SOUTHWEST SEMINARS | Empires of Gold: Incas, Aztecs and Tibet

Presented by: Dr. Mark S. Aldenderfer

SPECIAL NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail

Archaeologist and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California-Merced; Editor, Co-Editor or Author of 10 books, including Montagne Foragers; Editor, Current Anthropology; Co-Editor, Science Advances; 100 articles & book chapters in anthropological journals. Mark studies comparative analysis of high altitude cultural and biological adaptations from an archaeological perspective while working on the 3 high elevation plateaus on Earth. Ongoing interdisciplinary team research (including specialists in ancient DNA, human genomics, protoeomics, textile/fiber & metallurgical analysts, historians, Tibetologists, & alpinists) aims to discover when the High Himalayas were first occupied by humans, a project in part supported by National Geographic & featured in the pages of its magazine; Documentary films: ‘Cave People of the Himalayas’, ‘Secrets of the Sky Tombs’, ‘Secrets of the Sky Caves’