Grant County Archaeological Society

Next Meeting

Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 6:00 PM: ONLINE ONLY (Zoom info below): A short business meeting at 6:00 pm will be followed by a Zoom presentation given by Emily Lena Jones, Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, entitled ” The Zooarchaeology of the West Baker Site: Exploring Mimbres Human-Animal Relationships Outside the Mimbres Heartland.” West Baker (LA 83574) is a Classic Mimbres site located nearly 100 km southwest of the Mimbres valley. Excavated in 1964 but never analyzed or published, the collections from this site have been the subject of a recent effort, led by archaeologists Patricia Gilman and Thatcher Selzer-Rogers, to bring this unusual site to light. As part of this project, Dr. Jones analyzed the animal remains collected by the original excavators. The West Baker zooarchaeological assemblage is robust enough to provide some insight into how people at this site interacted with the animals in the region—and how their interactions may have differed from those of people living in the Mimbres heartland. In this talk, Dr. Jones will discuss the West Baker faunal assemblage and what it suggests about hunting, tool-making, and other activities at this unusual site.

Emily Lena Jones is Professor of Anthropology and Regents’ Lecturer at the University of New Mexico. A zooarchaeologist and environmental archaeologist, her research focuses on the connections between the human-animal relationship and environmental change across time and space. Most recently, her work has focused on the Columbian exchange in central New Mexico, a topic that is the focus of a forthcoming book from University of New Mexico Press.

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Next Field Trip

October 8, 9 and 10 (no September field trip): October’s field trip will be to the Mogollon conference at the New Mexico State University Museum in Las Cruces, on October 8, 9 and 10. See Events page for info.