UNLV :: Department of Anthropology

Greetings from Southern Nevada! You may not know this, but our Anthropology De- partment is situated in one of the most in- teresting and diverse environments in the United States....

Announcement of grant from the Leon Levy Foundation to the Friends of World Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, UNLV
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Heidi Swank, Asst. Professor of linguistic anthropology has just completed an edited volume for International Migration entitled Affecting Migration: The Global Terrain of Transnationality with her co-editor Dr. Deborah Boehm of UNR. ...

Liam Frink, Assoc. Professor of Archaeology, was awarded the prestigious UNLV Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award last spring. His ethnoarchaeological research and scholarship in Alaska continues to move in interesting directions including ...

Alan H. Simmons
Around 10,000 years ago, a momentous change occurred in society that has irreversibly affected the human condition. This was the transition from hunting and gathering economies to ones based on food...

Daniel Benyshek is part of an interdisciplinary team of UNLV researchers who received NIH funding for their project on lifestyle based diabetes prevention among urban Native Americans living in and around Las Vegas. Among other responsibil...

Barbara Roth, Professor of Archaeology, returned from another successful field season of excavation at the Harris Site, a pithouse village located in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico. Her edited volume, entitled Engenderin...