FREE Lecture: “The Chaco Culture”

Name: FREE Lecture: “The Chaco Culture”
Start: 2025-08-22T18:00:00-06:00
Location: 434 Lewis St, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147-7508, United States

Schedule

Fri, 22 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

434 Lewis St, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147-7508, United States | Pagosa Springs, CO

The Chaco Culture – Its Influence, Outliers, and Decline Friday, August 22 at 6:00 PM
Join Tori Myers, Executive Director of the Salmon Ruins Museum, as she delves into the geographic and cultural reach of the Chacoan world. Myers will discuss the intricate network of outlier communities such as Chimney Rock, as well as the social, religious, and linguistic ties that bound them to Chaco Canyon. Her work emphasizes both scientific archaeology and the storytelling power of artifacts and cultural memory.
6:00 PM, at the United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall located at 434 Lewis St., Pagosa Springs, Co., 81147. Doors will open at 5:45 PM.
Admission is free. This series offers a rare opportunity to hear from some of the region’s most respected voices in Southwestern archaeology and to deepen your understanding of one of North America’s most fascinating ancient cultures.

The lectures are free. Donations are welcome. Canned goods for the church's food pantry are greatly appreciated.
Thanks to LPEA for the Round Up Foundation Grant Award. This support helps fund our free lecture series, sharing Chimney Rock National Monument’s cultural and natural significance.
CRIA’s free Lecture Series offers the opportunity each year for the public and CRIA volunteers to enjoy a speaker whose topic typically relates to southwest archaeology, archaeoastronomy and/or Chacoan culture.
CRIA is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers interpretive programs at Chimney Rock National Monument in partnership with the USDA Forest Service and the San Juan National Forest. For more information see the CRIA website at www.chimneyrockco.org or call (970) 731-7133.