SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
NATIVE VOICES 2012

A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE
MONDAY EVENINGS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE

August 6 Dr. Severin Fowles
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College/Columbia University, New York and
Author, The Making of Made People: The Prehistoric Evolution of Hierocracy Among the
Northern Tiwa of New Mexico
A Thousand Years of Counterculture in the Northern Rio Grande

August 13 Dr. Christopher B Donnan
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Author, Moche Fineline Painting: It’s Evolution and Its Artists, Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru, Royal
Tombs of Sipan, Moche Tombs at Dos Cabezas, Ceramics of Ancient Peru, Moche Art of Peru: Pre-Columbian Symbolic Communication, and Chotuna and Chornancap: Excavating an Ancient Peruvian Legend.
Dressing in Splendor: The Moche of Ancient Peru

August 20 Dr. Suzanne Shown Harjo (So. Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee)
Founding Trustee, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Founder and President,
The Morning Star Institute, Washington, D.C. Poet, Activist, Legislative Analyst,
Author, The Ancient Cheyenne; Former Executive Director, National Congress of American Indians
Guest Curator & Editor, NMAI Exhibit (upcoming) Treaties: Great Nations in Their Own Words;
In My Heart and On My Mind

August 27 J. Homer Thiel
Research Archaeologist, Desert Archaeology, Inc. Tucson, Arizona
Author, ‘Early Farming Settlements Along the Santa Cruz River’; Early Ceramic and Hohokam Periods
in Downtown Tucson’; ‘Historic Era Farming’; ‘Sister Amelia’s Crucifix’
Life on the Pimeria Alta Frontier

September 3 Dr. Maxine E. McBrinn
Archaeologist, PaleoCultural Research Group and Affiliate Faculty, Metropolitan State
College of Denver; Co-Author w/L. Cordell, Archaeology of the Southwest (In Press).
Ancient Marriage Patterns & Material Culture in the N. Southwest: A Pueblo/Fremont Case

September 10 Dr. Payson Sheets
Professor of Anthropology and Archaeologist, University of Colorado
Co-editor (w/J. Cooper), Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, Answers from Archaeology;
Author, ‘Warfare in Ancient Mesoamerica’. ‘Armageddon to the Garden of Eden:
Explosive Volcanic Eruptions and Societal Resilience in Ancient Middle America’;
Before the Volcano Erupted: Surprisingly Rich Lives of Ancient Maya Commoners at Ceren, El Salvador

September 17 Karl W. Laumbach
Archaeologist and Associate Director of Research and Public Education
Human Systems Research, Inc. and Author, ‘Firefight at Hembrillo Basin’
Hembrillo: An Apache Battlefield of the 1879-1880 Victorio War

September 24 Larry Dalrymple
Author, Indian Basketmakers of the Southwest, Indian Basketmakers of California and
The Great Basin; former Research Associate, School of Advanced Research; Arts and Crafts Judge:
Santa Fe Indian Market, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts;
Tohono O’odham Basket Weaver’s Association; Heard Museum, Phoenix
Translating Basket Traditions in the Southwest: From Ancestral Pueblo to Present

October 1 Dr. Keith M. Prufer
Archaeologist, Mayanist and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Univ. of New Mexico
Co-Author (w/W.J. Hurst), ‘Chocolate and the Underworld Space of Death: The Recovery of Intact Cacao from an Early Classic Maya Mortuary Cave’; (w/J.E. Brady), ‘Caves and Crystalmancy: Evidence for the Use of Crystals in Ancient Mayan Religion’; Co-Editor (w/J. E. Brady), Stone Houses and Earth Lords: Maya Religion in the Cave Context; In the Maw of the Earth Monster: Studies of Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use.
Climate and Environmental Change in Mayan States: Development and Decline

October 8 Dr. Keith M. Prufer
Archaeologist, Mayanist and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Univ. of New Mexico
Co-Author (w/W.J. Hurst), ‘Chocolate and the Underworld Space of Death: The Recovery of Intact Cacao from an Early Classic Maya Mortuary Cave’; (w/J.E. Brady), ‘Caves and Crystalmancy: Evidence for the Use of Crystals in Ancient Mayan Religion’; Co-Editor (w/J. E. Brady), Stone Houses and Earth Lords: Maya Religion in the Cave Context; In the Maw of the Earth Monster: Studies of Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use.
Mayan Cave Cosmology

$12 at the Door or $100 for the Series of 10 Lectures