Annual Meeting

The Middle Rio Grande is rarely highlighted in Southwest archaeology despite having experienced a brief period of early research excavations at sites such as Paako, Pottery Mound, and Kuaua after the destruction of large portions of other pueblos and sites in the early twentieth century. Over the past nearly sixty years, mostly only cultural resource management professionals operate in the region with key technical reports providing a far richer, but less integrated regional understanding than Cordell's 1979 widely cited work.  This conference highlights recent archaeological and historic findings with an emphasis on how CRM projects in the Middle Rio Grande have broadened our understanding and interpretation of the region's extensive, multicultural history. As part of this, we strive to address what has been learned from recent investigations and how they can inform research directions for projects.