Learn how the people of Kuaua Pueblo spun and wove cotton with Pueblo weaver Louis Garcia. Tie dye your own cotton bandanna with natural plant dyes.

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

-This is not an NMAC event.

Come by the Education Classroom and make your own Cornhusk Doll.

First Sunday of the Month is Always Free for NM Residents.

-For more info: https://www.indianartsandculture.org/calendar?eventID=7340

-This is not a NMAC event.

“23rd Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference” hosted by New Mexico State University Thursday evening (reception) at the New Mexico State University Museum (Kent Hall) and Friday-Saturday in the Corbett Center Student Union Auditorium, 1600 International Mall, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

6:15-8:15 pm Thursday reception, Friday and Saturday 9:30 am-5:30 pm each day. Registration $60 through September 26; $70 on site during conference ($35 student registration both early and late). You must preregister to be assured of obtaining a ticket for the Friday evening banquet. (Banquet price $35 registrants, $25 student registrants.)

The 23rd Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference begins with a reception Thursday evening and includes conference sessions on Friday and Saturday. Papers and presentations will relate to the precontact, protohistoric, and historic archaeology of the Mogollon region in the broadest sense including Mimbres, Jornada Mogollon, Northern Chihuahua, White Sands Missile Range, Ft. Bliss, and the Mogollon Rim areas.

For more information and to register go to https://lonjul.net/MogollonAC2026/ or contact Lonnie Ludeman at lcludeman@zianet.com.

-This is not an NMAC event.

“23rd Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference” hosted by New Mexico State University Thursday evening (reception) at the New Mexico State University Museum (Kent Hall) and Friday-Saturday in the Corbett Center Student Union Auditorium, 1600 International Mall, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

6:15-8:15 pm Thursday reception, Friday and Saturday 9:30 am-5:30 pm each day. Registration $60 through September 26; $70 on site during conference ($35 student registration both early and late). You must preregister to be assured of obtaining a ticket for the Friday evening banquet. (Banquet price $35 registrants, $25 student registrants.)

The 23rd Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference begins with a reception Thursday evening and includes conference sessions on Friday and Saturday. Papers and presentations will relate to the precontact, protohistoric, and historic archaeology of the Mogollon region in the broadest sense including Mimbres, Jornada Mogollon, Northern Chihuahua, White Sands Missile Range, Ft. Bliss, and the Mogollon Rim areas.

For more information and to register go to https://lonjul.net/MogollonAC2026/ or contact Lonnie Ludeman at lcludeman@zianet.com.

-This is not an NMAC event.

“23rd Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference” hosted by New Mexico State University Thursday evening (reception) at the New Mexico State University Museum (Kent Hall) and Friday-Saturday in the Corbett Center Student Union Auditorium, 1600 International Mall, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

6:15-8:15 pm Thursday reception, Friday and Saturday 9:30 am-5:30 pm each day. Registration $60 through September 26; $70 on site during conference ($35 student registration both early and late). You must preregister to be assured of obtaining a ticket for the Friday evening banquet. (Banquet price $35 registrants, $25 student registrants.)

The 23rd Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference begins with a reception Thursday evening and includes conference sessions on Friday and Saturday. Papers and presentations will relate to the precontact, protohistoric, and historic archaeology of the Mogollon region in the broadest sense including Mimbres, Jornada Mogollon, Northern Chihuahua, White Sands Missile Range, Ft. Bliss, and the Mogollon Rim areas.

For more information and to register go to https://lonjul.net/MogollonAC2026/ or contact Lonnie Ludeman at lcludeman@zianet.com.

-This is not an 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 October 10th: 10AM - 4PM
Sunday October 11th: 11AM - 4PM
We also offer another workshop on November 14-15th 2026.

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.

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 October 10th: 10AM - 4PM
Sunday October 11th: 11AM - 4PM
We also offer another workshop on November 14-15th 2026.

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.

“Training on Looting, Vandalism and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act” offered by the nonprofit Jornada Research Institute (JRI, Tularosa, NM) at Bureau of Reclamation, 555 Broadway NE, Albuquerque.

9 am-4 pm each day. $190 (JRI members and students $180).

This two-day training class combines classroom instruction and field applications covering major legislation (including the Archaeological Resources Protection Act), legal and criminal frameworks, case studies, and damage assessment procedures, with field instruction in assessing and recording site damage. The course qualifies for New Mexico Historic Preservation's continuing credit program on an hour-per-hour basis. Participants can expect to learn the statute, the importance of site-record databases, how to identify signs of looting, isolating, recording, and mapping damaged areas, developing site looting episode chronologies, writing a field damage assessment, and recommending steps for site protection. JRI provides binders and zip files with ARPA regulations, case studies, field assessment reports, and PowerPoint files, site information for field exercise, field forms and instruction sheets, and clipboards. Participants need to bring an archaeological field toolkit and camera (smartphone).

