March 2021
John R. Roney & Robert J. Hard – “Early Agriculture and Collective Action in the Southern Southwest”
This lecture will be presented on zoom by AAHS@Home. It is open to the public but preregistration is required. As far as we know, corn was the earliest cultivated plant in the Southwest. It was introduced from further south in Mexico no later than 2100 BC, and perhaps much earlier. By 2000 BC it was widely dispersed in the Southwest, and for several millennia afterwards it seems to have been grown casually by people who continued to follow lifeways largely…
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Lisa Young – “Sharing an Ear of Corn: An Archaeologist’s Perspective on the Role of Food in Community Collaborations”
Collaborative collaborations, especially with descendent communities, have become an important and vibrant component of archaeological projects.Engagement with community members commonly occurs during the fieldwork and analysis components of a project.What happens when the project is completed? How can archaeologists maintain connections with their community partners, especially in contexts where substantial distances separate them?In this talk, I share my perspective on the importance of food in nourishing collaborations that began over 15 years ago at the Homolovi State Park, near Winslow,…
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Evan Giomi – Eastern and Western Pueblo Divergence: A Study of Network Structure and Social Transformations
Archaeologists and ethnographers have long noted the many differences in the social organization of the Western and Eastern Pueblos. Describing these differences and understanding their history and origins has been a perennial topic in Southwest Archaeology. In recent years, the greater availability of big data has opened new avenues for examining this topic, and this lecture will present one such approach. I will explain how we have made use of social network analysis to understand the historical question of when…
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July 2021
Myles Miller – Five Millennia of Living on the Landscapes of the Jornada Mogollon Region of Southern New Mexico and West Texas
Four decades of archaeological research in the Jornada Mogollon region of southern New Mexico and far west Texas has revealed a rich record of past lifeways. Due to its marginal location and misperception that the archaeology of the region consists mainly of non-architectural hunter-gatherer sites, the prehistory of the region is often viewed as peripheral to developments in better-known and more archeologically visible culture areas of the US Southwest and Mexican Northwest (SW/NW). Recent research has negated such outdated views,…
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