Santa Fe Archaeological Society

Tour to Puebla,, Cutzalan and Mexico City
2024-02-20 - 2024-02-29 | New Mexico
JOURNEYS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Rosa R. Carlson
49 VERANO LOOP SANTA FE NEW MEXICO 87508
505 310 1863
info@journeys-international.com carlsonrosa@hotmail.com

TOUR BEGINS
Puebla (Elev. 7,027 ft.) or La Puebla de Los Ángeles is famous for its colonial architecture, for having the best Mexican cuisine in all of México and for its refined Talavera Ceramics. It was founded in 1531; just ten years after the Spanish conquered Tenochtitlán (México City). The colonial site of Puebla played a major role in the history of New Spain and Mexico. Its urban design, which dates to the 16th century and was inspired by the Renaissance, influenced the development of other cities in the New World. After enjoying prosperity in the 18th century, Puebla became the site of a series of confrontations in the 19th century. In particular, it was the site of most of the popular struggles related to the establishment of Independent Mexico and the revolutionary movement of 1910. It was the site of the famous battle of Cinco de Mayo (5th of May), 1862 in which a 6,000 strong French invading army was defeated by a mixed force of 2,000 Mexican military and peasant troops.
Day 1 February 20 – Tuesday – Puebla B L
All participants will convene at the Mexico City no later than 1.30pm.
2.00pm – Transfer from Mexico City Airport to hotel in Puebla – Overnight
Day 2 February 21 – Wednesday – Puebla B L
Breakfast is served after 7am
9.00am – Meet in the lobby – walking tour
12.30pm – Lunch in the historic center TBD
1.45pm – Visit Museo Amparo
3.45pm – Rest of the afternoon is free
Today our walking tour of Puebla will begin with the Cathedral of Puebla, consecrated 1649. It has the tallest towers in Mexico, an altar screen designed by the Spanish Baroque sculptor, Juan Martinez Montañés, sacristy paintings by the Mexican Baroque artist, Cristóbal de Villalpando, and a magnificent freestanding altar canopy in the neoclassical style. We will also visit the fabulous Capilla del Rosario, with sculpted and gilded gesso walks atop stunning tilework, located in a side chapel of the 18th century Santo Domingo church. We will also see the Palafox Library and learn about the many colonial and tiled buildings in the historic center. After lunch, we will visit the excellent Amparo Museum, which is housed in two linked colonial buildings. The museum holds a superb collection of historic artifacts from many of Mesoamerica’s indigenous civilizations and we will learn about their production techniques, regional and historical context and anthropological significance. The next rooms are filled with the finest art and furnishings from the colonial period.
Day 3 February 22 – Thursday – Puebla B L
Breakfast is served after 7am
10.00am – Departure for Cacaxtla
12.45pm – Lunch in Huejotzingo or Puebla
2.40pm – Departure for Puebla
4.00pm – Arrival in Puebla
We leave Puebla to visit the hilltop ruins at Cacaxtla (600-1000 C.E.). These ruins – Olmec and Maya – were discovered in 1975 and have been meticulously excavated. The most important artifacts are the numerous, beautifully colored murals. They feature vividly colored and well preserved frescoes showing, among many other scenes, nearly life-size jaguar and eagle warriors engaged in battle. On the way to Puebla we will visit Huejotzingo, known for its cider and serapes; it has a fine 16th century plateresque-style monastery, with old frescoes and excellent carved stonework.
Day 4 February 23 – Friday – Puebla B L
Breakfast is served after 7am
8.45am – Departure from hotel
9.30am – Arrival in Cholula
11.45am – Departure for Tonantzintla
12.15pm – Departure for Museo Internacional Barroco
1.15pm – Lunch at the museum and visit
4.30pm – Return to hotel
This morning we will head out of Puebla to visit the town of Cholula. In 1519, Cholulas’s population had reached 100,000. Cortés, having made friends with the Tlaxcalans, traveled here atMoctezuma’s request. Aztec warriors set an ambush, but unfortunately for them, the Tlaxcalans tipped off Cortés about the plot and the Spanish struck first. Within one day, they killed 6,000 Cholulans before the Tlaxcalans looted the city. We will visit the Cholultecan pyramid of Tepanapa – said to be the largest in the world. Later we will visit the small Templo de Santa María at Tonantzintla, one of the most amazing examples of poblano popular baroque. Our next stop will the Museo Internacional del Barroco. Designed by the team of 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Toyo Ito, the museum for art, literature, music, and fashion celebrates the grandeur and drama of
the 17th and 18th century. For next day excursion please note: We suggest you leave your main luggage at the hotel and just take a smaller bag for our overnight excursion to Cuetzalan del Progreso.
