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Paul F. Reed

New Mexico State Director & Preservation Archaeologist
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Paul Reed has been a Preservation Archaeologist with Archaeology Southwest since 2001. He is currently based near Taos, New Mexico. Reed works extensively with southwestern Pueblos and Tribes to protect landscapes and elevate Indigenous voices.

In 2022, Reed and award-winning filmmaker David Wallace produced a short documentary film: Protecting Chaco’s 10-mile Zone. The film was awarded a Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter regional Emmy in Nov. 2023. Reed’s recent writing is an edited book (with Gary M. Brown as co-editor) entitled Aztec, Salmon, and the Pueblo Heartland of the Middle San Juan, published in SAR Press’s Popular Series in 2018. The book was winner of the New Mexico-Arizona book club award for Anthropology/Archaeology for 2019. Reed also served as editor (and author of several chapters) on Chaco’s Northern Prodigies: Salmon, Aztec, and the Ascendancy of the Middle San Juan Region After AD 1100, published by the University of Utah Press (2008). Reed was also editor (and author of several chapters) of the three-volume, comprehensive report entitled Thirty-Five Years of Archaeological Research at Salmon Ruins, New Mexico published in 2006. His other books, The Puebloan Society of Chaco Canyon (2004) and Foundations of Anasazi Culture (published in 2000; as editor and author), have explored the origins of Puebloan culture and society, and Chaco Canyon.

Over the last decade, Reed has been working to protect the Greater Chaco Landscape from the effects of expanded oil-gas development associated with fracking in the Mancos Shale formation of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Through a series of meetings and forums with Tribal leaders, public officials, various US government agencies, and New Mexico’s congressional delegation, Archaeology Southwest and its partners have focused on expanding protections to sites, traditional cultural places, and fragile landscapes in the greater San Juan Basin.

 

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