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TAS Monthly Speaker
September 14, 2026
KIt Carson Electric Coop at 7pm
Dr. Thomas Hart
Thomas Hart is an archaeologist, paleoethnobotanist, and an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at New Mexico State University. Dr. Hart received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut where he used ancient plant remains study to the relationship between agriculture and emerging social complexity at the Ubaid period (6,000 BC) site of Tell Zeidan, Syria. His current research focuses on the role of food and agriculture in rise and collapse of the Maya civilization in Belize.
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Dr. Hart will present botanical evidence collected from artifacts and soils from the Middle Formative site of La Blanca (1000–600 cal BC) and the Late Formative site of El Ujuxte (600 cal BC–cal AD 115) in the Soconusco region in Guatemala. In this project, he sought to in understand the causes of the cyclical nature of societal formation and collapse in the region. The results suggest that control of food production and consumption were critical for the transition from complex chiefdoms to the archaic state and that the arrival of fully domesticated South American maize likely influenced the overall development of state-level societies in the Soconusco region and throughout Mesoamerica.
Field Trips 2026
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July 14 Vista Verde Day Hike Easy to Moderate Difficulty 845am-12:00 Noon FREE
September 29 Maxwell Curation Visit 10am-12noon / OAS 300-430pm FREE
October 1-4 Bears Ears Andrew Gulliford $275.00
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History of Taos Archaeological Society Project
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The Taos Archaeological Society has operated for 34 years. In that time, many documents have been produced. Unfortunately, TAS does not have a complete record of documents produced and distributed.
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