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TAS MONTHLY SPEAKER

DECEMBER 16  WEDNESDAY  7:00pm

KIT CARSON BOARD ROOM ON CRUZ ALTA ROAD IN TAOS

WEDNESDAY December 16, 2026

Andrew Gulliford

Andrew Gulliford is a professor of history at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Gulliford received the National Individual Volunteer Award from the U.S. Forest Service, and a certificate of recognition from the Secretary of Agriculture for “outstanding contributions to America’s natural and cultural resources.” He is an award-winning author and editor whose books include Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale; Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions; and The Woolly West: Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscapes. He has won the Colorado Book Award three times, the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award twice, and the Wrangler Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction from the National Cowboy Museum & Heritage Center in Oklahoma City. His most recent book is Lonesome Landscapes: Stories from National Conservation Lands.

 

TOPIC

The topic tonight will discuss the ongoing situation in Bears Ears regarding the reduction of land area and threats to the environment from a drastic increase in mining claims that will permanently scar this sacred landscape.

Registration has begun for the ASNM Meeting in Taos.

May 7-9, 2027

To the Membership of the Taos Archaeological Society,

We are pleased and excited to inform you that the Taos Archaeological Society will be hosting the 2027 Meeting of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico Annual Meeting May 7-9, 2027 at the Sagebrush Conference Center here in Taos.

 

A brief itinerary of this event includes:

 

Friday May 7, 2027

 

130pm- 300pm      ASNM Board Meetings

400pm-600pm      Meet and Greet Sagebrush Patio Bar

 

Saturday May 8, 2027

 

900am-400pm     Archaeology Lectures

900am-600pm     Vendor Tables and Poster Viewing

900am-500pm     Silent Auction

630pm-800pm      Key Note Speaker Dinner

 

Sunday May 9, 2027

 

Field Trips to Taos Area Sites

 

More details to come. Thank you.

The TAS Officers

Archaeology of the Taos Valley and Northern Rio Grande

 

Paul Reed: Working with Indigenous Groups in Northern New Mexico

 

Catrina Banks Whitley:  BaahKu: The Final Results

 

Andrew Gulliford: La Estrella del Pastor—Hispano Sheepherders from New Mexico and Colorado: Culture, Tradition, and Sheepscapes

Istara Freedom:  “Susto into Sustenance, a Genízaro Identity”

 

John Taylor-Montoya:    San Cristobal Survey 2026

 

Lindsay Montgomery and Melanie Cootsona:

Kin-scapes: Rethinking Human-Landscape Relationships in the Ancestral Southwest

 

Deni Seymour: When Archaeology Joins Center-Stage in Coronado Expedition Studies

 

Matt Boulanger:  “Abandoned Projects, Citizen Scientists, a Global Pandemic and Beyond; The Taos Valley Settlement Survey Rehabilitation Project”

 

Key Note Speaker:  Dr. Severin Fowles  Picuris Project: Today and Tomorrow

 

 

ASNM Fieldtrips 27

Bandelier trip                                                    If Rain Out

Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Hike                  Millicent Rodgers Museum

Rio Grande Del Norte Trail                      Martinez Hacienda

Middle Box Raft Trip                                  Taos Pueblo

Picuris   Site and Museum

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Field Trips 2027

Upcoming TAS Sponsored Trips 2027

Available for Sign up Now at taoscuba@hotmail.com

Limited Space

RESCHEDULED   Maxwell Curation Visit 10am-12noon / OAS 300-430pm FREE

                          

    Sitewatch information and forms have moved here

 

 TAS Virtual Lecture Series:

                              Click Here to watch recorded presentations.

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.

Contact admin@Taosarch.org