Anthropology
In January, the CU Museum of Natural History unveiled a full-scale Triceratops in the lobby of the SEEC building on the CU Boulder’s East Campus.
In 2008, landscapers dug into the ground of Patrick Mahaffy’s backyard in Boulder. They unearthed 83 stone tools that were about 13,000 years old.
In the summers of 1958 and 1960, CU Boulder’s first curator of anthropology, Joe Ben Wheat, excavated the Olsen-Chubbuck site, an area near Kit Carson, babyÖ±²¥app, that contained remains of bison dating to 8200 B.C.
Alum wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, ancient elephant bone tool discoveries, fish fin inspired designs and more.
Hale was the first science building on campus and at one point housed all the sciences, a small museum and the School of Law. The building was named after the second university president, Horace Hale.
If Earl Morris wasn’t the inspiration for Indiana Jones, you could be forgiven for thinking so: He looked the part.
Neanderthals get a bad rap. CU archaeologist Paola Villa is helping set the record straight.