SMU Anthropology Newsletter
Dallas, Texas
September 2007

FACULTY NEWS

The 2007 SMU-in-Taos Archaeological Field School

In summer 2007, Sunday inaugurated the department’s first community-based archeology field school at the Ranchos de Taos plaza in northern New Mexico. This multi-year project, supported in part through an SMU Presidential Partners Grant, investigates the genesis and evolution of Hispanic Penitente Society during the Spanish Colonial and U.S. Territorial periods, and it introduces SMU students to the complexities of working with living communities to meet their heritage goals. Students were immersed in northern Rio Grande society while conducting Hispanic rock art research and excavations in the homes of local residents on the Plaza.

From left to right: Cameron Turley (SMU), Angela Cesander (SMU), Lauren O’Brien ( Tulane University), Hannah Kolni (SMU), Renaldo Pellerin (SMU), Rachel Hearn (SMU), Albert Gonzalez (Graduate Student Instructor SMU), Leslie Reeder (Graduate Student Instructor SMU), Amy Broihier (SMU), Michael Sandoval (Taos Pueblo), Amber Allgeier (SMU), Barbara DaSheiff (UT Arlington), Preeyanuch Jumprom (Silpakorn University, Bangkok), Pipad Krajaejun (Silpakorn University, Bangkok), Allison McCabe (Taos Pueblo), Mario Lujan (Taos).