Cost: Free & Open to All

Join us in the courtyard and the galleries of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology for our Fall Family Day! This semester family day is all about pottery, in honore of our new exhibit "Coiling Kin: The Life of Pueblo Pottery." The event is free, and we will have fun and informative activities for all ages. Refreshments will be available while supplies last.

For more information contact Erica Davis, Curator of Education, at (505) 277-2924 or edavis9@unm.edu

PARKING
We have free reserved parking spots immediately to the west of our Museum; next to those are pay-for-parking spots. On Saturdays, visitors may park in any permit lot at no charge - so if our lot is full, you can park in "Lot C," just North of the Maxwell.

For more info: https://maxwellmuseum.unm.edu/news-events/event/fall-family-day

-This is not an NMAC event.

On Saturday, each student will receive two unfired tiles that they will paint using natural pigments. Robert will be coaching and assisting throughout the day. Painting must be finished by the end of day or taken home to be completed before Sunday's workshop. On Sunday, Robert will lead a natural firing in an outdoor fire pit. Participants will get to see how natural firing is performed and watch as their tiles solidify. Limited to 10 people.

For more info: https://www.coronadojemezfriends.org/site-activities

-This is not a NMAC event.

On Saturday, each student will receive two unfired tiles that they will paint using natural pigments. Robert will be coaching and assisting throughout the day. Painting must be finished by the end of day or taken home to be completed before Sunday's workshop. On Sunday, Robert will lead a natural firing in an outdoor fire pit. Participants will get to see how natural firing is performed and watch as their tiles solidify. Limited to 10 people.

For more info: https://www.coronadojemezfriends.org/site-activities

-This is not a NMAC event.

A Silver Bullet Productions Film

Join us for a film screening of Canes of Power, a Silver Bullet Production, in the Kathryn O’Keeffe Theater.

CANES OF POWER, narrated by Cherokee Actor Wes Studi is the story of President Abraham Lincoln’s gift of engraved wood canes to each of New Mexico’s 19 Pueblo nations. The canes symbolized the recognition of tribal sovereignty at the very same time 13 Southern states were seeking their own sovereignty from the United States.

Free with Museum Admission

For more info: https://www.indianartsandculture.org/calendar?eventID=7349

-This is not a NMAC event.

Will Grant’s presentation is a slideshow and lecture that details his 2,000-mile horseback journey across the West in 2019 to trace the route of the Pony Express. The presentation includes information on the challenges of his five-month ride, the changes of landscapes and ecology that occur between the Missouri River and California, and the historical sites encountered along the way. The presentation also sheds light on the intricacies of the famed mail service and the reasons that it lasted a mere nineteen months between April 1860 and October 1861.

Will Grant worked as a cowboy and horse trainer in Colorado, Wyoming and Texas before pivoting to journalism in 2008. His writing has appeared in Outside magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek and The Wall Street Journal and countless regional magazines. He has combined horses and storytelling in articles chronicling a 600-mile Mongolian horse race, a search for gold in Arizona and competing in kok boru, the world’s most dangerous horseback game, in Kyrgyzstan.

For more info: https://www.coronadojemezfriends.org/lectures

-This is not an NMAC event.

Where: Hibben Center for Archaeological Research, Room 105 + Atrium
Cost: Free and Open to All
Presenter/s: Adrián Koskakoatl

* Registration on our Eventbrite page here is not required but encouraged. Want us to include a photo of a loved one in our community altar? If so, please submit it through this link here or email it to: fdelangelguevara@unm.edu *

Join us for this free public event featuring a lecture, blessing, food, live music, community ofrenda, and more.

Día de Muertos is a time to remember and celebrate the lives of those who are no longer with us. The Maxwell Museum will be hosting a community ofrenda exhibition from October 22 to the 30th. Helps us fill our altar with memories and love. Everyone is welcome to contribute! You are welcome to bring photos, flowers, food, and toys.

This year, our community altar will honor the life of Anita Osuna Carr, the first Hispanic woman faculty at the University of New Mexico. She taught Spanish and French at the University of New Mexico from 1924-1933.

On October 29, come be part a free public event in which everyone is welcome. It will feature an opening blessing ceremony and then learn directly from an expert curandero Adrián Koskakoatl, from Mexico City, who will deliver a talk in English, and stay for the subsequent celebration with traditional food and live music from La Familia Gadiel!

For more info: https://maxwellmuseum.unm.edu/news-events/event/pl%C3%A1tica-y-celebraci%C3%B3n-de-d%C3%ADa-de-muertos

-This is not a NMAC event.

Where: Hibben Center for Archaeology Researche, Room 105 + Online via Zoom
Cost: Free & Open to All
Presenter/s: Dr. Katherine Amato (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

* Registration required for Zoom access here *
Evolutionary Perspectives on Fermented Food Consumption

Dr. Katherine Amato (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

In honor of the Maxwell Museum's temporary exhibit "Entangled Cultures: How Humans and Microbes Co-create through Fermentation," which closes Dec. 5, 2026, we are honored to have Dr. Amato join us this Fall semester.

