physical and Natural Sciences.

Pre- or corequisite: 1170.

This class explores different ways of studying and interpreting the past through a survey of archaeology’s historical, theoretical, and methodological development. If you are interested in archaeology as a career (or even just trying out an archaeological field school), this course is critical: it will provide you with the basic tools for conducting archaeological research and with an understanding of the background of the discipline. For this reason, this course is required for Anthropology majors with an Archaeology concentration. Even if you know you don’t want to be an archaeologist, though, this class may interest you. Have you ever wondered how archaeologists know what they know about the? Are you skeptical about some archaeological claims? Have you ever read a statement about the past and thought, “is this really true?” This class will provide you with the skills, both conceptual and practical, to answer those questions.

Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 3: Physical and Natural Sciences.

Corequisite: 1211L.

Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 3: Physical and Natural Sciences.

Corequisite: 1211.

Archaeology is the systematic study of the human past through material remains. This course introduces students to the physical remains of past societies and compares and contrasts archaeological development in different regions. Students will explore the dynamics of the human past and its influences on contemporary society.

Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 4: Social and Behavioral Sciences.

This course is designed to introduce students to the forensic investigation of death. Emphasis will be on current methods and techniques and include the role of the anthropologist as an integral member of the investigation process.

Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 3: Physical and Natural Sciences.

This course familiarizes students with current, active research in Anthropology by the University of New Mexico faculty and visiting scholars. It also teaches students to critically assess and discuss research questions.

(A, EV, E)

(Also offered as CJ 319; LING 359)

Examination of the interrelations of language and speech with other selected aspects of culture and cognition. (E)

Prerequisite: 1155 or LING 2110 or LING 301.

(Also offered as LING 322 / 522)

Principles of morphological and syntactic analysis and introduction to functional and formal theories of grammar. Descriptive analysis of grammatical structures and problems from a variety of languages. (E)

Prerequisite: LING 301 or SIGN *305 or SPAN 351.

{Spring}

The purpose and theory of the study of archaeology; relates archaeology to anthropological principles and the practice of science. (A)

Prerequisite: 1211 and 1211L.

{Yearly}

An intensive survey of Southwest prehistory including discussion of major interpretative problems. Covers the period from 11,000 years ago to historic times. (A)

Archaeology of South America from the Paleo-Indian to the European colonial period. Emphasizes the origins and evolution of Andean civilization and associated interpretive problems. (A)

{Alternate years}

The prehistory of Europe with emphasis on hunter-gatherer adaptations of the Pleistocene and early Holocene, using primary data sources. (A)

Prerequisite: 1115 or (1211 and 1211L) or 2175.

{Alternate years}

The prehistory of Africa from the appearance of the first hominids to the development of complex societies. (A)

Prerequisite: 1115 or (1211 and 1211L) or 2175.

{Alternate years}

A survey of the Near Eastern culture area from the origins of agriculture to the development of Bronze Age civilization. (A)

{Offered periodically}

Development of ideas and theories in sociocultural anthropology; focus on topics such as integration of human societies, sources of change in economic and cultural systems. (E)

Culture and history of indigenous peoples of South America. Selected examples from lowland and highland regions. (E)

{Offered periodically}

Ethnographic studies and a variety of anthropological approaches to ritual are read to examine the defining characteristics of ritual activity and its contemporary significance in peoples' lives. (E)

{Offered periodically}

Current topics in sociocultural anthropology to be explored in experimental courses. (E)

Human heredity, variation and adaptation within and between different ecological and cultural settings; genetics; quantitative variation; elements of human population biology and human ecology. (EV)

Prerequisite: 1135 or BIOL 1110 or BIOL 1140 or BIOL 2110C or BIOL 2410C.

{Spring}

A laboratory course in the identification of human skeletal materials with attention to problems in the evolution of primates. Three lectures, 2 hours lab. (EV)

{Fall}

The events and processes involved in the emergence and evolution of the human lineage–from the origins of Australopithecus, through the emergence of the genus Homo, to the evolution of early modern humans–based on the human fossil record. (EV)

Prerequisite: 1135 or 2175.

{Alternate years}

Introduces students to the fundamental principles of evolutionary theory and their application to human behavior. It surveys current research on human sexuality, mate choice, reproduction and parenting from the perspective of human evolutionary ecology. (EV)

Prerequisite: 1170 or 1135 or BIOL 1110.

