STEPHEN HENRY LEKSON - University of Colorado Boulder

Stephen H. Lekson 

Museum of Natural History 

University of Colorado, UCB 218 

Boulder, CO 80309-0218 

303-492-6671; Lekson@Colorado.edu 

CAREER SUMMARY 

8/02– University of Colorado: Curator of Archaeology, Museum of Natural 

History; and Associate Professor & Professor ('07), 

Department of Anthropology 

8/97-8/02 University of Colorado: Curator of Museum Studies, Museum of 

Natural History; and Assistant Professor, Department of 

Anthropology 

5/95-8/97 University of Colorado: Acting Curator of Anthropology and 

Research Associate, Museum of Natural History 

6/92-1/95 Crow Canyon Archaeological Center: President & CEO 

8/90-5/92 Museum of New Mexico: Curator of Archaeology 

1/87-7/90 Arizona State Museum: Research Associate 

5/76-5/86 National Park Service Chaco Center: Archaeologist 

6/74-5/76 Eastern New Mexico University: Research Archaeologist 

5/73-4/74 University of Tennessee, TVA projects: Project Director 

5/72-5/73 Case Western Reserve University, Upper Gila Project: Project 

Director 

EDUCATION 

Ph.D. 1988 Anthropology, University of New Mexico. Dissertation: 

Sociopolitical Complexity at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico 

Cert. 1981 Surveying and Cartography, Albuquerque Technical-Vocational 

Institute 

M.A. 1978 Anthropology, Eastern New Mexico University. Thesis: Settlement 

Patterns in the Redrock Valley of the Gila River, New Mexico 

B.A. 1972 Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University (honors) 

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HONORS AND AWARDS 

Roy Chapman Andrews Distinguished Explorer, 2011. 

US Department of Interior, Excellence of Service, 2001. 

Book Awards: Borderlands Book of the Year, 1993 (Ancient Lands, Ancestral 

Places); American Association of Museums Award of Distinction, 1994 

(Chaco Canyon: A Center and Its World); Colorado Book Award Finalist, 

2005 (Canyon Spirits); New Mexico Book Award, Science, 2010 (A History 

of the Ancient Southwest); Southwest Books of the Year, Notable Book, 

2010 (A History of the Ancient Southwest). 

Poster Award: Society for American Archaeology,1996 (Chaco + Casas 

Grandes). 

Plenary or Featured Speaker: Plenary Panel, Society for American Archaeology 

Annual Meeting, 1995; Plenary Speaker, Chacmool Conference, 

University of Calgary, 1991 & 1996; Bandelier Lecturer, New Mexico 

Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, 1991 & 2005; Plenary panel, 

Archaeological Institute of America, 1999; Distinguished Lecturer, 

Southern Methodist University, 2001; Plenary Speaker, Colorado 

Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, 2001 & 2009; Cynthia Irwin- 

Williams Memorial Lecturer, Eastern New Mexico University, 2002; 

Plenary Speaker, Texas Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, 2003; 

Banquet Speaker, Midwest Archaeological Conference, 2006; Plenary 

Panel, Great Basin Archaeological Conference, 2010; Keynote Speaker, 

Chimney Rock Conference, 2011; Distinguished Archaeologist, Verde 

Valley Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, 2011. 

GRANTS, CONTRACTS & FELLOWSHIPS 

2012 CU Office of University Outreach, “ArchaeoClass: Bringing the Science, 

History, and Geography of Colorado Archaeology to the 

Classroom”, $7900. 

2012 Fellowship, NEH Summer Institute, “Mesoamerica and the Southwest: A 

New History for an Ancient Land;” Mexico City, Flagstaff AZ, Santa 

Fe NM. 

2012 National Science Foundation, Archaeology, Dissertation Improvement: 

"Black Mountain Site and Phase," $25005 (Kathryn Putsavage) 

2012 National NAGPRA: “Museum Documentation,” $37000 

2012 National NAGPRA: "Repatriation/Reburial," $10270 

2012 National Science Foundation, Archaeology: "The Basketmaker 

Communities Project: Early Pueblo Society in the Mesa Verde 

Region," $249420. (Co-PI/PD with Dr. Scott Ortman, Crow Canyon 

Archaeological Center.) 

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2010 - 2011 Research Associate, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe NM. 

2010 University of Colorado CARTSS: "GIS, GPR, and Excavations at the 

Black Mountain Site," $2110 

2009 Chimney Rock Interpretive Association: “Excavations at the Chimney 

Rock Site,” $58000. 

2009 University of Colorado CRCW: "Chimney Rock," $7000. 

2008 National Park Service RM-CESU: "Dinosaur National Monument," 

$16000. 

2008 National NAGPRA: "Museum Documentation," $75000. 

2008 National NAGPRA: "Repatriation/Reburial," $14250. 

2008 University of Colorado IGP: "Pottery of the Ancient Southwest," $22850. 

2008 National Science Foundation, Archaeology: "Pinnacle Ruin," $41880. 

2007 National NAGPRA: “Museum Documentation,” $75000. 



2007 University of Colorado CARTSS: "Yellow Jacket: Collaborative 

Archaeology at a Major Mesa Verde Site," $3800. 

2007 University of Colorado GCAH: "Yellow Jacket: the Largest Mesa Verde 

Town," $800. 

2006 National Endowment for the Humanities: "Southwest Textile Collection 

Preservation Assessment," $27000. 


2005 National Park Service RM-CESU: “Fort Union NAGPRA,” $10000. 


2004 National Park Service RM-CESU: “Fort Union Ethnohistory,” $30000. 

2004 University of Colorado CRCW: “Aztec Ruins Geophysical Project,” $500. 


2004 Colorado State Historic Fund: “Yellow Jacket Collections,” $62843. 

2003 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship; $40000. 

2003 Clements Research Fellowship, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, 

Southern Methodist University $38500 (declined by SHL) 

2003 University of Colorado CRCW: “Sand Island: Time Etched in Stone,” 

$2060. 

2003 University of Colorado GCAH: “Warm Spring Apache Ethnohistory;” 

$1000. 

2003 University of Colorado CRCW: “Archaeological Survey, Alamosa Creek, 

New Mexico;” $4335. 

2002 University of Colorado CRCW: “Pinnacle Ruin;” $4500. 

2002 University of Colorado GCAH: visiting scholar Dr. Peter Peregrine, 

“Southwest, Southeast, and Mexico,” $750. 

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2002 University of Colorado President’s Fund for the Humanities: “Mimbres 

Lives and Landscapes,” $4900. 

2001 University of Colorado President’s Fund for the Humanities: “Sand Island: 

Time Etched in Stone,” $3500. 

2000 University of Colorado CRCW: “Canada Alamosa Project;” $4125. 

1998 University of Colorado JFDA: $5000. 

1997-2004 National Park Service: “Chaco Synthesis;” $10000 (1997), $36218 

(1998), $96987 (1999), $73238 (2000 extended to 2004). 

1997 Colorado State Historic Fund: “Dolores Data Conversion and Analysis;” 

$74435. 

1997-1998 National Geographic Society: “Bluff Great House Project;” $18000 

(1997), $16000 (1998) (co-PI/PD with Dr. Catherine Cameron). 

1995 National Park Service: “Natural Bridges National Monument 

Archaeological Survey;” $10000. 

1992-1995 Private, foundation, state and national agency sources: 

development for Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez CO; 

$600000+ per year. 

1990 New Mexico Historic Preservation Division: “Chiricahua Apache History 

and Ethnohistory Conference;” $5000. 

1990 Wenner-Gren: “Anasazi Cultures in Transition Conference;” $7000, (co-PI 

with Dr. William Lipe). 

1983 Bureau of Reclamation and New Mexico Historic Preservation Division: 

“Sierra County Rio Grande Project;” $14000. 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS 

American Association for the Advancement of Science 

American Association of Museums 

Society for American Archaeology 

World Archaeological Congress 

Archaeological Institute of America (President, Boulder Society, 2009 – ) 

Register of Professional Archaeologists 

Arizona Archaeological Council 

New Mexico Archaeological Council 

Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists (Executive Board, 2001-2004) 

Southeastern Archaeological Conference 

Southwest Mission Research Center 

Archaeological Society of New Mexico 

Colorado Archaeological Society 

Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society 

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EDITORIAL AND REVIEW 

Kiva, editorial board, 1987–1990; editor, 2006 –2011 

Archaeology, editorial board, 2001–2002; contributing editor, 2003 – 

Journal of Field Archaeology, editorial board 2010 – 

Time & Mind, editorial board, 2007– 

Native Peoples, editorial board 1993–1995 

Scientific American’s Discovering Archaeology, editorial board, 1998–2000 

Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, editorial board: Colorado 

Prehistoric Contexts, 1997-1999; Colorado Historic Contexts, 2001-2007 

Manuscript review: Current Anthropology; American Anthropologist; American 

Antiquity; Journal of Anthropological Research; Journal of Anthropological 

Archaeology; Journal of Field Archaeology; Journal of Archaeological 

Method and Theory; New Mexico Historical Review; University of Arizona 

Press; University of New Mexico Press; Oxford University Press; 

University Press of Colorado; University of Utah Press; Cotsen Institute of 

Archaeology. 

Proposal review: National Science Foundation; National Endowment for the 

Humanities; National Geographic Society; Colorado Historic Preservation 

Fund. 

TEACHING (University of Colorado, Boulder) 

1997-- Museum and Field Studies: Introduction to Museum Studies (MUSM 

4011/5011), Seminar in Museum Issues (MUSM 6116), Practicum in 

Anthropology (MUSM 4912/5912), Field Methods (MUSM 5462). 

1995-- Department of Anthropology: Introduction to Archaeology (ANTH 2200), 

Archaeological Field Research (ANTH 4350/5350), Environmental Archaeology 

(ANTH 4330), Anthropological Perspectives: Contemporary Issues (ANTH 

4180); Archaeology and Contemporary Society (ANTH 5460); Seminar: 

Archaeology of Selected Areas (ANTH 7140); Seminar: Archaeology (ANTH 

7030). 

Graduate Students: Karin Swain (MA 1998), Nicolette Meister (MA 1999), Tilly Laskey 

(MA 1999), Rita Cordalis (MA 2000), Anne Cornell (MA 2000), Dana Schaar (MA 

2000), Michelle Leonard (MA 2000), Judy Newland (MA 2000), Joel Tyberg (MA 

2000), Brian Yunker (MA 2001), William Urich (MA 2001), Chad Landsman (MA 

2001), Michael Larkin (MA 2001), Ingrid Walsh (MA 2001), Tristan Tolland (MA 

2001), J.J. Lonsinger (MA 2001), Rebecca Latanich (MA 2001), Betsy Bennett 

(MA 2001), Erik Heikennen (MA 2001), David Cain (MA 2002), Julie Marino (MA 

2002), Abby Bentz (MS 2004), Heidi McCann (Cert 2005), Heidi Quist (MS 

2005), Brad Caldwell (MS 2005), Lindsay Jones (MS 2006), Brenda Todd (MA 

2005, PhD 2012), Katy Putsavage (MS 2008, PhD), Morgan Seamont (MA 

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2009), Erin Baxter (MS 2010, PhD), Erica Garcia (MS 2010), Audrey Gayou (MS 

2010), Rhonda Wright (MS 2011), Gillian McGinnis (MS 2012), Caitlin Sommer 

(2013), Danyelle Donsunmu (MS), Marcus Espinosa (MS). 

RESEARCH (italics = students) 

Principal Investigator, University of Colorado Woodrow Ruin Project, mapping and 

testing Mimbres phase site, Grant County, NM; Summer 2011, Summer 2012. 

