It was established in 1937 as the New Mexico Anthropologist, with its first issue published on March 13 of that year.

The subsequent editor, Harry Basehart, changed the journal's title to its current one in 1973.

The current editor-in-chief is Lawrence Guy Straus (University of New Mexico).

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.See tips for writing articles about academic journals.

Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.