Archaeologist to Focus and discuss about social History of memory:

Barbara Mills, professor and chair of the anthropology department at the University of Arizona, we will discuss about new interpretations of ancient Chacoan society. Mills said the Chacoan society cannot be fully appreciated without understanding the social networks of the 10th through 12th centuries, including, with how these networks are created and maintained through “social memory.”

He presentation in to the 15th annual Distinguished Archaeology Lecture, will be at 7 p.m. just for the simplest travel for research from southeast of the intersection of Broadway and University Avenue in Boulder. Parking is an available on University Avenue or in the Euclid Avenue AutoPark east of the University Memorial Center at Broadway and Euclid.
Chaco Canyon, now preserved as a national historical park, is known for its large-scale public architecture and isolation in the high desert of present-day New Mexico. But from the 10th through 12th centuries, it was at the center of the Ancestral Puebloan world.

During that period, Chacoan people to be built in multistoried stone Great Houses, using then-unique masonry techniques. Some of the structures are oriented with lunar and solar events such as solstices and equinoxes. Several large roads converge upon Chaco Canyon, suggesting that the area was of central importance to the ancient Southwest.