NMAC Calendar

Events and deadlines relevant to New Mexico archaeologists and archaeology enthusiasts.

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March 12, 2025

  • “Archaeology of the Southwest” 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart

    March 12, 2025  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

    “Archaeology of the Southwest” 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
    6:30 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time each Wednesday evening January 22 through April 23, 2024. $109 donation ($90 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society [AAS], Arizona Site Stewards, and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures. Donation does not include cost of the recommended text or of optional Arizona Archaeological Society membership.

    Archaeology of the Southwest is an introductory course that provides a basic overview of the US Southwest’s ancestral cultures. Its 14 evening class sessions will cover cultural sequences, dating systems, subsistence strategies, development of urbanization, depopulation of different areas at different times, and the general characteristics of major cultural groups that have lived in the Southwest over the past 13,000-plus years. Besides offering an up-to-date synthesis of southwestern cultures for anyone interested in the archaeology of the Southwest, the class can be taken for certification in the Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS) Certification/Education Program. (It is a prerequisite for certification in all of the AAS’s other courses offered.) Instructor Allen Dart is a registered professional archaeologist and executive director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. Minimum enrollment 10 people. For information on the AAS and its Certification program visit www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603.

    Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Monday January 20, whichever is earlier. To register or for more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or info@oldpueblo.org.
    IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity send an email to info@oldpueblo.org with “Send January-April class flyer” in your email subject line.

    -This is not an NMAC event series.

March 13, 2025

  • Terry L. Goedel: 9-Time World Hoop Dance Champion, Crow Canyon Webinar

    March 13, 2025  4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Using movement and sound, Terry tells the Native American Hoop Dancer story. His performances are multi-sensory, captivating, and inspiring. With a Master’s Degree in Education Administration, Terry has made teaching the focal point of the group’s mission, often turning his performances into interactive experiences by inviting the audience to ask questions. He takes great joy in sharing Hoop Dance in many different kinds of venues, from festivals, museums, wedding celebrations to professional conferences and school assemblies. By proudly introducing audiences to Native American dance, regalia, music, and histories, he encourages spectators to seek out their own personal stories and feel honor in who they are.

    For more info: https://crowcanyon.org/programs/terry-l-goedel-9-time-world-hoop-dance-champion/

    -This is not an NMAC event.

March 15, 2025

  • Preservation Archaeology Museum Curation and Survey Field School Application Due

    March 15, 2025

    “Preservation Archaeology Museum Curation and Survey Field School” sponsored by Archaeology Southwest, Western New Mexico University, and the University of Arizona, beginning with 3 days at Archaeology Southwest, 281 N. Stone Ave. and the University of Arizona, Tucson, then at the WNMU Museum, Fleming Hall, Silver City. June 10-July 21, 2025: Tucson, AZ & Silver City, NM

    Times TBA. Field school fees and university tuition rates apply.

    This archaeology course is focused on learning from archaeological museum collections and survey data to answer research questions. This approach combines elements of a traditional archaeological field school and a museum studies course, with participants spending spends time on both course components. Curriculum highlights include the practice of preservation archaeology, which integrates research, education, preservation, and engagement with Indigenous and local communities. Together, students and staff will explore ethically responsible and scientifically rigorous field and research methods while investigating compelling questions about our shared past. Students will research and catalog collections, now housed at the WNMU Museum, from Texas A&M University’s 1978-1989 archaeological field school collection from NAN Ranch Ruin, a large Classic Mimbres period (1000-1130 CE) pueblo in the Mimbres Valley. Archaeological survey experience on the NAN Ranch and experimental archaeology will provide essential training in locating and recording archaeological sites, and contextualizing the museum collections research. The field school begins with a three-day orientation to the principles of preservation archaeology in Tucson, with the remainder at the WNMU Museum in Silver City and in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico.

    Applications due March 15, 2025. Download flyer here. Download application here. For more information contact Archaeology Southwest at 520-882-6946 or info@archaeologysouthwest.org.

    -This is not an NMAC event.

March 18, 2025

  • HPD 2025 Cultural Properties Restoration Fund Grants Deadline

    March 18, 2025  5:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    The Historic Preservation Division (HPD) is pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 Cultural Properties Restoration Fund Grants Program.

