SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
ANCIENT SITES, ANCIENT STORIES 2012

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January 9 Dr. Carla M. Sinopoli
Curator of Asian Archaeology and Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan andAuthor, Pots and Palaces: The Earthenware Ceramics of the Nobleman’s Quarter, Vijayanagara;Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics; The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empirein South India, c. 1350-1650 A.D.
Far Horizons: Scale, Society and Complexity in 1st Millennium B.C. South India

January 16 Adriel Heisey
Aerial Photographer, Pilot, and Author In the Fifth World: Portrait of the Navajo Nation; From Above,
Images From a Storied Land Under the Sun: A Sonoran Desert Odyssey
From the Source of the Rio Grande to El Paso

January 23 Dr. Robert Dello-Russo
Archaeologist and Deputy Director, Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico
Paleo-Indian Ecology: The Early Holocene at Water Canyon in West Central New Mexico

January 30 Dr. Shelby J. Tisdale
Director, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico
And Author, Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection;
and Spider Woman’s Gift: 19th Century Dine’ Textiles
Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest

February 6 Stephen Post
Archaeologist, Project Director and Deputy Director (ret.) Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico and Author, ‘Ancient Santa Fe: Ten Thousand Years of High Desert Living’ in (David G. Noble, ed.) Santa Fe: History of an Ancient City
Santa Fe Archaeology Past and Future: Recollections and New Direction

February 13 Dr. Charlotte Beck
Professor of Anthropology, Hamilton College, New York Co-Author (with George T. Jones), ‘Archaic Times’ in (Don and Catherine S. Fowler, eds.) The Great Basin: People and Place in Ancient Times
Colonization of the Americas: An Alternative View

February 20 Dr. Willow Roberts Powers
Ethnohistorian, Research Associate, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
And Author, Navajo Trading: The End of an Era
In Labyrinths of Beauty: Anglo Researchers and Navajo Healing Ceremonies

February 27 Dr. Timothy Kohler
Regents Professor of Anthropology, Washington State University
External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute; Research Associate, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.;
Director, Village Ecodynamics Biocomplexity Project, National Science Foundation
Prehistory of the Pueblo Peoples: How We Learn and What We Know

March 5 Dr. J. McKim Malville,
Professor Emeritus, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences,
University of Colorado; Co-Author (with Claudia Putnam), Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest; ‘Ancient Space and Time in the Canyons’, in Canyon Spirits: Beauty and PowerIn the Ancestral Puebloan World (essays with S.H.Lekson); Author, ‘Moonrise at Chimney Rock’(in Journal for the History of Astronomy);
Chaco Canyon: The Enigmas of Fajada Butte and the Symbolism of the Center

March. 12 Dr. Norman Yoffee
Professor Emeritus , Departments of Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan;
Senior Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University; Author, Myths of the
Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations; Co-Editor (with GL Cowgill),
The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations; Editor, Cambridge World Archaeology; Negotiating
the Past in the Past: Identity, Memory and Landscape in Archaeological Research; Co-Editor (with
Patricia McAnany), Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the
Aftermath of Empire
It Ain’t Necessarily So: What Happened in Mesopotamia and What Didn’t

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