Next SJBAS
Meeting
Wednesday, February 13th
Our next meeting will be held on
Wednesday, February 13th,
at 7:00 p.m. in the Lyceum at the
Center of Southwest Studies at Fort
Lewis College. After a brief business meeting, Dr.
Shelby Tisdale will present:
“Marjorie F. Lambert: Pioneering
Southwest Archaeologist”. There will
be a social at 6:30 p.m. in the CSWS
Foyer.
Marjorie Ferguson Lambert
In a brilliant career
spanning more than six decades Marjorie Ferguson
Lambert left her imprint on southwestern
anthropology, archaeology and history. She devoted
her life to the study and advancement of our
understanding of the presence of humans upon the
landscape of the American Southwest in the past, as
well as to the preservation of the arts and cultures
of the living Native American and Hispano peoples of
New Mexico. She became a professional archaeologist
and museum curator at a time when there were
relatively few women establishing full-time careers
in either profession. As an archaeologist she
questioned the excavation techniques of the day and
developed new ways of viewing the prehistory and
history of the American Southwest. She was one of
the pioneers of ethnoarchaeology.
When Lambert joined the
Museum of New Mexico staff in 1937, she was well on
her way as an established southwestern archaeologist
and was, according to Cynthia Irwin-Williams, "one
of the first women to occupy a major curatorial
position in the country." Even though this curtailed
her archaeological fieldwork she now turned her
attention to the preservation and interpretation of
the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Southwest.
Unlike other curators and scholars at the time
Lambert considered the Hispano and American Indian
people she worked with as collaborators. She was one
of the first curators to incorporate the voice of
the people represented in the collections into the
museum’s exhibitions, a process that has become
mainstream in museum interpretation in the
twenty-first century.
Dr. Shelby Tisdale
Dr. Shelby Tisdale, Director of the Center of
Southwest Studies, has over thirty-eight years of
combined experience in museums; anthropological,
tribal museum and cultural resource management
consulting; and, university teaching. Dr. Tisdale is
the former Director of the Museum of Indian Arts and
Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, New
Mexico and the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos. More
recently she served as Vice President of Curatorial
and Exhibitions at the Autry Museum of the American
West in Los Angeles. For the past three years,
Tisdale has been the director of the Center of
Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango,
Colorado. Dr. Tisdale received her Ph.D. in cultural
anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1997.
Her B.A. is from the University of Colorado-Boulder
where she studied anthropology and southwestern
archaeology, and her M.A. is from the University of
Washington where she majored in social anthropology
and museum studies.
February 4 – special lecture – Bruce Bradley at Noble Hall
On Monday, February 4th, at 7:00 p.m.
in Room 130,
Noble Hall at Fort Lewis
College,
co- sponsored with the FLC Dept of Anthropology,
Dr. Bruce Bradley will
present: "AUKward Proposal: Evidence of a
trans-Atlantic contribution to
the Ice Age peopling of the
Americas." He will also bring
along a collection of casts of
older-than Clovis stone tools
for people to examine.
Bruce Bradley is Emeritus
Professor at the University of
Exeter, UK and Research
Associate at the Smithsonian
Institution. He has
extensive experience with Stone
Age technologies and
experimental archaeology, with
special expertise in flaked
stone technologies. His early
research focused on the North
American Southwest and Great
Plains where he has over 50
years of experience, especially
with PaleoAmerican topics.
Along
with these areas his research
has included the Upper
Palaeolithic of Russia and
France, (specifically Solutrean)
and horse domestication in
Central Asia. His current
areas of research deal with
the early peopling of the
Americas (North and South) and
prehistoric Pueblo archaeology .
Bruce is also active in bringing
his archaeological and interests
to the public through
presentations, teaching,
interaction with Native
communities and participation in
documentaries. Bruce
continues his research and is
channeling his teaching efforts
into international short courses
and workshops, most recently in
South America, India and China.
2019 Membership Dues
Dues for 2019 remain the same and should be paid by January 31.
Please complete the
membership
application form
and mail your completed form
with your check payable to
'SJBAS' directly to: SJBAS,
Attn.
Randy Graham, P.O. Box 3153, Durango, CO 81302.
Contributions to the John W.
Sanders Internship and Education
Fund are welcome.
SJBAS
Quick References
SJBAS field trip schedule -
Field Trips
SJBAS
guide -
Quick Reference Guide
SJBAS brochure -
Brochure 2019
SJBAS newsletter -
Moki Messenger -
January 2019
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