Day 5 Feb 24 – Saturday – Cuetzalan B L
Breakfast is served after 7am
9.00am – Check out and departure from hotel
12.30pm – Arrival in Cuetzalan del Progreso
1.00pm – Lunch at hotel
2.30pm – Visit to Yohualichan
Upon arrival in Cuetzalan del Progreso, we will relax and enjoy the gardens of the Posada Cuetzalan. After lunch we will visit the nearby archaeological site of Yohualichan (House of Night). This site is located 4.5 miles from Cuetzalan del Progreso. Yohualichan and the larger nearby city of El Tajín both reached a cultural and political epoch during the Classic period (200 CE to 650 CE) and are both believed to have been constructed and populated by the Totonac people. With the end of the Classic Period, the nomadic Chichimecas begin migrating into the modern-day Valley of Mexico around the year 1200. From then on, Yohualichan would come under pressure from these migratory tribes and would begin to fall into a gradual decline.
Cuetzalan del Progreso (Elev. 3,250 ft.) is a delightfully vivid Nahua village, with narrow, winding streets and red-roofed houses, in a warm, humid region. The local Nahua and Totonac Indians, who speak Nahuatl like most of the indigenous people of the central highlands, set up a very colorful market on Sunday. You can find a wonderful variety of products including ripe plum tomatoes,
guavas, black beans, tomatillos, bunches of cilantro and mint, pineapples, tiny, dried shrimp, and many varieties of chilies. There are aisles of fresh flowers and fresh poultry and pork. All this right next to all the beautiful embroidered blouses, shawls, huipils and other woven goods made locally. Soon, in the atrium of the church, the “voladores” or Totonec flyers will set up to begin a ceremony declared a Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Day 6 February 25 – Sunday – Puebla B L
Breakfast buffet is served from 7am to 12pm
8.30am – Walk to the market
12.30pm – Lunch at hotel
2.00pm – Departure for Puebla
5.30pm – Arrival in Puebla
This magical town (Pueblo Mágico), a designation given to particular towns by reason of their natural beauty, cultural riches or historical relevance, offers wonderful opportunities for photography, drawing or painting. You will have plenty of time of enjoy the market and appreciate the Voladores ceremonies. After lunch we will return to Puebla.
Mexico City Site of the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, Tenochtitlán was Mexico’s biggest ancient city and the capital of what was probably Mexico’s largest pre-Hispanic empire. Cortés finally arrived on November 8, 1519 to this great city of over 200,000 people. At that time the Valley of Mexico contained perhaps 1.5 million people, making it one of the world’s biggest and densest urban areas. On the 13th of August 1521, a brig, commanded by Captain García Holgín pursued a great canoe, which was carrying Cuahtémoc (the Mexica leader after Moctezuma’s death) and his family who were attempting to reach the shore of the lake. They were captured. After a siege of about three months, the city was totally destroyed, and this ended the dominance of the Mexica and marked the beginning of the Spanish Colonial period. The National Palace (the official location of the Presidential offices), was constructed by Cortés immediately after the conquest was complete, built directly on the site of Moctezuma’s principal Palace.
Day 7 February 26 – Monday – Mexico City B L
8.30am – Check out of our hotel in Puebla and departure
11.15am – Arrival at Teotihuacan
1.15pm – Lunch in Teotihuacan
2.30pm – Depart to La Villa de Guadalupe
3.30pm – Visit Basilica de la Virgen de Guadalupe
5.00pm – Arrival at our hotel in Mexico City
After our early departure our first stop will be at the ancient city of Teotihuacán, one of the largest and most impressive archaeological sites in the Americas. Recently archaeologists completed the excavation of a deep underground tunnel closed for 1,800 years and containing over 75,000 artifacts. During the city’s heyday it was Mesoamerica’s most powerful social and political hub. The structures were built between 100 B.C. and A.D. 250, and accommodated 200,000 people at its height, rivaling its contemporary, Rome. Whatever civilization produced Teotihuacán lasted roughly until the 7th century A.D., but despite its technological complexity left behind no writing system. Around A.D. 750 the city was abandoned and set afire, perhaps in a war with a smaller rival city. The pyramids, citadel, temples, palaces, plazas and paved streets remained deserted and forgotten until the Aztecs arrived in A.D. 1200. We also visit the Sanctuary and Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Over 20 million people visit her annually and the new Basilica built in the 1970´s holds over 50,000 people who can attend mass every hour on the hour, 24 hours a day. Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City

