• View of Spruce Tree House from overlook

    Mesa Verde

    National Park Colorado

2013 Four Corners Lecture Series

Knowing the Greater Southwest, 2013 Four Corners Lecture Series

The Four Corners Lecture Series is an annual program sponsored by Fort Lewis College's Office of the President, Department of Anthropology & Center of Southwest Studies; Anasazi Heritage Center, Bureau of Land Management; Crow Canyon Archaeological Center; Mesa Verde National Park; Mesa Verde Museum Association; and Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society; ARAMARK/Mesa Verde Company; and KSJD Dryland Community Radio.

Each year the partnering organizations develop a theme for lectures to be given year-round in various locations in the Four Corners area. The 2013 theme is "Knowing the Greater Southwest." The lectures are free and open to the public.

For this year's schedule of presentations, download and print a copy of the 2013 Four Corners Lecture Series poster (pdf, 250 kb).

Did You Know?

View of mesas

The Ancestral Puebloans inhabited Mesa Verde for more than 700 years (550 A.D. to 1300 A.D.), but for the first six centuries, they primarily lived on the mesa tops. It was not until the final 75 to 100 years that they constructed and lived in the cliff dwellings for which Mesa Verde is known.