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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Read more in #FoliaPrimatologica! brill.com/view/journal...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🦷 These results help scientists better reconstruct the diets of extinct primates and understand the ancient transition from insect-eating to fruit-eating.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🦷 This "continuous" method clarifies why two species labeled as "insectivores" can have very different tooth shapes.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🦷 DNE is a powerful predictor of #insectivory, explaining about 58% of the variation in molar curvature.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Using Dirichlet normal energy (DNE) to measure molar curvature, the study found that as primates incorporate more insects into their diet, their molars become sharper and more curved to handle the mechanical challenge of insect exoskeletons. #Dirichletnormalenergy #molarcurvature #primatology
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
By treating diet as a continuous variable—specifically the percentage of foraging time spent eating insects (%insects)—this study reveals a significant correlation between diet and tooth shape.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
How do you measure a diet? Traditional research often labels primates into broad guilds like "insectivore" or "frugivore," but new research from Keegan Selig suggests a more nuanced approach is needed. #Primatology #Evolution #DentalTopography #Paleontology #BioAnthropology #ScienceResearch
Headshot of Dr. Keegan Selig advertising his new publication. infographic with title, journal name, and major points from the article:
- used a continuous variable for insectivory versus omnivory rather than categorical variables
- used Dirichlet normal energy to measure molar sharpness compared to volume of crunchy insects in diet
- provides insight into evolutionary shifts
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This research will provide baseline data on non-human primates sold at the Tomohon exotic meat market and isolate hotspots of zoonotic disease risk. This not only informs the conservation of many endangered species, but also public health interventions, and future One Health research in Indonesia.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
She will be using ethnographic surveys and GIS-based spatial analysis to document human–primate contact and disease risk factors.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Funded by the MSC L.T. Jordan Institute for Institutional Awareness at Texas A&M University, she will go to Sulawesi, Indonesia to study how the trade and handling of non-human primates at the Tomohon City Faith Market may contribute to the spread of zoonotic diseases between animals and people
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Join us in celebrating a major accomplishment of graduate student Grace Ann Peters! Grace Ann is a Ph.D. student in biological anthropology working with Dr. Sharon Gursky. #Sulawesi #primatology #anthropology #GIS #biologicalanthropology #onehealth #Indonesia
Headshot of Grace Ann Peters, Ph.D. student in biological anthropology, awarded a fellowship from the MSC Leland T and Jessie W Jordan Institute for International Awarenessinfographic about Grace Ann Peters project in Sulawesi, Indonesia. See post for details.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Monte Sierpe functioned as a barter marketplace for the powerful #Chincha Kingdom and later as an accounting device for tribute collection under the #Inca state. This research offers clear archaeological evidence to confront pseudo-archaeological narratives surrounding this important heritage site
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Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Furthermore, #sedimentanalysis revealed #microbotanical remains of crops like #maize (Zea mays), and plants used for basketry and matting (like Typha and Salix). This suggests that goods were deliberately deposited, exchanged, or transported in woven containers at this strategically located site
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Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Dating to at least the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000–1400) and used by the #Inca (AD 1400–1532), Monte Sierpe shows clear numerical patterns in its hole counts across different sections, and potentially parallels the complex groupings found in local Inca knotted-string #khipu
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Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Often labelled an "unexplained mystery", new research by Bongers et al. in @antiquity.ac.uk integrates drone imagery and microbotanical analysis to propose a function rooted in Indigenous practices: accounting and exchange. #BandOfHoles #Peru #Archaeology
Poster presenting article title (Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru) and journal name (antiquity). Follow open-access link for list of authors
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The enigmatic "Band of Holes" at Monte Sierpe in the Pisco Valley, Peru, stretching for 1.5km and consisting of approximately 5200 aligned depressions, has long been surrounded by speculation.