(PD, Jakob Sedig) 

Principal Investigator, University of Colorado Black Mountain Project, mapping and 

testing Black Mountain phase site, Luna County, NM; Summer 2010, Summer 

2011, Summer 2012. (PD, Kathryn Putsavage) 

Principal Investigator, University of Colorado Chimney Rock Project, testing Chacoan 

Great House, Archuleta County, CO; Summer 2009. (PD, Brenda Todd) 

Principal Investigator, Pinnacle Ruin, excavation of Mesa Verde migrant site; University 

of Colorado-Human Systems Research Cañada Alamosa Project, Socorro 

County, NM; Summer 2000, Summer 2001, *Summer 2002, *Summer 2003, 

*Summer 2004, Summer 2008, Summer 2012. (*=CU Field School) 

Principal Investigator, Yellow Jacket Analysis, analysis of Joe Ben Wheat collections 

from 5MT1, 2 & 3, Montezuma County, CO; University of Colorado Museum of 

Natural History; 2006—on-going. 

Principal Investigator, University of Colorado Aztec Ruins North Geophysical 

Prospection Project, San Juan County; NM; Summer 2004. 

Co-Principal Investigator, University of Colorado Bluff Great House Project, excavation 

of Chacoan Great House, San Juan County, UT; Fall 1995, *Summer 1996, 

*Summer 1997, *Summer 1998 (Co-PI, Catherine M. Cameron) (* = CU Field 

School) 

Principal Investigator, University of Colorado-National Park Service Chaco Synthesis 

Project,1997-2004. (Collaborative research with National Park Service, Arizona 

State University, University of Arizona, University of New Mexico, Fort Lewis 

College, School of American Research) 

Crew Chief, Lower San Pedro River Survey, reconnaissance survey of San Pedro 

River, Pinal County, AZ; Center for Desert Archaeology; Spring 1990. 

Consultant, Lake Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, excavation of platform mound sites 

in the Tonto Basin, Gila County, AZ; Arizona State University; Winter 1989. 

Principal Investigator, Hohokam Palette Project. Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ. 

1988-1989. (MA thesis, Devin White) 

Consultant, Rye Creek Project, excavation of pit-house sites in upper Tonto Basin, Gila 

County, AZ; Desert Archaeology, Fall-Winter; 1989. 

Project Director, Ojo Caliente Reconnaissance, survey of historic and prehistoric sites 

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on the Old Warm Springs Apache reservation, Socorro County, NM; Human 

Systems Research, Tularosa, New Mexico; Fall 1988. 

Ceramic Analyst, Arizona Interconnection Project, ceramic analysis of sites along 200- 

mile linear survey from Red Hill to Deming, NM; Zuni Archeological Program, 

Zuni, New Mexico; Winter-Spring 1987-1988. 

Crew Chief, Coronado National Forest, clearance surveys of upland areas in Santa 

Cruz and Cochise Counties; USDA Forest Service, Tucson, AZ; Summer 1987. 

Archaeologist, Aztec Mapping Project, survey of sites at Aztec Ruins National 

Monument, San Juan County, NM; National Park Service; Summer 1987. 

Assistant Crew Chief, Continental Ranch Mitigation Project, Pima County, AZ, 

excavation of Pioneer and Colonial period Hohokam site; Institute for American 

Research; Spring 1987. 

Project Director, Cottonwood Draw survey, Dona Ana County, NM, survey of large El 

Paso phase architectural sites; Human Systems Research; Winter 1986-1987. 

Principal Investigator, LA 5421 Mimbres Project, analysis of materials from Three 

Circle-Mimbres phase site; Arizona State Museum; Summer-Winter 1986. 

Principal Investigator, Sierra County Rio Grande Project, Sierra County, NM, 

reconnaissance survey of 95 km of Rio Grande Valley and tributaries; New 

Mexico State Historic Preservation/Human Systems Research; Spring 1984, 

Summer-Fall 1985. 

Crew Chief, Survey, University of New Mexico Field School, Sierra County, NM, sample 

survey of Palomas Creek Drainage; Summers 1982 and 1983. 

Archaeologist, Chaco Project, Chaco Canyon National Monument and Albuquerque, 

NM, excavation of 29SJ629 and Pueblo Alto, outlier survey, architectural, 

ceramic and lithic analyses; National Park Service; Spring 1976-Summer 1986. 

Assistant Director, stabilization program, Salmon Ruins, Bloomfield, NM; San Juan 

County Museum; Winter 1975. 

Assistant Director, ceramics laboratory, Puerco River Valley Project, Guadelupe and 

Portales, NM; analysis of ceramics and survey data from Middle Rio Puerco; 

Eastern New Mexico University; Spring-Fall 1975. 

Assistant Director, ceramics laboratory, San Juan Valley Archeological Project, 

Bloomfield and Portales, NM; analysis of ceramics and survey data from Salmon 

Ruins Chacoan outlier; Eastern New Mexico University; 1974. 

Project Director, small projects, Division of Contract Archeology, clearance and 

inventory surveys, Lea and Eddy Counties, NM; Eastern New Mexico University, 

Portales, NM; 1974. 

Principal Investigator, Redrock Valley Survey, Redrock, NM, inventory survey of 16 km 

of Gila River Valley; Upper Gila Project, Grant and Hidalgo Counties, NM; Fort 

Burgwin Foundation; Spring 1974. 

Project Director, Columbia Reservoir Mitigation Project, Columbia, TN; excavation of 

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1990 Mimbres Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexcio. University of Arizona 

Press, Tucson. 

1987 Nana’s Raid: Apache Warfare in Southern New Mexico, 1881. Texas Western 

Press, University of Texas at El Paso. 

1984 Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. National Park 

Service, Santa Fe. (Second edition UNM Press 1986; third edition 

Percheron Press 2011.) 

1983 The Architecture and Dendrochronology of Chetro Ketl, Chaco Canyon. National 

Park Service, Santa Fe. (Editor and author/co-author of three chapters.) 

1983 The Outlier Survey: A Regional View of Settlement in the San Juan Basin. 

National Park Service, Santa Fe. (Junior author with Robert P. Powers 

and William B. Gillespie.) 

Books & Monographs (other) 

2011 The Southwest in the World (online book-blog: stevelekson.com) 

1995 Elephant Butte-Eastern Black Range Region: Journeys from Desert Lakes to 

Mountain Ghost Towns. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral 

Resources, Socorro. (Junior author with R. Lozinsky and R. Harrison.) 

1993 Ancient Lands, Ancestral Places. Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe. 

(Editor and senior author with Rina Swentzell and Catherine Cameron.) 

1989 An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Rio Grande Valley in Sierra County, 

New Mexico. The Artifact 27(2), whole number. 

1971 The Stailey Cave Collection. Southwestern New Mexico Research Reports 6. 

(Senior author with James R. Ross and James E. Fitting.) 

Book Chapters (peer-reviewed; italics = student co-authors) 

in review Chaco Canyon, the U.S. Southwest, and Mesoamerica. In A World with 

States, Empires, and Networks; Cambridge History of the World, Vol 4, 

ed. Craig Benjamin. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 

2014 Cultural Connections. In Emerging Trends in Social and Behavioral Sciences, 

ed. Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn. SAGE Publications, Thousand 

Oaks. 

2013 Thinking About Fremont: The Later Prehistory of the Great Basin and the 

Southwest: In Papers in Honor of Don Fowler, ed. Joel Janetski. 

University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 

2013 Southwestern New Mexico and "The Land Between." In Between Mimbres and 

Hohokam: Exploring the Archaeology and History of Southeastern Arizona 

and Southwestern New Mexico, edited by H. D. Wallace, Anthropological 

Papers No. 51, Archaeology Southwest, Tucson. 

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2012 Early Pueblo Villages in a Pioneer/Colonial, Epi-Classic World. In Crucible of 

Pueblos: The Early Pueblo Period in the Northern Southwest, edited by 

Richard Wilshusen, Greg Schachner, and James Allison. Cotsen Institute 

of Archaeology, Los Angeles. 

2012 Continuities and Discontinuities in Southwestern Religions. In Enduring 

Motives: The Archaeology of Tradition and Religion in Native America, 

edited by Linea Sundstrom and Warren DeBoer. University of Alabama 

Press, Tuscaloosa. 

2011 Historiography and Archaeological Theory at Bigger Scales. In Movement, 

Connectivity, and Landscape Change in the Ancient Southwest, edited by 

Margaret Nelson and Colleen Strawhacker. University Press of Colorado, 

Boulder. 

2011 The Southwest, Iberia, and Their Worlds. In Comparative Archaeologies: Iberia 

and the Southwest, edited by Katina Lillios. Oxbow, Woodbridge. 

2011 Bridging Histories: The Archaeology of Chaco and Los Millares. In Comparative 

Archaeologies: Iberia and the Southwest, edited by Katina Lillios. Oxbow, 

Woodbridge. (Senior author with Pedro Diaz-del-Rio). 

2010 The Good Gray Intermediate: Why Native Societies of North America Can't be 

States. In Ancient Complexities: New Perspectives in Pre-Columbian 

North America, edited by Susan Alt. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake 

City. 

2009 Lost Cities, Prairie Castles: Mesa Verde, Manitou Cliff Dwellings, Bent's Old Fort 

and the Fort Restaurant. In The Archaeology of Meaningful Places, 

edited by Maria Nieves Zedeno and Brenda Bowser. University of Utah 

Press, Salt Lake City. 

2008 The Chaco Meridian. In American Indian Places, edited by Frances H. Kennedy. 

Houghton-Mifflin, New York. 

2007 The Changing Face of Chetro Ketl. In Architecture of Chaco Canyon, edited by 

Stephen H. Lekson. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. (Senior 

author with Thomas Windes and Patricia Fournier.) 

2007 An Introduction to Chacoan Architecture. In Architecture of Chaco Canyon, 

edited by Stephen Lekson. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 

2007 Europe and the Buildings Without History. In Canyon Gardens: The Ancient 

Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest, edited by V.B. Price and 

Baker H. Morrow. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 

2006 Lords of the Great House. In Palaces and Power in the Americas, edited by 

Jessica Christie and Patricia Sarro. University of Texas Press, Austin. 

2006 Southeast, Southwest, Mexico: Continental Perspectives on Mississippian 

Polities. In Leadership and Polity in Mississippian Societies, edited by 

Brian Butler and Paul Welch. Center for Archaeological Investigations, 

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Occasional Papers 33, Carbondale. (Junior author with Peter N. 

Peregrine.) 

2006 Chaco Matters: An Introduction to Chaco Archaeology. In The Archaeology of 

Chaco Canyon, edited by Stephen Lekson. School of American Research 

Press, Santa Fe. 

2006 Architecture. In The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon, edited by Stephen Lekson. 

School of American Research Press, Santa Fe. (Senior author with 

Thomas Windes and Peter McKenna.) 

2006 Chaco from the South. In The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon, edited by 

Stephen Lekson. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe. (Junior 

author with Andrew Duff.) 

2005 Complexity. In Southwestern Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, edited by 

Linda Cordell and Donald Fowler. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake 

City. 

2005 Chaco and Paquimé: Complexity, History, and Landscape. In North American 

Archaeology, edited by Timothy Pauketat and Diana Loren. Blackwell, 

Malden. 

2004 Pueblo IV in the Chihuahuan Desert. In The Protohistoric Pueblo World: A.D. 

1275-1600, edited by E. Charles Adams and Andrew Duff. University of 

Arizona Press, Tucson. (Senior author with Art McWilliams [UA] and 

Michael Bletzer [SMU]) 

2001 Presidents, Precedents, and Pundits. In Anasazi Regional Organization and the 

Chaco System (second edition), edited by David E. Doyel. Maxwell 

Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque. 

2000 Great! In Great House Communities Across the Chacoan Landscape, edited by 

John Kantner and Nancy Mahoney. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 

2000 Salado in Chihuahua. In Salado, edited by Jeffrey S. Dean. University of New 

Mexico Press. 

1999 Great Towns in the Southwest. In Great Towns and Regional Polities in the 

Prehistoric Southwest and Southeast. Jill Neitzel, editor; University of 

New Mexico Press. 

1999 Was Casas Grandes a Pueblo? In The Casas Grandes World, edited by Curt 

Schaafsma and Carroll Riley. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 

1997 Anasazi Towns in Context. In Anasazi Architecture and American Design. 

Edited by Baker Morrow; University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 

1996 Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona. In The Prehistoric Pueblo 

World A.D. 1150-1350. Edited by Michael Adler; University of Arizona 

Press, Tucson. 

