Upcoming Presentation by JRI research Associate Joan E. Price
Southwest Seminars lecture series, Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, in downtown Santa Fe
May 23, 2016, 6:00 PM
A Mimbres Assimilation of Mesoamerican Jaguar Cult Depicted at Three Rivers Petroglyph Site
Identified by Dr. Kay Sutherland (Spirits From the South, The Artifact, 1996), and others, numerous “collared jaguar” glyphs, a Mesoamerican image associated with ritual warfare and royalty, are found depicted in the Mimbres style on significant stones among over 21,000 glyphs at Three Rivers Petroglyph Site. The possibility that Mimbres culture appears to have assimilated the elite Jaguar cult into a Mimbres hunt/warrior society in a far more equalitarian small-scale society and sacred landscape is discussed and then compared to a Tewa Puebloan ritual calendar of hunting and agricultural ceremonial events and activities outlined by Alphonso Ortiz, The Tewa World, 1969.
The possibility that at least three jaguar sites with clusters of associated glyphs in Mimbres style of iconography may have served as shrine sites will be presented in a power point format by Joan E. Price, who has visited this major petroglyph site in south central New Mexico for over twenty years.
Talk by JRI Research Associate Dr. Deni Seymour
Tubac Presidio, Tubac Arizona
January 18, 2015, 2pm
The Earliest Apache in Arizona: Evidence and Arguments
Recent research provides evidence of ancestral Apaches in the southern Southwest at least as early as the A.D. 1300s. Much of this evidence comes from chronometric dates obtained from a feature type that comparative ethnographic information (including rarely used land claims documents) indicates were used for storage. These features, called platform caches, provide rare and ideal material for accurate dating because they are often covered with grass or leaves. Dates from these features, on Apache pottery, and from roasting pits, all in direct association with Apache material culture of other types (including rock art), provide a continuous sequence of use from at least as early as the A.D. 1300s through the late 1700s. New information about a western route south to this region is combined with other evidence regarding the presence of the earliest ancestral Apache three centuries earlier than many have argued, even in areas where Coronado did not see them.