The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society invites the public to a presentation in the Lyceum at the Center of Southwest Studies and on Zoom on Wednesday, August 9th at 7:00 pm. At 6:30 we will have social time, then after a brief business meeting, Jacque Kocer will discuss her research on the Gallina culture, a community that thrived in northern New Mexico from about 1100 to 1300 A.D. For log-in information, go to SJBAS.ORG. The title of Ms Kocer's talk is "Intricate Simplicity: The Enduring Beauty of Gallina Ceramic Designs". The Gallina (1100-1300 A.D) area in northern New Mexico was home to a culturally distinct group of people that thrived in the highlands, inhabiting small villages and dispersed residential units. The Gallina area is about 70 km northeast of Chaco and their architecture consists of unit houses, pit houses, towers and cliff dwellings. Their material culture has some similarities to the rest of the Ancestral Puebloan world, including black-on-grey ceramics, but they also produced cooking vessels with conical bases, tri-notched axes, elbow pipes and knives that are uniquely Gallina. The way potters choose to decorate their ceramic containers can reflect important symbols related to different facets of group identity including a group's social or political identity. Other low visibility attributes (like design execution) are indicative of a shared background of learning in a community of practice. This presentation compares the motif and surface treatments styles on both decorated and utility wares at four sites across the Gallina area. Jacqueline Kocer is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota and she has mixed Indigenous and Spanish Ancestry from Northern New Mexico. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of New Mexico. Her dissertation research involves the study of cultural identity through ceramic production practices on Gallina decorated and utility wares. Her passion for archaeology comes from her responsibility to her ancestors, to connect with and protect cultural material and sacred places. Kocer is the CEO of the Gallina Research Institute for Indigenous Technology (GRIIT) with the mission to collaborate with Indigenous communities and to provide career pathways in archaeology for Native students. GRIIT is currently con-ducting survey of sites in the Chama River Canyon Wilderness area under a Forest Service permit.