Steve and Lois Hirst
Sedona, AZ: Grand Canyon Association, in partnership with Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, announce the first lectures of the 2007-2008 Canyon Country Community Lectures. The September lecture series kicks off with Grand Canyon author, Chris Coder.
The goal of the Canyon Country Community Lecture Series is to take the rich interpretive themes of Grand Canyon National Park and the region directly to enthusiasts in nearby communities. Speakers include authorities on the rich natural and cultural history of Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau.
Chris Coder
A Brief Look at Grand Canyon Archaeology
Presented by Chris Coder, author of An Introduction to Grand Canyon Prehistory.
To ancient Native Americans the Grand Canyon was home, encompassing all of its simple pleasures and complexities: hearth, school, grocery store and church.
"The fragments of individual lives and their greater cultures lie scattered on the surface and buried within Grand Canyon. Those broken pots, dormant tools, concentrations of charcoal, and hand-drawn symbols allow us a mist-covered portal into history. Archaeological sites rarely preserve a moment frozen in time. More correctly, sites represent a composite of hours or days or years of activity, partially preserved and thus partially understood."
Chris Coder specializes in field survey, geomorphology and Apache ethnohistory. He spent seven years working on the River Corridor Project in Grand Canyon National Park and has been the Tribal Archeologist for the Yavapai-Apache Nation in Camp Verde since 1997. Chris lives outside Flagstaff with his wife and daughters.
A Brief Look at Grand Canyon Archaeology
Sunday, September 16, 2007
1:00 p.m.
Sharlot Hall Museum
Prescott, AZ
