Our next monthly meeting will be held in person and on Zoom on Wednesday, February 12th, at 7:00 p.m. in the lyceum at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College. After a brief business meeting, Michael Mathiowetz will present ‘The Keepers of Tradition: Clown Societies in the Casas Grandes and Puebloan Worlds.’ A reception will start things off at 6:30 p.m. in the CSWS foyer.
Michael Mathiowetz earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology at UC Riverside in 2011 and currently is a research assistant at the Getty Research Institute. His research focuses on questions of cultural change, the dynamic social networks that connected societies in Mesoamerica, west Mexico, and the U.S. Southwest/Mexican Northwest, and the legacies of these interactions among descendant communities. He has conducted fieldwork in the Aztatlán and Casas Grandes regions of west and northwest Mexico and museum and archival research on legacy collections for over two decades. He has published through British Archaeological Reports, Dumbarton Oaks, El Colegio de Michoacán, Harvard University Press/C.H. Beck, Journal of the Southwest, Journal of Archaeological Research, Kiva, and other venues.
Link to Join Webinar
https://fortlewis.zoom.us/j/97612418790
Meeting ID: 962 7490 4694
Chimney Rock Interpretive Association – free lecture series
January 21st at 3:00 p.m. at the Sisson Memorial Library in Pagosa Springs
“Ancestral Puebloans to Contemporary Southwest Pueblos: Science, Community, Languages & Cultures” – presented by Jon Ghahate
This lecture will follow the evolution and development of the contemporary Southwest Pueblos from their Ancestral Puebloan roots in the realms of science, community, languages and culture.
“The establishment and the development of the Chacoan Civilizations and their predecessors spanned more than half a millennium, according to acquired scientific evidence. What helps our understanding of who the Ancestral Puebloans were, is the history and narratives of contemporary Southwest Pueblo communities, their collective knowledge, cultures, and languages.”
Jon Ghahate is of the Pueblos of Laguna and Zuni of the State of New Mexico, and of the Turkey and Badger Clans. Jon is currently a Staff Educator at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, Colorado. Prior to that he was the Museum Cultural Educator at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM.
Lifelong Learning Programs
These upcoming programs take place at FLC, Noble Hall, Room 130, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
March 13 – Charles Riggs, FLC Anthropology Professor, “Respectful Practice in Archaeological Research: Different Approaches to archaeology and Curation”
April 17 – Jackson Clark, owner of Toh-Atin Gallery, “Saving Navajo Weaving: Influence of Navajo Traders in the evolution of the Navajo Rug in the Late 1800’s”
SJBAS Newsletter – Moki Messenger
Moki – January 2025
SJBAS Zoom Presentations on YouTube
Zoom Presentations
The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society (SJBAS) is a Colorado Nonprofit Corporation. SJBAS consists of people who are interested in the archaeology, culture, and early history of the Four Corners region. We have members of all ages and backgrounds, some with extensive training in archaeology and others with more limited knowledge, but a strong desire to learn.
Our mission is to advocate for and promote public awareness and preservation of archaeological, cultural, and historical resources, primarily of the Four Corners region of the American Southwest.
Members are eligible to participate in SJBAS field trips and they receive a monthly newsletter, the Moki Messenger, with information about current SJBAS activities and other matters of archaeological and historical interest.