1994 Thinking About Chaco. In Chaco Canyon: A Center and Its World. Edited by 

Mary Peck. Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe. 

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1993 Regional Organization and the American Southwest. In Anasazi Regional 

Organization and the Chaco System, edited by David Doyel; 

Anthropological Papers 5, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, 

Albuquerque. (Junior author with David Doyel.) 

1993 Anasazi Ritual Landscapes. In Anasazi Regional Organization and the Chaco 

System, edited by David Doyel; Anthropological Papers 5, Maxwell 

Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque. (Junior author with John Stein.) 

1992 The Architecture of the Ancient Southwest. In The Ancient Americas: Art from 

Sacred Landscapes, edited by R. F. Townsend. Art Institute of Chicago. 

1991 Settlement Patterns and the Chacoan Region. In Chaco and Hohokam: 

Prehistoric Regional Systems in the Arid Southwest, edited by Patricia 

Crown and James Judge. School of American Research, Santa Fe. 

1990 Cross-cultural Perspectives on the Community. In On Vernacular Architecture: 

Paradigms of Environmental Response, edited by Mete Turan. Gower. 

1989 Kivas? In The Architecture of Social Integration In the Prehistoric Pueblos, 

edited by William Lipe and Michelle Hegemon. Occasional Publication 

No. 1, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez. 

1989 The Great Pueblo Period in Southwestern Archaeology. In Pueblo Style and 

Regional Architecture, edited by Nicholas C. Markovich, Wolfgang F.E. 

Preiser, and Fred G. Sturm. Van Nostrand Reinhold. 

1986 Introduction. In Small Site Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, by P.J. 

McKenna and M.L. Truell. Publications in Archaeology 18D, National 

Park Service, Santa Fe. 

1984 Prehistoric Settlement Along the Palomas Drainage, Southern New Mexico. In 

Prehistoric Use of the Eastern Slopes of the Black Range, New Mexico, 

edited by M.C. Nelson,. Technical Series 1. Maxwell Museum of 

Anthropology, Albuquerque. 

1984 Standing Architecture at Chaco Canyon and the Interpretation of Local and 

Regional Organization. In Recent Research on Chacoan Prehistory, 

edited by W.J. Judge and J.D. Schelburg. Reports of the Chaco Center 

8, National Park Service. 

1983 Southwestern Archaeology. In Borderlands Sourcebook, edited by E.R. 

Stoddard, R.L. Nostrand and J.P. West. University of Oklahoma Press, 

Norman. 

Book Chapters (other) 

2013 "Southwest" and "Chaco" in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer 

Reference, New York. 

2012 The North American Oikoumene. In Oxford Handbook of North American 

Archaeology, edited by Timothy R. Pauketat. Oxford University Press, 

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New York. (Junior author with Peter N. Peregrine) 

2012 Chaco's Hinterlands. In Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology, 

edited by Timothy R. Pauketat. Oxford University Press, New York. 

2011 New Views from Chimney Rock. In In the Shadows of the Rocks, by Florence 

Lister. Durango Herald Small Press, Durango. (Junior author with 

Brenda Todd.) 

2010 What Happened to the Ancient Pueblo People of Mesa Verde and Chaco? In 

Analyze. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara. 

2010 Mogollon. eHRAF Archaeology. Human Relations Area Files, New Haven. 

(Junior author with J. Jefferson Reid) 

2010 Shaping Space: Built Space, Landscape, and Cosmology in Four Regions. SFI 

Working Paper, "Cosmology & Society in the Ancient Amerindian World;" 

Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe NM. (Second author with Ben Nelson, Ivan 

Šprajc, and Kenneth E. Sassaman). 

http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/11-02-005.pdf 

2010 Red Paint People: The Eastern Chiricahua Apache. In Mimbres Lives and 

Landscapes, edited by Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon. SAR 

Press, Santa Fe. 

2009 Mesa Verde and Aztlan: The Mesoamerican Southwest. In A Century of 

Archaeological Research at Mesa Verde National Park. Mesa Verde 

Museum Associations, Mesa Verde. 

2008 Great Houses; and Cultural and Social Interactions and Migrations. In 

Archaeology in America, edited by Francis McManamon. Greenwood, 

Highlands Ranch. 

2008 Safford & Samarqand. In Crossroads of the Southwest: Culture, Identity, and 

Migration in Arizona's Safford Basin, edited by David Purcell. Cambridge 

Scholars Press, Cambridge 

2008 Chaco Panache: Feathers and 11th Century Political Power. In Chasing Chaco, 

Papers in Honor of Frances Joan Mathien, edited by Regge N. Wiseman, 

Thomas C. O'Laughlin, Cordelia T. Snow and Cathy Travis. Papers of the 

Archaeological Society of New Mexico 34. Allbuquerque. (Junior author 

with Catherine M. Cameron.) 

2007 The Anaszai. In Archaeologica, Global Book Publishing, Lane Cove, Australia. 

2005 Mimbres, Hohokam and Anasazi. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Mogollon 

Conference, edited by Lonnie Ludeman. New Mexico State University, 

Las Cruces. 

2005 Anasazi Pueblos of the Ancient Southwest. In Canyon Spirits. (Lead essay in 

photo book by John Ninnemann). University of New Mexico Press, 

Albuquerque. [Colorado Book Award Finalist] 

2004 Foreword. In Chimney Rock: The Ultimate Outlier, edited by J. McKim Malville. 

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Lexington Books, Lanham. 

2004 Architecture: Chaco’s Central Matter. In In Search of Chaco: New Approaches 

to an Enduring Enigma, edited by David Nobel. SAR Press, Santa Fe. 

2001 Landscape and Polity: The Interplay of Land, History and Power in the Ancient 

Southwest. In The Road to Aztlan, edited by Virginia M. Fields and Victor 

Zamudio-Taylor. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 

2001 Chaco, Aztec and Paquimé: The Origins of Casas Grandes. In From Paquimé to 

Mata Ortiz: The Legacy of Ancient Casas Grandes, edited by Grace 

Johnson. San Diego Museum of Man. 

2001 Foreword. In Chaco Society and Polity, edited by Linda Cordell, W. James 

Judge, and June-el Piper. New Mexico Archaeological Council Special 

Publication 4. (senior author with Karin Burd) 

2001 Early Hohokam; and Early Mogollon. In Encyclopedia of Prehistory, edited by 

Peter Peregrine and Melvin Ember. Kluwer Academic/Plenum. (senior 

author with Devin White) 

2000 Ojo Caliente: Apache Reservation and Military Post. In Fort Craig: The United 

States on the Camino Real, edited by Charles Carroll and Lynne 

Sebastian. Bureau of Land Management, Socorro. 

1999 Unit Pueblos and the Mimbres Problem. In La Frontera: Essays in Honor of 

Patrick H. Beckett, edited by Meliha Duran and David Kirkpatrick. 

Archaeological Society of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 

1999 Scale and Process in the Southwest, Past and Present. In Affiliation Conference 

on Ancestral Pueblo Peoples of the Four Corners Region, edited by Philip 

Duke. National Park Service and Fort Lewis College, Durango. 

1997 The Chaco Phenomenon; and Alfred Vincent Kidder, The Oxford Companion to 

Archaeology, edited by Brian Fagan. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 

1997 Points, Knives and Drills of Chaco Canyon. In Ceramics, Lithics and Ornaments 

of Chaco Canyon, edited by Joan Mathien. Publications in Archaeology 

18G, National Park Service, Albuquerque. 

1996 Scale and Process in the Southwest; and, Shaping the Pueblo World: the 

Southwest After 1150. In Interpreting Southwestern Diversity: Underlying 

Principles and Overarching Patterns, edited by Paul Fish and J. Jefferson 

Reid. Arizona State University Anthropological Research Papers 48, 

Tempe. 

1994 Approaches to Understanding Southwestern Prehistory. In Understanding 

Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the 

Sciences of Complexity, edited by George J. Gumerman and Murray Gell- 

Mann. Addison Wesley, Reading. (Senior author with Linda Cordell and 

George Gumerman.) 

1992 Salado of the East; and Perro Salado or Salado Peril? Remarks on the Second 

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Salado Conference. In Proceedings of the Second Salado Conference, 

edited by Richard Lange. Arizona Archaeological Society Occasional 

Paper, Phoenix. 

1992 Mimbres Art and Archaeology. In Archaeology, Art, and Anthropology: Papers in 

Honor of J.J. Brody, edited by Meliha Duran and David T. Kirkpatrick. 

Papers of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico 18, Albuquerque. 

1990 Sedentism and Aggregation in Anasazi Archaeology. In Perspectives on 

Southwestern Prehistory, edited by Paul Minnis and Charles Redman. 

Westview Press, Boulder. 

1989 The Community in Anasazi Archaeology. In Households and Communities, 

edited by Scott MacEachern, David J.W. Archer, and Richard D. Garvin. 

The Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary. 

1989 Regional Systematics in the Later Prehistory of Southern New Mexico. In Fourth 

Jornada Mogollon Conference Collected Papers, edited by Meli Duran 

and Karl W. Laumbach. Human Systems Research, Las Cruces. 

1989 Chipped Stone Tools From Pueblo Alto. In Investigations in the Pueblo Alto 

Complex, New Mexico, edited by Francis Joan Mathien and Thomas C. 

Windes. Publications in Archaeology 18F, Vol. 3. National Park Service, 

Albuquerque. 

1986 Mimbres Riverine Adaptations; and The Mimbres Region. In Mogollon 

Variability, edited by C. Benson and S. Upham. Occasional Paper 15, 

New Mexico State University Museum, Las Cruces. 

1986 The Architecture of Talus Unit, Chaco Canyon. In Prehistory and History in the 

Southwest, edited by Nancy Fox. Papers of the Archaeological Society of 

New Mexico 11, Santa Fe. 

1984 Mimbres Settlement Size in Southwestern New Mexico. In Recent Research in 

Mogollon Archaeology, edited by Steadman Upham and others. 

Occasional Papers 10. Department of Anthropology, New Mexico State 

University, Las Cruces. 

1983 Chacoan Architecture in Continental Context. In Proceedings of the First 

Anasazi Symposium, edited by J.E. Smith. Mesa Verde Museum 

Association, Mesa Verde. 

1982 Architecture and Settlement Plan in the Redrock Valley of the Gila River, 

Southwestern New Mexico. In Mogollon Archaeology, edited by Patrick 

H. Beckett. Acoma Books, Ramona. 

1981 Tenth Century Developments in Chaco Canyon. In Collected Papers in Honor of 

Erik Kellerman Reed, edited by Albert H. Schroeder. Papers of the 

Archaeological Society of New Mexico 6, Albuquerque. (Junior author 

with W. James Judge, William B. Gillespie, and H. Wolcott Toll.) 

1975 Artifact Assemblages at the Salmon Site. In Investigations at the Salmon Site, 

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edited by Cynthia Irwin-Williams, editor. Eastern New Mexico University. 

(Senior author with C.M. Cameron) 

1973 Human bone. Appendix B in An Early Mogollon Community: Preliminary Report 

on the Winn Canyon Site, by J.E. Fitting. The Artifact 11 (1-2), whole 

number. 

1973 Groundstone. Appendix C in Four Archaeological Sites in the Big Burro 

Mountains, J.E. Fitting, editor; COAS Monographs 1. 

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed; italics = student co-authors) 

2010 My Adventures in Zuni – and Kykostmovi, and Window Rock, and… Museum 

Anthropology 33(2). 

2002 Migrations in the Southwest: Pinnacle Ruin, Southwestern New Mexico. Kiva 

68(2). (Senior author with Curtis Nepstad-Thornberry, Brian Yunker, 

David Cain, Toni Sudar-Laumbach, Karl Laumbach.) 

2002 War in the Southwest, War in the World. American Antiquity 67(4). 

1997 Museums and the Market: Exploring Santa Fe. Nonrenewable Resources 6(2). 

1995 The Abandonment of Chaco Canyon, the Mesa Verde Migrations, and the 

Reorganization of the Pueblo World. Journal of Anthropological 

Archaeology 14(2) (Senior author with Catherine M. Cameron.) 

