Monday, January 13, 2025 General Meeting - 7:00 PM MDT (Hybrid)
Speaker: Aliceia (Ali) Schubert, Senior Archaeologist Technician and Cultural GIS Specialist at Tetra Tech.
Abstract: Centered in northwestern New Mexico, the Chacoan culture was a population of Ancestral Puebloan peoples that thrived in the AD 900-1100s. Chacoan culture is well known for its examples of communal building projects and monumental architecture. Chacoan roads, apart from great houses, are perhaps the most well-known yet enigmatic examples. Schubert’s presentation will be based upon her final study from graduate school, “Chacoan Roads and Landscape Archaeology in Eastern Red Mesa Valley, New Mexico.” In the eastern Red Mesa Valley we will analyze how several newly identified Chacoan Road segments manifest themselves on a past culturally dense landscape. By utilizing GIS methods of remote sensing, spatial analysis, and ground truthing we start to understand how the roads relate to and served to integrate the larger local Chacoan Community.
Bio: Aliceia (Ali) Schubert is a Senior Archaeologist technician and GIS Specialist with six years of professional experience in CRM, two of the six working as a GIS Specialist hybrid. She has a Master of Geoscience in GIST (Geographic Information Systems and Technology) from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from UCCS (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs). Aliceia has experience working on archaeological projects within 14 states. Her areas of specialty and academic research include anthropological archaeology and forensic anthropology with burials and surface recovery, landscape archaeology, and mapping. During her time in graduate school, she further specialized in spatial analysis of prehistoric roads and sites.
Upcoming Meetings:
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