Our February Meeting is
Monday, April 16, 2012

Courtyard by Marriott
 3347 Cerrillos Road

Social Hour:         6:00 PM
Dinner: ($27.50)   6:30 PM
Lecture:                7:30 PM

AIA Speaker:
David Lee
Coordinator for CA Archaeological Site Stewardship
Subject: “Closer Than We Think - Rock Art of Australia”

Lecture Details

Read the August 2011 Membership Newsletter

The Santa Fe Archaeological Society (SFAS), founded in 1900, is one of the oldest archaeological societies in North America. It became a chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) in 1916, and remains the only AIA chapter in New Mexico.

The purpose of the SFAS is "to promote archaeological research, to stimulate the love of art, and to contribute to the higher culture of the Southwest".

During its first century, the chapter has gone from being combined with the state archeological society, to being an adjunct with the Museum of New Mexico, and then coupled with the School of American Research. It became a separate organization in 1971 and boasts a membership that is widely traveled in world archaeology.

Mr Zoll is a former Chicago information officer for 35 years, retired with his wife to Sedona in 2004. He soon developed an interest in archeology that blossomed into a passion, especially in the area of archaeoastronomy. His volunteer work with Friends of the Forest and his work as a docent at the V-V Heritage Site southeast of Sedona led to some intriguing observations about the petroglyphs there. Eventually, Mr. Zoll’s research was published in a book, Sinagua Sunwatchers. Though countless hours have been amassed in locating and studying possible archaeoastronomy sites, he still finds time to be president of the local chapter of the Arizona Archeological Society.

Ken Zoll is the Treasurer of the Verde Valley Archaeology Center in Camp Verde, Arizona. He is the past President of the Verde Valley Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society in Sedona (2008-2011) and is a site steward with the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office. Ken is also a volunteer docent at the cultural heritage sites in the Red Rock District of the Coconino National Forest. 

Ken is foremost a researcher in ancient astronomy for the Coconino National Forest, and is the co-founder of the Conference on Archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest, recently held at the University of New Mexico. Ken has authored several articles on his archaeoastronomy fieldwork and has published his discoveries of the V Bar V Heritage Site in Sinagua Sunwatchers: An Archaeoastronomy Survey of the Sacred Mountain Basin.