Day 8 February 27 – Tuesday – Mexico City B L
Breakfast buffet is served from 6.00am to 10.00am
9.00am – Meet at the lobby for our walking tour of the city
12.30pm – Lunch
1.45pm – Continue our walking tour
4.00pm – Return to hotel or explore on your own
Our day starts close to our hotel where we begin the walking tour at the National Palace. Originally one of Hernán Cortés’s many residences; the palace was built on the site of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II’s castle and rebuilt in 1628. Here we will see one of Diego Rivera’s best-known murals on the walls above the palace’s central staircase, depicting his vision of Mexico’s history. We continue to the Metropolitan Cathedral, the largest colonial cathedral in the Americas, built partially on the ruins of the Templo Mayor. The Cathedral took 2-1/2 centuries to complete, from 1573 to 1813, and the quantity of artistic detail is almost impossible to fully absorb. The Altar de los Reyes houses a 25-meter-high golden retablo of ornate baroque complexity, and each of the 14 side chapels hold impressive artistic works. Next we will visit the Great Temple of Tenochtitlán. The excavated site of the holiest shrine of the Aztecs, which was razed by the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century, has been partially reconstructed in the last 30 years. At one time it consisted of a
walled complex of 78 buildings built on different levels, crowned with two tall pyramids. Today the excavated site covers four city blocks and includes an archaeological museum with a display model of the Aztec city and some 7,000 artifacts found at the site.
Day 9 February 28 – Wednesday – Mexico City B L
Breakfast buffet is served from 6.00am to 10.00am
9.30am – Meet in the lobby for the walk to the Franz Mayer Museum
10.00am – Guided visit
12.00pm – Transfer to the National Museum of Anthropology
12.20pm – Lunch at the museum
1.45pm – Tour of the museum
4.00pm – Return to hotel
We will take a delightful walk from our hotel through some of the streets of the historic center as we head towards the Franz Mayer Museum. The museum, located in an eighteenth-century building, houses the finest collection of decorative arts in Mexico. Mr. Mayer was born in Mannheim,
Germany, he moved to London and the United States before arriving in Mexico in 1905. In 1920, he married María Antonieta de la Macorra and later became a widower without descendants. He became a Mexican citizen on December 29th, 1933. One of the objects of the collection is a
magnificent “biombo” or screen, depicting the scenes of the “The Night of Sorrows” when the Spanish and their native allies were driven out of Tenochtitlan. After lunch we will transfer to the National Museum of Anthropology where we see superb archaeological exhibits from early
Mesoamerican societies — beginning with the Teotihuacanos, Toltecs, Olmecs, Zapotecs, and others right up to the Aztecs — as well as ethnological displays on Mexico’s current Amerindian groups — including the Huichol, Cora, Purépecha, Otomi, Nahua, and different groups from the Sierra de Puebla, Oaxaca, and Gulf of Mexico regions. Apart from its treasures, Pedro Ramirez Vasquez’s building itself is an impressive work of art, with its understated exterior and dramatic central patio.
Day 10 February 29 – Thursday – Mexico City B
Breakfast buffet is served from 6.00am to 10.00am
TOUR ENDS
HOTELS
Puebla – Hotel Isabel Unico
Cuetzalan del Progreso – Posada Cuetzalan
Mexico City – Hampton Inn Centro Histórico
• PROGRAM INFORMATION
• INCLUDED
• Accommodations in Puebla, Cuetzalan del Progreso and Mexico City
• Porterage of one bag person
• Breakfast buffet daily and 8 lunches
• Transportation throughout by chartered bus, as indicated in the itinerary
• Entrance fees to all sites indicated in the itinerary
• English-speaking local guides
• NOT INCLUDED
• International airfare
• Tips to driver and guides
• TOUR COST
• Per Person Sharing A Room – Double Occupancy – $2,150.00
• One Person In A Room – Single Occupancy – $2,425.00
• Tour is priced based on a minimum of 18 participants
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SFAS TOUR Feb.2024 – Mexico

Looking at the Protection of History and Archaeology in Santa Fe - Dr Tim Maxwell
2024-01-16 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
An overview of the development of historic architectural styles protections and the creation of the city’s archaeological ordinance, the first of its kind in the nation.
Dr. Tim Maxwell

