Next GCAS Meeting Welcomes Kristin Corl as Featured Speaker
04/10/2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 6:00PM (New Mexico - Mountain Daylight Time) online via Zoom: The GCAS monthly meeting begins with the usual brief-to-nonexistent business meeting, immediately followed by our Featured Speaker, Kristin Corl, who will introduce us to Investigating Plant and Animal Resources at the Harris Site: An Exercise in Ecosystem Engineering. Kristin explains,
"The Harris Site (LA 1867) is a Late Pithouse-period (A.D. 550-1000) agricultural village located along the upper Mimbres River Valley in New Mexico. This period is seen as a time of great demographic and social change and is typified by the transition to a sedentary agricultural subsistence strategy. While committed agriculturalists, the plant and animal remains recovered from the Harris site tell us that they continued to depend on a wide variety of wild resources even as they grew more dependent on agricultural practices. We know the behaviors associated with agricultural practices generate physical transformation of the landscape, but these changes also can have cascading effects on other species in the environment. To better understand the ways in which people living at the Harris site were interacting with their environment a variety of archaeological, environmental, and ethnographic data will be considered. This talk will focus on the faunal remains excavated at the Harris site and how these remains can help to can paint a more complete picture of the ways in which the surrounding environment of the village was constructed, maintained, and changed through the occupation of the site."
Kristin Corl is a born and raised New Mexican who developed a strong connection to both the natural and cultural landscape. She completed both a Bachelors and Masters in Anthropology/Archaeology at New Mexico State University and is currently working on a Ph.D. in Archaeology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research interests are centered around understanding past human-environment relationships and major behavioral shifts through the archaeological record. Currently she is working at the Center for Archaeological Research in San Antonio while completing her dissertation research investigating the variable adoption of agricultural practices in the Mogollon region. Her dissertation project seeks to identify archaeological evidence of behavioral and ecological changes to the human-environment relationship surrounding agricultural intensification at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo and the Harris site. This lecture will focus on her research surrounding the Harris site located in the Mimbres region of southeastern New Mexico.
Those who do not already have the Zoom link for the April 17 meeting are welcome to email the GCAS to request it. See you online!
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