Across a Threshold: People, Animals, and Landscapes in Central New Mexico

The 2024–25 resident scholars of the School for Advanced Research present their research, in-person and online

Scholar Colloquium
Across a Threshold: People, Animals, and Landscapes in Central New Mexico, 1300–1950 CE

Emily Jones
SAR Weatherhead Fellow
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

The Tiguex War of 1540 marked the start of a dramatic socio-economic transformation of central New Mexico. Was this transformation a gradual process, with each step having a cumulative impact, or was the transition more of an abrupt change in environmental processes and/or species composition in a formerly resilient landscape?

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