VOYAGER LECTURE SERIES

First Peoples and Ancestral Puebloan Culture

With Diana Hawks

Tuesday, December 3, 7:30pm

Social Hour begins at 6:30pm

The Lorraine Boccardo Theater

For more than 2,000 years the Ancestral Puebloan people lived and thrived in the northern part of the Southwestern U.S. Learn about how they and their predecessors survived and adapted to changing environmental conditions. And how the Ancestral Puebloan succeeded as farmers and village dwellers in an arid desert until AD 1300. Find out where they went after AD 1250 and why they abandoned this area completely.

This year’s Voyager Lecture Series follows “The History of This Land,” from the deep time studied in geology, through modern concerns related to our changing environment. 

Diana Hawks has an associate’s degree in Geology from Ricks College and BS and MA degrees
from Brigham Young University specializing in Southwestern and Mesoamerican (Mayan)
archaeology. In 1975 she started working as an archaeologist for private companies and then in
1989 she was hired by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as an archaeologist. She retired
in 2016 from the Arizona Strip District of the BLM as the Team Lead for Recreation, Wilderness
and Cultural Resources. In retirement she works part-time for Road Scholar as an educator on
bus tours to the national and state parks of southern Utah and northern Arizona (Utah’s Grand
Circle). She also volunteers as an instructor for archaeology and exploring classes with the
Institute for Continued Learning (ICL) at Utah Tech University.