FAL's McKenna Litynski finds that clothing, ritual, tattoos, and medical suturing were some of the major motivations for needle technology in Indigenous North America. An important contribution to our understanding of human technology and our species' expansion into diverse climates around the world, published in PLoS ONE:
https://www.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343888
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FAL's Haas to give public lecture, "Finding Warawara--the earliest known hunter of the Americas," on Feb. 4 at the Museo de Las Americas, Denver.
https://museo.org/program/finding-warawara-the-earliest-known-hunter-of-the-americas-lecture/Hoy, en la librería-cafetería Baúl Azul en Puno, el equipo presentó sobre la elaboración del libro "Los Cazadored de Puno". De izquierda a derecha: Sandro Alania Pari (el ilustradora), Ceci Chávez Justo (autor y coordinador), Bertha Maquera Flores (autora de Mulla Fasiri), Belinia Ayma Maquera (autora de Mulla Fasiri) y Dilma Velásquez Llano (traductora Aymara).
FAL' s James Trosper and the rest of the FAL crew are excited to host Tipi Talks, Nov 4-5 on UWs Prexy's Pasture. More info at this UW news story. See also the previous post showing team members hard at work cutting tipi poles for the event.
https://www.uwyo.edu/news/2025/10/uw-to-host-tipi-talks-in-celebration-of-native-american-heritage-month-nov-4-6.html
Hard copies of The Hunters of Puno are now available in South and North America (and Australia and some European countries ). In South America, copies can be purchased for 21 soles by Avqi Ediciones on Facebook or Instagram. In North America, they can be purchased for $11.99 from Ingramspark.
FAL's Claudia, Karlee, and James harvested 15 30ft lodgepole pines to construct a large communal tipi for a Native American Heritage Month event this Nov.
Sandro Alania Pari's original watercolor art and *The Hunters of Puno* are on display all Oct. at Night Heron Bookstore and Coffeehouse, Laramie, WY. Book signing Oct. 18.