Explores recent research in both captivity and the wild on cognition and behavior of great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, orangutans), the closest living relatives of humans. (EV)

Restriction: upper-division standing.

{Alternate years}

Special emphasis will be on strategies of survival, reproduction, mating and rearing, in the complex social systems of apes and monkeys. The costs and benefits of alternative strategies are used to understand individual life histories. (EV)

Restriction: upper-division standing.

{Alternate years}

Archaeological survey of the cultures of ancient Mexico from earliest inhabitants to the period of the Spanish Conquest. This course explores environmental, social, and political aspects of the rise and fall of societies across Mexico. (E)

Technical course with variable content dealing with such issues as dating, paleoenvironmental and subsistence studies in archaeology. (A)

{Offered periodically}

Intensive instruction in archaeological field and laboratory techniques and the opportunity for independent student research. (A)

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Surveys the development of the Maya civilizations in Mesoamerica from the origins of agriculture through the Spanish Conquest. The course will explore archaeological, ethno-historical, linguistic, and environmental data and accounts. (A)

Prerequisite: 1115 or (1211 and 1211L) or 2175 or 320.

Introduction to cultural and linguistic diversity of indigenous groups in Mexico, designed to prepare students for study in Oaxaca. Concentration on indigenous peoples of Southern Mexico and Mesoamerica, including Zapotec, Mixtec, Mixe, and Maya groups.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

This class explores ethical issues and debates surrounding heritage-making practices and discourses through lens of ethnological, archaeological, and evolutionary anthropology. It problematizes the boundaries between different constructions of the past and present.

Intensive instruction in ethnographic field and analysis techniques and the opportunity for independent student research.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Presents and interprets the earliest archeology of North America from the terminal Pleistocene through the early Holocene including relevant archeological evidence from eastern Eurasia and South America.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Directed study under the supervision of a faculty member. (A, E, EV)

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as ARTH 402 / 502)

Archaeological and historic art forms of the Arctic Northwest coast and the eastern woodlands of North America. (E)

{Fall}

(Also offered as ARTH 406 / 506)

Archaeological and historic art forms of the Plains, Southwest and western regions of North America. (E)

{Spring}

Topics from various areas of anthropological linguistics including, but not limited to, ethnosemantics, the ethnography of communication and the biology of language. (E)

Topics of archaeological interest including gender in archaeology, European contact and post-processualism. (A)

(Also offered as MUS 445 / 545)

Investigation of country music from an anthropological and ethnomusicological perspective, utilizing recordings and live performances to put scholarship on country music into conversation with social theory and literature on social class, gender, space/place, racial identities.

{Spring}

(Also offered as MUS 448 / 548)

The cultural study of music and sound. Course materials are drawn from written and audio music ethnographies of contemporary indigenous, diasporic, refugee, exile, and industrial communities. (E)

(EV)

The analysis of the skeletal remains from past human populations, oriented at the mortality, morbidity and genetic affinities of those extinct populations. (EV)

Prerequisite: *351L.

{Alternate years}

This seminar reviews issues in primate taxonomy, functional and behavioral reconstructions, phylogenetic relationships, and macroevolutionary patterns. The intent of this course is to put primates into a broader evolutionary perspective.

This course explores reconstruction of paleoecosystems, climates, and ecologies. Students receive laboratory training in techniques including dental microwear and stable isotope analyses. We also examine paleoecological studies through readings of recent literature.

Ancient disease through the study of normal and abnormal bone remodeling processes and dental conditions. Population health evaluated by descriptive and radiologic analyses of human remains. (EV)

Prerequisite: *351L.

{Alternate years}

Events and processes leading from the appearance of the human lineage to the beginnings of agriculture, with discussions of Australopithecus and the genus Homo, through Homo sapiens. (EV)

Prerequisite: 357.

{Alternate years}

A laboratory class that explores the application of data from human and non-human dentition to anthropological questions. Topics covered include dental anatomy, development, evolution, variation, and pathology.

Prerequisite: 1135.

This course is to further develop the skills of graduate and senior undergraduate students in human osteology and to introduce advanced methods of skeletal analysis. Both lecture and laboratory components. (EV)

Prerequisite: *351L.

Behavioral transitions throughout human evolution, including social systems, diet, life history, intelligence and locomotion. Focus on hominid origins, the transition from ape-like to human-like hominid, and the origin of our own species.

