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The Fall 2024 Program will be held at the Kit Carson Board Room at 7pm.
October 7
Paul Reed
Paul Reed has been a Preservation Archaeologist with Archaeology Southwest since 2001. He is based in Taos, New Mexico and still works as the occasional Chaco Scholar at Salmon Ruins, New. Reed’s most recent writing is an edited book (with Gary M. Brown as co-editor) entitled Aztec, Salmon, and the Pueblo Heartland of the Middle San Juan, published in SAR Press’ Popular Series in 2018. He also served as editor (and author of several chapters) on Chaco's Northern Prodigies: Salmon, Aztec, and the Ascendancy of the Middle San Juan Region After AD 1100, published by the University of Utah Press (2008). Reed was also editor (and author of several chapters) of the three-volume, comprehensive report entitled Thirty-Five Years of Archaeological Research at Salmon Ruins, New Mexico published in 2006. His other books – The Puebloan Society of Chaco Canyon (2004) and Foundations of Anasazi Culture (published in 2000; as editor and author) have explored the origins of Puebloan culture and Chaco Canyon.
During the last six years, Reed has been working to protect the Greater Chaco Landscape from the effects of expanded oil-gas development associated with fracking in the Mancos Shale formation. Through a series of meetings and forums with public officials, Tribal leaders, various US Government agencies, and New Mexico’s Congressional delegation, Archaeology Southwest and its partners have focused on expanding protections to sites, traditional cultural places, and fragile landscapes in the greater San Juan Basin. The most recent effort on this front is to partner with the Pueblo of Acoma to complete a focused ethnographic study of Acoma’s connections to the Greater Chaco Landscape.
Among his other interests, Reed leads tours to Salmon and Aztec Ruins, Chaco Canyon, the Chuska Valley, and the Navajo Country, and gives public presentations on different topics in southwestern archaeology and history. Reed has conducted fieldwork and research in the Southwest for more than 30 years. From 1993 to 2001, Reed directed a roads archaeology research program for the Navajo Nation Archaeology Department, Farmington, New Mexico. Reed completed his Bachelor of Arts (1986) and Master of Arts (1989 in anthropology and archaeology) degree at New Mexico State University.
TOPIC
American archaeology has been in the midst of a transition for many years. Long-suppressed and ignored viewpoints are finally seeing light and interpretations are broadening. In particular, archaeologists are working with Indigenous peoples with new and innovative approaches to understanding the past. As a result, archaeology is changing, although the pace of change can be described as slow. In this presentation, I offer an example from work that I’ve undertaken in New Mexico over the last 15 years. By working with different Indigenous groups, we have increased our understanding of ancestral land use and the great time-depth of connections to Chaco Canyon, Petroglyph National Monument, and other special places across the landscape. This work has also revealed the limitations of a Western-based, colonial approach to the past and illustrates the need for more comprehensive changes to our discipline.
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: $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.
For more information, or to send documents, please contact Paul Mcguff at pmcguff@aol.com
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