SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
ANCIENT SITES AND ANCIENT STORIES II

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

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

March 21 Dr. Stephen H. Lekson
Curator of Archaeology, Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology, Jubilado, 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
The Fall of Paquime: Last Great Southwestern City

March 28 Matthew Barbour,
Archaeologist and Site Director, Jemez Historic Site, Department of Cultural Affairs and Research Associate, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico; 2014 Recipient, City of Santa Fe Heritage Preservation Award for Excellence in Archaeology
May 28, 1862: Glorieta Battlefield Graves and Their Story Told

April 4 Dr.Kurt Anschuetz
Archaeologist, Rio del Oso Anthropological Services, LLC; Co-Founder and Board Member, Rio Grande Foundation for Communities and Cultural Landscapes; Collaborator: Acoma Pueblo Mt. Taylor Traditional Cultural Property Nomination and Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; U.S. Justice Department Water Cases
A Contested Landscape: Tewa, Keres, Tano & Spanish Homelands of Las Bocas Canyon

April 11 Dr. Eric Blinman
Archaeologist and Director, Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico
Former Acting Director, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture; 2007 Colloquium Participant, hosted by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, ‘Past Climate Change: Human Survival Strategies’,
A Contested Landscape: Galisteo Basin Archaeology, Archaeologists, Migration Models

April 18 Dr. Timothy Maxwell
Archaeologist and Director Emeritus, Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico,
Department of Cultural Affairs; and President, Santa Fe Archaeological Society.
The Lower Rio Chama Valley: Its Unique Prehistoric Farming Techniques

April 25 Dr. Katherine A. Dungan
Preservation Archaeologist and Postdoctoral Scholar, Archaeology Southwest, Tucson, Arizona
Rectangular Great Kivas and Borderland Histories in the Central SW: 1000-1400 AD

May 2 George Crawford
Director Blackwater Draw National Historic Landmark Site and Museum and Staff Archaeologist
Ice Age New Mexico Archaeology Past and Present at Clovis/Blackwater Draw

May 9 Dr. Payson Sheets
Archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology and Collsege Professor of Distinction, University of Colorado; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Author, The Ceren Site: An Ancient Village in Central America Buried by Volcanic Ash
Secrets of the Maya Revealed: El Ceren, El Salvador & Loma Caldera Eruption, 650 AD

May 16 Dr. Hannah Victoria Mattson
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico; Author, ‘ The Social Value of Ornaments from Pueblo Bonito and Aztec Ruin’, Society for American Archaeology 2015 Conference Presenter; and ‘Ornaments, Mineral Specimens, and Shell Specimens from the Pueblo Bonito Mounds’, in The Pueblo Bonito Mounds of Chaco Canyon: Material Culture and Fauna, (P. Crown, ed., in press)
Personal Ornaments from Chaco Canyon and Aztec Ruin:Social Identity, Ritual Practice and Demographic Reorganization

May 23 Joan E. Price
Research Associate, Jornada Research Institute, Founder and Co-Director, Rainhouse Foundation, Author, Material Traces of the Rainhouse: Anthropology and Archaeology Investigations of a Native American Landscape in the Tularosa Basin
Jaguar Petroglyphs in the Jornada Moggollon

May 30 Dr. Christopher Roos
Archaeologist and Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Southern Methodist University
Fire, Climate, and Society in the Southwest: Ancient Lessons for Modern Problems

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