1995 Introduction. In Migration and the Movement of Southwestern Peoples. Special 

issue, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14(2). 

1988 The Idea of the Kiva in Anasazi Archaeology. Kiva 53(3). 

1988 The Chaco Canyon Community. Scientific American 259(1). (Senior author 

with Thomas C. Windes, John R. Stein, and W. James Judge.) 

1988 The Mangas Phase in Mimbres Archaeology. Kiva 53(2). 

1984 The Dating of Casa Grandes. Kiva 50(1). 

1983 The Dating of the Hubbard Mound and Other Tri-Wall Structures. 

Southwestern Lore 49(4). 

1981 Cognitive Frameworks and Chacoan Architecture. New Mexico Journal of 

Science 21(1). 

Journal Articles (other) 

2011 Editing Kiva. Kiva 76(4). 

2011 Still Digging. SAA Archaeological Record 11(2). 

2010 Power, Polity, and Identity in the Northern San Juan. Archaeology Southwest. 

24(3). 

2009 Amending the Meridian: A Scholar Revisits the Southwest's Most Controversial 

Theory. Archaeology 62(1). 

2006 Salado Archaeology in the “Area Between.” Archaeology Southwest 20(2). 

2004 A Continental Perspective for North American Archaeology. SAA Archaeological 

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Record 4(1). (Senior author with Peter Peregrine.) 

2004 Pinnacle Ruin. Archaeology Southwest 18(2). 

2004 Herbert Yeo’s F Sites. Archaeology Southwest 18(2). 

2002 Chaco: Evil Empire or Shangri-La? Smoking Mirror: Newsletter of the Pre- 

Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. 9(12). 

2001 Flight of the Anasazi. Archaeology 54(5). 

2000 A New Synthesis of Chaco Canyon Archaeology. Anthropology News 41(9). 

(Senior author with Karin Burd.) 

2000 Ancient Chaco’s New History. Archaeology Southwest 14(1). (Guest editor and 

author.) 

1999 War and Peace in the Ancient Southwest. Scientific American’s Discovering 

Archaeology 1(3). 

1997 Rewriting Southwestern Prehistory. Archaeology 50(1). 

1996 Post-Plenary Reflections: Telling Archaeology. SAA Newsletter 13(3). 

1995 Tracking the Movements of an Ancient People. Archaeology 48(5). 

1995 The Cottonwood Spring and Indian Tank Sites. Artifact 33(2). (Senior author 

with Alan Rorex.) 

1993 Chaco, Hohokam, and Mimbres: The 11th and 12th Centuries in the American 

Southwest. Expedition 35 (1). 

1993 Ruins of the Four Corners, Villages of the Rio Grande. El Palacio 98(2). 

1993 The Surface Archaeology of Southwestern New Mexico. Artifact 30(3). 

1991 Mysterious Mimbres Leave Behind Modern Legacy. New Mexico Magazine 

69(8). (Senior author with Bruce Bernstein.) 

1990 The Southwest's Remarkable Mimbres People. Archaeology 43(6). 

1987 Great House Architecture of Chaco Canyon. Archaeology 40(3). 

1986 Mesa Verde-Like Pottery Near T-or-C, New Mexico. Pottery Southwest 13(4). 

1985 Largest Settlement Size and the Interpretation of Socio-political Complexity at 

Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Haliksai: UNM Contributions in 

Anthropology 4. 

1985 The Sierra County Rio Grande Project. UNM Anthropology 3(5). 

1982 Labor Investment in Chacoan Building. In Papers of the San Juan Basin 

Symposium, New Mexico Archaeological Council Newsletter 4(5-6). 

1977 Sherds as Units of Analysis. Pottery Southwest 4(3). 

1974 A Bead Cache from the Saige-McFarland Site. Artifact 11(4). (Junior author 

with Timothy C. Klinger.) 

1974 Villareal II: A Preliminary Report on an Animas Phase Site in Southwestern New 

Mexico, Awanyu 1(2). (Senior author with Timothy C. Klinger.) 

1974 A Mimbres Stone Effigy Vessel. Artifact 11(4). 

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Reviews 

2009 Exploring Variability in Mogollon Pithouses (Roth and Stokes). Journal of 

Anthropological Research 65(4). 

2009 The Limits of Settlement Growth: A Theoretical Outline (Fletcher). H-Net 

Reviews in Humanities and Social Sciences, June. 

2009 A New Deal for Chaco Canyon (Review of The Chaco Experience [Van Dyke]). 

Current Anthropology 50(3). 

2009 Trincheras Sites in Time, Space, and Society (Fish, Fish, and Villalpando). 

Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(2). 

2009 Archaeology Without Borders (Webster and McBrinn). Cambridge 

Archaeological Journal 19(2). 

2008 Zuni Origins (Gregory and Wilcox). Journal of Field Archaeology 33(3). 

2008 Great Houses of Chaco Canyon (Campbell). Journal of Anthropological 

Research 64(2). 

2006 Centuries of Decline During the Hohokam Classic Period at Pueblo Grande 

(Abbott). American Antiquity 71(4). 

2005 Curating Archaeological Collections (Sullivan and Childs). Museum 

Anthropology 28(2). 

2003 Relation of the "Bonito" Paleo-Channels and Base-level Variations to Anasazi 

Occupation, Chaco Canyon (Force et alia). Journal of Anthropological 

Research 59(3) 

2002 Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos (Chappell). American Scientist 90(6). 

2002 Anasazi America (Stuart). American Antiquity 67(1). 

2002 The Archaeology of Communities (Marcello and Yaeger). American 

Anthropologist 104(1). 

2002 Archaeology of the Ojasen (41EP289) and Gobernadora (41EP321) Sites, El 

Paso County, Texas (Shafer, Dockall and Brewington). Bulletin of the 

Texas Archaeological Society Vol. 73. 

2002 Constructing Frames of Reference (Binford). American Scientist 89(6). 

2001 Casas Grandes and Its Hinterlands (Whalen and Minnis). Journal of Field 

Archaeology 28:216-222. 

2000 Man Corn (Turner). Journal of Arizona History 41(2):209-210. 

1999 Chaco “Death Squads” (Review of Man Corn [Turner and Turner] and Prehistoric 

Warfare in the Ancient Southwest [LeBlanc]) Archaeology 52(3). 

1998 A Tale (and Tally) of Many Cities. (Review of The Limits of Settlement Growth 

[Fletcher].) Current Anthropology 39(4). 

1996 Landscape with Ruins: Archaeological Approaches to Built and Unbuilt 

Environments (review article). Current Anthropology 37(5). 

1993 Peoples of the Southwest (exhibit, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology). American 

Anthropologist 95(1). 

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1991 Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory (Cordell and Gumerman). American Indian 

Quarterly, Fall. 

1990 A Study of Pueblo Architecture (Mindeleff) American Antiquity 55(3). 

1985 Bis sa’anni (Breternitz and Doyel). Kiva 50(2-3). 

Selected Technical Reports (italics = student co-authors) 

2011 Excavations at the Pinnacle Ruin. In Canada Alamosa Project: Preliminary 

Report on the 2008 Season (ed. Karl W. Laumbach). Human Systems 

Research Report 2008:16. (Senior author with Morgan Seamont, Erin 

Baxter, and Karl Laumbach) 

2011 Chimney Rock Stabilization Project, 5AA83, Archuleta County, Colorado. 

Submitted to San Juan National Forest and Chimney Rock Interpretive 

Association. (Junior author with Brenda Todd.) 

2010 Preliminary Study of the Black Mountain Site, LA 49, Luna County NM. 

Submitted to New Mexico State Land Office and New Mexico Cultural 

Properties Review Committee. (Junior author with Kathryn Putsavage.) 

2007 Investigations at the Pinnacle Ruin. In Cañada Alamosa Project: Preliminary 

Report on the 2004 Research Season, edited by Karl W. Laumbach. 

Human Systems Research Report 2004-19, Las Cruces. (Senior author 

with Gail Bleakney, Toni Laumbach and Karl Laumbach.) 

2004 Geophysical Testing at Aztec North Great House, Aztec Ruins National 

Monument, New Mexico. Submitted to the National Park Service. 

(Appendices by Laurence Conyers, Jennie Strum, Kristin Safi and Joya 

Tetrault). 

2002 Testing at Pinnacle Ruin. In Cañada Alamosa Project: Preliminary Report on the 

2001 Research Season, edited by Karl W. Laumbach. Human Systems 

Research Report 2001-6, Las Cruces. 

2001 Preliminary Report on the 2000 Research Season, Featuring Excavations at the 

Pinnacle Ruin, Cañada Alamos, New Mexico. Human Systems Research 

Report 2011, Las Cruces. (Senior author with Karl Laumbach, Curtis 

Nepstad-Thornberry, Brian Yunker, Toni Laumbach, David Cain, David 

Hill and Jim Wakeman.) 

2001 Southwestern New Mexico. In The Archaeological Record of Southern New 

Mexico, edited by Susana R. Katz and Paul Katz. State Historic 

Preservation Division, Santa Fe. 

2000 Preliminary Report on the 1998 Field Season at the Bluff Great House. 

Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder. Report 

submitted to the Southwest Heritage Foundation, Bluff UT. (Junior author 


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1998 Reconnaissance Survey of the San Juan River Between Four-Corners and Bluff, 

Utah. Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder. 

Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, Blanding UT. 

1997 Preliminary Report on the 1997 Field Season at the Bluff Great House. 

Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder. Report 

submitted to the Southwest Heritage Foundation, Bluff UT. (Junior author 


1997 Report on the 1996 Excavations at the Bluff Great House. Department of 

Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder. Report submitted to the 

Southwest Heritage Foundation, Bluff UT. (Second author with Catherine 

M. Cameron and William E. Davis.) 

1995 Archaeological Survey of Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah. University 

Museum, University of Colorado. Report submitted to National Park 

Service, Moab UT. 

1992 Ethnohistory of the National Park Service Ojo Caliente Study Area, Socorro 

County, New Mexico. Human Systems Research, Inc., Las Cruces, New 

Mexico. Report submitted to National Park Service, Santa Fe. 

1992 Archaeological Overview of Southwestern New Mexico. Human Systems 

Research, Inc. Las Cruces, New Mexico. Report submitted to the New 

Mexico Historic Preservation Division, Santa Fe. 

1992 The Rye Creek Project: Archaeology in the Upper Tonto Basin, Vol. 1: 

Introduction and Site Description. Center for Desert Archaeology 

Anthropological Papers 11(1). (Fourth author with M.D. Elson and 

others.) 

1990 Ceramic Analysis. In Archaeological Studies Along the Arizona Interconnection 

Project Transmission Line Corridor, Andrew Fowler, editor. Zuni 

Archaeological Program Research Series 5. 

1990 Cultural Resources of Elephant Butte Reservoir, Caballo Reservoir, and Percha 

Diversion Dam, Sierra and Socorro Counties, New Mexico. Report 

prepared for Complete Archaeological Service Associates, Cortez. 

1989 Archaeological Synthesis and State Plan for Historic Preservation, Southwestern 

New Mexico. Human Systems Research, Las Cruces; Report prepared 

for the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Division, Santa Fe. 

1989 The Mimbres Culture. Report prepared for the Mimbres Culture Study, National 

Park Service, Santa Fe. 

1989 Historic Properties Management Plan for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

Painted Rocks Reservoir Project, Southwestern Arizona. Institute for 

American Research, Technical Report 88-6; Report submitted to the 

Corps of Engineers. (Second author with Allen Dart and Henry D. 

Wallace.) 

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1988 A Reconnaissance of the Warm Springs Apache Indian Reservation, Socorro 

County, New Mexico. Human Systems Research, Tularosa, New Mexico. 

(Senior author with Karl W. Laumbach and Peter J. McKenna.) 