For more information and to register contact jeffery hanson at jefferyhanson64@gmail.com or 817-658-5544.

-This is not an NMAC event.

“Training on Looting, Vandalism and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act” offered by the nonprofit Jornada Research Institute (JRI, Tularosa, NM) at Bureau of Reclamation, 555 Broadway NE, Albuquerque.

9 am-4 pm each day. $190 (JRI members and students $180).

This two-day training class combines classroom instruction and field applications covering major legislation (including the Archaeological Resources Protection Act), legal and criminal frameworks, case studies, and damage assessment procedures, with field instruction in assessing and recording site damage. The course qualifies for New Mexico Historic Preservation's continuing credit program on an hour-per-hour basis. Participants can expect to learn the statute, the importance of site-record databases, how to identify signs of looting, isolating, recording, and mapping damaged areas, developing site looting episode chronologies, writing a field damage assessment, and recommending steps for site protection. JRI provides binders and zip files with ARPA regulations, case studies, field assessment reports, and PowerPoint files, site information for field exercise, field forms and instruction sheets, and clipboards. Participants need to bring an archaeological field toolkit and camera (smartphone).

For more information and to register contact jeffery hanson at jefferyhanson64@gmail.com or 817-658-5544.

-This is not an NMAC event.

“Paleoamerican Odyssey: 100 Years Beyond the Folsom” conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of the First Americans (Texas A&M University) at Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W Marcy St, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Wednesday 12-6 pm registration; Thursday 7 am-8 pm & Friday 7 am-8:30 pm lectures & posters; Saturday 7 am-5:30 pm lectures. $200 registration fee for domestic attendees, $100 for students or international attendees.

One of the most meaningful archaeological endeavors is to understand the late Pleistocene dispersal of modern humans across the world. The last place to be occupied by humans was the Western Hemisphere. Archaeologists have been excavating sites across the Americas for over a century gathering evidence to decipher this story, working with geologists, geneticists, and scientists from a host of other fields. Many archaeological sites in the Americas excavated in the past several years place the arrival of humans between 23,000 and 16,000 years ago. This conference can be expected to summarize the current state of knowledge about the peopling of the Americas, encourage interdisciplinary connections, and set new directions for research.

To register and for more information go to liberalarts.tamu.edu/csfa/ or contact the Center for the Study of the First Americans at csfa@tamu.edu or 979-845-4046.

-This is not an NMAC event.

“Paleoamerican Odyssey: 100 Years Beyond the Folsom” conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of the First Americans (Texas A&M University) at Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W Marcy St, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Wednesday 12-6 pm registration; Thursday 7 am-8 pm & Friday 7 am-8:30 pm lectures & posters; Saturday 7 am-5:30 pm lectures. $200 registration fee for domestic attendees, $100 for students or international attendees.

One of the most meaningful archaeological endeavors is to understand the late Pleistocene dispersal of modern humans across the world. The last place to be occupied by humans was the Western Hemisphere. Archaeologists have been excavating sites across the Americas for over a century gathering evidence to decipher this story, working with geologists, geneticists, and scientists from a host of other fields. Many archaeological sites in the Americas excavated in the past several years place the arrival of humans between 23,000 and 16,000 years ago. This conference can be expected to summarize the current state of knowledge about the peopling of the Americas, encourage interdisciplinary connections, and set new directions for research.

To register and for more information go to liberalarts.tamu.edu/csfa/ or contact the Center for the Study of the First Americans at csfa@tamu.edu or 979-845-4046.

-This is not an NMAC event.

“Paleoamerican Odyssey: 100 Years Beyond the Folsom” conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of the First Americans (Texas A&M University) at Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W Marcy St, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Wednesday 12-6 pm registration; Thursday 7 am-8 pm & Friday 7 am-8:30 pm lectures & posters; Saturday 7 am-5:30 pm lectures. $200 registration fee for domestic attendees, $100 for students or international attendees.

One of the most meaningful archaeological endeavors is to understand the late Pleistocene dispersal of modern humans across the world. The last place to be occupied by humans was the Western Hemisphere. Archaeologists have been excavating sites across the Americas for over a century gathering evidence to decipher this story, working with geologists, geneticists, and scientists from a host of other fields. Many archaeological sites in the Americas excavated in the past several years place the arrival of humans between 23,000 and 16,000 years ago. This conference can be expected to summarize the current state of knowledge about the peopling of the Americas, encourage interdisciplinary connections, and set new directions for research.