Dr. Tim Maxwell is Archaeologist, Emeritus Director, Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico; Field Archaeologist, Abiquiu Reservoir, School for Advanced Research; Co-Author, City of Santa Fe Archeological Ordinance; Joint U.S./Mexican Casas Grandes, Chihuahua Archaeological Research Project; Fulbright Research Scholar (Mexico); Member, New Mexico Cultural Properties Review Committee

Who Owns the Water Here? - Mac Watson
2023-11-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
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 Ripple Effect of Imperialism – Understanding Foodways, Community and Identity on the Margins of an Empire - Laura Steele
2023-10-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
Imperialism has a dramatic impact on the lives of directly colonized and subjected peoples. Scholars have demonstrated that this impact takes a variety of forms depending on the proximity of the imperial center, imperial goals, the surrounding geography, and abundance of natural resources, among other factors. Limited research has focused on how Indigenous peoples on the borders of empires responded to imperial processes. Laura’s talk explores the effects of imperialism on Indigenous peoples living along the frontier of the Spanish expansion in what is known as west-central Argentina. Her research focuses on Indigenous identity and uses food as a proxy for identity to investigate how Indigenous peoples adapted to, resisted, and/or benefitted from imperial expansion in this region. She analyzes animal bone material to reconstruct Indigenous foodways through time and document shifts in meal preparation. She also uses radiocarbon dating to construct a timeline of events in this region. Her work contributes to ongoing research related to the impact of imperialism on marginalized groups in the past and how this contributes to current events.
Laura Steele
Originally from the Mojave Desert of southern California, Laura Ward Steele is a PhD candidate at the University of New Mexico. She received her BS from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and her MA from Eastern New Mexico University. Laura has worked as an archaeologist in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and in Mendoza province, Argentina. She is currently a faunal analyst for Parametrix, Inc., an adjunct instructor at Laramie County Community College in Laramie, Wyoming, and a graduate assistant in the Anthropology Department at the University of New Mexico. Also, Laura recently completed working with a research team at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation surveying homeless and housing insecure youth across southern and eastern New Mexico.
Laura’s dissertation research at the University of New Mexico explores how imperialism impacted Indigenous peoples who lived on the southern borders of both the Incan and Spanish empires in what is known today as west-central Argentina. Her project examines the ongoing effects of imperialism on Indigenous peoples living in this region. She investigates how these Indigenous peoples responded to, resisted, and/or benefited from the imperial expansion that began in the mid-1550s. Moreover, she focuses on Indigenous identity and how Indigenous peoples maintained their identity through food. Laura has earned multiple grants and fellowships for her current research, including through the Latin American Iberian Institute (LAII), the Graduate Student and Professional Association, and the Anthropology Department at the University of New Mexico. In 2020, she was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholar Award to live and work in Argentina for nine months, and she is currently a Latin American Iberian Doctoral Fellow through LAII.
Laura cares deeply for the Indigenous peoples she works with and for those in her surrounding communities. She advocates for and helps women seeking careers in the sciences and careers of their choosing. Through archaeology, she seeks to empower the women around her to tell their own stories and write their own meaningful narratives about their histories. In the future, she hopes to broaden the scope of her research to collaborate with current peoples living with food insecurity in the United States and Argentina.

Guided Tour of Abo' - Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
2023-09-23 09:30 - 11:30 | Abo Mission, 69 Ruins Rd, Mountainair, NM, 87036, United States
Please join us on September 23rd at 9:30 AM for a tour of the Abo’ site located near Mountainair., New Mexico. The tour will last about one hour and will be led by Alex Arnold, Chief of Interpretation and Visitor Service for the National Monument. The group will meet at 69 Ruins Rd, Mountainair, New Mexico.

Diversity in the Heart of New Mexico - Alex Arnold
2023-09-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
: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 the area shaped the diversity that lives on to this day.
Program description: PowerPoint presentation of the people that settled in and around Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument with a section devoted to the park and its resources.
Alex Arnold
: My name is Alex Arnold, I am 25 years old and was born and raised in southwestern Pennsylvania. I began volunteering for the National Park Service as an Interpretation and Visitor Service volunteer at 13 years old at Friendship Hill National Historic Site. I remained a volunteer throughout school until I turned 18 and became a seasonal Interpretive Park Ranger at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. I attended college at California University of Pennsylvania and obtained a B.A. in history with minors of event planning and tourism studies and a B.A. in Parks and Recreation Management. Throughout my university career, I was a seasonal park ranger at five different units of the National Park Service between Pennsylvania, Kansas, Maryland, and New Jersey. Just about a year after graduation, I landed my first permanent position at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. Currently, I am serving a detail promotion as Chief of Interpretation and Visitor Service at that park.