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Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
MYSTERY SOLVED: 5,200 Holes in the Desert Were an Ancient Accounting System! 🇵🇪 #AndeanArchaeology #MonteSierpe #IndigenousKnowledge #LiDAR #AccountingSystems #Inca #Chincha #Peru #PiscoValley
Headshot of Dr. Jo Osborn to advertise her new publicationInfographic presenting bullet points about Monte Sierpe's Band of Holes as an indigenous accounting and exchange system (see post for details).
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The state-led busing extends the "thickening" borderlands condition, creating a form of "transborder governmentality" that manages mobility across state systems. doi.org/10.1111/anhu...
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Anthropology and Humanism | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
By the early 2000s, and especially after September 11, 2001, the increasing surveillance on non-sovereign subjects intensified. One clear example is Texas's recent practice of busing migrants to nort...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This practice reveals a major policy contradiction: exclusionary narratives frame migrants as "unwanted or burdensome," yet these same migrants "quickly find jobs across a range of economic sectors in Chicago". doi.org/10.1111/anhu...
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Anthropology and Humanism | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
By the early 2000s, and especially after September 11, 2001, the increasing surveillance on non-sovereign subjects intensified. One clear example is Texas's recent practice of busing migrants to nort...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Since early 2022, the state of Texas has spent more than $1450 per migrant on average) is substantially higher than commercial bus tickets, highlighting how migration has become a "lucrative business" for private companies and the state. doi.org/10.1111/anhu...
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Anthropology and Humanism | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
By the early 2000s, and especially after September 11, 2001, the increasing surveillance on non-sovereign subjects intensified. One clear example is Texas's recent practice of busing migrants to nort...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The practice of Texas busing migrants to northern cities, such as Chicago, is not just a political stunt—it’s analyzed as a strategy of internal rebordering. This process involves relocating migrants within the U.S. interior to enforce exclusion while simultaneously sustaining urban economies.
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Anthropology and Humanism | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
By the early 2000s, and especially after September 11, 2001, the increasing surveillance on non-sovereign subjects intensified. One clear example is Texas's recent practice of busing migrants to nort...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
New research by Dr. Sergio Lemus published in examines the political and economic discourse surrounding the practice of Texas busing migrants to northern cities, such as Chicago! #MigrationPolicy #InternalRebordering #TexasToChicago #Borderlands #TransborderGovernmentality #Anthropology #Immigration
Headshot of Dr. LemusInfographic describing the $148 million contradiction of migrant busing and strategies of internal rebordering.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
And apply for Dr. Hopkins summer medical anthropology course in Spain: tamuabroad.via-trm.com/program_broc...
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Brochure | Program Overview
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Check out the article here!
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Beyond the Classroom: How High-Impact Experiences Enrich Higher Education
From comparing healthcare systems abroad to examining oceanic microfauna at home in College Station, Aggies gain transformational opportunities through research, internships and global experiences, pu...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Texas A&M Anthropology's Professor Allison Hopkins and former Anthropology undergraduate (and current medical student) Esha Uddaraju were featured in ArtSci to discuss the Medical Anthropology study abroad in Spain and high-impact learning! #Anthrosky #Spain #studyabroad #medicalanthropology #TAMU
Poster with headshots of Dr. Allison Hopkins and former student Esha Uddaraju advertising news article featuring them.Poster with headline of article and image of the link
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
It provided a "user-friendly" way for navigators to calculate a change in latitude using a few simple manipulations of dividers. The scale, visually similar to boxwood, was recovered from between two stern framing timbers during the 2010 excavation.
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The plain scale from Warwick (1619) | The Journal of Navigation | Cambridge Core
The plain scale from Warwick (1619) - Volume 77 Issue 5-6
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This artifact proves that the plain scale—an analogue navigational computing instrument—was already in use by English sailors traveling to the colonies, while the primary text popularizing it wasn't published until 1624.
