Correction April 11 - The Complexity and Diversity of Chaco Canyon

Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Speaker: Paul F. Reed, Preservation Archaeologist

Topic:  The Complexity and Diversity of Chaco Canyon

Paul Reed - UNM-Taos Professor of Anthropology and Preservation Archaeologist

Paul Reed is a Preservation Archaeologist with the Tucson, Arizona based Archaeology Southwest and works as a Chaco Scholar at Salmon Ruins, New Mexico. Reed has been employed in this position for 15 years. Reed has written multiple journal articles and reports over 30 years as an archaeologist. He completed work 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 in August 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 by the Center and the Salmon Ruins Museum. His other books -- The Puebloan Society of Chaco Canyon and Foundations of Anasazi Culture (as editor) have explored the origins of ancient Pueblo culture and Chaco Canyon. For the last two 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.