    Eligible applicants: State agencies and political subdivisions of the state of New Mexico. (State agencies, universities, municipalities, towns, villages, counties, land grant associations, acequia commissions. etc.)

    Eligible projects: Restoration, preservation, stabilization, protection, and interpretation of significant cultural properties in New Mexico.

    Requirements: Cultural properties must be owned/managed by the state agency or political subdivision and be listed in, or eligible for listing in, the State Register of Cultural Properties or the National Register of Historic Places.

    Grant amounts: $5,000 - $250,000

    For more information:
    https://nmhistoricpreservation.org/programs/grants-cultural-properties-restoration-fund.html

    Or contact: Karla K. McWilliams, karla.mcwilliams@dca.nm.gov / 505.827.4451

    -This is not an NMAC grant.

March 19, 2025

  • A Building for New Mexico: The New Mexico Museum of Art 1917 Plaza Building

    March 19, 2025  9:00 am - 10:00 am

    The New Mexico Museum of Art’s 1917 Plaza building has held a special place in the architectural history of our state since it opened its doors. The first dedicated art museum in the state, it set the standard for Spanish Pueblo Revival Architecture, or Santa Fe Style. Join Head of Education, Chris Nail for an exciting exploration of this iconic building, the people and times that helped to create it and its influence on the architecture of New Mexico.

    This talk will be presented on Zoom

    Register Here: https://my.nmculture.org/32437/42706

    -This is not an NMAC event.

  • NAGPRA Training by the Jornada Research Institute

    March 19, 2025  9:00 am - 4:00 pm
    Bureau Of Reclamation, 555 Broadway Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA

    Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; one-day; Bureau of Reclamation Albuquerque Area Office; $90.00 ($80.00 for JRI members and students).

    For more information: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://jornadaresearchinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/NAGPRA-Syllabus.pdf

    Contact: jefferyhanson64@gmail.com to register.

    -This is not an NMAC training.

  • “Archaeology of the Southwest” 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart

    March 19, 2025  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

    “Archaeology of the Southwest” 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
    6:30 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time each Wednesday evening January 22 through April 23, 2024. $109 donation ($90 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society [AAS], Arizona Site Stewards, and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures. Donation does not include cost of the recommended text or of optional Arizona Archaeological Society membership.

    Archaeology of the Southwest is an introductory course that provides a basic overview of the US Southwest’s ancestral cultures. Its 14 evening class sessions will cover cultural sequences, dating systems, subsistence strategies, development of urbanization, depopulation of different areas at different times, and the general characteristics of major cultural groups that have lived in the Southwest over the past 13,000-plus years. Besides offering an up-to-date synthesis of southwestern cultures for anyone interested in the archaeology of the Southwest, the class can be taken for certification in the Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS) Certification/Education Program. (It is a prerequisite for certification in all of the AAS’s other courses offered.) Instructor Allen Dart is a registered professional archaeologist and executive director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. Minimum enrollment 10 people. For information on the AAS and its Certification program visit www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603.

    Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Monday January 20, whichever is earlier. To register or for more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or info@oldpueblo.org.
    IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity send an email to info@oldpueblo.org with “Send January-April class flyer” in your email subject line.

    -This is not an NMAC event series.

March 20, 2025

  • Chaco Canyon Spring Equinox Sunrise Program

    March 20, 2025  6:30 am - 8:00 am
    Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, USA

    Gates will open at 6:30 am. Sunrise program at Casa Rinconada will begin just before sunrise. The sun rises at 7:15 am. Join park rangers to observe the alignment of the spring equinox sunrise at Casa Rinconada. Gates will open at 6:30 am and park rangers will direct traffic to the Casa Rinconada parking lot, and Pueblo Bonito parking lot if/when the Casa Rinconada parking lot fills up. The ranger will meet visitors at Casa Rinconada. Please follow instructions on where to stand to observe the alignment. A brief ranger talk will occur just before sunrise. Event is limited to 100 visitors on a first-come, first-serve basis.

    -This is not an NMAC event.

