This will be a long, one-day Saturday field trip, June 25, touring Pueblo I-era sites in the San Juan Basin with Tom Windes, a retired archaeologist from the National Park Service. We will visit two clusters of sites near Pueblo Pintado and near Chaco Canyon. The sites represent the small settlements that are the 9th […]

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 public perception of the ancient Maya. In part, this new view is due to both the significant increase in archaeological studies in the Maya area […]

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 (moderate difficulty) we will view the pueblo itself, fieldhouse structures, agricultural features, local shrines, a world shrine, petroglyphs and two large lithic fields that date […]

Ulysses Reid, of Zia Pueblo, will lead a strenuous morning hike of Jemez River Valley agricultural field terraces (2-3 hours, round trip) near Zia Pueblo, followed by lunch and an exhibition of arts and crafts at the Pueblo. The cost of the trip is $85 for FOA members, and $95 for non-FOA members. Spaces are […]

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 to retrieve macrobotanical material from soil samples, then a brief description of the most common plants recovered and their uses. Pam will also relate stories […]

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 deny) models of language history. But historical linguistics is relevant to archaeological models of deep culture history, and language is an important part of current […]

We will caravan to the town of Nuevo Casas Grandes in our private vehicles and stay at the Hotel Hacienda while we make day trips to surrounding archaeological sites. We will also visit the famous pottery-making village of Mata Ortiz, home of Juan Quezada, the originator of the Mata Ortiz pottery tradition. Cost and exact […]

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 world many times. However, the recovery work continues, and on this UNESCO World Heritage site, one can see also the loci of continued excavation and […]

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 presidial barracks behind the Palace of the Governors. Based on the artifacts recovered and features present within the circular structure foundation, it was interpreted as […]

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 505.982.7799 ext. 6.

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 September 1 at 505.982.7799 ext. 5.

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/.