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January 20, 2025
Frances Hayashiba UNM Professor
Frances Hayashida is an archaeologist who studies late prehispanic societies in the Andes. She has worked primarily on the north coast of Peru. Most recently, she co-directed, with Chilean and Spanish colleagues, an interdisciplinary, collaborative project on late prehispanic land use and the consequences of Inka rule in the high-altitude Atacama Desert. She is a professor of anthropology and the director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University and her PhD from the University of Michigan.
TOPIC
Water, Copper, Wak’as and Empire in the High-Altitude Atacama
How did prehispanic farmers make a living in the hyperarid, high-altitude Atacama Desert and how did their lives and landscapes change under Inka rule? Archaeologists from the University of New Mexico, the University of Chile and the Spanish National Research Council have collaborated to answer these questions for the upper Loa region of northern Chile. In this seemingly marginal landscape, Late Intermediate (ca. AD 1100 -1400) communities herded llamas, irrigated terraced slopes with spring-fed canals, and mined copper. When the Inka took over this region in ca. AD 1400 they built roads and administrative centers, intensified copper mining, and expanded irrigation agriculture. An explanation for these changes requires acknowledging, as the Inka and local communities did, the role played by powerful landscape beings (wak’as) in local life and imperial politics. Inka claims to water, land, and labor were reinforced and legitimated through their control and use of copper minerals, a substance essential for offerings to mountain wak’as, the source of water and hence of life in this hyperarid environment.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 8 TAS WINTER Pot Luck
St. James Episcopal Church on Gusdorf Road
5:00pm-7:00pm
Bring your favorite Seasonal dish or dessert. Wine, Beer, Juice and Water Provided. Watch for the Address in your emails.
Cuba
March 18-26, 2025
Tuesday March 18
Depart ABQ
Arrive Miami
Wednesday March 19
Depart Miami
Arrive Havana
Walking Tour
Inglaterra
Central Park
Thursday March 20
Cuban Art Museum
Capitolio
Grand Teatro
Bacardi Building
Market
Friday March 21
Day trip to Vinales
Soroa Gardens
Tobacco Farm
Saturday March 22
Cristobal Colon Cemetery
Parque John Lennon
Plaza of the Revolution
Sunday March 23
Museum of the Revolution
El Morro
Beach
Monday March 24
Santaria Tour
Callejon de Hammel
Fuster Art Studio
Hotel Nacional
Tuesday March 25
Hemingway House Museum
Cojimar
Wednesday March 26
Depart Havana
Arrive ABQ
Trip Cost: $2850.00
Cost includes: All hotels (double occupancy) (single supplement $325.00), all meals (except travel days), Cuban visa, Cuban Health insurance, all ground transportation, all transfers, entrance fees, guiding and gratuities.
Not included RT ABQ To Havana, hotel in Miami, all beverages, meals on travel days.
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History of Taos Archaeological Society Project
An effort is currently underway to build a historical timeline of TAS events and history! We need your help!
The Taos Archaeological Society has operated for 34 years. In that time, many documents have been produced. Unfortunately, TAS does not have a complete record of documents produced and distributed.
We are in need of documents/publications that date from September 1999 through February 2014.
You can help by contributing:
Past bulletins, meeting minutes, financial statements, member lists, and other communications.
Thank you for your continued support of the Taos Archaeological Society.
For more information, or to send documents, please contact Paul Mcguff at pmcguff@aol.com
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