SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
VOICES FROM THE PAST: 2015

TO HONOR AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK OF ARCHAEOLOGY SOUTHWEST
A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PURBLO ENTERPRISE

MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
LECTURES: 50 MONDAYS A YEAR

June 1 Dr. Laurie Webster
Textile Scholar and Researcher; Author, Collecting the Weaver’s Art: The William Claflin Collection of Southwestern Textiles; ‘Perpetuating Ritual Textile Traditions’: A Pueblo Example; ‘ in Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings; ‘Effects of European Contact on Textile Production and Exchange in the North American Southwest: A Pueblo Case Study’ (Doctoral Dissertation, U. of Az.)
Prehistoric Pueblo Textiles

June 8 Luis Garcia, M.A. (Southern Tiwa/Piro/Chicano)
Weaver and Feather worker,
2012 Dubin Native Artist Fellow, School for Advanced Research
Former President, New Mexico Pueblo Fiber Arts Guild, Pueblo Weaving Teacher, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Contemporary Pueblo Textiles

June 15 Dr. Eric Blinman, Mary Weahkee (Santa Clara/Comanche), and Chuck Hannaford
Eric: Director, New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies (OAS); Chuck: Project Director, OAS
Mary: Assistant Archaeologist, OAS; The Center for New Mexico Archaeology is responsible for archaeological research, curation and education of an irreplaceable archaeological heritage, including nearly 10 million artifacts from all time periods and cultures, including Ancestral Native American.
Atl Atl, Feather Blankets, & Fire: Experiencing Crafts & Survival in the Ancient Southwest

June 22 Dr. Sam Duwe
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma and Author,’ The Prehispanic Tewa World: Space, Time and Becoming in the Pueblo Southwest’; Co-Author (w/K. Anschuetz), ‘Ecological Uncertainty and Organizational Flexibility on the Prehispanic Tewa Landscape: Notes from the Northern Frontier, ‘ in Mountain and Valley: Understanding Past Land Use in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico (B. Vierra, ed.)
Coalescent Cosmologies and the Making of the Pueblo World

June 29 Matt Barbour
Archaeologist and Research Associate, Office of Archaeological Studies
Site Manager, Jemez Historic Site, New Mexico Monuments, Office of Cultural Affairs
Site Manager, Jemez Historic Site and Historical Archaeologist
Coronado, Onate and the Mixton War, 1540-1542

July 6 Dr. Barbara J. Mills
Professor, School of Anthropology, Director, Southwest Social Networks Project, and Former Director, Archaeological Field School, University of Arizona; Editor, Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Southwest (forthcoming); Alternative Leadership Strategies in the Prehispanic Southwest; Author, Ceramic Production in the American Southwest;
Co-Author (w/S. Herr, S. Van Keuren), Living on the Edge of the Rim.
Migration Across Centuries: The Archaeology of Southwest Peoples’ Movement and Resettlement

July 13 Dr. Jeffrey S. Dean
Professor Emeritus, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona
Author, Salado; ‘Trees, Time, and Environment’ in Hisat’sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land Without Water,
(C. Downum, ed.); ‘Adaptive Stress: Environment and Demography’ in Themes in Southwest Prehistory,
(G.J. Gumerman, ed.); ‘A Model of Anasazi Behavioral Adaptation’ in
The Anasazi in a Changing Environment, (G.J. Gumerman, ed.)
From Four Corners to the Sonoran Desert: The 13th Century Kayenta Migration

July 20 Dr. Jeffery Clark
Preservation Archaeologist, Archaeology Southwest, Tucson, Arizona;
Co-author: ‘The Kayenta Diaspora and Salado Meta-Identity in the Southern U.S. Southwest Hybrid Material Culture: The Archaeology of Syncretism and Ethnogenesis, (J. Card, ed.); ‘Migrants and Mounds in the Lower San Pedro Valley, A.D. 1200-1450’ in Between Mimbres and Mogollon: Exploring the Archaeology and History of Southeastern Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico, (both in press)(H. Wallace, ed.)
From Hohokam to Salado: The Kayenta Diaspora in the Southern Southwest

July 27 Dr. John Ware
Social Archaeologist and Former Executive Director, Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona,
Author, A Pueblo Social History: Kinship, Sodality, and Community in the Northern Southwest;
Former Director, Laboratory of Anthropology, SAR National Endowment for the Humanities Resident Scholar, and Project Director, Office of Archaeological Studies; Founding Director, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture,
Museum of New Mexico, Department of Cultural Affairs
Rio Grande Migrations: The Debate Continues

August3 Dr Joseph H. Suina (Cochiti)
Professor Emeritus, Department of Education (ret.), and Former Director, Institute for American Indian Education, University of New Mexico; Study Leader and Native Advisory Group, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center;
Former Governor, Cochiti Pueblo, Tribal Council Member
Native Perspectives on Migration

August 10 Dr. Stephen Plog
Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia; David A. Harrison Professor,
Author, Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest;‘ Co-Author (w/M. Hegmon) ‘Regional Social Interaction in the Northern Southwest’ in Interpreting Southwestern Diversity: Underlying Principles and Overarching Patterns, (P.Fish/J.Reid, eds.), ‘The Ever Changing and the Never Changing: The Evolution of Western Pueblo Ritual’
(w/J. Solometo) in Cambridge Archaeological Journal.
Chaco Canyon Historical Dynamics: Unraveling the Complex Tapestry