Prerequisite: 357.

(Also offered as MUS 468/568, THEA 468/568)

Examination of contemporary Diné (Navajo) politics and art (music, Navajo language, photography, dance, radio, filmmaking, comedy, weaving, poetry). Weekly guest speakers, readings from ethnomusicology, anthropology, critical indigenous studies. Includes overnight field trip to Navajo Nation.

{Fall}

Emphasizes the methods and techniques employed to construct and analyze archaeological materials. Style, function and technology of flaked and ground stone and ceramics are considered. Coursework includes readings, discussions and laboratory exercises. Exercises focus on the construction, analysis and interpretation of data. (A)

Prerequisite: 320.

{Alternate years}

(Also offered as EPS 482L)

Application of geological concepts to archaeological site formation with emphasis on pre-ceramic prehistory of the southwestern United States. Quaternary dating methods, paleoenvironment, landscape evolution, depositional environments. Quaternary stratigraphy, soil genesis, sourcing of lithic materials, site formation processes. Required field trip. (A)

Prerequisite: 1211 and 1211L and 2175 and GEOL 1110 and GEOL 1110L.

Restriction: junior standing.

{Alternate years}

Basic concepts, methods and approaches in the analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. Lectures cover history, theory and current applications of zooarchaeology. Labs provide practical experience in zooarchaeological identification and analysis.

(Also offered as ARTH, MSST 485 / 585)

Theoretical and practical work in specific museum problems. May be repeated as subject matter changes. (E)

Prerequisite: ARTH 407 or MSST 407.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as ARTH, MSST 486 / 586)

Practicum in museum methods and management. (E)

Prerequisite: ARTH 407 or MSST 407.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as BIOL 491 / 591)

This course investigates how genetic variation is patterned within and between and how these patterns change over time. Topics include neutral theory, population structure, phylogenetics, coalescent theory, molecular clock, and laboratory methods. (EV)

Directed study of topics not covered in regular courses. (A, E, EV)

Readings and discussions concerning anthropological research methods, sources, goals and professional ethics. Open to upper-division majors and concentrators whose applications for the honors program have been approved. (A, E, EV)

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Fall}

Field research for qualified advanced undergraduate or graduate students with previous experience in archaeology, biological anthropology, human evolutionary ecology, linguistics or general ethnology. Problems are selected on the basis of student-faculty interest and field research opportunities. (A, E, EV)

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as ARTH 502 / 402)

Archaeological and historic art forms of the Arctic Northwest coast and the eastern woodlands of North America. (E)

{Fall}

(Also offered as EPS 502)

Students will be exposed to cutting edge isotope-focused interdisciplinary research in a lecturer, discussion and constructive feedback setting.

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

(Also offered as ARTH 506 / 406)

Archaeological and historic art forms of the Plains, Southwest and western regions of North America. (E)

{Spring}

(Also offered as ARTH 559)

(E)

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Offered upon demand}

Topics from various areas of anthropological linguistics including, but not limited to, ethnosemantics, the ethnography of communication and the biology of language. (E)

(Also offered as LING 554)

Current topics and issues in phonology, syntax or semantics. (E)

An intensive survey of Southwest prehistory including discussion of major interpretative problems. Covers the period from 11,000 years ago to historic times. (A)

{Fall}

Examines how flaked stone artifacts can be studied and contribute to archaeological research. Includes such topics as raw material procurement; manufacturing technology; tool morphology, function, and style; debitage; and theoretical frameworks.

Restriction: admitted to Anthropology graduate program.

Application of quantitative methods to archaeological questions and data. Lectures cover statistical tests common in archaeological analysis and their proper use. Labs provide hands-on experience in quantitative data analysis.

Archaeology of South America from the Paleo-Indian to the European colonial period. Emphasizes the origins and evolution of Andean civilization and associated interpretive problems. (A)

{Alternate years}

The prehistory of Europe with emphasis on hunter-gatherer adaptations of the Pleistocene and early Holocene, using primary data sources. (A)

Prerequisite: 1115 or (1211 and 1211L) or 2175.

{Alternate years}

Straus.

The prehistory of Africa from the appearance of the first hominids to the development of complex societies. (A)

Prerequisite: 1115 or (1211 and 1211L) or 2175.

