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Steven Holen, director of research at the Center for American Paleolithic Research, will discuss “The Search for the Earliest Americans: An Old Archaeological Controversy” Feb. 6 at the Borrego Springs Library

Construction work to improve and upgrade Sweetwater Countys highways will continue throughout the next several years as the Wyoming Department of

An article in the journal Science provides new research that Indigenous people were using horses in the American West much earlier than previously thought. The research has major contributions from a University of Wyoming (UW) graduate’s own research. Cassidee Thornhill earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in anthropology from UW. Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska spoke with Thornhill about her research.

Clean Air Act settlements will reduce ozone-forming pollutants and greenhouse gases in EPA Region 8 communities

The settlements require them to pay a combined $9.25 million in civil penalties.

For associate professor Emily Lena Jones, the story of humans and animals in the Americas is written all in the bones

The authors set out to see what archaeology, Indigenous knowledge systems and genomics together could tell about the horse in the U.S. West.

A new study uses archaeological science and Indigenous knowledge to show how the species arrived in the Americas earlier than previously thought.

(THE CONVERSATION) – Few places in the world are more closely linked with horses in the popular imagination than the Great Plains of North America. Romanticized stories of cowboys and the Wild West figure prominently in popular culture, and domestic horses are embedded in everything from place names, like Wild Horse Mesa, to sporting mascots, […] | Local News from KRQE News 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico

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