Events

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

Pecos Trail Café 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Lecture. Stephen Post (Museum of New Mexico, Office of Archaeological Studies). 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 […]

11th Century Turkey Management in the Mimbres Valley

Pecos Trail Café 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Lecture. Sean Dolan (Los Alamos Laboratories). For nearly two millennia, people in the US Southwest and Mexican Northwest have maintained a significant relationship with turkeys, a bird they domesticated for […]

Archaeology and the Tibetan/Himalayan Afterlife

Pecos Trail Café 2239 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Streaming lecture. Mark Aldenderfer (Archaeological Institute of America). 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 […]