Mohave Desert Archaeology Lecture with Dr. Roth

Join us in Rhode Island Hall, Room108 at Brown University on April 23, 2026 at 5:30 PM for a talk on the archaeology of the Mohave Desert with Dr. Roth.

Dr. Barbara Roth is Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. Dr. Roth has conducted fieldwork in the Southwest US, Mojave Desert, and France. Her research focuses on the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, the social changes (including household organization and gender roles) associated with increasing sedentism, and the role of ritual in community integration in the Mimbres Mogollon region of southwestern New Mexico. She has directed excavations at several pithouse sites and a large Classic period pueblo in the Mimbres region, and more recently has been working in the Mojave Desert examining past hunter-gatherer land use.

This lecture offers an opportunity to learn more about the region’s past and to engage in discussion following the talk.

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