'Taos Archaeological Society

ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE RIO GRANDE:

A COLLABORATION

Conference Schedule

Friday, May 1, 2015

1:00—3:00 Board Meeting -- Pinion
3:00—4:30 Rock Art Council Meeting -- Pinion
4:30 Certification Meeting -- Pinion
3:00—7:00 Registration -- Lobby
5:30—7:00 Reception/Cash Bar — Lobby Posters & Vendors – Chamisa II

Saturday, May 2, 2015

7:30—11:00 Registration & Field Trip Signup Lobby
8:30—9:00 Welcome & Announcements
9:00—4:30 Presentation of Papers
11:30—1:00 Lunch on your own
1:00—1:45 ASNM Annual Meeting
5:30—6:30 Social Hour/Cash Bar - Chamisa II
6:30—7:30 Banquet and Awards
7:30—8:30 Bandelier Lecturer
8:30—9:00 Announcements

Sunday Trips, May 3, 2015

Middle Box Rafting
Orilla Verde Float Rafting
Taos Junction Site & La Vista Verde Trail Hike
Wells Petroglyph Preserve Tour
Baahku Site Tour
Pot Creek Site Tour & Museum
Taos Pueblo - Santa Cruz Feast Day
Hacienda de los Martinez
Millicent Rogers Museum

Program

Our conference theme, ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE RIO GRANDE: A COLLABORATION, reflects the interaction among Federal, State, Academic, Conservancy, and Avocational Archaeology in the Taos Valley, home of the newly designated (2013) Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. You will hear about Archaic, Pueblo, Plains Indian, Spanish Trail, Mining archaeology and more, including popular presenter, Ted Frisbie.

Adler, Michael -- Associate Professor of Anthropology, Executive Director, SMU-in-Taos

Reassessing Ancestral Pueblo in the Northern Rio Grande: New Perspectives from Pot Creek Pueblo

Alldritt, Phillip—Instructor of Archaeology and Anthropology, UNM-Taos

Public Archaeology: The Taos Junction Bridge Project

Boyer, Jeffrey—Project Director, New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies

Tanoan Is to Love ‘Em: Time-Mapping the Tanoan World

Dicks, Merrill –Cultural Resources Lead, BLM Taos

Nomads and Farmers in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument

Fowles, Severin –Associate Professor of Anthropology, Barnard and Columbia University

On the Identification of Ute, Comanche, and Jicarilla Rock Art in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument (With a Bit of Handwringing Over Kiowa, Navajo, Pawnee, Shoshone, Cheyenne, etc., etc.)

Frisbie, Theodore –Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

Why Chaco?

Henderson, Mark – Owner, Chupadero Archaeological Resources

Prinz, Rachel Preston –President, Archinia

The Old Spanish National Historical Trail—Legislative Fact, Archaeological, Historical, and Architectural Fiction

MacKenzie, Janet—Project Coordinator, Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project

Lost on the Way: Recording Trails on Mesa Prieta

Whitley, Catrina Banks—Research Associate, Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico

The Mundane and the Sacred: An Unexpected Shrine at Baakhu Archaeological Site near Arroyo Seco, New Mexico

Bandelier Speaker

Skip Miller

Forest Archaeologist and Tribal Relations Lead on the Carson National Forest

"Pottery and What It Tells Us About the Early Settlements of Taos"

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MICHAEL ADLER Reassessing Ancestral Pueblo Populations in the Northern Rio Grande: New Perspectives from Pot Creek Pueblo"

PHILLIP ALLDRITT Public Archaeology: The Taos Junction Bridge Project"

& CJ JOHNSON

JEFFREY BOYER Tanoan Is to Love 'Em: Time-Mapping the Tanoan World"

MERRILL DICKS Nomads and Farmers in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument"

SEVERIN FOWLES On the Ute, Comanche, and Jicarilla Rock Art in the Rio Grande del Norte (With a Bit of Handwringing over Kiowa, Navajo, Pawnee, Shoshone, Cheyenne, etc., etc.)"

THEODORE FRISBIE Why Chaco?"

MARK HENDERSON The Old Spanish National Historical Trail: Legislative Fact -

PRESTON-PRINZ Archaeological, Historical, and Architectural Fiction"

JANET MACKENZIE Lost on the Way: Recording Trails on Mesa Prieta"

CATRINA WHITLEY The Mundane, the Sacred, and the Arrival of the Summer People: An Unexpected Shrine at the BaahKu Archaeological Site near Arroyo Seco, NM"