Cliff Dwelling Architecture and Mesa Verde National Park - Larry V. Nordby
2023-04-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
Larry V. Nordby
Field Director, Archaeological Site Conversion Program
National Parks Service (Retired)
This presentation will focus on cliff dwelling research done from the late 1990s up until the present. Much of the work was done at Mesa Verde National Park, but work was also done at many other sites, such as the upper and lower cliff dwellings at Tonto National Monument, Inscription House at Navajo National Monument, at White House and Mummy Cave in Canyon de Chally. Activities entailed condition assessment, site stabilization, and intensive documentation, generally in support of two research models: the social dimensions and scale of the architecture, and the construction methods used to convert alcoves into homes.

The Archaeology and Reconstruction of the Lake Champlain Steamboat Phoenix II
2023-03-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
As the fifth passenger steamboat to operate on Lake Champlain between Vermont and New York State, Phoenix II, built in 1820, was once known as the fastest boat in the world. Traveling between St. Jean-sur-Richelieu in Quebec, and Whitehall, New York, for seventeen years, the sidewheel steamers career was colored with a variety of events, including carrying the first fatal dose of Cholera into the United States in 1832. In 1837, the old and worn-out wooden hull was retired to Shelburne Shipyard, where it was scuttled in the shallow harbor. An archaeological investigation of the hull from 2014 to 2016 revealed that only the very bottom of the hull remained intact, but what was left was in a good state of preservation and could tell much about how the vessel was constructed. Excavation of key components of the hull, including the bow, five frame sections, the stern and rudder, allowed archaeologist to reconstruct how the boat was built, and interpret what it might have looked like despite the absence of iconographic evidence. The archaeology revealed that the hull was built much more robustly than what was necessary for an inland body of water like Lake Champlain. Its reconstruction shows that the tubby steamboat was much more simply designed than later passenger steamers and indicates that shipwrights had not yet realized the full potential of hull design as a method of increasing overall speed.
AIA Lecturer – Carolyn Kennedy
Carolyn Kennedy is a nautical archeologist with a focus on North American maritime history. She received her Master’s and PhD from Texas A&M University’s Nautical Archaeology Program where her thesis and dissertation examined the hulls of four 19th-century steamboats in Lake Champlain, Vermont., analyzing how their designs differed and developed over the course of the century as shipbuilders sought to create the ideal hull for the novel steam propulsion. Ater graduating, Dr. Kennedy spent a year as a research associate using cutting-edge laser-scanning technology to document the disarticulated timbers from three historic shipwrecks in Alexandria, Virginia, and reconstructing the ships digitally to better understand their original design and use. Currently, she is co-directing the Gaspe Maritime Archaeology Project, launched in 2019, which seeks to study the maritime heritage and nautical archaeology of early European colonization and subsistence activities of eastern Quebec and Canada. I addition to her interests in the historical and maritime archaeology of Canada and the United States, her research specialties and teaching interests also include public archaeology, analytical archaeology, and the conservation of archaeological materials.

Cultural Continuity and Change in the Upper Pecos Valley: The Archaeology of Pecos National Historical Park
2023-02-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
Jeremy M. Moss, Chief of Science and Resource Stewardship/Archaeologist, Pecos National Historical Park (NHP), National Park Service
Currently, Jeremy is the Chief of Science and Resource Stewardship/Archaeologist at Pecos National Historical Park in New Mexico, where I’ve served for 10 years. He holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico and MA from the University of Wyoming.
Jeremy has worked for the National Park Service for 25 years in archaeology, cultural and natural resource management, and historic preservation. Over the last 18 years he has worked in the preservation of historic adobe architecture. During his career he has also worked at Canyonlands NP, Chaco Culture NHP, Glen Canyon NRA, Petroglyphs NM, Saguaro NP and Tumacácori NHP.
Pecos Pueblo was occupied for over six hundred years and was a gateway community connecting the Plains and the Rio Grande Valley. The allure, mysteries, and myths of Pecos have fascinated archaeologists since Bandelier first recorded the site in 1881. The cultural connections to modern Pueblo groups make it an interesting place to explore cultural continuity and to assess the legends and lore that first drew archaeologists to Pecos at the turn of the 20th century. The presentation will summarize the history of archaeology at the site, future avenues of research, and the many cultural connections that bind modern Pueblo groups to Pecos Pueblo.

