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Curator Steve Lekson draws a map at the Canada Alamosa site
Curator Steve Lekson draws a map at the Cañada Alamosa site.
Curator Stephen Lekson's current research includes a five-year, multiple institution project to synthesize the archaeology of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico and field projects at Bluff, Utah and Cañada Alamosa, New Mexico. His research in the collections currently focuses on the Mimbres and Yellow Jacket collections.

 

Selected Recent Publications:

  • 2004 Chaco aand Paquime: Complexity, History and Landscape. In North American Archaeology, edited by Timothy Pauketat and Diana Loren Blackwell.
  • 2004  Lekson, Stephen H., Art McWilliams, and Michael Bletzer Pueblo IV in the Chihuahuan Desert. In The Protohistoric Pueblo World: A.D. 1275-1600, edited by E. Charles Adams and Andrew Duff. University of Arizona Press.
  • 2002  Salado Archeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
  • 2002  Migrations in the 14th Century Southwest. Kiva Vol 68 No 2. (senior author with C. Nepstad-Thornberry, B. Yunker, D. Cain, T. Laumbach, and K. Laumbach).
  • 2002  War in the Southwest, War in the World. American Antiquity Vol 67 No 4.
  • 2001  Landscape and Polity: The Interplay of Land, History and Power in the Ancient Southwest. In The Road to Aztlan, edited by Virginia M. Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
  • 2001  Chaco, Aztec and Paquime: The Origins of Casas Grandes. In Ancient Casas Grandes: Spheres of Influence. San Diego Museum of Man.
  • 2001  Presidents, Precedents, and Pundits. In Anasazi Regional Organization and the Chaco System. Maxwell Museum of Anthropology.
    • Student works on excavation at the the Canada Alamosa site
    An anthropology student surveys an excavation at the Cañada Alamosa site. Curator Steve Lekson supervises the annual anthropology field school.
  • 2001  Early Hohokam; and Early Mogollon. In Encyclopedia of Prehistory. Kluwer Academic/Plenum. (senior author with Devon White)
  • 2001  Flight of the Anasazi. Archaeology Vol 54 No 5.
  • 2000  Ojo Caliente: Apache Reservation and Military Post. In Fort Craig: The United States on the Camino Real. Bureau of Land Management, Socorro.
  • 2000  Great! In Great House Communities Across the Chacoan Landscape. University of Arizona Press.
  • 2000  Salado in Chihuahua. In Salado. University of New Mexico Press.
  • 2000  A New Synthesis of Chaco Canyon Archaeology. Anthropology News Vol 41 No 9. (senior author with Karin Burd.)
  • 2000  Ancient Chaco's New History. Archaeology Southwest Vol 14 No 1. (Guest editor and author.)

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