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Webinars: Indigenous Food Systems: Habitat Expansion and Environmental Co-Construction
Lyla June (Diné/Tsétsêhéstâhese) will discuss native food systems in pre-Columbian times. Through her doctoral work she has seen that a...
Lesson Plans Modules: Archaeology at Woods Canyon: Native American Perspectives, Eighth Grade Study Guide
In this study guide you will read about four Native Americans and their perspectives on the past and the present
Webinars: Colorado Ute History and Colonial Land & Water Appropriation
The history of how Colorado’s rivers were allocated, dammed, and diverted is inextricable from the history of US conquest in...
Webinars: Local Partnership, Regional Impact: Survey and Site Documentation in Cortez Cultural Center’s Hawkins Preserve
With the assistance of Archaeology Research Program participants, Crow Canyon recently completed 22 acres of survey in the Hawkins Preserve...
Webinars: Updates from the Northern Chaco Outliers Project
Drs. Kari Schleher and Kellam Throgmorton will be discussing the latest updates and research from the Northern Chaco Outliers Project...
Lesson Plans Modules: The Archaeology of Cactus Ruin: A Paper Excavation
The Archaeology of Cactus Ruin: A Paper Excavation is a lesson designed to teach students how archaeologists use sampling strategies to...
Webinars: The Memory of Water: Elements and Ancestry in Bears Ears – Part 1
Join us for a special two-part mini-series featuring author Craig Childs and Hopi archaeologist Lyle Balenquah. While trekking through beautiful...
Educational Video Series: Basketmaker Lifestyles
Educator, Paul Ermigiotti, introduces the archaeology of early farmers in the Mesa Verde region
Webinars: How Connected Was the Chaco World? A Social Network Perspective
Chaco Canyon was at the center of what archaeologists refer to as the ‘Chaco World,’ which includes hundreds of great...
Webinars: Macrohistory of Human Demography in the pre-Hispanic Greater Southwest
The pre-Hispanic Greater Southwest was characterized by cycles of demographic and organizational change. Large tree-ring datasets provide absolute chronologies for...
Site Reports: Identification Criteria for Plant Remains Recovered from Archaeological Sites in the Central Mesa Verde Region
Two databases that present descriptions and photographs useful in the identification of ancient plant remains collected from ancient Pueblo (Anasazi)...
Webinars: Worlds Forever Changed The Vázquez de Coronado Expedition to Central New Mexico, 1540–1542
In 1540, one of Spain’s largest sixteenth century explorations entered into the American Southwest in search of diplomatic ties and...

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