CANCELLED - Los Luceros – Revealing the Hidden Gem of New Mexico - Rebecca Ward
2023-01-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
Los Luceros was designated a historic site in 2019 which preserved 148 acres of towering Cottonwood Trees, rolling agricultural fields, incredibly preserved historic buildings, a delightful apple orchard, four miles of traditional acequia ditches, and a bosque full of wildlife… all sitting on the bank of the beautiful Rio Grande. Carly hopes to demonstrate why this site is so special to so many people by covering the site’s history through its present programs and projects. It is time to excavate this “hidden gem” and reveal its importance and beauty for all to admire!
Rebecca Ward
Rebecca Ward is the Instructional Coordinator for Los Luceros Historic Site. She started at Los Luceros in February of 2020 as the site ranger and became the main site history researcher during the site’s closure to the public from March 2020 to February 2021. Once Los Luceros reopened to public visitation she gave tours, answered research requests, and created the current interpretive signage in the buildings. Rebecca has a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from the University of Oklahoma. She has volunteered and worked for the National Park Service at Mesa Verde National Park, Petroglyph National Monument, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, and Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, and she has also worked for the 501c3 Private Non-Profit Washakie Museum and Cultural Center in Worland, WY. Rebecca’s focus at Los Luceros may have changed to working primarily with children by giving school tours and doing virtual classroom visits but she still shares the history and beauty of Los Luceros every day!

A Comparison of Musical Instruments from the Prehispanic American Southwest and Paquimé, Chihuahua
2022-11-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
Musical instruments have been found at the Late Medio period regional polity of Paquimé in northern Mexico and in sites ancestral to Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest, but they have never been meaningfully compared. Paquimé’s occupation corresponds with the first half of the Pueblo IV period in the Southwest, a time when instruments were most numerous and diverse. Intriguingly, some instruments are found in both regions whereas others are not. I will summarize the types known for both locations and compare them, considering the social and physical contexts of their use.
Emily Brown
Emily spent her childhood in the house her father built north of Questa only a few miles from what would become the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, the subject of tonight’s talk. She remembers finding pieces of chipped stone and pottery in the neighborhood, and this along with family trips to places like Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde sparked an interest in archaeology at an early age. She double-majored in music and cultural anthropology as an undergraduate at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon but her interest in archaeology persisted and the summer after graduation she volunteered as an archaeologist at Bandelier National Monument. This led to a job with the National Park Service in Santa Fe doing archaeological work which confirmed that this was a career she wanted to pursue. After three years she went to Columbia University to complete her Ph.D., writing her dissertation on prehistoric musical instruments from the Southwest. She returned to the Park Service after finishing her coursework but left to establish her own cultural resource consulting firm in 2005. She lives with her husband and business partner in Santa Fe where they also garden and keep bees.

An Indigenous “Borderland?”: Reframing the Dynamic Late Prehispanic San Carlos Safford Area of Southeastern Arizona
2022-10-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
Thatcher A. Seltzer-Rogers, MS, RPA
PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Research Associate, Jornada Research Institute
President, Treasurer, and Webmaster, Archaeological Society of New Mexico
The San Carlos Safford Area of southeastern Arizona has historically received limited archaeological attention with recent mention only with respect to the arrival of Ancestral Pueblo migrants into southern Arizona in the late thirteenth century. Yet, despite this and the systematic destruction of sites during the early twentieth century with the expansion of floodplain agriculture, careful examination demonstrates the area held a sizable population with a dynamic history of political hierarchy, conflict, economic development, and population mobility. In this presentation, I synthesize these patterns and contextualize them as a strong example of an Indigenous borderland in the archaeological record.

The Importance of Chaco Canyon’s 10-Mile Protection Zone in the Greater Chaco Landscape
2022-09-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Pecos Trail Cafe, 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505
Paul F. Reed
The last year has been very eventful in the battle to protect the Greater Chaco Landscape from the encroachment of oil-gas development. Late last year, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the withdrawal of 351,000 acres of Federal BLM lands from oil-gas leasing in a 10-mile zone around Chaco Canyon and several Chacoan Outliers. This is the culmination of a nearly 10-year process. Other processes are moving forward, as well, including a comprehensive effort by Tribal Nations to understand their connections to the Greater Chaco Landscape. In this presentation, I’ll discuss recent progress and look into the future of Greater Chaco protection.
