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Sunday, March 30, 2025

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Announcements and Speaker at 2:30pm CDT 

 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82937439203

Christopher Schwartz, PhD

Archaeology Group Manager Terracon Consultants

Exchange is a fundamental human behavior. While today, people rapidly exchange goods and information over great distances, in the past, long-distance exchange required the mobilization of vast networks of interaction. This talk examines the long-distance relationships between people living in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest (SW/NW) with people living the south in Mesoamerica and West Mexico. Specifically, it will explore the material evidence for long-distance interaction at SW/NW archaeological sites, or lack thereof, the significance of those objects and materials, and the larger intellectual debates surrounding this topic.

Christopher Schwartz is the City of Phoenix Archaeologist, works at S’edav Va’aki Museum (formerly Pueblo Grande), and holds a Visiting Faculty appointment at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2020, where his dissertation research examined the transformative local impacts of the acquisition of non-local scarlet macaws (Ara macao) to past people living in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest as well as their continued significance to contemporary Native American communities. He is the lead editor of the University of Arizona Press volume Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest, and he has worked since 2013 on the Connections and Impacts of North and West Mexican Cultures Projects (“Connections Project”), which documents instances of non-local objects and materials in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest and explores their local significance and social impacts.

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