Anthropology

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Another Dispute Between Ward Churchill and the Daily Camera

Virgin Rebirth

The statue doesn't look like a traditional Our Lady of Guadalupe. But its appearance is just the start of the mystery.

Goodall Gives Hope

Jane Goodall monkeys around this week at the Auditorium Theatre.

Best banister

Native American Trading Company

Best Bison Bones

Wray Museum

Finally, proof that Boulderites weren't always vegetarians

Glenn Asakawa, University of Colorado.The last steak knives ever to be used in Boulder. And you thought those arrowhead-like rocks you found in your flowerbed were cool. As several media outlets have been reporting, a cache of ancient tools, including knives and axes, has been discovered in a Bould ... More >>

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Glenn Asakawa, University of Colorado.The last steak knives ever to be used in Boulder. And you thought those arrowhead-like rocks you found in your flowerbed were cool. As several media outlets have been reporting, a cache of ancient tools, including knives and axes, has been discovered in a Bould ... More >>

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Glenn Asakawa, University of Colorado.The last steak knives ever to be used in Boulder. And you thought those arrowhead-like rocks you found in your flowerbed were cool. As several media outlets have been reporting, a cache of ancient tools, including knives and axes, has been discovered in a Bould ... More >>

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Glenn Asakawa, University of Colorado.The last steak knives ever to be used in Boulder. And you thought those arrowhead-like rocks you found in your flowerbed were cool. As several media outlets have been reporting, a cache of ancient tools, including knives and axes, has been discovered in a Bould ... More >>

Second Chances

Garbage gets new life at Translations Gallery.

Boulder Bites

In a town filled with good restaurants, Prima couldn’t cut it.

To Die For

Get a mouthful of Asmat art.

Arts and Sciences

Pictorial photos at Gallery Roach are not so different from the DPL's archaeological shots.

Digging Deep

On Mesa Verde's hundredth birthday, there's still a lot of dirt behind the "Mystery of the Anasazi."

David Dondero

Thursday, November 11, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-0959.

To Die For

Exquisite Egyptian funerary art graces the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Explore It

Get a manos-on experience at Machu Picchu

Chimp Champ

Primate pal Jane Goodall inhabits Denver.

Art Becomes Her

From Slaveship to Ownership

Opposites Attract

John Hull and Jason Martin make an unlikely -- but wonderful -- match.

Shifting Sands

John Hull and Jason Martin make an unlikely -- but wonderful -- match.

Power Points

John Hull and Jason Martin make an unlikely -- but wonderful -- match.

All Aboard

John Hull and Jason Martin make an unlikely -- but wonderful -- match.

All That Remains

Bones can tell a story--and forensic anthropologist Diane France keeps digging for the truth.

Mummies Dearest

Bones can tell a story--and forensic anthropologist Diane France keeps digging for the truth.

Remains of the Day

A new Wal-Mart in Pueblo means no rest in peace for a group of Colorado pioneers.

Aurora's Stupidest Home Video

Was a college faculty squabble over credentials caught on film?

Grave Reservations

The Colorado Historical Society has collected Indian artifacts for 120 years. Now it has to give many of them back.

Museum Qualities

The Colorado Historical Society has collected Indian artifacts for 120 years. Now it has to give many of them back.

Degrees of Separation

An Aurora college math instructor speaks her mind and loses her job.

Gone Loco

An Aurora college math instructor speaks her mind and loses her job.

DRAWN TO IT

An Aurora college math instructor speaks her mind and loses her job.

BIG WHEELS

HOW THE GOVERNMENT SPENT BIG BUCKS STUDYING A SUPPOSED INDIAN MEDICINE WHEEL.

TRANSCENDENTAL DESECRATION

IN SEARCH OF SPIRITUAL VIBES, NEW-AGERS RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK.

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IN SEARCH OF SPIRITUAL VIBES, NEW-AGERS RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK.

THE WHEEL THING

IS NOTHING SACRED? AN UNPRECEDENTED GATHERING OF THE TRIBES IN BOULDER TRIES TO DECIDE.

FOLLOW THE BOUNCING BALL

IS NOTHING SACRED? AN UNPRECEDENTED GATHERING OF THE TRIBES IN BOULDER TRIES TO DECIDE.

ANCIENT HISTORY

IS NOTHING SACRED? AN UNPRECEDENTED GATHERING OF THE TRIBES IN BOULDER TRIES TO DECIDE.

SACRED GROUND

IS NOTHING SACRED? AN UNPRECEDENTED GATHERING OF THE TRIBES IN BOULDER TRIES TO DECIDE.

FRETTING ABOUT MEANING

AN ANTHROPOLOGIST WINDS UP DIGGING GUITARS.

RESTLESS NATIVES

AN ANTHROPOLOGIST WINDS UP DIGGING GUITARS.

Today's featured event extra: The Denver Community Museum just keeps on rolling along

Yes, it's true: The Denver Community Museum plans one last stab, in a heretofore unnamed location. But museum founder Jaime Kopke is still seeking a few more willing participants, so here's her missive for all to read: Hi everyone, We're still looking for a few more participants to take part in ... More >>

Is meth fueling artifact thefts?

Meth addict, artifact thief -- or both? On June 10, Secretary of the Interior (and former Colorado senator) Ken Salazar announced the indictment and arrest of 24 individuals suspected of trafficking in illegally obtained artifacts in the Four Corners area. But who found these items in the first pla ... More >>

King Tut's penis: It's missing from him, and the new DAM exhibit

​The Denver Art Museum's new mega-blockbuster exhibit "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs," features more than a hundred artifacts associated with the celebrity pharaoh. But one thing you probably won't find anywhere is Tut's penis. That's because it's apparently missing, poss ... More >>

Dem Bones, Dem Bones

​The Denver Art Museum's new mega-blockbuster exhibit "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs," features more than a hundred artifacts associated with the celebrity pharaoh. But one thing you probably won't find anywhere is Tut's penis. That's because it's apparently missing, poss ... More >>

Welcome to the Ape House

​The Denver Art Museum's new mega-blockbuster exhibit "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs," features more than a hundred artifacts associated with the celebrity pharaoh. But one thing you probably won't find anywhere is Tut's penis. That's because it's apparently missing, poss ... More >>

You are a cave-man: A UCD anthropologist has some unconventional ideas on Neanderthals

Sexy?​Some 400,000 years ago, the earliest ancestors of man as we know him migrated out of Africa and into the land that would later become the snootiest place on earth: Western Europe. But that area was not so fancy then; in fact, it was rugged and cruel, and an ice age came that isolated tha ... More >>

Author Benjamin Hale on Braveheart, chimp sex and Kafka

​We generally don't think much about who is narrating our stories, but in the case of Benjamin Hale's new novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, we have to. Mostly because the narrator is an ape. Hale, who grew up in and around Boulder but who currently lives in New York, will be in town to ... More >>

Ultra-endurance athlete Mathew Arnold ultra-nerds out for Race Across America

Photo courtesy SIMPLE Mobile RAAM TeamDavid Preston, left, and Mathew Arnold, right, prepare for the Race Across America​Denver-based cyclist and University of Colorado grad student Mathew Arnold may be the only competitor working on his thesis in the middle of the 30th annual transcontinental ... More >>