Across a Threshold: People, Animals, and Landscapes in Central New Mexico

SAR Weatherhead Fellow

Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

The Tiguex War of 1540 marked the start of a dramatic socio-economic transformation of central New Mexico. Was this transformation a gradual process, with each step having a cumulative impact, or was the transition more of an abrupt change in environmental processes and/or species composition in a formerly resilient landscape?

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Established in 1907, the School for Advanced Research (SAR) advances creative thought and innovative work in the social sciences, humanities, and Native American arts. SAR is home to the Indian Arts Research Center (IARC), a leader in community-advised and collaborative Indigenous arts engagement and collections management. Through scholar residency, seminar, and artist fellowship programs, SAR Press publications, and a range of public programs, SAR facilitates intellectual inquiry and human understanding. SAR’s historic 16-acre campus sits on the ancestral lands of the Tewa people in O’gah’poh geh Owingeh or Santa Fe, New Mexico. SAR is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational institution.

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