Unlike most other vertebrates, humans utilize fermented foods as a central part of their diets globally. However, it remains unclear when during our evolutionary history, and why, humans began to consume fermented foods. In this talk, I will review existing knowledge regarding the timing and impetus for the emergence of fermented food use by humans. I will also present comparative behavioral and physiological data from extant nonhuman primates regarding the environmental contexts in which fermented foods are consumed. Using this information as a foundation, I will explore the hypothesis that fermented food use began as a nutritional strategy for early humans occupying harsh environments.

This public event is part of the UINM Department of Anthropology Colloquia Series and is co-sponsored by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology.

For more info: https://maxwellmuseum.unm.edu/news-events/event/lecture-evolutionary-perspectives-fermented-food-consumption

-This is not an NMAC event.

This year's meeting theme is New Mexico Archaeology: Future Directions

The practice of cultural resource management as a professional discipline in New Mexico has significantly changed over the course of the last 30-some years thanks to the adoption of new legal and ethical frameworks alongside changing commercial and governmental priorities. Likewise, archaeological research in New Mexico has benefited over the same time period from the development of new analytical techniques, accessibility of data, and collaboration with descendent communities. Rapid shifts in the current legal and regulatory landscape seem like they will require further adaptation by the discipline. This conference provides an outlet for various members of the New Mexico archaeological community to discuss how the practice of New Mexico archaeology may continue to change and adapt in the near and mid-term future: this might include discussions of programs or paradigm shifts already in progress, or of potentials that have not yet been set in motion. Participants may discuss higher-order theoretical concerns, or changing regulatory and commercial landscapes, or they may address smaller-scale research programs or hot-button issues in the discipline and practice of archaeology in New Mexico.

Post-conference happy hour at Bow & Arrow Brewing!

For more info and to register: https://nmarchcouncil.org/events/annual-meeting/

Learn how to weave using red willow branches from local artist and weaver Jilli Oyenque. Participants will learn how to prepare their material and weave a small wall plaque.

For more info: https://www.coronadojemezfriends.org/site-activities

-This is not a NMAC event.

“The Anthropology of the American Southwest (and the Future of the World)” free in-person and online Cordell Lecture by archaeologist Severin Fowles, PhD sponsored by the School for Advanced Research (SAR) at New Mexico Military Museum, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Free.

As we continue to awaken to a global ecological crisis that seems to be spiraling out of control, many are looking to the knowledge and perspectives of Indigenous communities for solutions. The hope is that if Western understandings of land as a resource to be exploited created the mess we are in, perhaps non-Western understandings of “kinship with the world” – as Vine Deloria, Jr. put it–might get us out. For more than a century, the anthropology of New Mexico and Arizona has generated some of the most influential ethnographic and archaeological accounts of what it means to live in an Indigenous society, accounts that continue to inspire both scholarly and popular reflection. In this talk, Dr. Severin Fowles looks back on this legacy but also ahead to the role Southwest anthropology might play in our uncertain future. In doing so, he centers the lessons to be learned from the land-based traditions of rural Hispano communities in the region, whose indigeneity is neither pure nor primordial but rather the product of more than three centuries of cultural mixing and historical struggle. Severin Fowles is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University and a part-time resident of San Antonio del Embudo (Dixon) just north of Santa Fe.

This event will be streamed on YouTube Live at www.youtube.com/user/sarsantafemultimedia – no registration required. For more information contact SAR at 505-954-7200 or info@sarsf.org.

-This is not a NMAC event.

Come build with with adobe. We'll be completing a horno in a single weekend! This means you will leave the workshop having the knowledge to build your own horno at home. You will also receive a booklet that details all the steps of the building, as well as the materials list and design of 5 different hornos, so you can confidently take it from there.

There are less and less adobe builders in New Mexico. It's on us to share that knowledge with each other so the adobe tradition can endure. We hope you will take what you learn from this workshop and share it within your community.

Hours:
Saturday November 14th: 10AM - 4PM
Sunday November 15th: 11AM - 4PM

Saturday, you will learn how to: mix mud, lay adobes to create a circular base, fill the base with compacted sand, dirt and lava rocks, finish the base and prepare it for the dome, make a template for your dome opening, start laying adobes for the dome, create a vaulted adobe dome

Sunday, you will learn how to: progressively tilt the adobe courses so the adobes become more vertical, close up the dome, plaster the horno, and sift, prepare and apply a final plaster coat

We will also touch on foundation types and provide you with an overview on how to build one with concrete pavers.

