Beneath an Ancient Neighborhood: Archaeology and History in the Barrio de Analco, Santa Fe – Stephen Post

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  For more than 900 years, humans have left their mark on the neighborhood on the south side of the Santa Fe River known as Barrio de Analco. Within the Barrio de Analco, conclusive physical evidence of its past residents often has been difficult to uncover. The vague traces left by Ancestral Puebloan, Hispano, Mestizo, […]

Recent Research at the Abó and Quaraí Units of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument – Emily Brown

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Aspen CRM Solutions recently completed archaeological surveys of the monument units surrounding the Tompiro pueblo of Abó and the Tiwa pueblo of Quaraí at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument near Mountainair, New Mexico, both of which contain the remains of a large pueblo and a Spanish Colonial mission.  The occupation sequences for both are now […]

Archaeology and the Tibetan/Himalayan Afterlife – Mark Aldenderfer

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Virtual Lecture Although historians and Tibetologists since the early 20th C have collected and interpreted religious documents describing in general terms rituals of death and safe passage to the afterlife among the early peoples of the Himalayas, the archaeological record offered little insight into them. But recent research by archaeologists across the region have made […]