April 9Dr. Steve Lekson
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Anthropology, Museum of Natural History,
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Author, Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the
Ancient Southwest; The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon (in press); Salado Archaeology of the Upper Gila,
New Mexico; Archaeology of the Mimbres Region (in press); Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon
The Rest of the Rio: Archaeology of the Rio Grande from Socorro to El Paso
April 16Kathy Fiero
Archaeologist (ret.), Mesa Verde National Park, National Park Service
An Obsession With Cliff Dwellings: Preserving Mesa Verde
April 23Dr. Christine VanPool
Visiting Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri;
Co-editor with Todd L. VanPool and David A. Phillips, Jr.,
Religion in the Prehistoric Southwest; and co-author, with Todd L. VanPool, Signs of the Casas
Grandes Shamans; and “Gender in Middle Range Societies: A Case Study in Casas Grandes Iconography”,
in American Antiquity
Shamans of the Casas Grandes
April 30Michael Bremer
Archaeologist, U.S. Forest Service
The Past and the Future of Gallina Archaeology
May 7Dr. William Doelle
President, Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona
Will the Evidence for the 14th Century Hohokam Population Collapse Be Destroyed by the
Modern Phoenix Population Explosion?
May 14Dr. Richard I. Ford
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology
Director, Ethnobotanical Laboratory, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Never Abandoned: Tewa Pueblos of the Rio Chama Drainage
May 21Dr. John Ware
Executive Director, Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona; Archaeologist
Eastern Pueblo Social History: Some Old and New Ideas
May 28Anna Sofaer
Founder, The Solstice Project
Mystery of Chaco Canyon
June 4Dr. Dean E. Arnold
Professor of Anthropology, Wheaton College, Illinois
Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala: Modern Peasant Potters and
Their Contributions to Understanding the Unwritten Past
June 11 Dr. Kathleen Whitaker
Director, Indian Arts Research Center, School of Advance Research
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