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University of New Mexico Anthropology Newsletter Please visit our website: www.unm.edu/~anthro/ Fall 2007 YOUNG RANCH RENOVATED Ann Ramenofsky In this issue: Part of the James Young Ranch is currently owned by the Uni- Young Ranch ………… 1-3 versity of New Mexico. It is a jewel of a property, nestled at the From the Chair …………… 2 base of the Jemez Mountains directly west of Cochiti Lake. The Rio Chiquito runs through the property, and the locally famed New Faculty ……………… 2 Dixon Apple Orchards fronts the property to the east. Fred Dix- Focus on Research ……… 3 on hired as foreman by James Young, established the orchard, Faculty Updates ………… 3 and his granddaughter and her husband, Becky and Jim Mul- New Maxwell Director … 4 lane, continue to operate the orchard. The property is bounded Maxwell Museum ……… 4 to the north and south by the Santa Fe National Forest, making Chaco Centennial ……… 4 it private. JAR Lecture ……………… 5 Young Ranch, summer 2007 The buildings—the main house, bunkhouses, garages, and Alfonso Ortiz Center …… 5 stables—were designed and constructed between 1934 and 1938 by William T. Lumpkins. Lump- Student News ……… 6-7-9 kins was one of New Mexico’s twentieth-century master architects. He wrote a number of books, Digs ………………………… 8 including La Casa Adobe, and pioneered the adobe passive- Peace Studies …………… 8 solar movement of the 1970s and 1980s, creating modern Media Boot Camp ……… 9 architecture adapted from historic forms. The architecture Alumni News ………………10 at Young Ranch shows many of his details, including hand- carved doors, tin work on light fixtures, corner fireplaces, Fundraising Goals ………11 and flag stone floors. In short, the ranch is one of those in- Campbell Fund ……………12 creasingly rare and still intact places that are rich in histori- cal meaning and scenic beauty. Editorial Board In 1964,Young donated his 9,500 acre property to UNM. Michael Graves Young envisioned this gift as promoting the educational and Carole Nagengast research missions of the University. For a number of years following the generous and unique donation, the property Bruce Huckell sat vacant. In the late 1980s, faculty from the Departments Young Ranch is located at the base of Horn Mesa Lisa Huckell of Anthropology and Earth and Planetary Sciences began using the buildings and the larger ex- Jennifer George panse of property as the base of operations for UNM archaeology or geology field schools. This Ann Braswell tradition has continued to the present. In 2005, much of the Young Ranch property was traded for acreage at Mesa del Sol, but UNM Publishing Info retained ownership of the original buildings with use rights to other parts of the property. The Anthropology News- Over the past year, with a recent infusion of capital, the buildings letter is published biannu- themselves were renovated. Mark Manzutto, Director of Remodel- ally in printed and electronic ing for the UNM Physical Plant, oversaw and coordinated the proj- format by ect. Windows have been replaced. The original plaster walls have been resurfaced and painted. Viga beams have been treated against The Department of termite infestation. Roofs have been replaced on both houses, and Anthropology the stucco exteriors redone. In short, MSC01 1040 Punched-tin light fixture much of the wear and tear of the years 1 University of New Mexico and ceiling latillas has been removed or repaired. One of Albuquerque, NM 87131 the large garage rooms was converted into a field laboratory, and UNM is currently working on getting Contact phone service to the property. With phone service in place, it will be possible to establish internet service. For further information, The renovation of this property comes at a time when the depart- Contact Ann Braswell at ment is envisioning new directions and growth. With the changes (505) 277-4544, or and improvements to the Young Ranch, it will be possible to use [email protected] the property for a broader range of functions, including academic retreats, research symposia, and perhaps graduation events. Front page photographs courtesy Amy Hathaway and To help preserve and maintain this part of the Young legacy, we encourage financial donations. Funds to replace furniture as well as Ann Ramenofsky for operating expenses are sorely needed. (More on p. 3) From the Chair … Welcome to rector in early 2008. The Collections and funded from the Graduate Student Sup- the Fall 2007 Archive of the Chaco Culture National port Endowment Fund to which many issue of the Historical Park have moved from the An- of you have donated. Dr. David Stuart A n t h r o p o l - thropology Building to new facilities in (UNM ’72), professor of anthropology, ogy Newsletter, the Hibben Center. The area occupied by has endowed a new scholarship program which has broad- the Center will be renovated to accom- for Graduate Students focused on Public ened its mission modate an expanded and improved main from an initial office for the Department. The James Anthropology. focus on fund- Young