Those close to Ana Steffen say she formed an everlasting bond from the moment she stepped foot in Valles Caldera in 2000.
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Lekson, curator of anthropology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, gives a talk titled “Mimbres: From Whence It Came and Whither It Went” on Monday, Jan. 27, at Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta.
Go find a long chunk of stone, hang it from a tree or a viga and strike it with another stone. Will it ring like a bell? It is perhaps hard to imagine, but stone bells used by Pueblo peoples in their underground kiva chambers 600 years ago were “amazingly resonant,” archaeologist Emily Brown said.
At one time, about 600 years ago, there were a lot of people living on the Pajarito Plateau, many of them on land that today is within the bor…