Silver City, NM – Somewhere Between Indiana Jones and Bones is the title for the first in a series of Museum Nights offered by the Western New Mexico University Museum. Katie Baustian, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, will present a talk on the subject of bioarchaeology and contributions to Mimbres research on Wednesday, March 19, at 5:30 p.m. in Fleming Hall.
Baustian is conducting non-destructive analysis of the NAN Ranch Collection housed at the WNMU Museum as part of her Ph.D. studies at UNLV. Her focus is biorchaeology, an interdisciplinary approach to understanding human health and activity in ancient times. In this form of archaeology, ancient bones from humans are analyzed along with where they are found in order to reconstruct how people in the past lived and died.
The talk will highlight the kinds of information that are capable from prehistoric human burials and will also address contributions that can be made to Mimbres studies.
A reception will follow the lecture. The presentation is sponsored by the WNMU Museum, Associated Students of WNMU, The Town of Silver City, Ross Hinton, David and Margaret Ann (Hinton) Hampton, Richard and June Rhoades, and Dr. Harry J. and Dr. Molly Shafer.
Western New Mexico University has served the people of the state of New Mexico and its surrounding areas as a comprehensive, regional, rural, public coeducational university since 1893 and serves a student body diverse in age, culture, language and ethnic background.