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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.

 

 

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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

Love-Joy: Winter Potluck – South Presbyterian Church: Rochester NY

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.


Classic 1959 White Cadillac In Veradara, Cuba.


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. 

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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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