{Alternate years}

A survey of the Near Eastern culture area from the origins of agriculture to the development of Bronze Age civilization. (A)

{Offered periodically}

Comparative approach to origin and development of stratified societies and pristine states as known from the archaeological record. (A)

Current topics in ethnology to be explored in experimental seminars. (E)

Culture and history of indigenous peoples of South America. Selected examples from lowland and highland regions. (E)

{Offered periodically}

Ethnographic studies and a variety of anthropological approaches to ritual are read to examine the defining characteristics of ritual activity and its contemporary significance in peoples' lives. (E)

{Offered annually}

Examination of data and theories relevant to study of Indian, Hispanic and dominant society cultures in southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico. Student research generated from students professional interests. Non-majors admitted. (E)

Current topics in sociocultural anthropology to be explored in experimental courses. (E)

A practicum in ethnographic methods and theory. (E)

(Also offered as MUS 545 / 445)

Investigation of country music from an anthropological and ethnomusicological perspective, utilizing recordings and live performances to put scholarship on country music into conversation with social theory and literature on social class, gender, space/place, racial identities.

{Spring}

Early history of anthropology from 19th-century cultural evolutionists to anthropology of the mid-20th century. Contributions of Historical School, Structural Functionalists and Neo-Evolutionists. (E)

{Fall}

Early history of anthropology from 19th-century cultural evolutionists to anthropology of the mid-20th century. Contributions of Historical School, Structural Functionalists and Neo-Evolutionists. (E)

{Fall}

(Also offered as MUS 448 / 548)

The cultural study of music and sound. Course materials are drawn from written and audio music ethnographies of contemporary indigenous, diasporic, refugee, exile, and industrial communities. (E)

Restriction: permission of instructor.

(EV)

This seminar reviews issues in primate taxonomy, functional and behavioral reconstructions, phylogenetic relationships, and macroevolutionary patterns. The intent of this course is to put primates into a broader evolutionary perspective.

This course explores reconstruction of paleoecosystems, climates, and ecologies. Students receive laboratory training in techniques including dental microwear and stable isotope analyses. We also examine paleoecological studies through readings of recent literature.

Ancient disease through the study of normal and abnormal bone remodeling processes and dental conditions. Population health evaluated by descriptive and radiologic analyses of human remains. (EV)

Prerequisite: *351L.

{Alternate years}

This course examines theory, data and methods used by genetic anthropologists to address questions about human origins and prehistory, race, natural selection, disease, and the social and scientific implications of research in genetic anthropology. (EV)

Prerequisite: 1135 or BIOL 1110 or BIOL 1140 or BIOL 2110C or BIOL 2410C.

{Alternate years}

Events and processes leading from the appearance of the human lineage to the beginnings of agriculture, with discussions of Australopithecus and the genus Homo, through Homo sapiens. (EV)

Prerequisite: 357.

{Alternate years}

A laboratory class that explores the application of data from human and non-human dentition to anthropological questions. Topics covered include dental anatomy, development, evolution, variation, and pathology.

Prerequisite: 1135.

In-depth treatment of human life history evolution. Covers basic population demography; mortality, senescence, menopause, mating, reproduction, parental investment with additional focus on brain evolution. Experiences in evaluation and building mathematical models of fitness trade-offs. (EV)

Prerequisite: (360 or BIOL 300) and MATH 1220.

Behavioral transitions throughout human evolution, including social systems, diet, life history, intelligence and locomotion. Focus on hominid origins, the transition from ape-like to human-like hominid, and the origin of our own species.

Prerequisite: 357.

This course offers an advanced survey of human behavioral ecology and life history theory and their relationship to evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. It describes humans¿ unique behavior and reproduction in evolutionary perspective.

Prerequisite: 1170 or 360 or BIOL 300 or BIOL *455.

(Also offered as MUS 568/468, THEA 568/468)

Examination of contemporary Diné (Navajo) politics and art (music, Navajo language, photography, dance, radio, filmmaking, comedy, weaving, poetry). Weekly guest speakers, readings from ethnomusicology, anthropology, critical indigenous studies. Includes overnight field trip to Navajo Nation.

{Fall}

(A)

Advanced seminar on science-based methods of analysis applied to archaeological materials covering analytical units, chronometric and relative dating, taphonomy, zooarchaeology, geochemistry, paleoclimate, paleoecology, paleodiet and other molecular methods.