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The plain scale from Warwick (1619) | The Journal of Navigation | Cambridge Core
The plain scale from Warwick (1619) - Volume 77 Issue 5-6
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Warwick was a magazine ship for the Virginia Company, lost in a hurricane in 1619. #NavTech #Archaeology #ShipwreckDiscovery #PlainScale #17thCentury
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The plain scale from Warwick (1619) | The Journal of Navigation | Cambridge Core
The plain scale from Warwick (1619) - Volume 77 Issue 5-6
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New research, led by Dr. Piotr Bojakowski, confirms a small wooden scale found on the Warwick shipwreck (Bermuda, 1619) is the earliest known plain scale from a dated archaeological context.#NavTech #Archaeology #ShipwreckDiscovery #PlainScale #17thCentury
Poster with headshot of Dr. Piotr Bojakowski, Assistant Professor, Nautical Archaeology program at Texas A&M University, celebrating his new publicationInfographic presenting information about the plain scale found on the Warwick (see post for details)
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Let’s all congratulate Dr. de Ruiter for his hard work and dedication! This award is very well deserved. Follow the link for the news release: news.tamus.edu/regents-appr...
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Regents Approve 17 Regents Professors, 13 Regents Fellows – A&M System News
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Each recipient will receive a commemorative medallion bearing the A&M System seal and a certificate signed by Chairman Albritton and Chancellor Glenn Hegar.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Award recipients are designated “Regents Professor” for the duration of their employment within the A&M System. They will receive a stipend of $15,000 — payable as $5,000 annually for three consecutive years — funded through their employing institution or agency.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Regents Professor Award program, established in 1996, recognizes faculty members whose contributions advance the academic institutions and serve the people of Texas. Since its inception, 323 faculty across the System have been honored.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Join us in celebrating Dr. Darryl J. de Ruiter, Professor and Department Head of Anthropology, for his designation as Regents Professor! This is the highest honor given to a faculty member.
Poster celebrating Dr. Darryl de Ruiter, Ph.D., Professor and Department Head of Anthropology, on his designation as 2025 Regents Professor at Texas A&M University
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Colonial authorities interpreted clandestine burial as idolatry, but historical sources cite it as cuyaspa—"for the love they bear them": community care, not just resistance. Maintaining ties with ancestors ensured the survival and fertility of the living community in the face of colonial disaster.
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For the Love They Bear Them: Clandestine Burial and Caring for the Dead in Colonial Peru - International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Following the Spanish invasion and the collapse and overthrow of the Inca Empire, millions of Indigenous Andean people died from diseases, famine, and violence. Simultaneously, the twinned forces of S...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
At Jahuay (Chincha), Indigenous people created inconspicuous burial spaces to protect their deceased. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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For the Love They Bear Them: Clandestine Burial and Caring for the Dead in Colonial Peru - International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Following the Spanish invasion and the collapse and overthrow of the Inca Empire, millions of Indigenous Andean people died from diseases, famine, and violence. Simultaneously, the twinned forces of S...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Why hide the dead? Spanish evangelization and rampant treasure hunting destroyed ancestral cemeteries, severing the vital reciprocal bonds (uyway) between the living and the dead essential for social and cosmic order.
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For the Love They Bear Them: Clandestine Burial and Caring for the Dead in Colonial Peru - International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Following the Spanish invasion and the collapse and overthrow of the Inca Empire, millions of Indigenous Andean people died from diseases, famine, and violence. Simultaneously, the twinned forces of S...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Following the Spanish invasion and massive demographic collapse, Indigenous Andean communities secretly buried their dead outside of sanctioned sites—a practice known as clandestine burial.
link.springer.com
For the Love They Bear Them: Clandestine Burial and Caring for the Dead in Colonial Peru - International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Following the Spanish invasion and the collapse and overthrow of the Inca Empire, millions of Indigenous Andean people died from diseases, famine, and violence. Simultaneously, the twinned forces of S...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New research led by Dr. Jo Osborn, published in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, challenges how we view mortuary practices in colonial Peru. #AndeanArchaeology #ColonialPeru #Chincha #Cuyaspa #Uyway #HistoricalArchaeology
Part 1 of poster advertising Dr. Jo Osborn’s new publication (see post description). Includes a headshot of Dr. Osborn smiling and wearing a denim jacket. Part 2 of poster advertising Dr. Jo Osborn’s new publication. Includes the title, coauthors, and journal name (see post description). Part 3 of poster advertising Dr. Jo Osborn’s new publication. Includes three key points in gray boxes (see post description).
