SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
ANCIENT SITES, ANCIENT STORIES 2013

A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE
MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE

January 7 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,
A.D. 900-1300’ (M.A. Dissertation); Research conducted: Homo’olovi, Chimney Rock, Casas Grandes,
Black Mountain, and Woodrow Ruin.
An Atypical Mimbres Site: New Research at Woodrow Ruin, New Mexico

January 14 Dr. Vernon Scarborough
Distinguished University Research Professor and Charles Phelps Taft Professor, Department of Anthropology,
University of Cincinnati; Co-Author (w/F.Valdez) ‘The Prehistoric Maya of Northern Belize: Issues
of Drought and Cultural Transformations’, In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context (G. Iannone, Ed.)
The Wet and the Dry: Water Abundance and Ancient Social Complexity

January 21 Dr. Erin Debenport
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Ethnology
University of New Mexico and Author: ‘As the Rez Turns: Anomalies Within and Beyond the Boundaries of
a Pueblo Community’, American Indian Culture and Research Journal; ‘Comparative Accounts of
Linguistic Fieldwork as Ethical Exercises’, International Journal of Sociolinguistics
Pueblo Propriety, Lexicography, and Literacy

January 28 Dr. Laurie Webster
SPECIAL VENUE: Santa Fe Community Foundation Classroom – 501 Halona Street
Anthropologist, Textile Consultant; Visiting Scholar,Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona; Research Associate:
American Museum of Natural History and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center; Editor, Beyond Cloth and Cordage: Archaeological Textile Research in the Americas; Co-Author, Collecting the Weaver’s Art: The William Claflin Collection of Southwestern Textiles.
Textiles, Baskets, Hides and Wood: New Research of the Earliest Perishable Collections from Southeast Utah

February 4 Dr. Steven R. and Kathleen Holen
Steven: Curator of Archaeology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Author, ‘The Age andTaphonomy of Two Last Glacial Maximum Sites in the Central Great Plains: A Preliminary Report’,in Quaternary International; Kathleen: Director, Center for American Paleolithic Research and Associate in Anthropology, Denver Museum of N&S
The Early Peopling of America: From Time Immemorial

February 11 Dr. Emily Lena Jones
Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico Author,’ The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions: History and Current Trends’, in Archaeology Research Trends
End of a Golden Age: Changing Diets at the End of the Pleistocene in Southwest Europe

February 18 Jason Chuipka, M.A., R.P.A.
Archaeologist, PaleoWest Archaeological Consultants, Mancos, Colorado, Author, ‘Ridges Basin Excavations: The Sacred Ridge Site’, in Animas-La Plata Project and Contributor, ‘The Eastern Mesa Verde Region: Migrants, Cultural Diversity, and Violence’ in Crucible of Pueblos: The Early Pueblo Period in the Northern Southwest
Chimney Rock: The Ultimate Chaco Outlier: New Insights Into Form, Function, Time

February 25 Dr. Jeanne Brako
Curator, Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, Founder, Art Conservation Services and former Head Textile Conservator, Rocky Mountain Conservation, Center and Guest Curator, Woven to Wear Exhibition
The Durango Collection

March 4 Dr. Kelly L. Jenks
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Coordinator, Cultural Resource Protection Certificate Program, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, Author, ‘Tracing the Effects of Spanish Colonialism on the Plains-Pueblo Exchange’
Five Centuries of Cross-Cultural Contact and Trade: Pecos Pueblo ‘Gateway’ in Perspective

March 11 Rory Gauthier
Archaeologist, Bandelier Cliff Dwellings National Monument and Co-Author,(w/C. Herhahn) ‘Why Would Anyone Want to Farm Here?’, in The Peopling of Bandelier:New Insights from the Archaeology of the Pajarito Plateau (R.P. Powers, ed.)
Archaeological Site Intrusions and Pueblo Migrations: A View from Pajarito Plateau
Coalition Era Sites (1175-1325 CE)

$12 at the door ~ Or ~ $100 for the Series of 10 Lectures

Lectures 2013 – 50 Mondays a year