For more information on the Office of Archaeological Studies’ Education Outreach Program, please contact OAS’s Education Coordinator, Ziggy Prothro, at ziggy.prothro@dca.nm.gov.
Education outreach activities have been designed around individual grade school classes interested in archaeology, but also around large regional events such as the Festival of the Cranes in Socorro, involving thousands of people. Programs have been delivered to elementary, middle, and high school students, museum docents, archaeological societies, and a wide range of audiences. We have been proactive in our mission to deliver a truly statewide program and provide our services to rural and Tribal communities.
One popular core program is a hands-on exhibit of artifacts, allowing students and the public direct experience with a wide time line of New Mexico archaeology, lifeways, and technology. We also offer a specialized program on human lifeways, adaptations, and the natural environment of New Mexico during the last Ice Age, when the first people to live in New Mexico coexisted with now extinct animals like mammoth and giant ground sloth.