Diversity in the Heart of New Mexico – Alex Arnold

Pecos Trail Cafe 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico

:For centuries, central New Mexico hosted people from many different backgrounds. From the Plains people to Pueblo people, Spaniards to settlers expanding west and more, the blending of cultures in […]

Who Owns the Water Here? – Mac Watson

Pecos Trail Cafe 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico

An illustrated narrative of how the water in the Santa Fe River has been administered since 1609 with a focus on our Water History Park and Interpretive Center.

The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits – Donna Seifert

Pecos Trail Cafe 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Case studies from various nineteenth-century sites where material culture reveals evidence of prostitution, including a brothel in Five Points—New York City’s most notorious neighborhood—and parlor houses a few blocks from […]

Zuni Region in the Post-Chacoan Era – Keith Kintigh

Pecos Trail Cafe 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Abstract to come. Keith Kintigh Keith W. Kintigh is an American anthropologist and professor emeritus at Arizona State University. He specializes in quantitative archaeology and the archaeology of the Southwestern […]

Archaeology and the Tibetan/Himalayan Afterlife – Mark Aldenderfer

Pecos Trail Cafe 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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 […]