1987 Archaeological Survey of the Cottonwood Spring and Indian Tank Sites, Dona 

Ana County, New Mexico. Human Systems Research, Tularosa, New 

Mexico; report submitted to White Sands Missile Range. Senior author 

with Alan Rorex. 

1986 Small project clearance surveys, Coronado National Forest. On file, Coronado 

National Forest, Tucson. Senior author with Chris Schrager. 

1985 History and Prehistory of the Rio Grande Valley, Sierra County, New Mexico. 

Report submitted to the State Historic Preservation Division, Santa Fe, 

New Mexico; on file, Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico 

and Bureau of Reclamation Southwest Region Office, Amarillo. 

1984 1983 Site Survey Along the Palomas Drainage, Southern New Mexico. Report of 

the University of New Mexico Field School. On file, State Historic 

Preservation Division, Santa Fe. New Mexico. Senior author with 

Margaret C. Nelson. 

1984 A reconstruction of Tcihene (Warm Springs Apache) subsistence. On file, New 

Mexico Historic Preservation Division, Santa Fe. 

1983 The East Socorro District Class II Survey. Report submitted to the Bureau of 

Land Management Socorro District Office, Socorro. (Senior author with 

LuAnn Wandsnider.) 

1983 The political history of Elephant Butte Dam. On file, Bureau of Reclamation 

Middle Rio Grande Project Office, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. 

1982 History of Sierra County, New Mexico. On file, Geronimo Springs Museum, 

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, and New Mexico State Archives 

and Record Service, Santa Fe. 

1982 University of New Mexico archaeological field school in Sierra County: Survey 

strategy and tactics. On file, State Historic Preservation Division, Santa 

Fe. 

1981 Architecture in archaeology: A critical bibliography of sources for theory. On 

file, Clark Field Archives, University of New Mexico; Albuquerque. 

1979 Measured Elevations of Six Ruins in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; on file, NPS 

Chaco Center, Santa Fe. (Senior author with Peter J. McKenna and Jerry 

L. Livingston.) 

1978 Excavations in the north room block, Pueblo Alto, Chaco Canyon; on file, NPS 

Chaco Center, Santa Fe. 

1975 Archaeological surveys of eight proposed pipelines and one proposed 

dehydration plant, Lea and Eddy Counties, New Mexico; on file, Division 

of Contract Archaeology, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales. 

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Senior author with Catherine M. Cameron. 

1974 Archaeological surveys of thirteen proposed pipelines in Eddy County, New 

Mexico; on file, Division of Contract Archaeology, Eastern New Mexico 

University, Portales. 

1974 Survey and Excavations in the Proposed Columbia Reservoir, Tennessee; report 

submitted to the Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tennessee; on 

file, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 

1973 Excavations at 40 Su 3, Hendersonville, Tennessee; report submitted to the 

Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tennessee; on file, University of 

Tennessee, Knoxville. 

1971 Misari: A Neolithic site on the Han River, Republic of Korea; on file, National 

Museum, Seoul, ROK. 

Translations, Reprints, etc. 

2008 War in the Southwest, War in the World. In Reading Archaeology, edited by 

Robert J. Muckle, Broadview Press. (Reprint of 2002 article.) 

2002 Der Exodus der Anasazi. Spektrum der Wissenschaft Spezial: Moderne 

Archaologie. (Translation of 2001 article.) 

2001 Flight of the Anasazi. In Year of Discovery 2000, [no editor], Hatherleigh Press. 

(Reprint of 2001 article.) 

2001 Chaco Death Squads. In World History, edited by David McComb, McGraw Hill. 

(Reprint of 1999 review article.) 

2000 Chaco Meridian. Associated Services for the Blind of Philadelphia. (Audio tape 

of 1999 book.) 

2000 Rewriting Southwestern Prehistory. In Literacy and Learning: Strategies for 

Middle and Secondary School Teachers, by Karen K. Allan, Houghton 

Mifflin. (Reprint of 1997 article; also in second edition, by Karen K. Allan 

and Margery Miller, 2004.) 

1994 The Chaco Canyon Community. In Scientific American Special Issue: Ancient 

Cities, edited by Norman Hammond. (Reprint of 1988 article.) 

CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA – chair or organizer (support/funding) 

2012 AIA Archaeology Day. (Archaeological Institute of America.) 

2007 Honoring Linda Cordell. 72 nd Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archaeology, Austin; co-chair with C.M. Cameron, B.J. Mills, and M.C. 

Nelson. 

2003 Distinguished Archaeologist Series, William Longacre. (Department of 

Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder.) 

2000 Chaco Synthesis – What’s Happening? Southwest Symposium, sponsored 

session, Santa Fe. (National Park Service.). 

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1997 – 2002 Chaco Synthesis program; seven conferences at Boulder CO, Durango 

CO, Tempe AZ, Tucson AZ, Albuquerque NM, Santa Fe NM, Chaco 

Canyon NM; numerous co-organizers. (National Park Service and various 

host institutions.) 

1995 Telling Archaeology: Parks, Museums, Print, and Video; Plenary Symposium, 

Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Minneapolis MN. 

1992 Ceramics of the Upper San Juan Drainage Conference, Laboratory of 

Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM; with C. Dean Wilson. (Bureau of Land 

Management.) 

1992 Demographic and Geographic Scales in Southwestern Prehistory, symposium, 

Third Southwest Symposium, Tucson AZ. 

1990 Apache Archaeology and Ethnohistory Conference, New Mexico Archaeological 

Council, Truth-or-Consequences, NM. (New Mexico State Historic 

Preservation Division.) 

1990 Pueblo Cultures in Transition Conference, Crow Canyon Archaeological 

Research Center, Cortez CO; co-organizer with William Lipe. (Wenner- 

Gren.) 

1988 Adoption of Agriculture in the Southern Southwest, symposium, 53rd Annual 

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix AZ. 

1984 Mimbres Archaeology Outside the Mimbres Valley, symposium, Third Mogollon 

Conference, Las Cruces NM. 

1978 San Juan Basin Conference, Albuquerque NM. (University of New Mexico and 

National Park Service.) 

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS, POSTERS, ETC. (italics = student co-authors) 

2013 Southwestern Cities? 78 th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, 

Honolulu HI. 

2013 Discussant, “Communities and Households in the Greater Southwest.” 78 th 

Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu HI. 

2012 The Southwest in Its World. 77 th Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archaeology, Memphis TN. 

2012 Examining Divergent Long-Distance Exchange Patterns in the Pithouse and 

Pueblo Occupations of the Cañada Alamosa. 13 th Southwest Symposium, 

Albuquerque NM. (Fourth junior author with Jeffry Ferguson, Karl 

Laumbach and Toni Laumbach) 

2011 Paquimé as Altepetl: Secondary States in North America. 44 th Chacmool 

Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary Canada. 

2011 Monuments of North America: A View from the Southwest. Newark Earthworks 

Conference. Ohio State University at Newark, Granville OH. 

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2011 The Later Prehistory of the Great Basin and the Southwest: Thinking about 

Fremont. 76 th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, 

Sacramento CA. 

2011 Discussant, "Chaco and Post-Chaco in the Northern San Juan." 76 th Annual 

Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento CA. 

2010 Fremont from the Far Side. 32 nd Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Salt 

Lake City UT. 

2010 Chimney Rock & Chaco, Pinnacle Ruin & Mesa Verde, Black Mountain & Casas 

Grandes: the Rhythm of Regional Interaction in the Ancient Southwest. 

16 th Mogollon Conference, Las Cruces NM. 

2010 University of Colorado Research in the Southwest. Pecos Conference, Silverton 

CO. 

2010 The Location of Theory in North American Archaeology. USA Theoretical 

Archaeology Group, Brown University, Providence RI. 

2010 The End of History and the Last Southwestern Archaeologist. 75 th Annual 

Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, St Louis MO. 

2010 Discussant, "Mimbres After A.D. 1150." 75 th Annual Meeting, Society for 

American Archaeology, St Louis MO. 

2009 Chaco Meridian: The Prequel. 74 th Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archaeology, Atlanta GA. (poster with video, "Gone With the Rain") 

2008 Migrations in the Mimbres Region. 15 th Mogollon Conference, Silver City NM. 

2008 Discussant, "Tension and Transitions: Religious Ideologies in the Pueblo 

Southwest, AD 1250 to 1450." 73 rd Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archaeology, Vancouver B.C. 

2008 Historiography and Archaeological Theory at Bigger Scales. 11 th Southwest 

Symposium, Tempe AZ. 

2007 Pueblo I Villages in Context. Pueblo I Villages Conference. Towac, CO. 

2007 States of Mind, States of Confusion: Historical Contexts of Native State-like 

Entities North of Mexico. 72 nd Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archaeology, Austin TX. 

2007 Linda Cordell's Excellent Southwestern Adventure. 72 nd Annual Meeting, 

Society for American Archaeology, Austin TX. (Junior author with G. J. 

Gumerman) 

2007 Discussant, "The Animas-La Plata Project: Cultural Diversity on a Changing 

Landscape." 72 nd Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, 

Austin TX. 

2006 Post Classic North America. La Vias del Noroeste, Third International 

Colloquium, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Northern 

Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ. 

2006 Continuity and Discontinuity in Pueblo Religion. 71 st Annual Meeting, Society for 

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American Archaeology, San Juan PR. 

2006 Discussant, “Case Studies in Comparative Archaeology.” 71 st Annual Meeting, 

Society for American Archaeology, San Juan PR. 

2006 The History of History in Southwestern Archaeology. 10 th Southwest 

Symposium, Las Cruces NM. 

2005 Safford from the Upper Gila. Safford Conference, Arizona Archaeological 

Council, Safford AZ. 

2005 Distance and Perception in North American Archaeology. 70 th Annual Meeting, 

Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City UT. 

2005 Discussant, “Agency Within the Periphery.” 70 th Annual Meeting, Society for 

American Archaeology, Salt Lake City UT. 

2005 In the Shadows of Grandeur. 70 th Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archaeology, Salt Lake City UT. (Junior author with T.C. Windes.) 

2004 Mimbres Beyond the Mimbres Valley. Thirteenth Mogollon Conference, Silver 

City NM. 

2004 Compared to What? Distance and Perception in Chacoan Archaeology. 

Salmon Ruins Conference, Farmington NM. 

2004 Mexico and All Points North. 69 th Annual Meeting Society for American 

Archaeology, Montreal. 

2004 Tracing 13 th Century Anasazi Migrations into Southwestern New Mexico. 69 th 

Annual Meeting Society for American Archaeology, Montreal. (Junior 

author with Curtis Nepstad-Thornberry.) 

2004 A Continental Perspective for North American Archaeology. Ninth Southwest 

Symposium, Ciudad Chihuahua, Chihuahua. (Senior author with Peter 

Peregrine.) 

2003 Chaco, Cahokia, and Mexico. 68 th Annual Meeting Society for American 

Archaeology, Milwaukee WI. (Senior author with Peter Peregrine.) 

2003 Discussant, “Culture, Memory, and the Movement of Peoples.” 68 th Annual 

Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee WI. 

2003 Continental Perspectives on Mississippian Polities. 20 th Annual Visiting Scholar 

Conference, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois 

University, Carbondale IL. (Junior author with Peter Peregrine.) 

2003 What Happened at Chaco? American Association for the Advancement of 

Science Annual Meeting, Denver CO. (Senior author with Catherine M. 

Cameron.) 

2002 Sky Determines: Visions of the Ancient Southwest. 101 st Annual Meeting, 

American Anthropological Association, New Orleans LA. 

2002 The New Ancient Southwest. Cynthia Irwin-Williams Lecture Series, Eastern 

New Mexico University, Portales NM. 

2002 Mesa Verde in Southern New Mexico. 75 th Pecos Conference, Pecos NM. 

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2002 Political Dynamics in the Northern San Juan. 67 th Annual Meeting Society for 

American Archaeology, Denver CO. 

2002 Discussant, “Ritual, Religion, and Symbolic Behavior.” 67 th Annual Meeting 

Society for American Archaeology, Denver CO. 

2002 Discussant, “Reconstructing a Sense of Place.” 67 th Annual Meeting Society for 

American Archaeology, Denver CO. 

