CU Museum will remain closed from Monday, December 23 through Friday, January 10 for CU’s official winter holidays and planned construction activities nearby. 
The Museum will resume normal operating hours (10 AM-4 PM) on Saturday, January 11, 2025. Thank you!

Construction updates, accessibility, and parking information 

Archaeozoology Laboratory

Coyote skull being 3D scanned

The newly-established Archaeozoology Laboratory at the CU Museum of Natural History provides a scientific facility for the identification and study of ancient faunal remains, in order to better understand the world we live in today. Our laboratory focuses on the study of animal domestication and the application of emerging technologies in archaeological science, including 3D scanning/visualization/printing, biomolecular archaeology, and collagen fingerprinting. 

Check back on this page for updates about ANTH 4220/5220 (Archaeozoology), and our progress towards establishing a new facility for collagen-based taxonomic fingerprinting (ZooMS).

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   william.taylor@colorado.edu

Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Plains and northern Rockies

Archaeology and genomics together with Indigenous knowledge revise the human-horse story in the American West! Dr. William T. Taylor along with CU Graduate students Chance Ward, Carlton Grover and others have a new study, published in the journal Science. And, you’ll even see a photograph by Samantha Eads!

Lab News

Student Spotlight

Chance Ward, a graduate student in the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder’s Museum and Field Studies Program, has received an award from the babyÖ±²¥app Council of Professional Archaeologists (CCPA) to support his studies.

Anthropology Ph.D. student Sasha Buckser was announced as the winner of the at the , held this year at the Embassy Suites in Boulder.