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When:
March 6, 2018 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
2018-03-06T15:00:00-07:00
2018-03-06T17:00:00-07:00
Where:
Eric S. Dobkin Boardroom, SAR
660 Garcia Street
Santa Fe
NM
Contact:
Isis Bennett
(505) 954-7245

Course Description:
The 1100s to 1400s were a crucial time in the prehistoric American Southwest. The Chacoan world, a great power in the 1000s AD, unraveled, leaving decimated communities, violence, hunger, and refugees. Most of those refugees fled to the uplands in the 1100s. Then climate changes forced them to again reorganize. This course focuses on climate, well-being, methods of food production and the dynamics of change in communities, whose inhabitants learned that values of community and efficiency were more important than political and economic power. We will see and discuss parallels to current America.

Course Leaders:
David Stuart is an internationally recognized anthropologist whose most cited books are Prehistoric New Mexico, Anasazi America, The Guaymas Chronicles, and the recently released Ancient People of the Pajarito Plateau. He earned his PhD in anthropology from the University of New Mexico (UNM) and served many years at UNM as associate provost for academic affairs. Stuart served as acting president of SAR and has been a lecturer there and in Edinburgh, London, Mexico City, and the Sorbonne in Paris.

Rory Gauthier retired from the National Park Service after more than thirty years working as an archaeologist, curator, and interpreter, along with ten years in law enforcement. During his park service years, he was assigned to Bandelier National Monument, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Glen Canyon National Recreational Area, Petrified Forest National Park, and El Morro and El Malpais National Monuments. He has also worked on a number of archaeological projects throughout the southwestern US for the University of New Mexico and the Museum of New Mexico. His archaeological interests have focused on the northern Rio Grande region and the subjects of pueblo agricultural traditions and pueblo migrations and adaptations. He is currently working with Aspen Cultural Resource Management Solutions in Santa Fe.

David Stuart and Rory Gauthier are co-authors of the ground-breaking work Prehistoric New Mexico.

Dates, Times, and Places:
Tuesday, February 27, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Dobkin Boardroom
Wednesday, February 28, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Dobkin Boardroom
Tuesday, March 6, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Dobkin Boardroom
Wednesday, March 7, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Dobkin Boardroom

Friday, March 9, field trip to the Pajarito Plateau with Rory Gauthier for class participants. Costs and details for the trip to follow.

Cost: $300 for members; $350 for nonmembers.

Click here to register.

If you would like to become an SAR member and receive a discount to attend this class and other benefits, click here.