Schedules are subject to change, and new events may be added on short notice.
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Exhibit Schedule | Event Schedule

SPECIAL EXHIBIT GALLERY
Through October 31, 2012

PIECES OF THE PUZZLE:
New Perspectives on the Hohokam

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOHOKAM?

More than 40,000 people lived in the Hohokam region in AD 1300, but fewer than 10,000 were present only two centuries later. Clues from artifacts and architecture help archaeologists to understand this decline.

Newly-developed methods and techniques reveal environmental and social stresses that led to the depopulation of southern Arizona during the 14^th and 15^th centuries.

Recent discoveries about trade and immigration link Four Corners people to the Hohokam culture of Southern Arizona. This exhibit is loaned by  Archaeology Southwest with artifacts from the Pueblo Grande Museum (Phoenix) and the Arizona State Museum (Tucson).

 E V E N T S

May 19 9:30 AM Sketch and hike with Joyce Heuman, CANM Artist in Residence

Space is limited-- Call 970.882.5600 to reserve your place. We depart from the lower Sand Canyon trailhead at 9:30 a.m. Participants of any age or art skill level are welcome to join the group. Each participant should wear a hat and adequate hiking shoes, bring sketching materials and carry enough drinking water for several hours of hiking.

2012 FOUR CORNERS LECTURE SERIES

Presentations below take place at 1:00 PM on Sunday afternoons at the Anasazi Heritage Center. Admission to the museum is free all day on lecture days. See the official 2012 Four Corners Lecture Series Poster for a complete listing of events at other venues.
May 13, 1:00 PM Dr. Jeffery Clark "The Kayenta: A Powerful Immigrant Community in the Hohokam World"	Hohokam farmers irrigated the Phoenix and Tucson Basins between AD 1 and AD 1400. They were the Southwest’s first pottery makers, their outposts reached as far north as Flagstaff, and their shell jewelry was traded throughout the region. New evidence indicates a late migration from the Four Corners into the Hohokam heartland. Dr. Clark has spent the past 20 years conducting research in the Tonto Basin, the San Pedro Valley, and the Safford Basin of central and southern Arizona.
June 3, 1:00 PM Dr. Donna Glowaki "Mesa Verde, Religion, and Change"	Donna M. Glowacki is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and a long-time research associate with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Her current research focuses on village formation, religious change, and social processes involved in the depopulation of the northern San Juan region during the 1200s. She has studied village formation and aggregation at the Spruce Tree House cliff dwelling and other large sites in Mesa Verde. Dr. Glowacki's talk is sponsored by the local Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society.
July 8, 1:00 PM James Peshlakai "Navajo People at the Crossroads of Arts and Cultures"	Navajo culture absorbs, adapts, and reflects many elements encountered over its long history. James Peshlakai is dedicated to the preservation of traditional Dine’ culture. He is a teacher, artist, and medicine man who was born near Wupatki in northeast Arizona. His father, uncles, and grandfathers were all medicine men. He has taught at Northern Arizona University  (Applied Indigenous Studies Department) and takes care of his sheep near Cameron, Arizona.
July 29, 1:00 PM Jude Schuenemeyer "Montezuma County's Fruit Heritage"	Nineteenth and early 20th century commercial fruit orchards made this valley a crossroads for early varieties of apples, pears, peaches, etc .  A few old trees remain, and Jude Schuenemeyer's mission is to save that heritage. Jude Schuenemeyer is the owner and manager of Let It Grow Nursery and Garden Supply in Cortez.
October 14, 1:00 PM Erica Olsen, author "Recapture & Other Archaeological Fictions" (reading and book signing)	Erica Olsen writes about archaeologists, museum curators, hikers, and pothunters--men and women engaged in preservation and destruction, figuring out how to live, work, remember, and love in a changing world.  Olsen's essays and articles have appeared in High Country News and other magazines. Her book Recapture (Torrey House Press, fall 2012), is a collection of stories that tell us how we got to this American West, and where we might go from here. www.recapturestories.com/
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