Ranch in the Jemez Mountains Our faculty continue to garner awards: raising for grad- was renovated this summer and is again Sylvia Rodriguez’s recent book, Acequia, uate students to ready to host archaeological field train- was awarded the best book of 2006 by Dr. Michael Graves providing up-to- ing programs and Department-sponsored the Association of Latina and Latino An- date information conferences and gatherings. Renovation thropologists. on the Department, its people and pro- has been made or is in process in two bio- Finally, this year the Department will grams, and news of and by our current logical anthropology laboratories and we commence a Self-Study that will result in and former students. are planning for the creation of a labora- an external review in Fall 2008. Profes- 2007 appears to be a transitional year tory for the Archaeology Field Schools. sor Marta Weigle will lead our efforts. for the Department. We saw the depar- The JAR lectureships will be supple- Part of this process is to assess the qual- ture of four faculty members, while an- mented by the establishment of an An- other four have joined the Department or thropology colloquia series in which ity of the educational experience by our Museum as faculty. We are in the process we will partner with other units to bring students at UNM; we encourage you to of recruiting two new faculty: a senior speakers to the campus. I hope this will be part of this process so that we can biological anthropologist and an archae- include an annual presentation by one of strengthen and improve Anthropology. ologist who works in South America on our alumni. social complexity. We expect to begin For the first time this year the Depart- recruitment of the new Ortiz Center Di- ment will be able to offer scholarships Michael W. Graves Welcome our New Faculty Keith Prufer, Assistant Professor (Archaeology-Mesoamerica), is interest- Ronda Brulotte, Lecturer III, earned her ed in societal and political complexity in Ph.D. in Anthropology, with a focus on Mesoamerica. He is currently directing folklore and cultural studies, and M.A. in the Uxbenká Archaeological Project, an Latin American Studies from the Univer- NSF-sponsored program examining the sity of Texas at Austin. She has taught at formation of early Maya polities and the the University of Oklahoma and the Uni- intersection of landscape transformation versity of Texas at Austin. Her research and climate change in southern Belize. interests include material culture, tourism, Uxbenká is located within the boundar- and heritage sites in Mexico. She is cur- ies of a modern Mopan Maya agrarian rently working on a book manuscript on community, and, as a result, his project works with local resi- the production and marketing of archaeo- dents to develope sustainable livelihood projects that parallel logical replicas and other folk arts in the southern Mexican state the archaeological program. In summer 2008 fieldwork at Ux- of Oaxaca. benká will involve undergraduate and graduate students from UNM. Sherry V. Nelson, Assistant Pro- fessor (Biological Anthropology), Martin N. Muller, Assistant Pro- has an interest in the interactions fessor (Biological Anthropology), is of climate, vegetation, and faunal originally from Los Alamos but joins the changes in the fossil record. Much department from Boston University. His of her work focuses on a 20-mil- research focuses on the relationship be- lion-year sequence in Pakistan and tween ecology, physiology, and behavior. in reconstructing Miocene ape ecol- He uses non-invasive hormone assays to ogy. She uses dental microwear and investigate the physiological causes and isotopic analyses to reconstruct diets, consequences of social behavior in hu- vegetation, and climate seasonality. mans and non-human primates. Most of this research has been She also analyzes modern chimpanzee ecosystems for di- done with wild chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, rect comparisons with fossil ape and early hominid habitat but he has also done field work with Hadza foragers and Datoga requirements. With a view to reconstructing meat consump- pastoralists in Tanzania. He is particularly interested in what tion in hominid diets and the evolution of cooking, Dr. Nel- comparisons between chimpanzee and human behavior and son is also analyzing dental microwear produced by modern physiology can tell us about human evolution. forager diets. 2 Young Ranch Mural Focus on Research Louise Lamphere For the past year and a half, I have focused on two new research proj- ects, both on New Mexico but very different from each other. They each represent different ways of engaging in Public Anthropology and examin- ing critical social issues through an anthropological lens. As part of the Alfonso Ortiz Cen- ter for Intercultural Studies, I have begun a collaborative project with the Cibola County Arts Council and the San Rafael Parish to collect oral histories in the small Hispano This portion of a much larger signed mural by Tonita Peña villages near Grants, New Mexico.