SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
ANCIENT SITES AND ANCIENT STORIES: 2017

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LECTURES 50 MONDAYS A YEAR

January 9 Dr. Severin Fowles
Associate Professor of Anthropology, BarnardCollege/Columbia University, Author, The Making of Made People: The Prehistoric Evolution of Hierocracy Among the Northern Tiwa of New Mexico; and An Archaeology of Doings: Secularism and the Study of Pueblo Religion.; Anthropological Archaeologist, Research in Rio Grande del Norte National Monument
Interpretations of Archaic Northern Rio Grande Rock Art

January 16 Dr. Sean Gregory DolanArchaeologist, Environmental Compliance and Protection, Los Alamos National Laboratory;Co-Author (w/J. Berryman & M.S. Shackley, ‘The Source Provenance of an Obsidian Eden Point from New Mexico’; ‘Black Rocks in the Borderlands: Obsidian Procurement in the North American Southwest and Mexican Northwest’ (Dissertation, University of Oklahoma)Tewa Pueblo Fieldhouses: Archaeological Discoveries in Los Alamos

January 23 Dr. Bruce Bernstein
Executive Director, Continuous Pathways Foundation; Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Pojoaque Pueblo; Former Executive Director, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts; former Director for Research and Collections, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian; Former Director and Chief Curator, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico; Author, The Santa Fe Indian Market: A History of Native Arts in the Marketplace; Co-Author (w/W. J. Rushing), Modern by Tradition: American Indian Painting in the Studio Style.Restoring Tewa Pueblo Cultural History: The People’s Pottery

January 30 Joseph ‘Woody’ Aguilar (San Ildefonso Pueblo),
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania (Black Mesa)
Archaeologies of Resistance: Pueblo Mesatop Refuges and Vargas’ Reconquest

February 6 Dr. Lawrence ‘Larry’ Loendorf
Anthropologist and Archaeologist of the Intermountain West; President, Sacred Sites Research, Inc.; Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology, New Mexico State University; Co-Author (w/ J. Francis), Ancient Visions: Petroglyphs and Pictographs of the Wind River and Bighorn Country, Wyoming and Montana; (w/N.M. Stone), Mountain Spirit: The Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone; (w/P. Nabokov) Restoring a Presence: Indians and Yellowstone National Park; Author, Thunder and Herds: Rock Art of the High Plains; Recipient, Distinguished Service Award, American. Rock Art Research Association
Tributes to Bison: Archaeological Sites & Evidence of Bison Ceremonial Activities

February 13 Dr. Fumiyasu Arakawa
Archaeologist and Associate Professor of Anthropology, and University Museum Director, New Mexico State University and Recipient, 2016 Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching; Research Associate, Village Ecodynamics Project (National Science Foundation)
Northern Mimbres Archaeology: Current Research in the Gila National Forest

February 20 Dr. Steve Lekson
Curator of Archaeology, Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology, Jubilado, University of Colorado; Editor, The Architecture of Chaco Canyon; The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon; Author, A History of the Ancient Southwest; Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest; Archaeology of the Mimbres Region, Southwestern New Mexico, USA
Mimbres Pots: Dimples, Slip Slop, & Clapboard (What They Are & Why They Matter)

February 27 Dr. Norman Yoffee
Professor Emeritus, Department of Near Eastern Studies & Anthropology, University of Michigan; Senior Fellow, Inst. for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU Editor, Cambridge World Archaeology; New Directions in Sustainability and Society
New Perspectives on Ancient Trade in Mesopotamia and Beyond

March 6. Dr. William Walker
Archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology, New Mexico State University
Co-editor, (w/K. Venzor), Contemporary Archaeologies of the American Southwest;(w/ A. Nielsen), Warfare in Cultural Context
Ancient Casas Grandes World: Archaeology of Ritual and Magic

 March 13 Dr. Chip Colwell-Chanthaponh
Senior Curator of Anthropology, Denver Museum of Nature and ScienceFormer Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, National Endowment for the Humanities, and J. William Fulbright Program; Founding Editor-in-Chief, Sapiens;Awards, American Anthropological Association, National Council on Public History
Plundered Skulls Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture

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