Early Maize: A Trip Through Time and Space

  • 11 Sep 2018
  • 7:00 PM
  • Kit Carson Electic - 118 Cruz Alta Rd.

Location:  Kit Carson Electric - 118 Cruz Alta Rd, Taos

Date: September 11th (Tuesday) @ 7:00 PM

Speaker:  Dr. Bradley J. Vierra 

Subject:    Early Maize: A Trip Through Time and Space

Dr. Vierra received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1992. He is currently the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer at the Pueblo de San Ildefonso. Over the past forty years he has conducted pure and applied research in archaeology, most of which has been done in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. However, he has also worked in California, Washington, and Texas, as well as France, Portugal and Senegal. His research interests include hunter-gatherer archeology, stone tool technology, origins of agriculture, Archaic in the American Southwest and Mesolithic in Southwest Europe. The University of Utah Press recently published his edited volume entitled The Archaic Southwest: Foragers in an Arid Land. He has also edited the monograph From Mountaintop to Valley Bottom: Understanding Past Land Use in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, and co-edited a book with Dr. Bousman entitled From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America.

The talk will be entitled “Early Maize: A Trip Through Time and Space”. The lecture will visit archaeological sites that have provided the earliest evidence of maize from Mexico to the American Southwest.



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