We will demonstrate how to build your own screen so you can sift your own dirt!
For more info: https://eyeofthehorno.com/public-workshops/fall-horno-building-workshop-october?fbclid=IwZnRzaAUdeHNwZG9mBWZkaWQWUO2FkNSaeb24Jxsra8vaWamYQkiSuGV4dG4DYWVtATAAYWRpZAGrNuUDy_kGc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHvOH-_-gPVZHjUgQMTtIDbIE7uEUCR21gw2iTzdyj7ahoIqLY0B2VKLkhYaW_aem_ae1BheJR6W0ZDx7TDN7ucg&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=120250167445080006&utm_content=120250167445060006&utm_term=120250167445070006&utm_campaign=120250167445080006

-This is not a NMAC event.

“Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site Volunteer Docent Program” new-docent training sponsored by Cibola National Forest at Sandia Ranger Station, 11776 Hwy 337, Tijeras, New Mexico. Free.

The Tijeras Pueblo Site and Museum preserves, protects, and highlights the rich history and culture of the Ancestral Pueblo people of the central Rio Grande region of New Mexico. Volunteers are pivotal for sharing with others this site’s history, culture, and significance to modern descendant Pueblo communities with accuracy and respect. Join the Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site Volunteer Docent Team by attending initial (Level 1) docent training for individuals interested in staffing the self-guided spaces at Tijeras Pueblo including the museum exhibits, the Tiwa World mural/map, and the interpretive trail. Beyond initial training, site docents are offered optional learning experiences through field trips to museums and other archaeological sites, presentations, workshops, and access to the on-site library that includes copies of Tijeras Pueblo archaeology field notes. A Level 2 required training for individuals interested in leading public, school, and private tours will be conducted this spring (date TBD).

For more information email Mountainair/Sandia Zone Archaeologist Sandra Arazi-Coambs at sandra.coambs@usda.gov.

-This is not a NMAC event.

Come build with with adobe. We'll be completing a horno in a single weekend! This means you will leave the workshop having the knowledge to build your own horno at home. You will also receive a booklet that details all the steps of the building, as well as the materials list and design of 5 different hornos, so you can confidently take it from there.

There are less and less adobe builders in New Mexico. It's on us to share that knowledge with each other so the adobe tradition can endure. We hope you will take what you learn from this workshop and share it within your community.

Hours:
Saturday November 14th: 10AM - 4PM
Sunday November 15th: 11AM - 4PM

Saturday, you will learn how to: mix mud, lay adobes to create a circular base, fill the base with compacted sand, dirt and lava rocks, finish the base and prepare it for the dome, make a template for your dome opening, start laying adobes for the dome, create a vaulted adobe dome

Sunday, you will learn how to: progressively tilt the adobe courses so the adobes become more vertical, close up the dome, plaster the horno, and sift, prepare and apply a final plaster coat

We will also touch on foundation types and provide you with an overview on how to build one with concrete pavers.

We will demonstrate how to build your own screen so you can sift your own dirt!
For more info: https://eyeofthehorno.com/public-workshops/fall-horno-building-workshop-october?fbclid=IwZnRzaAUdeHNwZG9mBWZkaWQWUO2FkNSaeb24Jxsra8vaWamYQkiSuGV4dG4DYWVtATAAYWRpZAGrNuUDy_kGc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHvOH-_-gPVZHjUgQMTtIDbIE7uEUCR21gw2iTzdyj7ahoIqLY0B2VKLkhYaW_aem_ae1BheJR6W0ZDx7TDN7ucg&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=120250167445080006&utm_content=120250167445060006&utm_term=120250167445070006&utm_campaign=120250167445080006

-This is not a NMAC event.

Candle holders were a common good sold by Indigenous artists to tourists along Route 66 in the early 20th century. Create your own candlestick holder through this fun workshop!

Schedule:
10:30AM-12:00PM- Creating the holder with Sculpey Clay
12:00PM-1:00PM- Break for lunch on your own
1:00PM-2:00- Painting your custom holder
Purchase tickets to the workshop here. All supplies provided.
$10 per person, $5 per MNMF member

For more info: https://www.indianartsandculture.org/calendar?eventID=7347

-This is not a NMAC event.

In 1934, Majorie Feguson Tichy dug her trowel into the soil at the Coronado Site. Her crew included workers supported by the Great Depression era federal funding program. Seventeen mural layers and 45,000 pottery sherds later, Tichy had made substantial progress on Kuaua’s archaeological knowledge. However, while she was mentored by Edgar Hewett in this work, she was equally undone by him. Tichy was one of the Southwestern archaeologists building a new science and avenues for women archaeologists.

Heather McClure is a Librarian and Archivist at the New Mexico History Museum, Fray Angelico C havez History Library in Santa Fe. She earned a BA at Skidmore College (English Literary Studies) and a MA at the University of Wisconsin (Library and Information Studies). Further studies included Liberal Arts at St. John’s College and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of New Mexico. She researches the history of southwest archaeology and environmental and recreation history.

-For more info: https://www.coronadojemezfriends.org/lectures

-This is not a NMAC event.