The public is invited to attend the next meeting of the San Juan Basin Archaeological Society, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13, in the Lyceum at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.
After a brief business meeting, Jesse Tune will present “The Times They Were ‘A-Changin’: Life on the Colorado Plateau at the End of the Ice Age.” A social will be held before the meeting at 6:30 p.m.
Tune’s talk, which is part of the Four Corners Lecture Series, will present a picture of what life was like on the northern Colorado Plateau at the end of the last Ice Age. He will focus on the archaeological record, as well as the paleoenvironmental record of the region about 13,000 years ago. He will specifically address the archaeological record of Bears Ears National Monument.
Tune is an assistant professor in anthropology at Fort Lewis College. He specializes in Paleoindian archaeology, lithic analysis and human/environment relationships. His research focuses on investigating the relationships between environmental change and cultural adaptations at the end of the last Ice Age. He is researching the early human occupation of the Colorado Plateau, and the Tennessee River Valley.
He has led excavations at numerous late Pleistocene archaeological sites, and analyzed lithic assemblages from Paleoindian to Late Prehistoric archaeological periods throughout North America.
For more information, visit sjbas.org.