April 22 - Lecture: School for Advanced Research "Skin Deep: Evolution of Human Skin and Skin Color," Nina Jablonski.
In an energetic, illustrated talk, anthropologist Nina Jablonski explores the unique aspects of human skin and its importance as a key element of human adaptation to an ever-shifting environment. Dr. Jablonski is a professor and head of the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She is a biological anthropologist with broad research interests and conducts research on the evolution of Old World primates, including humans, and is especially interested in how primates adapt to changing environmental conditions. This lecture is co-sponsored by SAR and The Leakey Foundation.
7:30PM
Lensic Theater, San Francisco Street in downtown Santa Fe
Additional information is available by calling SAR at 505-954-7203 or www.sarweb.org.
April 25-27 Annual Meeting: 2008 ASNM Annual Meeting
The 2008 annual meeting will be held in Farmington at the Best Western Inn & Suites, 700 Scott Ave., Farmington. Paul Reed will deliver the Bandelier lecture. Rooms are reserved starting Thursday, April 24th. rates are $79.00 for a single or double, $89.00 for a triple, and $99.00 for a quad. Two of the rooms are handicapped accessible, and more can be reserved if needed. The phone number is 505-327-5221. Maps of the area and contact information for additional hotels will be forthcoming.
May
May 13 - Lecture: Friends of Tijeras Pueblo Monthly Lecture Series, “Kuaua, Coronado Monument The New Deal and Indian Art: a Tale of ‘Innocent’ Arrogance,’” J. J. Brody.
As a child of the “Great Depression” Brody grew up knowing that lines between bureaucracies, the public good, and the road to hell are badly defined and permeable. For example, while governmental art programs should exist to support art to benefit a community, communities are complex and it can happen that a program which benefits one segment of a community might innocently insult another..
For example, in the late 1930s, four Indian men (Paul Goodbear, Velino Herrera, Willard Nash and Jose Rey Toledo) were hired with federal (WPA) money to help document kiva murals then being uncovered at the proto-historic Pueblo village of Kuaua in Bernalillo. Those men played important roles in helping to transform Kuaua into a monument to its conquerors.
This program will discuss those artists and their work at Kuaua and explore the “innocent arrogance” that conflated the pueblo with Coronado’s entrada.
J. J. Brody, is a professor emeritus of art and art history at UNM and former director of its Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. His research interests are in ancient and modern Native American art and he holds research appointments at the Maxwell Museum, the Museum of Indian Art and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology and the Indian Art Research Center of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe.
7pm
Sandia Ranger Station, Tijeras
May 20 - Lecture: Albuquerque Archaeological Society, "Excavations at the Fox Place," Regge N. Wiseman.
Excavations at the site called The Fox Place uncovered the remains of a prehistoric village of hunter-gatherers. It seems clear at this point that the people were in close contact with farming peoples to the west in the Ruidoso country and that this contact included economic interaction and some degree of religious proselytizing. This project is one of several in the Roswell region that is changing our perception of the Native American experience in that part of the state.
Regge N. Wiseman, a native of Roswell, was educated at the University of New Mexico and Arizona State University. He retired from the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe where he worked nearly 30 years as a contract archaeologist 7:30PM
Albuquerque Museum
May 23-26 - Conference: American Rock Art Research Annual Meeting
Farmington, New Mexico
Registration information at www.arara..org
June
June 17 - Lecture: Albuquerque Archaeological Society, "Ceramic Manufacture at Pottery Mound," Hayward Franklin.
Hayward received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Arizona. He worked as a Park Ranger at Mesa Verde for several summers. He then directed the ceramics lab at Salmon Ruins while teaching archaeology as Assistant Professor at Eastern New Mexico U. in Portales. In a separate but parallel life, he taught computer programming at CNM community college in Albuquerque for 21 years. Since retiring from teaching, he has returned to ceramic studies, currently examining the Pottery Mound collection. Currently, he is a Research Associate at the Maxwell Museum, UNM.
Identification of local vs. intrusive pottery is critical for inferences about processes of trade and exchange networks in the prehistoric Southwest. At the Classic Period pueblo of Pottery Mound, recent studies are identifying the characteristics of the clays and tempers of the locally dominant glazeware pottery. These materials in the pottery are then matched to naturally-occurring ceramic materials to determine resource utilization. Results show that reconnaissance in the vicinity of settlements can reveal many possible sources of ceramic (and other) raw materials.
7:30PM
Albuquerque Museum
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November 15 - Conference: 2008 NMAC Conference, "Migration or Emulation: Chacoan Presence in the Middle San Juan"
Hibben Center, UNM, Albuquerque
Dcember
Albuquerque Archaeological Society
P.O. Box 4029
Albuquerque, NM 87196
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