Program At A Glance

 

Thursday Evening October 3, 2024

Western New Mexico University Museum

Located on 10th Street

 

5:00 PM- 7:00 PM Opening Reception and Registration

 

Friday Morning October 4, 2024

Besse-Forward Global Resource Center

Western New Mexico University

 

8:00     Refreshments and Registration

8:30     Opening Remarks

            Danielle Romero

8:40     A Celebration of the Life and Contributions of John Massey Fitch (1940-2023)

            Karl Laumbach and Katy Putsavage

9:00     Remembering J.J. Brody: A Life of Anthropology, Art, and Archaeology

            Marilyn Markel

 

General Session

 

9:20     Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (LA 175) Area D- Rethinking Late Doña Ana/Early El Paso Phase Occupation

            William H. Walker, Judy Berryman, and Tuesday Critz

9:40     Shifting Trends in Chupadero Black-on-white Vessel Form at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (LA 175) during the Late Doña                Ana and El Paso Phases

            Tuesday Critz and Mikayla Gonzales

 

10:00 BREAK

 

10:15   Replanting Deep Roots: How Southern Mogollon Peoples Transferred the Spirit and Image of Major Cave-Shrines

            Scott Nicolay

10:35   Evidence for Revisitation and Ancestor Veneration at an 8th Century Pit Structure in La Cañada Alamosa

            Karl Laumbach and Toni Laumbach

10:55   New Research Results for Understanding Pre-Hispanic Use of the Selden Canyon Corridor of the Lower Rio Grande

            Robert J. Stokes and Scott Nicolay

 

11:15   Preservation and Experiential Education at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site (MCHS)

            Marilyn Markel

 

11:35 - 1:30  LUNCH BREAK

 

Friday Afternoon October 4, 2024

 

General Session

 

1:30     The Preliminary Results of the 2024 Indiana University Archaeological Field School at the Twin Pines Village

            Fumi Arakawa and Jacqueline Cowan

1:50     Possible Uses for Natural Clay at Twin Pines Village

            Rhianna Cooke

2:10     Pre-Hispanic Copper Artifacts Recovered from Twin Pines Village

            Christopher Adams

 

2:30    BREAK

 

2:45     Update on Texas A&M University Preliminary Investigations at Agape Acres and Acequia Seca on the NAN Ranch, Grant County, New Mexico, 1978-1996

            Harry Shafer

3:05     Progress Report on the Preservation Archaeology Field School at the NAN Ranch and WNMU Museum

            Danielle M. Romero and Karen Gust Schollmeyer

3:25     Architectural Indicators of Supra-Household Organization at the NAN Ranch Site

            Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Danielle M. Romero, and Rebecca Harkness

3:45     Investigating Plant and Animal Resources at the Harris Site: An Exercise in Ecosystem Engineering

            Kristin Corl

4:05     A Child from Paquimé with Closely Related Parents

            Jakob Sedig

 

Friday Evening October 4, 2024

Banquet Dinner and Lecture

The Murray Hotel- 200 West Broadway Street, Silver City

 

6:00    Dinner

6:45    Lecture by Dr. Barbara Roth

 

 

Saturday Morning October 5, 2024

Besse-Forward Global Resource Center

Western New Mexico University

 

8:00     Registration and Refreshments

 

General Session

 

8:30     Methods and Preliminary Analyses of Mogollon Highlands and Point of Pines Corrugated Vessels

            Rebecca Harkness

8:50     Flaked Stone Quantification from the Dinwiddie Site (LA 106003), Southwest New Mexico

            Stephen L. Uzzle and Stacy L. Ryan

9:10     Dutch Ruin Site: New Insights from Reanalysis and Recontextualization

            Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers

9:30     Excavation and Analysis of the Toriette Lakes Great Kiva

            Stephen E. Nash, Michele L. Koons, Erin L. Baxter, and Deborah Huntley

 

9:50 BREAK

 

10:05   Continued Work on the Ray Robinson Collection: Preliminary Investigations into the Clont’s Farm Site and John’s Farm                Site in the eastern Safford Basin, Southeastern Arizona

            Jaye Smith, Jeffery Clark, Phillip W. Hunger, Joyce E. Clarke, Harlow Sires, and Mary Graham

10:25   Multiethnicity, Experimentation, and Divergence in the Upper Gila

            Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers

10:45   A Re-evaluation of Regional Archaeomagnetic Data from the Mogollon Culture in Southwest New Mexico

            Shelby Jones, Emma Kostecki, and Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers

11:05   Sierra Blanca: A Flower Mountain in the Jornada Mogollon Cultural Landscape

            Joan E. Price

11:25   Historiography of Claimed Villa Ahumada Polychrome in Museums

            R.G Wakeland

 

11:45 - 1:45  LUNCH BREAK

 

Saturday Afternoon October 5, 2024

 

1:45     Next Mogollon Conference Hosts

            Lonnie Ludeman

 

 

Special Session

2:00     Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Mimbres Foundation

            Moderator: Roger Anyon

   Discussants: Patricia A. Gilman, Margaret C. Nelson, Jon Sandor, and Karen Gust Schollmeyer

 

3:15 BREAK

 

Special Session

3:30     Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca

            Moderator: Eric J. Kaldahl

            Discussants: Paul E. Minnis, Michael T. Searcy, Nora Rodriquez, and Rafael Cruz Antillón

 

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Sunday Morning October 6, 2024

Mattocks Get Together 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM

Mimbres Culture Heritage Site