SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
APRIL VOICES 2025

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

A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE

April 7 Dr. Laurie Webster
NOTE:  Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Independent Scholar of Southwestern Textiles and Perishable Material Culture; Co-Editor,(w/P. Drooker) Beyond Cloth and Cordage: Archaeological Textile Research in the Americas; Author, Collecting the Weaver’s Art: The William Claflin Collection of Southwestern Textiles;Co-author, Navajo Textiles: The Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
White Dog Hair Textiles in the Ancient Southwest

April 14 Paul F. Reed and Kevin Whitefeather (Taos Pueblo), B.A.
Paul: Preservation Archaeologist & New Mexico Director, Archaeology Southwest; Co-Editor (w/G.M. Brown), Aztec, Salmon, and the Pueblo Heartland of the Middle San Juan; Editor & Chapters Author: Chaco’s Northern Prodigies: Salmon, Aztec, and the Ascendancy of the Middle San Juan Region After AD 1100; and Thirty-Five Years of Archaeological Research at Salmon Ruins, New Mexico; Editor/Author: The Puebloan Society of Chaco Canyon and Foundations of Anasazi Culture. Recently completed an ethnographic study in partnership with Acoma Pueblo of its connections to the Greater Chaco Landscape for protection/conservation from extraction. Kevin: Founder of Whitefeather Cultural Tours, focus on history and culture of Taos Pueblo. Education: Santa Fe Indian School, New Mexico Military Institute, University of New Mexico. Resides at Taos Pueblo living on land inherited from his father, Jimmy Morningtalk.
Healing the Divide Between Indigenous People and Archaeologists           

April 21 Dr. Jakob W. Sedig                                                                                                                   Senior Archaeologist, Chronicle Heritage and Co-Editor, Kiva: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History; Archaeology Projects: Chimney Rock, Mesa Verde, Casas Grandes;  and Upper Gila River Valley (Woodrow Ruin)-to better define transitional Mimbres phase when people moved from below-ground pit houses into above ground pueblo room blocks; Ancient DNA (aDNA): Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Ethics & Outreach Officer, Reich Laboratory of Medical & Population Genetics, Harvard Medical School-to bridge the gap between genetic and archaeological approaches while ensuring ethically conducted research practices. Current work combines Mimbres archaeology and aDNA, examining if and how Mimbres society was organized around familial lineages and population movement of from the Mimbres region at the end of the Classic period.                                                 Ancient DNA Research in the Americas: Key Findings from the Last Decade

April 28 Dr. Luis Alberto Borrero*
Professor Emeritus, University of Buenos Aires and Researcher Emeritus, National Council for Scientific & Technical Research (CONICET-Argentina); International Member, American Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences; former Vice-President, International Council for Archaeozoology and Board Member, Society of American Archaeology (SAA). Co-Author (w/G.G. Politis), The Archaeology of Patagonia and the Pampas. Specialization: archaeology of hunter-gatherers particularly in relation to colonization of new lands; Recognized for his work in the process of human peopling of South America and early human arrival to Patagonia in Tierra del Fuego: Ultima Esperanza Sound and Pali Aike Volcanic Field; Directed field projects in little studied areas: Lago Argentino, Cape Virgenes, and San Sebastian Bay. Study process of cultural divergence of human populations that started when Tierra del Fuego was cut-off from the mainland during the Early Holocene and characteristics of the process of human dispersal. Recognition for work on bone taphonomy: human, terrestrial and marine mammals.  Recipient, Award for Scientific and Technological Research in Social and Human Sciences, Argentine Ministry of Education; Award for Excellence in Latin American and Caribbean Archaeology, Society for American Archaeology (SAA); Born in Rio Gallegos, Patagonia; grew up in several Argentine cities.
On Both Sides of the Strait: Recent History of the Fuego-Patagonian Indigenous People

*Made possible  with travel assistance provided by The Archaeological Conservancy

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