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Chaco Canyon and the University of New Mexico: 90 years of Discovery

Image of Chaco Canyon
When: 
Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 7:30pm
Where: 
Anthropology Lecture Hall 163
Cost: 
Free and Open to All
Presenter/s: 
W. H. "Chip" Wills

W. H. “Chip” Wills will discuss the ongoing exploration of UNM researchers at Chaco Canyon National Historical Park. Professor Wills has first-hand experience of several decades of the history.  He began working in Chaco Canyo as a UNM undergraduate in the 1970’; held a post doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian examining Chaco collections made in the 1920’s; and for 15 years he has co-directed new fieldwork in the canyon examining social complexity, land use, and regional and long-distance exchange, among other research questions.  Wills’ encyclopedic knowledge of Chaco archaeology and UNM’s involvement in it are sure to educate and entertain.

 

W. H. Wills is a Professor of Anthropology in Archaeology at the UNM and Director, Chaco Canyon Archaeological Research Lab; Interim Curator of Archaeology, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology