SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
ANCIENT SITES ANCIENT STORIES II: 2017

MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE

TO HONOR AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY
A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE
LECTURES – 50 MONDAYS A YEAR

March 20 Paul F. Reed, M.A.
Chaco Canyon Scholar and Preservation Archaeologist, Southwest; Editor and Contributor, Thirty-Five Years of Archaeological Research at Salmon Ruins, New Mexico; and Chaco’s Northern Prodigies: Salmon, Aztec and the Ascendency of the Middle San Juan Region After A.D. 1100
Exploring Chaco Canyon’s Southern Edge: Life & Ritual at the Las Ventanas Community

March 27 Dr. John A. Ware
Anthropologist and Archaeologist; Executive Director Emeritus, The Amerind Foundation; Former Director, Laboratory of Anthropology; founding Director, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico; National Endowment for the Humanities Resident Scholar, School for Advanced Research; Author, A Pueblo Social History: Kinship, Sodality, and Community in the Northern Southwest
Chaco Canyon’s Matrilineal Dynasty: Ethics and Implications

April 3 Jeremy Moss, M.A.
Archaeologist; Chief, Resource Stewardship/Science, Pecos National Historic Park, National Park Service; former archaeologist, Chaco Culture, Tumacacori National Historic Parks, Canyonlands & Saguaro National Parks, and Glen Canyon Natural Recreation Area; Co, Author, ‘Patterning in Procurement of Obsidian in Chaco Canyon and Chaco-Era Communities’, in Journal of Archaeological Science
Obsidian Procurement and Trade at Chaco Canyon

April 10 Dr. Michael Mathiowetz
Department of Anthropology, Riverside City College; Author (Dissertation): ‘The Diurnal Path of the Sun: Ideology and Interregional Interaction in Ancient Northwest Mesoamerica and the American Southwest” Author, ‘From This Day Forward I Am Your Way of Life: The Capitan Icon on Rio Grande Glaze Wares in the Pueblo IV period American Southwest’ Postdoctoral Fellow, Centro Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH), Nyarit, Mexico
What Began with Chaco Ended with Paquime: History & Consequences of Pueblo Connections to West Mexico

April 17 Dr. Timothy Maxwell
Archaeologist, Emeritus Director, Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico, Department of Cultural Affairs; Field Archaeologist, Abiquiu Reservoir, School for Advanced Research; Co-Author, City of Santa Fe Archeological Ordinance; Joint U.S./Mexican Casas Grandes, Chihuahua Archaeological Research Project; Fulbright Research Scholar (Mexico); New Mexico Cultural Properties Review Committee; Fieldwork throughout New Mexico & Casas Grandes Region; President, Santa Fe Archaeological Society
New Mexico Turquoise in Mexico

April 24 Dr. Miriam Kolar
Music Archaeologist and Archaeoacoustician; Weatherhead Resident Scholar, School for Advanced Research; Associate, Five College Consortium; Cultural Acoustics Sound designer/Audio Engineer, Author, Archaeological Psychoacoustics at Chavin de Huantar, Peru; ‘ and ‘Sensing Sonically at Andean Formative Chavin de Huantar’, in Time and Mind; Pioneer, Cultural Acoustics studies of Sound and Social Interaction
Archaeoacoustics Research at Chavin de Huantar, Peru: Experiential Archaeology in the Andes

May 1 Theresa Pasqual (Acoma Pueblo)
Archaeologist and former Director, Historic Preservation Office, Acoma Pueblo; Advisor, National Trust for Historic Preservation; Independent Consultant on Tribal resource management and sacred site protection.
Resistance to Resilience: Protecting Sacred Places in Turbulent Times

May 8 Dr. Laurie D. Webster, and Charles LaRue
Laurie: Independent Scholar of Southwestern Textiles and Perishable Material Culture;
Co-Editor, (w/P. Drooker) Beyond Cloth and Cordage: Archaeological Textile Research in the Americas; Author, Collecting the Weaver’s Art: The William Claflin Collection of Southwestern Textiles;
Charles: Wildlife Biologist and Naturalist of the Colorado Plateau
Ancient Woodworking, Animal Use and Hunting Practices in SE Utah: Cedar Mesa Perishables Project

May 15 Dr. Thomas Dalton Dillehay
Archaeologist, Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Culture and Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies; Author, Monuments, Empires, and Resistance: The Aaraucanian Polity and Ritual Narratives; The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory; Monte Verde: A Late Pleistocene Settlement in Chile,
Where the Land Meets the Sea: 14,000 of Human History on North Coast of Peru

May 22 Matthew K. Saionz, M.A.
Historian and Ph.D. Candidate Department of History, University of Florida; Research in Mexican-era New Mexico exploring growing presence of U.S. commercialism and expansionism, c. 1800-1850; former Adjunct Instructor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Author (MA thesis), “‘For the Hills of S. Fe”: The Texan Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 and the Southwest Market Economy’
Transformation of Mexican New Mexico and the Unsettled Legacy of Gov. Manuel Armijo

May 29 Dr. Larry Benson
Visiting Scientist and Adjunct Curator of Anthropology, Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado; former Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska; former Principal Investigator, Desert Research Institute; Retired Earth Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey; former Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Developer, Paleo-climate and Paleo-hydrology program at Yucca Mountain, Dep’t of Energy
The Source of Chaco Canyon Maize

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