2002 People and Pots: A Syllogism. 8 th Biennial Southwest Symposium, Tucson AZ. 

2001 Complexity? In the Southwest? 100 th Annual Meeting American Anthropological 

Association, Washington DC. (Junior author with Catherine Cameron.) 

2001 Southwest and Mexico. 100 th Annual Meeting American Anthropological 

Association, Washington DC. 

2001 Cannibal Questions. AAA-sponsored symposium “Multidisciplinary Approaches 

to Social Violence,” 66 th Annual Meeting Society for American 

Archaeology, New Orleans LA. 

2001 Mesa Verde Migrations in Southern New Mexico. 66 th Annual Meeting, Society 

for American Archaeology New Orleans LA. (Second author with Brian 

Yunker and others.) 

2001 Mesa Verde Migrations and Cultural Transformations AD 1250-1350. 66 th 

Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans LA. 

(Junior author with William Lipe.) 

2001 Discussant, “Architectural Analysis as Archaeological Method.” 66 th Annual 

Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans LA. 

2001 Writing Prehistory. Distinguished Lecturer, Anthropology Department, Southern 

Methodist University. 

2001 Space and Its Discontents in Southwestern Archaeology. Chac Mool 

Conference, Calgary, Canada. 

2000 The Fourteenth Century in the Northern Chihuhahua Desert. Mogollon 

Conference, Las Cruces, NM. 

2000 There Goes the Neighborhood: The Pinnacle Site in Socorro County, NM. 

Mogollon Conference, Las Cruces NM. (Junior author with Brian Yunker.) 

2000 Pilgrimage and Political Procession in the Ancient Southwest. Symposium: 

Pilgrimage and Ritual Landscape in Pre-Columbian America. Dumbarton 

Oaks, Washington DC. (Junior author with Gretchen Jordan.) 

2000 Mesa Verde Sites in Southern New Mexico and Chaco Synthesis: A Progress 

Report. Pecos Conference, Dolores, CO. 

2000 Lords of the Great House: Structures of Power in the Ancient Southwest. 65 th 

Annual Meeting, Society for American Archeaology, Philadelphia, PA. 

2000 War in the Ancient Southwest. Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, 

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 

2000 Southwestern Warfare, Resource Unpredictability, and Socialization for Fear. 

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Southwest Symposium, Santa Fe, NM. 

2000 Chaco Synthesis: Work In Progress. Southwest Symposium, Santa Fe, NM. 

1999 At the Edge of the Chacoan World: The Bluff Great House. 64 th Annual Meeting, 

Society for American Archaeology, Chicago IL. (Senior author with 

Catherine Cameron, Daniel Falt, Jonathan Till and Chris Ward). 

1999 Southwest, Southeast and Mexico. Symposium: Long-Distance Contacts In the 

Pre-Columbian New World. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC. 

1998 The Spatial Structure of the Ancient Southwest. 63 rd Annual Meeting, Society for 

American Archaeology, Seattle WA. 

1998 On the North Frontier of the Chacoan World: The University of Colorado’s Bluff 

Great House Project. 63 rd Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archaeology, Seattle WA. (Second author with Catherine Cameron and 

others.) 

1998 The Origins of Government: Community Dynamics, Communication Thresholds, 

and the Evolution of Political Structure in Pre-Urban Societies. Summer 

Workshop: Modeling Complexity in Social Systems. Colorado Center for 

Chaos and Complexity Summer Seminar, University of Colorado, Boulder 

CO. 

1998 Space, Time, and NAGPRA. Durango Cultural Affiliation Conference, Fort Lewis 

College, Durango CO. 

1997 Apache Economies. Mangas Coloradas Conference, Las Cruces NM. 

1997 Magic Numbers, Emergent Order, and Local Theory. Keynote address, 

University of New Mexico Graduate Anthropology Symposium, 

Albuquerque NM. 

1997 Singular and Peculiar: Uniquity and Local Theory in Archaeological Logic. 62 nd 

Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Nashville TN. 

1997 Emergent Order and the Archaeology of Government. Colloquium, Department 

of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder CO. 

1997 Aztec: Regional Center of the Mesa Verde World. Colorado Council of 

Professional Archaeologists, Golden CO. 

1997 Chaco, Aztec, and Paquimé: Political History of the Ancient Southwest. School 

of American Research Colloquium, University of New Mexico Colloquium, 

University of Arizona Colloquium. 

1996 Mogollon Mirabilis, Hillbilly Hohokam, or Annexed Anasazi –What Was Mimbres, 

Really? Mogollon Conference, Silver City NM. 

1996 Chaco, Aztec and Paquimé. Annual Briefing, National Science Writers 

Association, Baltimore 

1996 A Deep History of the Southwest. Oxford V: Cultural Aspects of Astronomy, 

Santa Fe NM. 

1996 Chaco and Casas Grandes. 61 st Annual Meeting, Society for American 

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Archaeology, New Orleans [SAA Poster Award]. 

1996 Chaco + Casas. Southwest Symposium, Tempe AZ. 

1995 Telling Archaeology. Plenary Session, 60 th Annual Meeting, Society for 

American Archaeology, Minneapolis MN. 

1995 The Logic of Regional Synthesis. 60 th Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archeology, Minneapolis MN. 

1995 Mimbres Symposium, Plenary Session. Pecos Conference, Silver City NM. 

1995 New Perspectives on Chaco, Symposium. Durango Conference on 

Southwestern Archaeology, Durango CO. 

1995 Pueblo Origins: North and South. SMU-in-Taos Colloquium series, Fort Burgwin 

NM. 

1994 Chimney Rock and Chaco. Chimney Rock Symposium, Anasazi Heritage 

Center, Dolores CO. 

1994 Chaco, Cahokia, and Complexity. 59 th Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archaeology, Anaheim CA. 

1994 Great Towns in the Southwest. Great Towns and Regional Polities Symposium, 

Amerind Foundation, Dragoon AZ. 

1993 Abandonment of Chaco Canyon and the Reorganization of the Anasazi World. 

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC. 

(Senior author with Catherine M. Cameron.) 

1993 The Logic of Regional Synthesis. Third Anasazi Symposium, Farmington, NM. 

1993 Shaping the Pueblo World: The Southwest After 1150. 58th Annual Meeting of 

the Society of American Archaeology, St. Louis MO. 

1992 Salado in Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona. Keynote 

address, Second Salado Conference, Globe AZ. 

1992 Great Towns in the American Southwest. 57 th Annual Meeting, Society for 

American Archaeology, Pittsburg PA. 

1992 Harm and Harmony : Large Scale Ecology in the Ancient Southwest. Plenary 

address, 42 nd Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Canada. 

1991 Anasazi Communities in Context. Anasazi Architecture and American Design 

Conference, Mesa Verde National Park CO. 

1991 Pre-Pueblo Style: Pit-houses in the Greater Southwest. Vernacular Architecture 

Forum Annual Conference, Santa Fe NM. 

1991 The Palette in Hohokam Prehistory. 56 th Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archaeology, New Orleans LA. 

1991 Managing Federal Archaeological Collections. Arizona-New Mexico Museum 

Associations Annual Meeting, Santa Fe NM. 

1990 Southeastern Salado in Southwestern New Mexico. Sixth Mogollon Conference, 

Silver City NM. 

1990 Southwestern Prehistory. Santa Fe Institute Workshop on the Evolution of 

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Southwestern Society, Santa Fe NM. 

1990 Pueblo III in Central and Southern New Mexico. Pueblo Cultures in Transition, 

Crow Canyon Research Center, Cortez CO 

1990 Mimbres Multi-Componency. 55 th Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archaeology, Las Vegas NV. 

1990 Pueblo Cultures in Transition: Report of a Conference. 55 th Annual Meeting, 

Society for American Archaeology, Las Vegas NV. (Junior author with 

William Lipe.) 

1990 Anasazi Ritual Landscapes. 55 th Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archaeology, Las Vegas, NV. (Junior author with John R. Stein.) 

1990 Regional Organization of the Southwest and the Chaco Anasazi. 55 th Annual 

Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Las Vegas, NV. (Junior 

author with David E. Doyel.) 

1990 Southern Apache Subsistence. Apache Ethnohistory and Archaeology 

Conference, Truth-or-Consequences NM. 

1990 The Warm Springs Apache Reservation and the Ojo Caliente U.S. Army Post, 

New Mexico. Fort Craig Conference, Socorro NM. 

1990 Landscapes and Cuisines in the Ancient Southwest. Second Southwest 

Symposium, Albuquerque NM. 

1989 Discussant, Symposium on the Lake Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, Arizona 

Archaeological Council Meeting, Phoenix AZ. 

1988 The Community in Anasazi Archaeology. Households and Communities, 21st 

Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Canada. 

1988 Late Cultural Dynamics in Southern New Mexico. Fifth Mogollon Conference, 

Las Cruces, New Mexico. (Senior author with Karl W. Laumbach.) 

1988 The Great Pueblo Period in Southwestern Archaeology. Featured presentation, 

Conference on the Pueblo Style, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 

New Mexico. 

1988 Ethnohistoric Geography of Hunting-Gathering and Agriculture in the Southern 

Southwest. 53 rd Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, 

Phoenix, Arizona. 

1988 Sedentism and Aggregation in Southwestern Archaeology. First Southwest 

Symposium, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. 

1987 Rethinking Chacoan Archaeology. Invited paper, Seminar Series, Department of 

Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. 

1987 Chacoan Settlement Patterns. Advanced Seminar, Chaco and Hohokam, School 

of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

1987 The El Paso Phase, Casas Grandes and the Classic Period Hohokam. Fifth 

Jornada Conference, Tularosa, New Mexico. 

1986 Fifty-four Years of the Mangas Phase in Mimbres Archaeology. Fourth Mogollon 

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Conference, Tucson, Arizona. 

1986 Kiva and pit-house in Anasazi archaeology. Third Anasazi Conference, 

Monument Valley, Arizona. 

1986 Earthen Architecture in the Eastern Anasazi Area. Third Anasazi Conference, 

Monument Valley, Arizona. (Senior author with John R. Stein.) 

1985 Regional Systematics in the Later Prehistory of Southern New Mexico; Fourth 

Jornada Conference, Tularosa, New Mexico. 

1985 The Idea of the Kiva in Southwestern Archeology. 50 th Annual Meeting, Society 

for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado. 

1984 Mimbres Riverine Adaptations; Third Mogollon Conference, Las Cruces, New 

Mexico. 

1984 The Mimbres Region; Third Mogollon Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico. 

1984 Largest Settlement Size as an Index of Socio-political Complexity; Society for 

American Archaeology, Portland, Oregon. 

1983 The Ladder Ranch Surveys: An Evaluation of Method; Society of Independent 

Anthropologists, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Senior author with Barbara 

J. Mills.) 

1983 Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon; American Anthropological 

Association, Chicago, Illinois. 

1983 Archaeology of the Rio Grande Valley, Sierra County, New Mexico; Third 

Jornada Conference, El Paso, Texas. 

1983 East Socorro District Class II Survey; Rio Abajo Conference on the Archaeology 

and History of the Socorro District, Socorro, New Mexico. 

1982 Settlement Patterns on Middle Palomas Creek, South Central New Mexico; 

Second Mogollon Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico. 

1982 Maximum Settlement Size in the Mimbres Mogollon; Second Mogollon 

Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico. 

1982 Labor Investment in Chacoan Building; New Mexico Archaeological Council San 

Juan Basin Symposium, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. 

1981 Chacoan Architecture in Continental Context; First Anasazi Symposium, Mesa 

Verde, Colorado. 

1981 Architecture in Archaeology; Symposium Series, Department of Anthropology, 

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

1981 Standing Architecture and the Interpretation of Local and Regional Organization 

of Chaco Canyon; 46 th Annual Meeting, Society for American 

Archaeology, San Diego, California. 

1980 Architecture and Settlement in the Redrock Valley of the Gila River, 

Southwestern New Mexico; First Mogollon Conference, Las Cruces, New 

Mexico. 

