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Big MACC
It's Not a Hamburger
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| Carole Graham presents "Basketmaker Occupation of Cottonwood Cave (5MN519)—A New Assessment" at the Big MACC. |
The Four Corners area teems with archaeologists working on various projects, some of which are purely scholarly, others involving cultural resource management work. On February 25, many of these researchers converged on Crow Canyon to share the results of their work at a popular event: the Big MACC (Big Meeting at Crow Canyon). Crow Canyon partnered with Woods Canyon Archaeological Consultants, Inc., to host the biannual meeting.
The conference, originally called the San Juan River Basin Working Group, was first organized in 1991 for the purpose of bringing together professional archaeologists from the Four Corners area to share information on current archaeological projects and research findings.
At the 1991 gathering, 37 participants elected to rename the event and meet every other year as a complement to the Pecos Conference, an annual meeting initiated in 1927 by A.V. Kidder. Unlike the Pecos Conference, at which archaeologists primarily report on their recent fieldwork, the Big MACC gives presenters the opportunity to broaden the scope of the discussion to include field, laboratory, and synthetic studies.
Approximately 100 people attended this year’s event. Twenty-four attendees presented talks ranging from Basketmaker Pottery Motifs to Pueblo III Sandal Imagery, and Crow Canyon archaeologists discussed their work on the Basketmaker time period. Jane Dillard, who has graciously allowed the Center to excavate on her property as part of the Basketmaker Communities Project, presented “The Dillard Site from the Dillard View.”
Crow Canyon continues to recognize the importance of information-sharing with other professionals in the Southwest, and we always look forward to learning more about the rich cultural history of the Four Corners area. Thanks to everyone who attended this year’s event!
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