SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
ANCIENT SITES AND ANCIENT STORIES II 2008

MONDAY EVENINGS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
OFFERED AS A BENEFIT FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY
A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE

March 17 Dr. Barbara Mills
Professor and Acting Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Archaeology of Social Memory and Materiality at Chaco Canyon

March 24 Dr. Douglas Schwartz
Archaeologist, Author, and President Emeritus,School for Advanced Research and the Human Experience
Research on the Edge of Splendor: Discovering Grand Canyon Prehistory

April 4 Dr. Sarah Schlanger
Associate State Archaeologist, Bureau of Land Management
The Same River Twice: Archaeology in a Changing Landscape

April 7 Dr. Steve Lekson
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Anthropology, Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado
Editor and Author; Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest; The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon; Salado Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico; Archaeology of the Mimbres Region (in press);Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon
Yellow Jacket, Pinnacle Ruin and Migration from Mesa Verde

April 14 Dr. Eric Blinman
Archaeologist and Director, Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico
Four Corners Migration: A View from the Rio Grande

April 21 John Roney
Archaeologist, Bureau of Land Management (Ret.)
Farmers, Foragers and Fighters: The Early Hilltop Villages of Northwestern Chihuahua

April 28 Susan Ryan
Research Archaeologist, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Chacoan Influence in the Northern San Juan Region:Using Albert Porter Pueblo as a Case Study.

May 5 David Grant Noble
Fine Art Photographer, Author and Editor,In Search of Chaco, New Perspectives on An Archaeological Enigma; Pueblos, Villages,Fortsand Trails:A Guide to New Mexico’s Past;New Light on Mesa Verde; Pecos Ruins; Ancient Sites of the Southwest;101 Questions About Ancient Indians
Mohawk Steelworkers of Manhattan

May 12 Dr. Jane Hill,
Anthropologist and Linguistics Scholar, Regents’ Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Arizona
Past President, American Anthropological Association
Who Brought the Corn? The Linguistic Prehistory of Maize in the Southwest

May 19 Dr. Michael Adler
Archaeologist and Associate Professor of AnthropologySouthern Methodist University
Ancestral Arson: Recent Research in the Northern Rio Grande

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