Worlds Forever Changed: The Vázquez de Coronado Expedition to the Rio Grande Valley, 1540-1542

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Start Date: Nov 19, 2021 - 02:00pm

Location: Presented via Zoom

Dr. Matthew Schmader will present his talk Worlds Forever Changed: TheVázquez de Coronado Expedition to the Rio Grande Valley, 1540-1542 on Friday, November 19 at 2 pm as part of the 2021 Fall Anthropology Colloquia Speaker Series.  You can access the talk here You can obtain the passcode by emailing Dr. Ian Wallace at iwallace@unm.edu

Dr. Matt Schmader has been conducting research on the archaeology of central New Mexico for 42 years, studying sites of every major cultural time period from PaleoIndian and Archaic to the Early Ancestral Pueblo, later ancestral Rio Grande Pueblos and petroglyphs, and historic Albuquerque. He is retired superintendent of the City's Open Space Division and former Albuquerque City Archaeologist. He is a UNM Anthropology alum (1994 PhD) and is presently adjunct associate professor of archaeology at the Department of Anthropology. 
His current research is on the Contact period, focusing on the first tumultuous encounters between local Pueblo people and the huge Vázquez de Coronado expedition of 1540-1542. His talk will include results from recently completed work under a grant from the American Battlefield Protection Program


Hosted by the UNM Department of Anthropology, the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, and the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) the Department Colloquia Speaker Series will continue this semester.  Talks from this years series are available on our You Tube for your viewing.

Upcoming talks include:

12/3 Dr. Evelyn Jagoda (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT)