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the FRIENDS OF TIJERAS PUEBLO
There is no doubt about it;
Spring has finally arrived!
Warm sunny days interspersed with winds...
lovely evenings and a full moon on its way.
Little starts in the garden, and
a compost pile in our future.
Perhaps a mural on the grey frence
before the summer ends.
Haven't visited for a while?
Stop in at the bookstore at the
Sandia Ranger Station and check
out the new Tijeras Pueblo mugs.
you won't want to miss our lecture on
Tuesday, May 8th..........
your hint:
chocolate....
Follow this link to the May lecture
Several weeks ago we co-hosted the
annual meeting of the Archaeological
Society of New Mexico at the Moriarty
Civic Center. Our co-host was the Torrence
County Archaeological Society. Visit their
website by following this link.
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Volunteers are staffing the Education Center on an irregular
schedule for the season. If you are stopping by, look for the
"OPEN" banner outside our door: or,
stop by the front desk and ask if the center is open...
View a map and find out how to get to the Sandia Ranger Station >>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Join us for our May presentation...
A Brief History of Chocolate
in the American Southwest
by
Patricia L. Crown
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UNM
The Friends of Tijeras Pueblo
And the Sandia Ranger Station
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
at the
Sandia Ranger Station
Large Conference Room
6:30 pm*
The recent recovery of chocolate residues in ceramics from Chaco Canyon raises questions about when Southwestern populations first obtained chocolate, how they prepared it, and why they consumed this exotic food. This talk examines the use of chocolate in the American Southwest through comparisons with Maya and Aztec chocolate use, and shows how chocolate continued to be an important food into the historic period.
Patricia L. Crown received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, and her PhD in anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1981. She held teaching positions at Southern Methodist University and Arizona State University, and has been on the faculty at UNM since 1993, where she is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. Dr. Crown has conducted field investigations in the Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon. and Hohokam areas of the American Southwest. She recently directed the analysis of artifacts from the trash mounds at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon. One result of this research was the recent identification of the frist prehispanic cacao (chocolate) north of the Mexican border in ceramics found at Chaco Canyon.
In the last decade, she has been concerned with humanizing archaeology by exploring the status of women in the past and how children learned the tasks they needed to know to become competent adults. The Society for American Archaeology awarded her the Excellence in Ceramic Research Award in 1994, and the American Anthropological Association gave her (jointly with Suzanne K. Fish) the Gordon Willey award in 1998.
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*Seating is limited; please try to arrive early.
A $5 donation is reqested from non-members.
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