THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2020

Columbia Center for Archaeology Seminar

Wade Campbell

“Looking for Sheep in Navajo Country: Indigenous Archaeology and the Early Navajo

Pastoral Landscape Project”

March 27, 2020, 4.10pm 

951 Schermerhorn Extension

The Early Navajo Pastoral Landscape Project (ENPLP) seeks to examine the impacts of incipient pastoralism on the social organization and settlement patterns of early Navajo communities in the Dinétah region of northwest New Mexico circa AD 1700. In keeping with the tenets of indigenous archaeology, the ENPLP work eschewed excavation in favor of a minimally invasive, landscape-based approach combining ethnoarchaeological fieldwork and geospatial modeling with systematic soil sampling and intensive site mapping. This talk will review the preliminary findings of the recently completed ENPLP fieldwork and discuss how this research will help to shed light on the dynamic history of Navajo pastoralism from its early days to the present.