SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENT
ANCIENT SITES AND ANCIENT STORIES II

MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
LECTURES: 50 MONDAYS A YEAR

A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE
TO HONOR AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY

March 16 David Grant Noble
Archaeology Editor, In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma; The Mesa Verde World; Santa Fe: History of an Ancient City; Living the Ancient Southwest; Photographer and Essayist, In the Places of the Spirits and Author, Ancient Ruins of the Southwest; Pueblos, Villages, Forts and Trails; Recipient, Victor Stoner Award, Az. Archaeological Society (2003), Emil Haury Award, Western Nat’l. Parks Association (2011)
Living the Ancient Southwest

March23 Dr. Jeffrey M. Mitchem
Associate Archaeologist, Arkansas Archaeological Survey, Parkin Arkansas State Archaeological Park Editor, The East Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas
Incredible Journey of Hernando De Soto Through the Southeast: From Florida to Arkansas

March30 Dr. John A. Ware
Social Anthropologist and Former Executive Director, Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona,
Author, A Pueblo Social History: Kinship, Sodality, and Community in the Northern Southwest;
Former Director, Laboratory of Anthropology, SAR National Endowment for the Humanities
Resident Scholar, and Project Director, Office of Archaeological Studies;
Founding Director, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico
New Perspectives on Colonialism and Disease

April 6 Dr. David E. Stuart
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Author,
Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place; Pueblo Peoples on the Pajarito Plateau: Archaeology and Efficiency;The Ancient Southwest Chaco Canyon,  Bandelier and Mesa Verde; Co-Author (w/R. Gauthier) Prehistoric New Mexico
Decline of the Chaco World: The Risks of Growth

April 13 Larry L. Baker, M.A.
Archaeologist and Executive Director, Salmon Ruins and the San Juan County Museum Association
Co-Editor (w/ C. Irwin-Williams) Anasazi Puebloan Adaptation in Response to Climatic Stress: Prehistory
of the Middle Rio Puerco Valley; Co-recipient, (w/ Archaeology Southwest) New Mexico  Heritage Preservation Award (2009)
Navajo Defensive Sites in Dinetah

April 20 Sam DeVenney (Comanche)
Tribal Linguist, Comanche Nation of Oklahoma
My Comanche People Through Historic Photographs

April 27 Thomas C. Windes
Archaeologist, Chaco Project; Author, ‘Dendrochronology and Structural Wood Use at Pueblo del Arroyo, Chaco Canyon’, in Journal of Field Archaeology; A Bighorn Sheep Trap at El Malpais National Monument’, in The Kiva; Co-Author, (w/ S. Lekson, J. Stein and J. Judge) ‘The Chaco Canyon Community’, in Scientific American; Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico;
Research Associate, New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies
Ancient Structures of Southeast Utah Canyons

May 4 Dr. Stephen H. Lekson
Curator of Archaeology, Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology, Department 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; Former Editor, Kiva
Aztlan in the Southwest: Archaeology and History

May 11 Dr. Payson D. Sheets
Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Editor: Before the Volcano Erupted: The Ancient Ceren Site in Central America; Co-Editor (w/J. Cooper) Surviving Sudden Environmental Changes: Answers From Archaeology;(w/ D.K. Grayson) Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology
Did Climatic Change Bring Down Teotihuacan and the Wei Empire of China?

May 18 Dr. Thomas Dalton Dillehay
Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Culture and Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Research Professor, Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University
Author, The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory
Recent Archaeology of South America and Latest Research Findings from Monte Verde, Chile

May 25 Erik Otto Berg
Historian and Writer, Past President, Grand Canyon Historical Society, Recipient, Friends of Arizona Archive Award (2009) Speaker, Arizona Humanities Council and Author, ‘The Roads are for the Timid’, ‘High Hopes and Hard Rock’, both in Journal of Arizona History; ‘History Rides a Dead Horse’, in Sedona Magazine;, ‘Lindy’s Luck’, Arizona Highways
The Eagle and the Archaeologists: 1929 Lindbergh Aerial Photographic Survey of Prehistoric Sites

$12 at the door ~ or ~ $110 for the Series of 11 Lectures