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CHAT WITH THE ARCHAEOLOGIST!
Join us today, Friday, March 12th, at 2:00PM (MST).
Project Archaeologist, Dr. Chester Liwosz welcomes our first guest archaeologist speaker, Professor Lewis Borck.
 
This Friday at 2pm, the Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project presents the next installment of our monthly Chat with the Archaeologist livestream.
 
Lewis Borck is an assistant professor at New Mexico Highlands University. He is a founding member of the Black Trowel Collective and a founder of a non-profit, The History Underground. He has worked at the Missouri University Research Reactor in the archaeometry group, as an Assistant Professor at the Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands), at the research and outreach nonprofit Archaeology Southwest, and at the University of Arizona. He is particularly interested in how social movements and contentious politics shaped religion and politics through time as well as how modern politics and worldviews shape the histories and archaeologies we construct, and recreate the histories and ideals of the 'West' in the deep past.
Professor Borck is interested in combining theories on decentralized social organization with standard archaeological, historical, and anthropological theories of historical change. He has applied these theoretical and methodological interests to the Gallina region of the prehispanic North American Southwest to understand issues of violence as well as resistance to the increasingly hierarchical religious and political situation in the late Chaco landscape and throughout the Mesa Verde region. He also examines the Hohokam region in the southern Southwest and explores how and why the spread of ideologies (specifically that associated with the spread of Salado polychrome ceramics) is truncated.


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