SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
ANCIENT SITES AND ANCIENT STORIES 2016

MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE

LECTURES – 50 MONDAYS A YEAR

January 4 Barbara Felix
NOTE: AT LA FONDA, NEW MEXICO ROOM
Principal, Barbara Felix Architecture + Design, Architect, La Fonda Restoration Project
Mary Colter, La Fonda, and Her Southwest Design Influence

January 11 Dr. T.J. Ferguson
NOTE: AT LA FONDA, NEW MEXICO ROOM
Professor of Anthropology, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Coordinator, M.A. in
Applied Archaeology; Chair, University Indian Ruins Preservation and Management Committee
Editor, Anthropological Papers of the University (U. of Az.); Co-Author (w/C.Colwell-Chanthaphonh), ‘Bridging Archaeological Science and Traditional Knowledge’ in Journal of Social Archaeology.
Zuni Origin and Migration: An Anthropological Perspective

January18 Dr. Debra L. Martin
Distinguished Barrick Scholar and Professor of Anthropology
University of Nevada-Las Vegas; Editor, Bioarchaeology and Social Theory Series;
Co-Editor, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology and Bioarchaeology of Violence; and Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence; Co-Author, (w/R.P. Harrod), Bioarchaeology of Climate Change and Violence; Chief Editor, Kiva: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History.
Poetics of Body Processing and Violence in the Ancient Southwest

January 25 Dr. David Edward Stuart
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico; Author, Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place; Pueblo Peoples on the Pajarito Plateau: Archaeology and Efficiency; The Ancient Southwest: Chaco Canyon, Bandelier and Mesa Verde;
Co-Author (w/R. Gauthier) Prehistoric New Mexico, Senior Scholar, School for Advanced Research
Chacoan Aftershocks: 1120-1450 AD

February 1 Paul Tso (Hopi)
Katsinam Carver, Shungopavi Village, Second Mesa
Culture and History of Hopi Katsinam (Kachinas)

February 8 Dr. Giday WoldeGabriel
Geologist, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Co-Leader, Middle Awash Ethiopian Research Project; Co-Editor (w/Y. Haile-Selassie), Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia
Our Ancient Ancestors: Hominids of East Africa

February 15 Dr. Jason Shapiro
Anthropologist, Itinerant Scholar, and Author, A Space Syntax Analysis of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico: Community Formation in the Northern Rio Grande; Before Santa Fe: The Archaeology of the City Different; Former Chair and Member, Archaeological Review Committee, City of Santa Fe
Agency, Resistance, and Collective Memory in the Context of the Great Pueblo Revolt

February 22 Dr. Matthew Martinez (Oke Owingeh Pueblo)
Associate Professor Pueblo Indian Studies, History and Humanities Faculty
Director, Northern Pueblos Institute, Northern New Mexico Community College
Former Director Indian Higher Education Department, State of New Mexico
Co-Producer, Silver Bullet Productions Documentary Film, A Thousand Voices
Crosses and Crossroads: Histories of Yungue

February 29 Dr. Alison E. Rautman, R.P.A.
Archaeologist and Professor, Center for Integrative Studies Michigan State University
Editor, American Antiquity; Co-Author,  (w/T. Rocek), ‘No Peripheral Vision: A View of Regional Interactions from South-Central New Mexico’, in Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest, (A. Sulivan/J. Bayman, eds.); (w/J.D. Speth), ‘Bison Hunting at the Henderson Site’, in Life on the Periphery: Economic Change in Late Prehistoric Southeastern New Mexico, (J.D. Speth, ed.); Author, Constructing Community: The Archaeology of Early Villages in Central New Mexico.
Before Gran Quivira: Early Pueblo Villages Near Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument

March 7 Dan Simplicio, Jr. (Zuni)
Archaeologist, Cultural Specialist; Former Lab Education Coordinator,
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center; Zuni Cultural Consultant and jewelry artist
What Happens When Migration Stops

March 14 Dr. Mary J. Weismantel
Professor of Anthropology/Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
Author, ‘Many Heads Are Better Than One: Mortuary Practice and Ceramic Art in Moche Society’, in Living With the Dead in the Andes, (I. Shimada/ J.L. Fitzsimmons, eds.) and ‘Seeing Like an Archaeologist: Viveiros de Castro at Chavin de Huantar’, in Journal of Social Archaeology.
Sensorium of Chavin de Huantar: A Pilgrimage to Stone Windowless Passages & Secret Chambers

$12 at the door  ~ or ~ $110 for the Series of 11 Lectures