The School of Anthropology enjoys a long tradition of academic excellence, and today is ranked one of the top five programs in the United States.

David Killick and Frances Hayashida (2022). Copper smelting and refining in the Pampa de Chaparrí, Lambayeque, Peru,ca. 1030–1180 cal AD. Journal of Archaeological ...

Eve Carter is from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and has worked and traveled as an archaeologist from the top of Maine down the eastern seaboard right on through to Texas. They received a Bachelor’s ...

The University of Arizona has a long legacy of anthropological research in the Southwest region that spans all subfields of anthropology and involves numerous other campus units. This theme promotes ...

Linguistic anthropology is the study of language as a social and cultural practice.

I am a socio-cutural and medical anthropologist. In my scholarship I draw on insights garnered from over two decades of field-based research that has centered on multi-dimensional aspects of violence, ...

Current projects include the Joint Courts Complex Project (an historic cemetery in Tucson, Arizona), the Animas-LaPlata Project (a Pueblo I Community in southern Colorado), and the Beidha Project (a ...

Vance Holliday is both an archaeologist and geologist who has spent much of his career reconstructing and interpreting the landscapes and environments in which past societies lived, and how these ...

The School of Anthropology celebrates its graduate alumni as they continue on their riveting careers! Our alumni, reaching all the way back to 1928 when the first M.A. degrees in archaeology were ...

Applied archaeology is an emerging field of study within Anthropology that creates and uses knowledge in the context of application. The M.A. in Applied Archaeology at the University of Arizona is a ...

The University of Arizona School of Anthropology offers opportunities for concentrated graduate study in all principal sub-disciplines of anthropology: archaeology, biological, linguistic, and ...

I am a Professor in the School of Anthropology. My research interests center on the evolution of human technological and social behavior. My primary research tool is the study of stone artifacts. I am ...