On November 26, 2018, Curator Peter Whiteley testified in Maricopa County Superior Court, Arizona, for the Hopi Tribe in a case to determine water rights in the Little Colorado River watershed.
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The American Museum of Natural History and Museum of Samoa has completed a 1-year project to bring together two groups: one in New York and one in Samoa. It has brought two coastal communities together to share insights about the personal impacts of climate changes.
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Dr. Thomas began excavating on the Spanish Mission in 1999 and applied a series of cutting-edge remote sensing technology (ground penetrating radar, proton magnetometry and electrical resistivity) to better understand the site layout.
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In 1980, Peter Whiteley began fieldwork with the Hopi of northern Arizona. After having spent time as an undergraduate traveling around the United States, he became very interested in the persisten…
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The New York group that forms one half of the „Rethinking Home“ partnership has now taken shape. We met at the American Museum of Natural History, 5th floor, overlooking 77th Street, coff…
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The globe shows mantle convection based on studies of how tectonic plates have moved over the last 200 million years.
minerals transform into different minerals of the same element
When I began my four-month study abroad program in the South Pacific island of Samoa, I had my first tangible experiences with climate change and what it can do to a place. We visited many of the v…
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The American Anthropological Association is hosting a virtual event panel discussing the role anthropologists play in not only research, but infrastructure and policy, in light of the escalating Ebola outbreak.
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An international conference to be held in Papua New Guinea to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of Bronislaw Malinowski’s first arrival in the Trobriand Islands.
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During the 1978 and 1979 field seasons, David Hurst Thomas and a stalwart crew excavated the Nevada cave occupied in the late Archaic period — from about 2000 BC to AD 0. The team discovered that the relatively inhospitable cave was used for temporary storing food, tools and other materials.
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