  • Crow Canyon Webinar - “Victory Togetherness:” The Struggle for Sovereignty through Basketball at St. Francis Mission School

    March 20, 2025  4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Bringing together the overlapping discourses surrounding Indigenous sovereignty in sports and dance studies, this talk delineates the mutable meanings of basketball at St. Francis Mission School from 1933 to 1972. Jesuit officials founded St. Francis in 1886, and the institution operated as an Indian boarding school until 1972 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota on the lands of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, who are Sicangu Lakota. The presentation discusses how St. Francis officials employed basketball to assimilate and convert Lakota people while shaping and disseminating discourses related to the institution’s alleged contributions to Lakota people and futures. These strategies constitute what the presenter refers to as settler colonial choreographies. Meanwhile, maneuvering within settler colonial stereotypes and institutional policies, Lakota athletes and audiences carved opportunities to enact their understandings, identities, practices, and sovereignties, document their experiences and contributions, and nurture their wellbeing, freedom, and futures. These are referred to as decolonial choreographies. As Tria’s analysis demonstrates, settler colonial and decolonial choreographies are not dichotomous or static; rather, they operate as interlocking and shifting phenomena, simultaneously present in the student performances. This talk makes interventions into academic scholarship, which has yet to adequately consider the fluid possibilities of basketball and other sports within Indian boarding schools; the athletic practice as a cultural performance; and the connections between the sport and Lakota sovereignty. This information matters, because it underscores the importance of basketball in bringing a positive and collective Lakota future into being.

    For more info and to register: https://crowcanyon.org/programs/victory-togetherness-the-struggle-for-sovereignty-through-basketball-at-st-francis-mission-school/

    -This is not an NMAC event.

March 23, 2025
March 25, 2025

  • Winter Lecture Series: El Rancho de las Golondrinas Winter Lecture Series

    March 25, 2025  5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
    New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA

    Join us on March 25 for the El Rancho de las Golondrinas Winter Lecture Series. This long running collaboration explores exciting corners of New Mexico’s history and culture as presented by engaging authors and historians.

    Learn about the biodiversity of wetlands and how a group of Citizen Scientists work to help preserve this unique and beautiful ecosystem. Follow the work of these volunteers, including Leonora Curtin herself, and discover the process of tracking flora and fauna species, an invaluable contribution to understanding this unique ecosystem.

    Tickets are available through El Rancho de las Golondrinas at https://golondrinas.org/

    -This is not an NMAC event.

March 26, 2025

  • “Archaeology of the Southwest” 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart

    March 26, 2025  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

    “Archaeology of the Southwest” 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
    6:30 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time each Wednesday evening January 22 through April 23, 2024. $109 donation ($90 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society [AAS], Arizona Site Stewards, and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures. Donation does not include cost of the recommended text or of optional Arizona Archaeological Society membership.

    Archaeology of the Southwest is an introductory course that provides a basic overview of the US Southwest’s ancestral cultures. Its 14 evening class sessions will cover cultural sequences, dating systems, subsistence strategies, development of urbanization, depopulation of different areas at different times, and the general characteristics of major cultural groups that have lived in the Southwest over the past 13,000-plus years. Besides offering an up-to-date synthesis of southwestern cultures for anyone interested in the archaeology of the Southwest, the class can be taken for certification in the Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS) Certification/Education Program. (It is a prerequisite for certification in all of the AAS’s other courses offered.) Instructor Allen Dart is a registered professional archaeologist and executive director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. Minimum enrollment 10 people. For information on the AAS and its Certification program visit www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603.

    Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Monday January 20, whichever is earlier. To register or for more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or info@oldpueblo.org.
    IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity send an email to info@oldpueblo.org with “Send January-April class flyer” in your email subject line.

    -This is not an NMAC event series.

