Armelagos received a B.A. with honors in Anthropology from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1958.
Upon graduating from the University of Colorado, Armelagos taught at the University of Utah (1965-1968) [REF][REF][REF] and was then hired at the University of Massachusetts where he aided in the creation of the Ph.D. program in Anthropology [REF].