This lecture is free and open to the public however pre-registration is required. Click here to register. Juan Quezada is a well-known ceramicist from the village of Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico, who spent his lifetime studying the rocks and minerals near his home. While Mr.Quezada’s contribution to the internationally renowned Mata Ortiz pottery tradition is […]
This Zoom lecture is free and open to the public, but you must preregister. To do so, click here. In our era of remote sensing archaeology and legacy datasets, multiple lines of evidence should be integrated to document a landscape-view of rapidly disappearing Indigenous landscapes. This study brings together several datasets derived from airborne lidar, satellite imagery, and […]
AAHS lectures by zoom and are free and open to the public. To register for this webinar, please click here. We surveyed 3,200 acres of a largely unstudied area extending north from Cave Creek between Perry Mesa and the Verde River basin on behalf of the Tonto National Forest (TNF). The results have exceeded our […]
Our Zoom lectures are free and available to the public, but you must preregister. To register, click here. Ancient DNA has transformed our understanding of the archaeological record and how people in the past interacted with one another. In this talk, I will discuss some of the most recent results from ancient DNA research in […]
AAHS Webinars are free and open to the public, but you must pre-register. When the Spanish collected Native historical accounts of the preconquest Toluca Valley for a series of 16th-century court cases, the Triple Alliance-Aztec conquest of the region, a generation earlier, featured prominently in local narratives. The Toluca Valley, immediately west of the […]
All Our Webinars are Free and Open to the Public but require pre-registration. To register, click here This webinar will present recent research results from the Hacienda Project in Teotihuacan, conducted in collaboration with Andrew Somerville of Iowa State University. We have been conducting a four-year project at the World Heritage site of Teotihuacan, Mexico, […]
This webinar is free and open to the public, but you must pre-register. To pre-register click here. Today, there is global interest in understanding how humans impact the soil and the implications of these impacts for environmental health and food production. Thousands of years of canal-irrigation farming in southern Arizona altered natural desert soils. […]
Our webinars are free and open to the public, but preregistration is required. To register, click here. Dating to the Epiclassic period (600-900 CE), La Quemada, Zacatecas, Mexico, was founded during the cultural florescence of the northern frontier of Mesoamerica, but the site was abandoned ca. 800-900 CE while neighboring hilltop centers persisted. Having previously […]
AAHS WEBINARS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. TO REGISTER CLICK HERE. For much of the last century, archaeologists have endorsed a unidirectional model in which Ancestral Pueblo communities became increasingly invested in maize agriculture and more sedentary through time, and eventually, social, economic, and political differentiation between communities emerged. Few in-depth studies, […]
Our webinars are free and open to the public, but preregistration is required. To register, click here. This talk presents some of my dissertation work, which focused on the organization of architectural labor at Betatakin (Talastima) and Keet Seel (Kawestima) during the Tsegi Phase (AD 1250-1300). The goal of my dissertation was to identify whether […]
