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San Juan Basin Archaeological Society offers talk about how Puebloans used plants

FILE - This June 22, 2016, file photo, shows the "House on Fire" ruins in Mule Canyon, near Blanding, Utah. Bears Ears in Southeastern Utah made The National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2016 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, an annual list that spotlights important examples of the nation’s architectural and cultural heritage that are at risk of destruction or irreparable damage. "House on Fire" is located within The 1.9 million-acre Bears Ears cultural landscape. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, in the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive.

A social will start at 6:30 p.m., and Connie Massingale will give a presentation, “Utilization of Plants by Puebloan Peoples” and “Provenience: A Sense of Origins,” at 7 p.m.

Massingale will speak about plant uses of the Puebloans at what is now Bears Ears National Monument. A business meeting will be held after her presentation. The event is free and open to all.

For more information, visit www.sjbas.org.