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November   November 1 - Festival: Archaeological Institute of America Archaeology Festival Family oriented, free to public.Archaeologists and archaeological societies invited to present educational, hands-on exhibits 12:00-7:00 p.m. La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe. November 11 - Lecture: Friends of Tijeras Pueblo: “Painted Walls, Pots, and Images on Stone in the Pueblo Rio Grande” Polly Schaafsma. In the Rio Grande valley, Pueblo IV art from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries reached an apex of visual expression noted for its creative complexity and metaphor. This talk will address the Pueblo worldview as seen through the kiva murals and in rock paintings and petroglyphs in the landscape and how this pertains to rainmaking rituals. Also considered are the dramatic shield-bearing warriors and the role of conflict in these late Rio Grande Pueblo societies. Polly Schaafsma had done extensive archaeological research in the Southwest from 1961 to the present with focuses on rock art. Among other of her accomplishments, she was the Guest Curator for an exhibit at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, organizer and chair of a Seminar on Pottery Mound Pueblo at the School of American Research. Since 1989 she has been engaged as instructor for numerous rock art field seminars for the School of American Research, the Museum of New Mexico, Crow Canyon Archaeological, etc. From 1985 to the present Polly has been a Research Associate at the Laboratory of Anthropology/Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico. She has given numerous Public Lectures and has received Honors and Awards, the "2008 Klaus Wellmann Memorial Award, American Rock Art Research Association", being the most recent Award. Polly's bibliography is extensive with Warrior, Shield and Star and New Perspectives on Pottery Mound being the most recent publications. These books will be available at the lecture for sale and can be autographed by Polly. 7 p.m. Tijeras Ranger Station. November 13 - Lecture: “Prodigy, Rebel, or Stepchild: Salmon, Aztec, and the Middle San Juan Region in the Chacoan and Post Chacoan Periods,” Paul F. Reed 7-9 p.m. Hibben Center 105, University of New Mexico. Book signing to follow. November 15 - Conference: 2008 NMAC Conference, "Migration or Emulation: Chacoan Presence in the Middle San Juan" 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. (with optional field trips on Sunday, Nov. 16, 9-1). Registration $20 for current members or $45 including NMAC membership through 2009. See www.nmacweb.org for registration form and program details. Hibben Center, UNM, Albuquerque November 16 - Lecture: Albuquerque Archaeological Society, "A New Method for Determining the Sex of Human Skeletal Remains," Matt Rosett. Mr. Rosett's presentation describes his recent dissertation, which examines the degree of sexual dimorphism in the posterior portion of the human pelvis. His research involved testing previous methods and developing a new technique for assessing sex from the sacrum in human remains of European origin, using data collected from a well documented nineteenth and twentieth century skeletal population curated at the National Museum of National History at the Bocage Museum, in Lisbon, Portugal. Matt Rosett graduated in 2006 with honors from the University of New Mexico with a B.A. Physical Anthropology and has recently completed an M.S. in Human Osteology & Palaeopathology from the University of Bradford, UK. Next fall, he plans start his Ph.D. in Bioarchaeology at UNM. He is primarily interested in investigating how human health, disease and activity patterns of past populations from the Southwestern U.S. have changed through time. Mr. Rosett is currently working with the Office of Contract Archaeology as a Field Crew Member and at the Department of Radiology at the University of New Mexico as a Research Assistant. He also volunteers his spare time at the Museum of Archaeology and Material Culture in Cedar Crest, where he is preparing reports on human skeletal remains that have been recovered from archaeological sites throughout New Mexico 7:30 P.M. Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Road NW November 17 - Lecture: Southwest Seminars, "Before Santa Fe: Archaeology of the City Different; Location, Location, Location: Prehistory of Santa Fe," Jason Shapiro 6:00 PM Hotel Santa Fe Santa Fe, New Mexico http://www.Southwestseminars.org

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December 16 - Lecture: Albuquerque Archaeological Society