Office of Archaeological Studies

Join Santa Fe National Forest archaeologist, Mike Bremer, and National Park Service volunteers, Bill Davis and Jerry Cooke, on a tour of the Aguajes landscape. On the approximately 3-mile hike […]

Current scholarly understandings of Pre-Columbian Maya civilization are quite different from the traditional model of ancient Maya civilization that dominated the field of Maya studies until recently and still dominates

Paleoethnobotany can be the least understood and appreciated of the specialist studies within the field of archaeology. This talk will begin with a description of the water separation technique used

Language is not the most obvious of the data sources available to Southwestern archaeologists. We can’t hear the ancient ones speak, and there is no confident way to confirm (or

Barbara Chatterjee will present a lecture on the terracotta warriors of Qin Shi Huang. The images of the terracotta army standing in trenches near Xi’an, China have traveled around the

During the 2003 and 2004 excavations in advance of the New Mexico History Museum’s construction, the Office of Archaeological Studies discovered an eighteenth-century circular structure location north of the Spanish

Join us for the Office of Archaelogy’s annual holiday party and silent auction at Hotel Santa Fe. Proceeds benefit OAS projects.  Tickets ar $20. Reserve beginning October 6 by calling

Visit three prehistoric places: Ponsipa’akeri, the historic town Hupobi and El Rito.  This is a day of moderate hiking. $85 for Friends of Archaeology members, $95 for non-members. Reserve beginning

Learn to throw an atlatl, flint-knap and grind corn. Family-friendly event. Free, at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology. Check back for more info at http://www.nmarchaeology.org/.

Details coming soon. Admission is free and takes place the the Center for New Mexico Archaeology’s Library.