Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” Series Talking Turkey: Domestic Turkeys in the US Southwest's Archeological Record (and a Little on Them Today) Free Dinnertime Presentation by Archeologist Sharlot Hart*

ThursdayThursday JulyJuly 15,15, 20212021 77 toto 8:308:30 p.m.p.m. OnlineOnline viavia ZoomZoom (See(See registrationregistration linklink below)below)

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Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s guest speaker Sharlot Hart is an archeologist* with the Southern Arizona Office of the National Park Service. In this capacity she aids national parks and Monuments on-the-ground archeology and historic preservation endeavors, assists with federal compliance, and manages projects. She holds a Master of Arts in Anthropology with a speciali- zation in Applied Archaeology from the University of Arizona. She received this degree after about a decade working in government and private entities, trying to figure out what to do with an undergraduate degree in History and a minor in Botany. This included a stint with the Peace Corps in Madagascar where she valiantly tried to work in agroforestry, interest- ing weavers of native silk with a native tree reforestation campaign. She is very happy to have finally found her niche at the NPS, where she can illus- trate the inextricable connection between natural and cultural resources.

Left: Turkey-feather jacket found in Tularosa Cave, New Mexico (from “Culture of the Ancient Pueblos of the Upper Gila River Region, New Mexico and Arizona” by Walter Hough (1914, Smithsonian Institution) Above: turkey-feather blanket from Bandelier National Monument Sharlot Hart from nps-gov.academia.edu; others courtesy of Sharlot Hart For more information contact Old Pueblo Archaeology Center at [email protected] or 520-798-1201