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TAS MONTHLY SPEAKER

NOVEMBER 4   WEDNESDAY  7:00pm

KIT CARSON BOARD ROOM ON CRUZ ALTA ROAD IN TAOS

Paul Reed has been a Preservation Archaeologist with Archaeology Southwest since 2001. He is based north of Taos, New Mexico. In 2022, Reed and award-winning filmmaker David Wallace produced a short documentary film: Protecting Chaco's 10-mile Zone. The film was awarded a Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter regional Emmy in Nov. 2023. Reed works extensively with southwestern Pueblos and Tribes to protect landscapes and elevate Indigenous voices. Among Reed’s 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.

Topic

What Makes Chaco Canyon Special ?

Archaeology Southwest Chaco Canyon’s massive sites, beauty, and mystery need little introduction for literate audiences in the American Southwest. Less well known, though, are the complexity and diversity of Pueblo sites in Chaco. We interpret Chaco primarily by looking at great houses such as Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ketl, Pueblo Alto, and the other dozen sites. Because of this approach, it is critical that we understand how the great houses were used and how other sites in Chaco Canyon were part of the settlement system. In this paper, I will dig into these issues and go beneath the surface to explore the uniqueness and magic of the ancient Puebloan society headquartered at Chaco Canyon.

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