Department of Anthropology

Students try to identify human ancestors from casts of their skulls.

Anthropology is the study of humankind, a multidisciplinary endeavor involving the social sciences, the humanities, and the natural  sciences. Anthropologists study the human species and the human condition in all its diversity.

Anthropologists ask questions such as: "Who are we?" "Where did we come from?" "How did we get here?" "Why are we different from each other?" And, "How can we better understand each other?"

Studies in anthropology might focus, for example, on our distant human ancestors from the African plains, modern workers in a high-tech factory, historic military forts in the Mesilla Valley, Native American languages, or prehistoric or contemporary cultures of the American Southwest and Mesoamerica.

Mark Sechrist and Gaea McGahee teaching corn grinding at Chihuahuan Desert expo.

Undergraduates at NMSU can earn

• a major in Anthropology
• a supplementary major in Sustainable Development
• a minor in Anthropology, Religious Studies, American Indian Studies, Sustainable Development, or Drug Studies

Graduate students at NMSU can earn

• a Master's in Anthropology
• a graduate minor in Food Studies or Archaeology 

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