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....
ANTHROPOLOGY OPEN HOUSE Tuesday Sept 13th 1:30-4:30 Wright Hall Building C 1st floor and 2nd floor. Follow the skeletons into WRI 1st and 2nd floor labs. Learn about what anthropologists do by talking to them. Participate in making artifacts or...
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 ...

Barbara Roth
My research focuses on hunter-gatherer adaptations to arid environments and the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. I am especially interested in hunter-gatherer land use and have studied this in the...

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...
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