1979 Cognitive Frameworks and Chacoan Architecture; New Directions in Native 

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American Art History, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

1978 Architecture of the Bonito Phase of Chaco Canyon; American Anthropological 

Association, Los Angeles, California. (Senior author with W. James 

Judge.) 

MUSEUM EXHIBITS, CATALOGS, PANELS (italics = student co-curators) 

2013 Curator: The Ancient Southwest: Peoples, Pottery, Places. University of 

Colorado Museum. 

2007 Co-curator: Temple of the Warriors: Rebuilding a Maya Monument. University of 

Colorado Museum. (with Inga Calvin) 

2006 Co-curator: Legacies from Navajo Looms. University of Colorado Museum (with 

Linda Cordell) 

2005 Curator: Cliff Dwellings, University of Colorado Museum. 

2003 Co-curator: Mimbres Landscapes and Lives, University of Colorado Museum. 

(with Michelle Hegmon, Margaret Nelson, Linda Cordell) 

2002 Co-curator: Stories Etched in Stone: The Rock Art of Sand Island, University of 

Colorado Museum. (with Anne Phillips.) 

2002 Co-curator: Windows to the Past, Doors to the Future (Centennial Exhibit), 

University of Colorado Museum. (with Deane Bowers.) 

2001 Curator: Earl Morris Exhibit upgrades, University of Colorado Museum (senior 

curator with Michael Larkin and Richard Wilshusen) 

2001 Trail signage, Bluff Great House Site, Southwest Heritage Foundation, Bluff, 

Utah (senior author with Jonathan Till) 

2001 Catalog essay: “Landscape and Polity: The Interplay of Land, History and Power 

in the Ancient Southwest”. In The Road to Aztlan, edited by V. Fields and 

V. Zamudo-Taylor, Los Angels County Museum of Art. 

2000 Consultant: Hall of the Americas, Huston Museum of Natural History. 

2000 Gallery Panelist: “Eyes Wide Shut”, University of Colorado Art Gallery 

1999 Program review panel: Museum Studies Program, University of Nebraska. 

1999 Panelist: “Natural and Cultural Resources”, NPS Intermountain Region 

Interpretation Conference, Albuquerque 

1998 Gallery Panelist: Jaunne Quick-to-see Smith, University of Colorado Art Gallery 

1997 Consultant: ‘Archaeology as Science’ NSF sponsored exhibit design conference, 

Arizona State Museum. 

1993 Curator: 'Blue Stone and Shell: Jewelry of the Ancient Southwest' Museum of 

Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico 

1992 Primary design team: 'Here, Now, Always,' permanent exhibit, Museum of Indian 

Art and Culture, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico (with 

Bruce Bernstein, Ed Ladd, Rina Swentzell, & Ted Jojola) 

1992 Catalog essay: “Architecture of the Ancient Southwest” in The Ancient Americas, 

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edited by Richard F. Townsend, Art Institute of Chicago. 

1985 Curatorial consultant: Elephant Butte State Park Visitors' Center permanent 

exhibit; New Mexico State Parks and Monuments Division. 

1983 Consultant: Chaco Canyon National Park Visitors' Center permanent exhibit; 

National Park Service Interpretive Center. 

1983 Consultant: 'The Chaco Phenomenon' Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, 

University of New Mexico. 

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL & PUBLIC SERVICE, LECTURES, AND MEDIA 

2013 Chaco in the North. Southwest Seminars, Santa Fe, NM. 

2012 Solving the Mystery of Chaco. AIA Orange County, CA. 

2012 Chaco, the Anasazi Capital. Time Travelers Series, Royal Alberta Museum. 

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 

2012 The Southwest in the World. CU in the Community. Trinidad, CO. 

2012 Mesa Verde – the Rest of the Story. AIA Archaeology Day, University of 

Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO. 

2012 The Ancient Southwest. NEH “Mesoamerica and the Southwest: A New History 

for an Ancient Land,” Santa Fe, NM. 

2012 Changing Views of Ancient Chaco: What We’ve Learned over the Past Century. 

Visitor Center Dedication and Chaco Quarter Launch, Chaco Canyon NM. 

2012 Yellow Jacket and Mesa Verde. Indian Peaks Chapter, Colorado Archaeological 

Society, Boulder CO. 

2012 We Get the Southwest We Deserve. Southwest Seminars, Santa Fe. 

2012 A New History of the Ancient Southwest. CU on the Weekend, Boulder CO. 

2011 The Southwest in the World. CU in the Community, Fort Lewis College, 

Durango CO. 

2011 The Southwest in the World. Colorado Springs Chapter, Colorado 

Archaeological Society, Colorado Springs CO. 

2011 Pinnacle Ruin: Mesa Verde Migrations into Southern New Mexico. Colorado 

Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, Boulder CO. 

2011 Yin and Yang and the Amazing Archaeology of the American Southwest. 

VoiceAmerica webcast. http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/56652/yinyang-and-the-amazing-archaeology-of-the-american-southwest 

2011 The Southwest in the World. Denver Chapter, Colorado Archaeological Society, 

Denver CO. 

2011 The Ancient Southwest. Institute for Life-Long Learning. Western New Mexico 

University, Silver City NM. 

2011 A History of the Ancient Southwest. Verde Valley Chapter, Arizona 

Archaeological Society, Sedona AZ. 

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2011 What Was Chaco? Chimney Rock Conference. Chimney Rock Interpretive 

Association, Pagosa Springs CO. 

2011 A History of the Ancient Southwest. School for Advanced Research "Sparks" 

series, Santa Fe NM. 

2011 A History of the Ancient Southwest. Taos Archaeological Society, Taos NM. 

2011 My Life as Indiana Jones, Sort Of. Beloit Memorial High School, Beloit WI. 

2011 The Rhythm of Regional Interaction in the Ancient Southwest. Roy Chapman 

Andrews Society, Beloit College, Beloit WI. 

2011 Thinking Big About Fremont, Mimbres, Chaco and Other Matters. Southwest 

Seminars, Santa Fe NM. 

2010 Scalar Thresholds in the Ancient Southwest: Density and Distance. SAR 

Colloquium Series, Santa Fe NM. 

2010 Chimney Rock & Chaco, Pinnacle Ruin & Mesa Verde, Black Mountain & Casas 

Grandes: the Rhythm of Regional Interaction in the Ancient Southwest. 

Archaeological Institute of America, Boulder CO. 

2010 Trees and Corn in the Ancient Southwest. Café Botanique, Denver Botanical 

Gardens, Denver CO. 

2010 Chaco Meridian: the Prequel. Archaeological Conservancy, Albuquerque NM. 

2010 An Exploration of the Southwest. Cleveland Museum of Natural History tour. 

2010 Where Did the Mimbres Go, and Where Did Casas Grandes Come From? 

Center for Desert Archaeology, Archaeology Café, Tucson AZ. 

2010 Writing the Ancient Southwest. Tucson Festival of Books, Tucson AZ. 

2010 Chimney Rock and Chaco, Pinnacle Ruin and Mesa Verde. Arizona 

Archaeological and Historical Society, Tucson AZ. 

2010 A History of the Ancient Southwest. Human Systems Research Distinguished 

Speakers Series, Las Cruces NM. 

2010 Chimney Rock and Chaco, Pinnacle Ruin and Mesa Verde: Regional Dynamics 

in the Ancient Southwest. Anthropology Department Colloquium, 

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM. 

2010 Chimney Rock and Chaco, Pinnacle Ruin and Mesa Verde: Regional Dynamics 

in the Ancient Southwest. Borderland Migrations Symposium, Center for 

Humanities and Arts, University of Colorado, Boulder CO. 

2010 Chimney Rock and Chaco, Pinnacle Ruin and Mesa Verde. Southwest 


2009 A History of the Ancient Southwest. Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument 

Speakers Series, Western New Mexico University, Silver City NM. 

2009 A History of the Ancient Southwest. Banquet Speaker, Colorado Archaeological 

Society Annual Meeting, Pueblo CO. 

2009 Chaco and Chimney Rock. Interview in "Jared Diamond's Collapse," National 

Geographic Television (2011). 

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2009 Chimney Rock and Its World. Chimney Rock Interpretive Association, Pagosa 

Springs CO. 

2009 A History of the Ancient Southwest. Archaeological Institute of America, Denver 

CO. 

2009 Chaco Anasazi. Interview in "The Great Squeeze," Tiroir A Films. 

2008 Mimbres and Casas Grandes: Erasing the Borders. Crow Canyon 

Archaeological Center, Silver City NM & Casas Grandes CHIH. 

2008 Yellow Jacket, Pinnacle Ruin, and the Mesa Verde Migrations. Southwest 


2008 Mesa Verde's Worlds. Archaeological Institute of America, Toledo and 

Springfield OH. 

2008 A Millennium on the Meridian. Arizona Archaeological & Historical Society, 

Tucson AZ. 

2008 Advisory panel, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute Internship Program. 

Suitland MD. 

2007 Chaco Meridian Revisited. Archaeological Institute of America, Boulder CO. 

2007 Chaco Canyon in Depth. Archaeological Conservancy, Chaco Culture National 

Historical Park NM. 

2007 The Rest of the Rio: Archaeology of the Rio Grande Valley from Socorro to El 

Paso. Southwest Seminars, Santa Fe NM. 

2007 Ann and Earl Morris at Canyon de Chelly and Chichen Itza. University of 

Colorado Museum, Boulder CO. 

2006 Chaco Canyon: An 11th Century Pueblo Capital. Archaeological Institute of 

America, Denver CO. 

2006 Hopi Ancestry: An Artistic and Archaeological Journey with Michael Kabotie and 

Stephen Lekson. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez CO. 

2006 Robert J. Braidwood Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America, Kansas City 

MO and Lincoln NE. 

2006 Aztec Ruins and the Aztecs? Summer Lecture Series, Aztec Ruins National 

Monument, Aztec, NM. 

2006 Mesa Verde and Aztlan: The Mexican Southwest. Mesa Verde National Park 

Centennial Symposium, Towaoc, CO. 

2006 Cliff Dwellings: Hard Times in the Ancient Southwest. Archaeological Institute of 

America lecture program, Palo Alto and Santa Rosa, CA. 

2006 CU Solves the “Mystery of the Anasazi”? Directors Club Winter Gala, CU- 

Boulder Alumni Association, Boulder, CO. 

2006 The University of Colorado Textile Collection. Boulder Handweavers Guild, 

Boulder, CO 

2005-- Santa Fe Institute Working Group: Cognition and Cosmology: New Models for 

Understanding Mesoamerican, Southwestern and Southeastern 

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Relations, Santa Fe, NM. 

2005 The Post-Classic Southwest. Archaeological Institute of America, Boulder, CO. 

2005 Ancient Mimbres Pottery: Art, Patrimony or Data? University of Colorado 

“ArtsWeek,” University Museum, Boulder, CO. 

2005 Chaco in Depth. Archaeological Conservancy tour, Farmington, NM. 

2005 Southwest, Southeast and Mesoamerica: Chaco and Aztec in Continental 

Context. Windows to the Past Series, Aztec Ruins National Monument, 

Aztec, NM. 

2005 Architecture: Chaco’s Central Matter. Spring Archaeology Lecture Series, Utah 

Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City. 

2005 New Views of Chaco Canyon. Anthropology Club, University of Colorado, 

Colorado Springs. 

2005 Think Tank: Archaeology. Discover 26(3). 

2005 Chaco Meridian. Radio interview, Glenn Mitchell Show, KERA, Dallas, TX 

2005 New Views of Chaco Canyon. Denver Museum of Nature and Science Adult 

Lecture Series, Denver CO. 

2005 Cliff Dwellings and Troubled Times in the Ancient Southwest. University of 

Colorado Museum of Natural History, Bolder CO. 

2004 Chaco & CU. Boulder Valley Rotary Club, Boulder CO. 

2004 A History of the Ancient Southwest. Archaeological Institute of America and 

Colorado Archaeological Society (combined meeting), Denver CO. 

