SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
ANCIENT SITES, ANCIENT STORIES 2014

A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE

MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE

January 6 Dr. Laurie D. Webster
NOTE: Santa Fe Community Foundation Classroom – 501 Halona Street
Textile Consultant and Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona; Author, Collecting the Weaver’s Art: The William Claflin Collection of Southwestern Textiles
Textiles, Baskets, & Painted Wood from Pueblo Bonito-Chaco Canyon and Aztec West

January 13 Dr. Jeffrey Long
NOTE: Santa Fe Community Foundation Classroom – 501 Halona Street
Evolutionary Anthropologist And Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Genetic Ancestry Testing: Ancestry Informative Markers and Their Applications

January 20 Dr. Jason S. Shapiro
Archaeologist and Author, Before Santa Fe: Archaeology of the City Different; A Space Syntax Analysis of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico: Community Formation in the Northern Rio Grande; Former Chair, Archaeological Review Committee, City of Santa Fe; Instructor , Santa Fe Community College
Why Santa Fe? Location, Location, Location!

January 27 Dr. Stephen H. Lekson
Curator of Archaeology, Museum of Natural History and Associate Professor and Professor of Anthropology, 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: From Whence It Came and Whither It Went

February 3 Jakob William Sedig
Archaeologist, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology,
University of Colorado; Author, Getting to the Point: An Examination of Projectile Point Use in the Northern American Southwest, AD 900-1300 (M.A. Dissertation); Research conducted: Homolovi Arizona State Park, Chimney Rock, Casas Grandes, Black Mountain, and Woodrow Ruin Complex
Spectacular Recent Finds at Woodrow Ruin Complex: A Mimbres Site

February 10 Steve Post
Principal Investigator, Zia Consulting and Author, ‘Ten Thousand Years of Living in Santa Fe’,
in History of an Ancient City, D.G. Noble, Ed.; and former Deputy Director (ret.),
Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico, Department of Cultural Affairs
Land Grants, Trails, and People in Southeast Santa Fe

February 17 Dr. Roger Wiens
Mars Rover Scientist and Leader, Mars Curiosity Rover ChemCam Laser Instrument Beam,
Los Alamos National Laboratory/French Scientific Team, and Author, Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration From Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity
Exploring Mars: Curiosity Rover and its Laser

February 24 Dr. Rebecca Flowers
Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences
Specialist in Tectonics, Thermochronology, and Geochronology, University of Colorado
Evidence For An Ancient Grand Canyon: 70 Million Years Old

March 3 Dr. Frances Levine
Director, New Mexico History Museum, Museum of New Mexico
Division of Cultural Affairs, Historical Archaeologist, Anthropologist and Historian; Author, “Our Prayers Are in This Place: Pecos Pueblo Identity Over the Centuries”; Recipient, Fray Atanasio Dominguez Award for Historical Survey, New Mexico Historical Society
Frontier Battles and Massacres: An Historical and Archaeological Perspective

March 10 Ricardo Cate’ (Santo Domingo Pueblo)
Artist, Humorist, Filmmaker, Stand-up Comic, Father, and Keeper of Kewa Heritage,
Radio Personality, and Cartoonist, ‘Without Reservations, Santa Fe New Mexican,
Living Life to the Fullest With Native Humor

$12 at the Door ~ or~ $100 for the Series of 10 Lectures