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anthropologist, historian, teacher, preservationist

Pete is a anthropologist, historian, preservation planner, and teacher whose 37-year professional career has focused on the archaeology, history, and traditions of southern New Mexico. He has authored monographs, research reports, and plans in prehistoric and historic archaeology; rural historic architecture; Cold War architecture military history; and oral history. He has developed graduate and undergraduate courses and a teacher's manual in historic preservation for distribution to New Mexico colleges and universities, and pioneered interactive TV classes in heritage education. Pete teaches anthropology, historic preservation, history and philosophy of science, and Native American studies at New Mexico State University, Alamogordo and is a certified instructor for the New Mexico Intrigue of the Past program.

Pete is an artist as well as a scientist. He enjoys working in a variety of media, from cloth to stone, and currently carves highly detailed prehistoric motifs in catlinite, or pipestone and serpentine. Pete's professional activities often include graphic arts, book design, technical illustration, and computer graphics.