Shelby Tisdale, director of the Center of Southwest Studies, will present a lecture, “Marjorie F. Lambert: Pioneering Southwest Archaeologist,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.
A social gathering will begin at 6:30 p.m. The event is sponsored the San Juan Basin Archaeological Society.
In a career spanning more than six decades, Marjorie Ferguson Lambert left her imprint on the anthropology, archaeology and history of the Southwest. She studied the past human presence on the landscape of the Southwest, as well as the preservation of the arts and cultures of living Native American and Hispano people of New Mexico.
Lambert became a professional archaeologist and museum curator at a time when there were few women establishing careers in either profession. As an archaeologist, she questioned the excavation techniques of the day and developed new ways of viewing the prehistory and history of the American Southwest. She was a pioneer of ethnoarchaeology.
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