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Taos Archaeological Society?
Next Speaker
LECTURE
Kit Carson Board Room 7pm
March 17, 2025 Monday
Kimberly Munro
New Mexico Highlands Professor
Dr. Kimberly Munro is an anthropologist and archaeologist who has dedicated most of her career to working in the central Andes. She is the director of the Cosma Archaeological Project, a long-term research project centered on understanding early religious architecture and sacred landscapes in the upper Nepeña River Valley, located in Ancash, Peru.
She earned a dual B.A. degree in Anthropology and Religious Studies from Florida State University and also holds a M.S. in Geography from FSU. She received her PhD in Anthropology from Louisiana State University in 2018, and started at New Mexico Highlands University in August of last year.
Presentation Synopsis:
This talk will cover some of the "adventure myths and legends" often associated with archaeologists like Indiana Jones and the ancient sites they explore. Specifically it will touch upon how popular culture and the media perceive and showcase ancient sites as "hidden temples" guarded by booby traps, curses and angry spirits, often removing or writing out the local, descendent communities from these stories. Segueing out of ancient temple adventure lore, this presentation will focus on the Cosma Archaeological Complex, a large multi-component site dating back to the Andean Late Preceramic Period (3000-1800 BCE) in North Central Peru. The site extends over 250 hectares and includes two multi-storied temple mounds, a megalithic hilltop fortress, domestic areas, agricultural terraces, above ground tombs, and carved stonework. Excavations between 2014-2016 and 2023 revealed that Cosma functioned as a religious center. This talk will cover the general overview of the documentation of excavations within the site complex, as well as how the site continues to function and influence the modern day inhabitants of the Cosma basin, and how their myths, lores, and legends associated with the ancient mounds affect their everyday interactions with the landscape, and are more rooted in fact than originally realized.
Cuba
January 6-14, 2026
Tuesday
Depart ABQ
Arrive Miami
Wednesday
Depart Miami
Arrive Havana
Walking Tour
Inglaterra
Central Park
Thursday
Cuban Art Museum
Capitolio
Grand Teatro
Bacardi Building
Market
Friday
Day trip to Vinales
Soroa Gardens
Tobacco Farm
Saturday
Cristobal Colon Cemetery
Parque John Lennon
Plaza of the Revolution
Sunday
Museum of the Revolution
El Morro
Beach
Monday
Santaria Tour
Callejon de Hammel
Fuster Art Studio
Hotel Nacional
Tuesday
Hemingway House Museum
Cojimar
Wednesday
Depart Havana
Arrive ABQ
Trip Cost: $2950.00
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.
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