In this video Conservator in the Anthropology Division, shows how microscopes help conservators care for collections.
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Wired Magazine visited St. Catherines Island, GA to talk with Ginessa Mahar, the North American Archaeology lab supervisor at the American Museum of Natural History, about the ongoing excavations on the island. The purpose of the visit was to feature the various types of equipment being used by archaeologists today.
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Dr. Elsa M. Redmond, a research associate in the Museum’s Division of Anthropology, was recently elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Adolph Bandelier, a Swiss-American archaeologist, and his wife, Fanny, collected over 7,900 pre-Columbian artifacts during an expedition to Peru and Bolivia in the 1890s. In addition to the artifac…
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AMNH-Bard Research Fellowship in Museum AnthropologyBard Graduate Center invites applications for a two-year (2018–20) postdoctoral fellowship jointly appointed at Bard Graduate Center and in the A…
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Marshall Saville, the first Curator of Mexican and Central American Archaeology at the AMNH (1894-1907), used the relatively new technology of the camera to great effect in documenting his excavations. A brief report of the Xoxocotln excavations is available in American Anthropologist (1899, vol. 1, pages 350-362).
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Dr. Charles Spencer is Curator of Mexican and Central American Archaeology. His ongoing research focuses on the development of pre-Columbian complex societies in Mexico and Venezuela. He is also interested in addressing general issues in ecological anthropology and cultural evolution.
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Anthropology Thesaurus provides a controlled vocabulary for use in searching across the collections. The goal of this thesaurus is to allow users to browse through a hierarchical structure to locat…
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New work on the skeletal remains of scarlet macaws found in an ancient Pueblo settlement indicates that social and political hierarchies may have emerged in the American Southwest earlier than previously thought.
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