Stephen Lekson, a professor of Anthropology from the University of Colorado will present a talk on “Chimney Rock and Chaco, Pinnacle Ruin and Mesa Verde: Methodologies of Regional Interaction in the Ancestral Pueblo Area” on Thursday, March 11 at 4 p.m. in the Hibben Center, Room 105.
Recent excavations by the University of Colorado at Chimney rock near Pagosa Spring, Colorado and at Pinnacle Ruin near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico illustrate two different regional dynamics in the Ancestral Pueblo World. Chimney Rock was an ‘outlier’ of Chaco Canyon. Pinnacle Ruin was a Mesa Verde migrant village.
These sites will be compared and contrasted with other CU excavations at Bluff Great House, Dolores Reservoir, and Mantle’s Cave and with recent SWCA excavations at Blue Mesa/Ridges Basin, to explore the range of archaeological methodologies for understanding regional dynamics in the Ancestral Pueblo region.