March 27, 2025

  • Crow Canyon Webinar: Under-recognized Food Crops of Southwestern Native American Tribes

    March 27, 2025  4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    Online

    Agricultural production among the Native American populations of the Southwest declined significantly during the twentieth century. Although production of corn, beans, and squash, the three most recognized traditional food crops, remains widespread, knowledge regarding the traditional management of these crops was lost. The loss of traditional knowledge is more pronounced for some of the under-recognized traditional food crops including Southwest peach (Prunus persica) and Navajo spinach (Cleome serrulata Pursh). Decreased peach production during the late twentieth century left only a few sparse historic peach orchards. There is little to no documentation on importance, cultivation or use of Navajo spinach to the Southwest Native American Tribes. The Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni Nations seek to increase the availability of traditional crops for their original uses, such as for food and wool dye. In order for these Native American communities to revitalize traditional agriculture, information was gathered regarding each of these crops, including: varieties and their characteristics, management practices and the horticultural basis for these practices, along with uses and cultural significance. Southwest peach orchards were located, seeds and plant material obtained and characterized genetically to test the hypothesis that Southwest peaches are divergent from modern cultivars. Information on peach management was collected by interviewing traditional farmers, evaluating historic orchard location features, and through dendrochronology. Dendrochronology involved collecting tree stumps or cores from tree trunks to evaluate growth rings in order to determine seasonal irrigation practices, age, and life span of the orchard trees. Navajo spinach seed was collected from multiple locations and compared. Optimum germination conditions were assessed including requirements for overcoming seed dormancy through scarification, plant hormone addition, and chilling and hydration period. Oral histories were gathered from elders of the Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni Nations on management and use of Navajo spinach; the interviews were translated and transcribed. Information on both Southwest peach and Navajo spinach will be useful to encourage traditional management of these culturally important crops.

    For more info and to register: https://crowcanyon.org/programs/under-recognized-food-crops-of-southwestern-native-american-tribes/

    -This is not an NMAC event.

  • Oaxaca Ingobernable: Reflections from Oaxaca's Past for Our Shared Future

    March 27, 2025  6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Hibben Center for Archeology Research, 450 University Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA

    In-person + Zoom. Hibben Center, Rm 105

    The Maxwell Museum is honored to welcome Dr. Alan Shane Dillingham (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), from Arizona State University. Event co-sponsored by the UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute.

    For more info and to register for the Zoom option: https://maxwellmuseum.unm.edu/news-events/event/oaxaca-ingobernable-reflections-oaxacas-past-our-shared-future

    -This is not an NMAC event.

April 1, 2025

  • Henrietta Stockell Scholarship Application Deadline

    April 1, 2025

    The Jornada Research Institute (https://jornadaresearchinstitute.org) is pleased to offer its 2025 scholarship awards for graduate students in cultural anthropology. Henrietta was a renowned author, speaker and historian regarding the Apache people, their culture and traditions. She published 13 books, taught classes about the Apache Nation at Cochise County Community College, and was the recipient of numerous awards. Among Henrietta's passions were providing awareness of the true knowledge and history of the Apache people. JRI will award two individual scholarships: a first-place award of $1,500.00 and a second-place award of $1,000.00.

    The deadline for submissions is April 1st, 2025.

    If you have any questions, please contact Jeffery Hanson, PhD, Chair, JRI Henrietta Stockell Scholarship Committee. jefferyhanson64@GMAIL.COM

    -This is not an NMAC scholarship.

April 2, 2025

  • “Archaeology of the Southwest” 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart

    April 2, 2025  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

    “Archaeology of the Southwest” 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
    6:30 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time each Wednesday evening January 22 through April 23, 2024. $109 donation ($90 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society [AAS], Arizona Site Stewards, and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures. Donation does not include cost of the recommended text or of optional Arizona Archaeological Society membership.

    Archaeology of the Southwest is an introductory course that provides a basic overview of the US Southwest’s ancestral cultures. Its 14 evening class sessions will cover cultural sequences, dating systems, subsistence strategies, development of urbanization, depopulation of different areas at different times, and the general characteristics of major cultural groups that have lived in the Southwest over the past 13,000-plus years. Besides offering an up-to-date synthesis of southwestern cultures for anyone interested in the archaeology of the Southwest, the class can be taken for certification in the Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS) Certification/Education Program. (It is a prerequisite for certification in all of the AAS’s other courses offered.) Instructor Allen Dart is a registered professional archaeologist and executive director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. Minimum enrollment 10 people. For information on the AAS and its Certification program visit www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603.

    Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Monday January 20, whichever is earlier. To register or for more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or info@oldpueblo.org.
    IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity send an email to info@oldpueblo.org with “Send January-April class flyer” in your email subject line.

