San Juan Basin Archaeological Society meeting and presentation
Fort Lewis Collage Lyceum
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The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society invites the public to our monthly meeting and a presentation.
At 6:30 we will have social time in the CSWS foyer. Then after a brief business meeting, Dr. Katie Williams, Geospatial Archaeologist at Crow Canyon, will give a talk on her dissertation work, which focused on the organization of architectural labor at Betatakin and Keet Seel during the Tsegi Phase (AD 1250-1300). Dr. Williams’s discussion is titled “The Organization of Labor at Betatakin and Keet Seel.”
This talk presents some of her dissertation work, which focused on the organization of architectural labor at Betatakin (Talastima) and Keet Seel (Kawestima) during the Tsegi Phase (AD 1250-1300). The goal of her dissertation was to identify whether people worked together as households, supra-households, communities, or had specialists come in to build. She documented variability in architectural attributes across rooms within individual houses, linked that variability to builder choices, and identified architectural products associated with discrete production groups. Builders that work together share their decisions to the extent that their output is distinct from the work of others. This project expands on traditional archaeological assessments of architecture by focusing on earthen architectural materials, such as mortars, plasters, and daub.
BIO: Katy has a B.S., Chemical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines; M.A., Anthropology, University of New Mexico; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of New Mexico. She is a postdoctoral geospatial scholar at Crow Canyon. She was born and raised in Albuquerque, NM, and is an enrolled member of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. Her dissertation research focused on examining the organization of architectural labor at alcove communities in Northeastern Arizona, but she has also worked in other parts of the U.S. Southwest. Currently Katie is the postdoctoral scholar in geospatial archaeology at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Her research and field experience to date have combined her interests in heritage conservation, materials science, labor organization, community construction practices, community distribution across the landscape, and earthen architectural materials.
At 6:30 we will have social time in the CSWS foyer. Then after a brief business meeting, Dr. Katie Williams, Geospatial Archaeologist at Crow Canyon, will give a talk on her dissertation work, which focused on the organization of architectural labor at Betatakin and Keet Seel during the Tsegi Phase (AD 1250-1300). Dr. Williams’s discussion is titled “The Organization of Labor at Betatakin and Keet Seel.”
This talk presents some of her dissertation work, which focused on the organization of architectural labor at Betatakin (Talastima) and Keet Seel (Kawestima) during the Tsegi Phase (AD 1250-1300). The goal of her dissertation was to identify whether people worked together as households, supra-households, communities, or had specialists come in to build. She documented variability in architectural attributes across rooms within individual houses, linked that variability to builder choices, and identified architectural products associated with discrete production groups. Builders that work together share their decisions to the extent that their output is distinct from the work of others. This project expands on traditional archaeological assessments of architecture by focusing on earthen architectural materials, such as mortars, plasters, and daub.
BIO: Katy has a B.S., Chemical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines; M.A., Anthropology, University of New Mexico; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of New Mexico. She is a postdoctoral geospatial scholar at Crow Canyon. She was born and raised in Albuquerque, NM, and is an enrolled member of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. Her dissertation research focused on examining the organization of architectural labor at alcove communities in Northeastern Arizona, but she has also worked in other parts of the U.S. Southwest. Currently Katie is the postdoctoral scholar in geospatial archaeology at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Her research and field experience to date have combined her interests in heritage conservation, materials science, labor organization, community construction practices, community distribution across the landscape, and earthen architectural materials.