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 […]

11th Century Turkey Management in the Mimbres Valley – Sean Dolan

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

For nearly two millennia, people in the US Southwest and Mexican Northwest have maintained a significant relationship with turkeys, a bird they domesticated for their feathers, meat, and other resources. […]