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
What helps: cat‑free buffer zones near protected areas, keeping pets indoors, community trap-neuter-release (≥75% neutered), and targeted deterrents.
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Domestic cats and predation on a free-ranging primate, Gursky’s tarsier (Tarsius spectrumgurskyae)
Abstract Introduced species, also known as invasive species, alien species and exotic species, are a major contributing factor to environmental problems in that they modify or disrupt the ecosystem th...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Why it matters: island species are especially vulnerable, and cat predation has driven extinctions.
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Domestic cats and predation on a free-ranging primate, Gursky’s tarsier (Tarsius spectrumgurskyae)
Abstract Introduced species, also known as invasive species, alien species and exotic species, are a major contributing factor to environmental problems in that they modify or disrupt the ecosystem th...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Across 29 years, 169 cat encounters were observed, and cats are now found up to 7 km inside the reserve. Cats attempted to prey on tarsiers 19 times; 12 were successful. Tarsiers always alarm call, sometimes mob (~18%), and shift behavior: more traveling/foraging, less resting/socializing.
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Domestic cats and predation on a free-ranging primate, Gursky’s tarsier (Tarsius spectrumgurskyae)
Abstract Introduced species, also known as invasive species, alien species and exotic species, are a major contributing factor to environmental problems in that they modify or disrupt the ecosystem th...
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Domestic cats are pushing into Indonesia’s Tangkoko Nature Reserve—and hunting Gursky’s tarsier (Tarsius spectrumgurskyae). #Tarsier #Sulawesi #Tangkoko #Conservation #Wildlife #Cats #InvasiveSpecies #Biodiversity #Primate #Research #anthrosky
Post advertising Dr. Sharon Gursky’s new publication (see post description). Includes a headshot of Dr. Gursky with a Gursky’s Tarsier sitting on her head
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Drawing on fieldwork in South Chicago, Lemus tells the stories of first and second-generation yarderos, the struggles they face as they work to make Chicago their home, and the historical, economic, cultural, and political ramifications they face as they acquire their working-class identity.
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Los Yarderos
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Los Yarderos explores the lives of migrants from the Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Michoacán, who hold jobs as yarderos gardening, caring for lawns, and doing other landscaping work. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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Los Yarderos
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Join us in congratulating Dr. Sergio Lemus, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, on the publication of his new book, Los Yarderos: Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago with the University of Illinois Press! #anthrosky www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Headshot of Dr. Sergio Lemus on the left, with the cover of Los Yarderos on the right. Background depicts the Texas A&M University Anthropology Building above and a solid maroon background with the Texas A&M University Anthropology logo below. Text reads: “New Publication Alert! Dr. Sergio Lemus, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Los Yarderos: Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago, (University of Illinois Press, 2025)”
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Ellie has continued to research early archaeology in Peru by completing a LAUNCH Undergraduate Thesis and an archaeological survey of the Mantaro River under Dr. Kurt Rademaker.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
She became intimately acquainted with modern and ancient Peruvian culture through immersive experiences speaking Spanish and Quechua, visiting archaeological sites, and learning about the life in the Andean countryside.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Ellie O’Connell, a senior Archaeology and History major, is a student lab technician for the Center of the Study of the First Americans. To learn more about the peopling of the Americas and early human adaptation to high-altitude environments, Ellie traveled to Peru in December 2024.
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Texas A&M Anthropology @tamuanth.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Every year, MSC L.T. Jordan Fellows make public presentations about their internationally conducted research, highlighting their personal experiences while being immersed in the foreign culture.
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