The July 17, 2024, GCAS Meeting Features Speaker Karen Schollmeyer PhD
07/10/2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 6:00PM: the GCAS monthly meeting at the Roundup Lodge in San Lorenzo (Mimbres Valley) begins with our usual summertime potluck - bring your own plates & utensils, and a dish for yourself or to share with what we expect to be a larger than usual number of guests, including the starving students of the 2024 Preservation Archaeology Museum Curation and Survey Field School, jointly directed by Archaeology Southwest/ASU's Karen Schollmeyer PhD and WNMU Museum's director Danni Romero PhD. Let's feed these folks well, people, they've earned it!
At about 6:30PM we will have a brief business meeting after which we will welcome our featured speaker, Karen Schollmeyer herself, who will share updates on her and her field school team's current work at the WNMU Museum which includes curating the artifacts comprising the NAN Ranch collection.
Now a preservation archaeologist for Archaeology Southwest, Karen’s research incorporates zooarchaeology, and long-term human-environment interactions such as food security and landscape use. For the past 15 years her fieldwork on behalf of Archaeology Southwest and Arizona State University has included teaching multiple field schools in southwest New Mexico, most notably for the GCAS at the Gila River Farm near Cliff, New Mexico.
Karen's years of collaborative historical research has identified vegetative remains and animal bone in previously unanalyzed collections from several older excavations in the region. She and other archaeologists combine the plant and animal datasets to gain a clearer picture of prehistoric hunting and agricultural patterns as they responded to long-term environmental changes in the Mimbres and the greater Southwest region, and how those patterns may apply to contemporary issues in conservation and development.
Come meet the future generation of archaeologists, and learn about the latest activity at our own WNMU Museum!
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