    -This is not an NMAC event series.

April 3, 2025

  • Crow Canyon Webinar - Cooper’s Ferry/Nipéhe: A Pre-Clovis Site in North America

    April 3, 2025  4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    The Cooper’s Ferry/Nipéhe site in western Idaho provides a rich and detailed perspective on the lifeways of American Upper Paleolithic peoples spanning ~16,000-13,000 cal BP, offering one of the most comprehensive records of pre-Clovis presence in North America. With its well-stratified deposits, multiple cultural features, and oldest radiocarbon-dated projectile points in the Americas, the archaeological record of the Cooper’s Ferry/Nipéhe site provides foundational evidence for understanding the technological and behavioral adaptations of early North American peoples during the Late Pleistocene. The lithic technology, faunal evidence, and spatial patterns at Cooper’s Ferry together provide key insights into early hunting lifeways in western Idaho. In this presentation, Dr. Davis will review the scientific basis for establishing an early cultural occupation at the site and discuss ongoing research to reveal evidence for early hunting at Cooper’s Ferry, focusing on how the site’s record contributes to a growing body of pre-Clovis archaeological knowledge in the Americas.

    For more info and to register: https://crowcanyon.org/programs/coopers-ferry-nipehe-a-pre-clovis-site-in-north-america/

    -This is not an NMAC event.

April 4, 2025

  • CPRC Meeting

    April 4, 2025
    Historic Preservation Division, 407 Galisteo St #236, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA

    Meetings are Hybrid in person and on Zoom. Please contact Jessica Badner by telephone at (505) 476-6160 or by email at jessica.badner@dca.nm.gov if you have any questions.

April 9, 2025

  • “Archaeology of the Southwest” 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart

    April 9, 2025  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

    “Archaeology of the Southwest” 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
    6:30 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time each Wednesday evening January 22 through April 23, 2024. $109 donation ($90 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society [AAS], Arizona Site Stewards, and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures. Donation does not include cost of the recommended text or of optional Arizona Archaeological Society membership.

    Archaeology of the Southwest is an introductory course that provides a basic overview of the US Southwest’s ancestral cultures. Its 14 evening class sessions will cover cultural sequences, dating systems, subsistence strategies, development of urbanization, depopulation of different areas at different times, and the general characteristics of major cultural groups that have lived in the Southwest over the past 13,000-plus years. Besides offering an up-to-date synthesis of southwestern cultures for anyone interested in the archaeology of the Southwest, the class can be taken for certification in the Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS) Certification/Education Program. (It is a prerequisite for certification in all of the AAS’s other courses offered.) Instructor Allen Dart is a registered professional archaeologist and executive director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. Minimum enrollment 10 people. For information on the AAS and its Certification program visit www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603.

    Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Monday January 20, whichever is earlier. To register or for more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or info@oldpueblo.org.
    IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity send an email to info@oldpueblo.org with “Send January-April class flyer” in your email subject line.

    -This is not an NMAC event series.

April 10, 2025

  • Crow Canyon Webinar: Historical and Modern Challenges of Native American Identity Formation, Tribal Enrollment, and Blood Quantum Laws

    April 10, 2025  4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    Online

    In the United States, blood quantum (BQ) based enrollment criteria find their roots in settler-colonial policies to erase, assimilate, and subjugate Indigenous Peoples and individuals, dating back centuries. Understanding the colonial beginnings, Native Nations throughout the United States continue to have fiery debates over the validity of BQ based enrollment laws. Academics in social sciences have examined the formation of Indigenous identity at the community and population level, but this has not translated to health science research. Current scales and tools do not incorporate the effects of BQ based enrollment on identity at the individual level. Native people’s self-identity includes their status as an enrolled or unenrolled member of their tribe. This talk will discuss how BQ based enrollment criteria negatively impact Native Nations which implement it, utilizing historical examples and lived experiences, and calls on Native Nations and Native researchers to explore the relationship between colonial enrollment policies and the impact on identity formation and lived experiences.

    For more info and to register: https://crowcanyon.org/programs/historical-and-modern-challenges-of-native-american-identity-formation-tribal-enrollment-and-blood-quantum-laws/

    -This is not an NMAC event.