Community Lectures

2010 Four Corners Lecture Series

April–November 2010
Sponsors: Mesa Verde National Park, Mesa Verde Museum Association, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Bureau of Land Management, Anasazi Heritage Center, Cortez Cultural Center, Fort Lewis College Department of Anthropology

Organized by a consortium of area organizations, the Four Corners Lecture Series features presentations by guest speakers from around the Southwest. This year's theme is "People and Landscape: Thousands of Years of Land Use in the Four Corners." All lectures are free and open to the public.

The location of the lectures rotates among the sponsoring organizations. Those being held at Crow Canyon are listed below. For a complete list of all presentations, including locations and starting times, see the schedule on the Mesa Verde National Park Web site.

Lectures at Crow Canyon begin at 7:00 p.m.

April 22, 2010

Florence Lister and Gwinn Vivian
Personal Reminiscences of Old Chaco

July 23, 2010

Susan Ryan
Do They Stay or Do They Go? Evaluating the Occupation of Great House Communities During the Mid-1100s Drought

July 29, 2010

Ed Kabotie
Courting the Rain

August 5, 2010

Jon Callender
The Natural World of Ancestral Puebloans

September 9, 2010

Paul Ermigiotti
The Story of Corn: From Teosinte to Ethanol

October 7, 2010

Kristin Kuckelman
Dramatic Shifts in Landscape Use Associated with Ancestral Pueblo Depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region