To register and for more information go to liberalarts.tamu.edu/csfa/ or contact the Center for the Study of the First Americans at csfa@tamu.edu or 979-845-4046.

-This is not an NMAC event.

Where: Hibben Center for Archeology Research, Room 105 + Atrium
Cost: Free & Open to All

The UNM Anthropology Graduate Student Union (AGSU) will be hosting their annual research conference on Friday, October 16 from 8:30-4:30 PM. The event will begin at 8:30 with coffee and breakfast. Dr. Robert Hitchcock will present the Keynote introduction at 9 AM, followed by poster research presentations and posters. Lunch will also be provided.

Late registration for lunch only (no abstracts) is open until September 30th at this link: AGSU Late Registration – Fill out form

-For more info: https://maxwellmuseum.unm.edu/news-events/event/anthropology-graduate-student-union-conference

-This is not a NMAC event.

“Paleoamerican Odyssey: 100 Years Beyond the Folsom” conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of the First Americans (Texas A&M University) at Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W Marcy St, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Wednesday 12-6 pm registration; Thursday 7 am-8 pm & Friday 7 am-8:30 pm lectures & posters; Saturday 7 am-5:30 pm lectures. $200 registration fee for domestic attendees, $100 for students or international attendees.

One of the most meaningful archaeological endeavors is to understand the late Pleistocene dispersal of modern humans across the world. The last place to be occupied by humans was the Western Hemisphere. Archaeologists have been excavating sites across the Americas for over a century gathering evidence to decipher this story, working with geologists, geneticists, and scientists from a host of other fields. Many archaeological sites in the Americas excavated in the past several years place the arrival of humans between 23,000 and 16,000 years ago. This conference can be expected to summarize the current state of knowledge about the peopling of the Americas, encourage interdisciplinary connections, and set new directions for research.

To register and for more information go to liberalarts.tamu.edu/csfa/ or contact the Center for the Study of the First Americans at csfa@tamu.edu or 979-845-4046.

-This is not an NMAC event.

See the sun through a new lens at Jemez Historic Site’s daytime astronomy program.

Find out about the world above, in the eyes of Southwestern Indigenous People, at Jemez Historic Site

What: Learn about past and modern perspectives of astronomy from an Indigenous point of view with Instructional Coordinator Marlon at Jemez Historic Site. The presentation will discuss what Southwestern Indigenous people observed and believed about the world above them and how the worlds above and around them are connected and related. We’ll use special sun viewing telescopes to take a closer look at the sun. This program is included with admission of $7 for adults and free to children 16 years and younger, Tribal members, NM disabled veterans, NM foster families, MNMF members, and FCJHS members.

Daytime program, Looking to the Skies, is included with standard site admission fee.

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

-This is not an NMAC event.

Where: Hibben Center for Archaeology Research, Room 105 + online via Zoom
Cost: Free & Open to All
Presenter/s: Dr. Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Museum of Northern Arizona) + Bobby Silas (NM Department of Cultural Affairs)

* Registration required for Zoom access here *
Exploring Hopi Yellow Ware Pottery

Dr. Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Museum of Northern Arizona) + Bobby Silas (New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs))

In honor of International Archaeology Day, the Maxwell Museum is hosting Hopi potter and New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs Interpretative Ranger at Kuaua Ruins (Coronado Historic Site) Bobby Silas and Museum of Northern Arizona Curator Dr. Kelley Hays-Gilpin. Their talk will explore the deep history of Hopi pottery traditions, from museum collections to contemporary potters’ expertise. Many unique aspects enliven stories from two millennia of continuous tradition, such as technical changes and challenges with paint recipes, coal-firing, innovative vessel forms, and meaningful painted designs. In-person lecture also offered on Zoom

-For more info: https://maxwellmuseum.unm.edu/news-events/event/archaeology-lecture-exploring-hopi-yellow-ware-pottery

-This is not a NMAC event.

MEMBERS ONLY - 20 allowed

Docent Led Tour Begins at 11:00 am

Cost: $4 for Seniors and $5 for NM Residents

Please join the Friends as we cruise down Route 66. We will tour two exhibits at the Albuquerque Museum: Fred Harvey’s Route 66 and The Other Route 66 : 100 Years of People, Identity and Place in Albuquerque. Afterward we will view a few of the Central Avenue ABQ ReMix sites celebrating the Centennial of the “Mother Road” and complete our adventure with lunch at the Route 66 Diner on Central.

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

-This is not an NMAC event.

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.

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.