Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 12:00 noon, free!

Dr. Eric Blinman presents a lecture entitled Pots, People, and Archaeology: Challenges of using Ceramic Data for Culture History Studies.

Pottery has been a mainstay of Southwestern archaeology. Calibrated by tree-ring dates, temporal change in pottery is the most widely used dating tool, geographic occurrences have supported inferences of exchange and interaction, and ethnic differences and migrations have been argued from stylistic and technological similarity and difference. Principles of ceramic ecology underlie this potential, but imperfect appreciation of pottery as a system has led to some missteps in large scale interpretation.

The Brown Bag talk will take place at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology at 12:00 noon in the CNMA library. Seating is limited. Admission is free.

The Center for New Mexico Archaeology (7 Old Cochiti Road) is located off of Caja del Rio Road, across from Challenge New Mexico on the way to the Santa Fe Municipal Golf Course. Take 599 to South Meadows Road, continue through the traffic circle west along the Frontage Road to Caja del Rio Road. CNMA is on the left-hand side of the road and is the large building with white sail-like skylights on the roof.