Kari Schleher

Assistant Professor
Faculty Curator of Archaeology, Maxwell Museum

Photo: Kari Schleher

Archaeology

At UNM since 
2020
Email: 
kschlehe@unm.edu
Curriculum vitae
 

Education:

BA, University of Arizona (1998)

MA, University of New Mexico (2000)

PhD, University of New Mexico (2010)
Dissertation: “The Role of Standardization in Specialization of Ceramic Production at San Marcos Pueblo, New Mexico”

Research:

Southwest US Archaeology (Northern Rio Grande and Mesa Verde regions), pottery analysis, public archaeology and outreach, petrographic analysis.

Recent Publications:

Schleher, Kari L. Community Specialization and Standardization in the Galisteo Basin: The view from Pueblo San Marcos. In Reframing the Northern Rio Grande Pueblo Economy, edited by Scott G. Ortman, pp. 119-132. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 2019
 
Santarelli, Brunella, Sheila Goff, David Killick, Kari Schleher, and David Gonzales. Lead Isotope Ratios of Pueblo I lead-glazed ceramics and galenas from Colorado and Pueblo II galenas from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 23(2019) 634-645. 2019
 
Suzanne Eckert, Kari L. Schleher, and David Snow. Following the Yellow Brick Road: Yellow slip clays and the production of Rio Grande Glaze Ware in north central New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 21 (2018) 565-574. 2018
 
Ramenofsky, Ann F. and Kari L. Schleher, editors The archaeology and history of Pueblo San Marcos, New Mexico. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM. 2017
 
Schleher, Kari L. Learning and Production: The Northern Rio Grande Glaze Ware Community of Practice at San Marcos Pueblo during the Protohistoric Period. In The archaeology and history of Pueblo San Marcos, New Mexico.  Edited by Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher, pg. 107-128. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM. 2017
 
Ramenofsky, Ann F. and Kari L. Schleher. Introducing San Marcos:  A Protohistoric Town in North Central New Mexico. In The archaeology and history of Pueblo San Marcos, New Mexico.  Edited by Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher, pg. 1-7. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM. 2017.


Larson, Dorothy, Kari L. Schleher, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Jonathan Van Hoose, and Jennifer Boyd Dyer. Artifacts at San Marcos Pueblo. In The archaeology and history of Pueblo San Marcos, New Mexico.  Edited by Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher, pg. 89-105. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM. 2017

 
Ortman, Scott, Shanna Diederichs, Kari Schleher, Jerry Fetterman, Marcus Espinosa, and Caitlin Sommer. Demographic and Social Dimensions of the Neolithic Revolution in Southwest Colorado. Kiva 82(3):232-258. 2016
 
Suzanne L. Eckert, Kari L. Schleher and William D. James. Communities of Identity, Communities of Practice: Understanding Santa Fe Black-on-white Pottery in the Española Basin of New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science. 63: 1-12. 2015.
 
Schleher, Kari L., Deborah L. Huntley, and Cynthia L. Herhahn. Glazed Over: Composition of Northern Rio Grande Glaze Ware Paints from San Marcos Pueblo. In Potters and Communities of Practice: Glaze Paint and Polychrome Pottery in the American Southwest, AD 1250 to 1700.  Edited by Linda Cordell and Judith Habicht-Mauche. Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona, Number 75, pg. 97-106. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. 2012.

 

Blinman, Eric, Kari L. Schleher, Tom Dickerson, Cynthia Herhahn, and Ibrahim Gundiler. Making a Glaze: Multiple Approaches to Understanding Rio Grande Glaze Paint Technology. In Potters and Communities of Practice: Glaze Paint and Polychrome Pottery in the American Southwest, AD 1250 to 1700.  Edited by Linda Cordell and Judith Habicht-Mauche. Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona, Number 75, pg. 107-116. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. 2012.