Life Before AD 1500 on the Upper Gila River, Southwest New Mexico

At the November 6, 2018 Archaeology Cafe, Dr. Karen Schollmeyer presented, "Life Before AD 1500 on the Upper Gila River, Southwest New Mexico." Residents of the upper reaches of the Gila River in southwest New Mexico found successful ways of farming, hunting, and living together for over a millennium. This talk explores some of these past ways of living, including periods in which people gathered into large villages or dispersed into less archaeologically visible communities. The unique archaeological record of this area allows us to examine the challenges and benefits of these different ways of living, and how farmers adapted to local conditions from the time of the earliest villages into the late 1400s. ---- Want to watch future Archaeology Cafés live and in real time? Join us at our upcoming events in Tucson and Phoenix (https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/..., or join us on Facebook Live (  / archaeologysouthwest  .