SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
MARCH VOICES 2024MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE

LECTURES 50 MONDAYS A YEAR (ALMOST)
26 YEARS AND COUNTING

March  4 John Horning
Former Executive Director, WildEarth Guardians; Born and raised in Washington, D.C., grew up on a street which bordered Rock Creek Park, one of the wildest urban parks in the country, a childhood cultivating an appreciation for the solace of wild spaces and searching for salamanders, hearing Pileated wood peckers and watching fire flies light up summer evenings. Cultivated a life-long appreciation of Wallace Stegner, the writer and the man, at Colorado College. After biking around the country and working for a variety of environmental education & advocacy groups John joined the staff of what later would become WildEarth Guardians in 1994.
A Voice for the Voiceless: 30 Years of Service for the Wild

March 11 Dr. John Shea
Paleoanthropologist and Professor of Anthropology, Stony Brook University; An expert stoneworker his focus in on the role of stone tools in human evolution and the prehistory of Southwest Asia and Eastern Africa. His demonstrations of stone tool production and use are featured in numerous television documentaries and in the permanent exhibitions at Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Author, Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic of the Near East: A Guide; Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates; Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa: A Guide; and The Unstoppable Human Species: The Emergence of Homo sapiens in Prehistory.
The Unstoppable Human Species: A Survival Archaeology Perspective on Prehistory

18 Dr. Andrew Gulliford
Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Fort Lewis College; Editor, Preserving Western History; The  Last Stand of the Pack: A Critical Edition; and Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology, which celebrated the  50^th anniversary of the Wilderness Act; (recipient Arizona/New Mexico Book Award); The Woolly West; Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscapes; Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions; Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, 1885-1985 (winner, Colorado Book Award); and America’s Country Schools. Gulliford is widely known for teaching popular courses on wilderness, national parks, Western history and environmental history. His book on Bears Ears, the subject of our talk tonight, is Finalist for Best Book in Utah History, Utah Historical Society. Recipient (2016) Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency, Tres Piedras, NM.
Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge & Resistance

March 24  Dr. Jessica Munson
SPECIAL NOTE: SUNDAY (NOT MONDAY) AT HOTEL SANTA FE
Archaeologist and Associate Professor of Archaeology & Anthropology, Lycoming College; Director of Archaeology and Director for Altar de Sacrificios Archaeology Project (supported by Wenner-Gren Foundation); Her areas of expertise include Maya Archaeology, formative Mesoamerica, community organization, ritual writing, and architecture. Previous postdoctoral positions: University of California-Davis and Simon Fraser University; Co-Author, (w/V. Amati, M. Collard, M.Macri) ‘Classic Maya bloodletting and the cultural evolution of religious ritual: Quantifying patterns of variation in hieroglyphic texts’, in PLoS One; and (w/A.Kazuwo) ‘Ancient Maya obsidian exchange and chipped stone production at Caobal, Guatemala.’, in Mexicon; (w/M.Macri),‘Sociopolitical network interactions: A case study of the Classic Maya,’ in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
On Maya Inequality at the Altar de Sacrificios, Petén, Guatemala: Recent Investigations   

March 25 SPECIAL NOTE: NO PROGRAM ON MONDAY
We’re meeting on Sunday the 24th (see above)

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