(A)

Emphasizes the methods and techniques employed to construct and analyze archaeological materials. Style, function and technology of flaked and ground stone and ceramics are considered. Coursework includes readings, discussions and laboratory exercises. Exercises focus on the construction, analysis and interpretation of data. (A)

Prerequisite: 320.

{Alternate years}

Advanced discussion of concepts and theories within world archaeology. The course emphasizes the structure of archaeological thought in culture history, new archaeology, evolutionary theory and post-modernism. (A)

Restriction: admitted to Anthropology graduate program.

{Fall}

Intensive instruction in archaeological field and laboratory techniques and the opportunity for independent student research. (A)

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Explores critical issues and debates in different periods of European prehistory, based on primary sources. (A)

Introduction to cultural and linguistic diversity of indigenous groups in Mexico, designed to prepare students for study in Oaxaca. Concentration on indigenous peoples of Southern Mexico and Mesoamerica, including Zapotec, Mixtec, Mixe, and Maya groups.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Advanced discussion of current theoretical debates in archaeology, including Processual and Post-processual paradigms, formation processes; middle-range, optimal foraging, evolutionary, hunter-gatherer mobility theories; cultural ecology; and origins of agriculture and complex society. (A)

This class explores ethical issues and debates surrounding heritage-making practices and discourses through lens of ethnological, archaeological, and evolutionary anthropology. It problematizes the boundaries between different constructions of the past and present.

(Also offered as EPS 482L)

Application of geological concepts to archaeological site formation with emphasis on pre-ceramic prehistory of the southwestern United States. Quaternary dating methods, paleoenvironment, landscape evolution, depositional environments. Quaternary stratigraphy, soil genesis, sourcing of lithic materials, site formation processes. Required field trip. (A)

{Alternate years}

Intensive instruction in ethnographic field and analysis techniques and the opportunity for independent student research.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

Basic concepts, methods and approaches in the analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. Lectures cover history, theory and current applications of zooarchaeology. Labs provide practical experience in zooarchaeological identification and analysis.

(Also offered as ARTH, MSST 585 / 485)

Theoretical and practical work in specific museum problems. May be repeated as subject matter changes. (E)

Prerequisite: ARTH 507 or MSST 507.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as ARTH, MSST 586 / 486)

Practicum in museum methods and management. (E)

Prerequisite: ARTH 507 or MSST 507.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

{Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as BIOL 591 / 491)

This course investigates how genetic variation is patterned within and between and how these patterns change over time. Topics include neutral theory, population structure, phylogenetics, coalescent theory, molecular clock, and laboratory methods. (EV)

Examines the history and philosophy of statutes, regulations, consultation processes, research directions and funding sources underlying management of archaeological sites, traditional cultural properties, historic buildings, cultural and historical landscapes, and museum collections. (A)

Presents and interprets the earliest archeology of North America from the terminal Pleistocene through the early Holocene including relevant archeological evidence from eastern Eurasia and South America.

(A, E, EV)

Restriction: admitted to M.A. Anthropology or M.S. Anthropology.

(A, E, EV)

Restriction: admitted to M.A. Anthropology or M.S. Anthropology.

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

(A, E, EV)

(Also offered as BIOL 520, CS 520, ECE 620, STAT 520)

Varying interdisciplinary topics taught by collaborative scientists from UNM, SFI, and LANL.

Examine how behavior evolves in cognitively complex species and explores the significance of similarities in behavior between humans and other primates.

The analysis of the skeletal remains from past human populations, oriented at the mortality, morbidity and genetic affinities of those extinct populations. (EV)

Prerequisite: *351L.

Explores recent research in both captivity and the wild on cognition and behavior of great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, orangutans), the closest living relatives of humans. (EV)

{Alternate years}

Provides an overview of research design and methods utilized in the social/behavioral sciences and public health. It introduces a ‘top-down,’ problem-oriented approach to question development, sample selection, design decisions, specific methods, data analysis. (EV)

{Alternate years}

Exploration and evaluation of practical anthropological research designs. Exhaustive preparation of realistic grant proposals for specific student-generated projects, with intensive group criticism. (A, E, EV)

Limited to graduate majors in the doctoral program. (A, E, EV)

Limited to graduate majors in the doctoral program. (A, E, EV)

Offered on a CR/NC basis only.

(A, E, EV)

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