2004 Mimbres. Southwest Seminars, Santa Fe, NM. 

2003-2007 Human Relations Area Files, Board of Directors 

2003 Ancient Traces in the Wilderness: The Pleasure of Ruins. “Healing the West” 

Lecture Series, Center of the American West & Chancellor’s Community 

Lecture Series, University of Colorado, Boulder CO. 

2003 Southwest, Southeast, and Mexico. Southwest Seminars, Santa Fe NM. 

2003 CU Solves “The Mystery of the Anasazi”? Human Systems Research Quarterly 

Lecture Series. Las Cruces, NM. 

2003 CU Solves “The Mystery of the Anasazi”? Archaeological Institute of America, 

Boulder CO. 

2002 Roads Through the Ancient Southwest. CU Mini-College, Fort Lewis College, 

Durango CO. (University of Colorado President’s Community Tour). 

2002 A New History of the Ancient Southwest. Mesa Verde National Park Special 

Events Lecture Series, Mesa Verde CO. 

2002 CU Solves “The Mystery of the Anasazi?” Town and Gown, Boulder CO. 

2002 After Mesa Verde: The Archaeology of the 14 th Century Southern Southwest. 

Centennial Lecture Series, University Museum of Natural History, Boulder 

CO. 

2002 The “New” Ancient Southwest. Cynthia Irwin-Williams Memorial Lecture, 

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Eastern New Mexico University, Portales NM. 

2002 “Cannibalism: The Last Taboo” (video interview) Discovery Channel. 

2002 Native American Scholarship Committee, Colorado Council of Professional 

Archaeologists, Denver, CO. 

2002 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, review committee. 

2001 The “New” Ancient Southwest. Estes Park Historical Museum, Estes Park CO. 

2001 Chaco: Evil Empire or Shangri-La? “2001 – A Chaco Odyssey” Annual Seminar, 

Pre-Columbian Society, Washington DC 

2001 Archaeological Institute of America lecture program. Appleton WI, St Louis MO, 

Cleveland OH. 

2001 The “New” Ancient Southwest. Banquet Speaker, Colorado Archaeological 

Society Annual Meeting, Fort Collins, CO. 

2001 The “New” Ancient Southwest. Taos Archaeological Society, Taos NM. 

2001 A History of the Ancient Southwest. Museum of New Mexico, Friends of 

Archaeology Annual Lecture Series, Santa Fe NM. 

2001 Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meeting Program Committee. 

2001 Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Executive Board. 

2001 Chaco, Aztec, and Paquimé; Chaco, Hohokam and Mimbres; and The 14 th 

Century Southwest. Idyllwild School of Arts Native American Week, 

Idyllwild, CA. 

2001 The Southwest and Mexico. Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, Los Angeles 

CA. 

2001 Casas Grandes: The Southwest Meets Mexico. Alianza de las Artes 

Americanas, Denver Art Museum, Denver CO. 

2001 Archaeological Institute of America lecture program. Asheville NC, Atlanta GA, 

Miami FL. 

2001 “Ancient Anasazis: What Really Happened at Mesa Verde?” (video interview) 

Grizzly Adams Productions, PAX network. 

2001 “In Search of Aztlan” (video interview) Carmona Productions. 

2000 CU Solves the ‘Mystery of the Anasazi’? University of Colorado Chancellor's 

Community Lecture Series, Boulder CO. 

2000 Anasazi: Recent CU Research. South Denver Optimists Club, Denver CO. 

2000 Cannibalism in the Prehistoric Southwest. Explorers Club, Boulder CO. 

2000 “Cannibalism in the Southwest” (radio interview) The Public Affairs Hour, KCPW 

(Salt Lake City NPR) 

2000 Landscapes in Motion: Place and Polity in the Ancient Southwest. Smithsonian 

Institution, Washington, DC. 

2000 “Strange Disappearance of the Anasazi” (video interview), The History Channel. 

2000 “Anasazi” (radio interview), Millennium Series, KQED (San Franciso NPR). 

2000 AmericaQuest distance-learning expert, Classroom Connect and American 

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Museum of Natural History. 

2000 The New Ancient Southwest. Archaeological Institute of America lecture 

program. Honolulu. 

2000 Chaco Meridian: Astronomy and Power in the Ancient Southwest. Smithsonian 

Institution, Washington D.C. 

2000 Panel member, “Combining Traditional and Archaeological Knowledge”, Annual 

Meeting, Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Denver CO. 

2000 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, review committee. 

1999 Worlds in Collision. American West Series, Daily Camera October 24. (With 

Richard Wilshusen.) 

1999 Consultant, “Millennium” video, Jeremy Isaacs Productions, London. 

1999 Archaeological Institute of America lecture program. Athens GA, Gainsville FL, 

New Orleans LA. 

1999 The Political History of the Ancient Southwest. Colorado Archaeological 

Society, Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver CO. 

1999 Chaco, Aztec, and Paquimé. “Best of the Southwest Series”, El Paso 

Archaeological Society, El Paso TX. 

1999 Lead scholar, Eiteljorg Museum Four Corners Field Seminar, Cortez CO. 

1999 Archaeology for the Masses: Workshop in publishing and presenting 

archaeology in the public domain. Panelist. Society for American 

Archaeology Annual Meeting, Chicago IL. 

1998 Archaeological Institute of America lecture program. Oberlin OH, Penn State U 

PA, New Haven CN. 

1998 New Views of Mesa Verde. University Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder 

CO. 

1998 The Bluff Great House and The Chacoan World. Utah State-wide 

Archaeological Conference, Blanding UT. 

1998 Nana’s Raid. Boulder Corral of Westerners, Boulder CO. 

1998 CU Research at the Bluff Great House. Rotary Club, Boulder CO. 

1997 Intrigue of the Past: Discovering Archaeology in New Mexico. BLM Heritage 

Education Program, Dolores. (Junior author with Catherine M. Cameron) 

1997 Archaeological Institute of America lecture program. Kansas City KA, Lincoln 

NE, Monmouth WI. 

1997 “Those Who Came Before” (video interview). Southwest Parks and Monuments 

Association, Tucson AZ. 

1997 Chaco, Aztec and Paquimé. Explorers' Club, Boulder CO. 

1997 Mimbres. Archaeological Institute of America, Boulder CO. 

1997 The Bluff Great House Project. Edge-of-the-Cedars State Museum, Blanding 

UT. 

1997 Chaco, Aztec and Paquimé. Rocky Mountain Skeptics, Boulder CO. 

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1997 Mimbres and the Greater Southwest. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. 

1997 Anasazi Archaeology and the University of Colorado. CU Seminar, University of 

Colorado, Boulder. 

1996 Chaco and Cahokia. Archaeological Institute of America, Boulder CO. 

1995 Renewing Our National Archaeological Program, invited panelist. Society for 

American Archaeology and National Park Service, Tempe, AZ. 

1994 Anasazi: Archaeology of the Pueblo Peoples. Smithsonian Institution, 

Washington DC. 

1994 Mimbres in Context. Museum of Indian Art and Culture, Santa Fe NM. 

1994 Chaco Canyon. Colorado Archaeological Society, Denver CO. 

1993 Ritual Landscapes in the American Southwest. Los Angeles County Museum of 

Art, Los Angeles, CA. 

1993 The Chacoan Regional System. Colorado Archaeological Society, Boulder, CO. 

1992 Monumental Architecture in the American Southwest. Art Institute of Chicago, 

Chicago, IL. 

1992 The Chacoan World and Its Transformations. University of New Mexico 

Southwest Institute, Albuquerque, NM. 

1992 The World Before Bahana. Museum of Indian Art and Culture, Santa Fe, NM. 

1992 The Chacoan World. Smithsonian Institution Tours, Santa Fe, NM. 

1992 The Museum and the Antiquities Market. Invited presentation, Antique Indian Art 

Dealers Association Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

1992 Amateurs and Professionals in Southwestern Archaeology. Albuquerque 

Archaeological Society, Albuquerque, NM. 

1992 Southwestern Archaeology. University of New Mexico Continuing Education, 

Taos, NM. 

1992 Repatriation at the Museum of New Mexico. Invited Panelist, New Mexico 

Association of Museums Annual Meeting, Silver City, NM. 

1992 Chaco Canyon. Taos Archaeological Society, Taos, NM. 

1992 New Mexico Archaeological Council, Public Education Committee. 

1992 The Chacoan World and Its Transformations; & Anasazi Architectural Evolution. 

University of New Mexico Southwest Institute, Albuquerque NM. 

1991-93 Central Arizona Project, Bureau of Reclamation, peer review board. 

1991 The Prehistoric Southwest. University of New Mexico Graduate Center, Santa 

Fe, NM. 

1991 National Park Service Workshop on Cross-Cultural interpretation, Chaco 

Canyon, NM. 

1991 Chaco Mini-Seminar. Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Santa Fe, NM. 

1991 The Classic Southwest--the 11th and 12th Centuries. Archaeological Society of 

New Mexico Las Cruces Chapter, Las Cruces, NM. 

1991 New Views of Chaco Canyon. Archaeological Institute of America, Santa Fe, 

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NM. 

1991 New Mexico's Prehistory. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Santa Fe, NM. 

1991 We Get the Southwest We Deserve. Colloquium Series, Fort Burgwin Research 

Center, Taos NM. 

1991 Mogollon Ceramics: More Than Mimbres. Pottery of the Southwest Lecture 

Series, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM. 

1991 Mimbres: More Than an Art Style. Southwestern Archaeology Lecture Series, 

Maxwell Museum, Albuquerque, NM. 

1991 Life After Mimbres. New Mexico Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, 

keynote speech, Deming, NM. 

1991 Archaeological Advisor, Nature Conservancy Gray Ranch, Santa Fe, NM. 

1990 Pueblo Archaeology. Plaza del Monte Elderhostel, Santa Fe, NM. 

1989 New Views of the Mimbres. Annual Banquet, El Paso Archaeological Society, El 

Paso, TX. 

1989 Bandelier National Monument and the Archaeology of the Northern Rio Grande. 

Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, Tucson, AZ. 

1989 Great Kivas. Colloquium Series, Fort Burgwin Research Center, Taos, NM. 

1989 Apache Lifeways. Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Archaeology 

Week, Tucson, AZ. 

1988 Prehistory of the International Four Corners. Arizona Archaeological and 

Historical Society, Tucson, AZ. 

1988 Seasonal training in archaeology, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, NM. 

1988 Anasazi Architecture. Southwest Institute, University of New Mexico, 

Albuquerque, NM. 

1988 Chaco Canyon: the Big Picture. Arizona Archaeological Week, Tucson, AZ. 

1987 Research Designs and Mogollon Archaeology. Yavapai Chapter, Arizona 

Archeological Society, Prescott, AZ. 

1987 Perceptions of Mimbres. Arizona Archeological and Historical Society, Tucson, 

AZ. 

1987 Archaeology of Chaco Canyon. Arizona Archaeological Society, Safford, AZ. 

1986 Prehistoric Southwestern Architecture. Pueblo Indian Culture Center Continuing 

Education Program, Albuquerque, NM. 

1985 Archaeology of Southern New Mexico. Albuquerque Archaeological Society, 

NM. 

1985 The Prehistory and History of Sierra County, New Mexico. Sierra County 

Historical Society, Truth or Consequences, NM. 

1984 Chaco Canyon and Its Prehistory. Colloquium Series, Fort Burgwin Research 

Center, Taos, NM. 

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BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS, FEATURE STORIES, ETC. 

Toner, Michael 

2012 “Chaco through a Different Lens.” American Archaeology Winter 2012-13. 

Lekson, Stephen 

2011 “Still Digging.” SAA Archaeological Record 11(2). 

Lekson, Stephen 

2010 “My Adventures in Zuni – and Kykostmovi, and Window Rock, and…” 

Museum Anthropology 33(2). 

Pasquale, Cynthia 

2010 "Five Questions for Steve Lekson." University of Colorado Faculty & Staff 

Newsletter May 5. https://www.cusys.edu/newsletter/2010/05-05/5q.html 

Malakof, David 

2010 "A Once in a Lifetime Dig: A Rare Look at Chimney Rock." American 

Archaeology 14(1). 

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