SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
ANCIENT SITES, ANCIENT STORIES 2011

TO HONOR AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP OF
SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH FOR THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

MONDAY EVENINGS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE

January 3 Rich Friedman
Geologist, Chaco Canyon Researcher and Author; ’ Revisiting Downtown Chaco’(in The Architecture of Chaco Canyon), S. Lekson, Editor; and Co-producer (with A. Sofaer); The Chacoan Great North Road LiDAR Project’ and Information Technology Director, City of Farmington

Anna Sofaer, Founder, Solstice Project; Producer, ’The Mystery of Chaco Canyon’ and Author, Chaco Astronomy: An Ancient American Cosmology
Ancient Chacoan Roads: New Aerial Laser Technology Provides New Insights

January 10 Dr. Steve Lekson
Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Anthropology, Museum of Natural HistoryResearch Associate, School For Advanced Research on the Human Experience;and Author, A History of the Ancient Southwest; Archaeology of the Mimbres Region,Southwestern New Mexico, U.S.A.; Salado Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico;
Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest
Thinking Big About Fremont and Chaco: Comparing Apples and Oranges

January 17 Dr. Joyce Ann Guzik, Special Guest Speaker
Astrophysics Scientist and Laboratory Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Journey to the Center of the Sun

January 24 Michael Richie
Geology Educator, Photographer, and Conservation Advocate
Four Corners Badlands of the San Juan Basin

January 31 Dr. Catherine Cameron
Archaeologist and Professor, University of Colorado; andWeatherhead Fellowship Resident Scholar, School of Advanced Research on the Human Experience; Author, Chaco & After in the Northern San Juan: Excavations at the Bluff Great House.
Sacred Earthen Architecture in the Northern Southwest: Bluff Great House

February 7 Dr. William Lipe
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Washington State University; Archaeologist and Board Member, Crow Canyon Archeological Center, Cortez, Colorado
44 Years of Archaeology at Cedar Mesa, Utah

February 14 Karl Laumbach
Archaeologist and Principal Investigator, Canada Alamos Project Associate Director of Research and Public Education, Human Systems Research, Inc.
La Canada Alamosa: A Prehistoric Frontier in West Central NM

February 21 David Grant Noble
Editor, Fine Art Photographer And Author, In the Places of the Spirits ; The Mesa Verde World:
Explorations in Ancestral Puebloan Archaeology;; Ancient Ruins of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide;
and Editor, In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma;
Santa Fe: History of an Ancient City; Pueblos, Villages, Forts and Trails: A Guide to New Mexico’s Past
In the Places of the Spirits

February 28 Dr. Linda Cordell
Senior Scholar, School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience; Archaeologist and Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Colorado; Author, Before Pecos: Settlement, Aggregation at Rowe, New Mexico; Ancient Pueblo Peoples; Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory ; Anasazi World; Prehistory of the Southwest; and Co-Editor (with Donald Fowler), Southwestern Archaeology in the20th Century.

Dr. Maxine McBrinn,
Anthropologist, Paleo Cultural Research Group and former Post Doctoral Research Scientist, Field Museum, Chicago
Re-Writing Archaeology of the Southwest

March 7 Dr. Lawrence Guy Straus
Archaeologist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Anthropological Research; and Author, Iberia before the Iberians,La Riera Cave, El Miron Cave” (In press)
El Miron Cave: 40,000 Years of Prehistory in Northern Spain

March 14 Dr. David Brugge
Anthropologist, Navajo Nation and National Park Service (ret.) and Author, The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: An American Tragedy; Navajos in the Catholic Church Records of New Mexico 1694-1875; Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site; and
Editor, Navajo Religion and Culture: Selected Views
Early Navajo Ethno-history