Matthew F. Schmader

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Matthew F. Schmader has been conducting archaeological research in central New Mexico for more than forty years. He has conducted research on sites of every major cultural time period in New Mexico and served as the Albuquerque City Archaeologist for ten years. He is currently an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

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Books by Matthew F. Schmader

Uncovering America's First War

Contact, Conflict, and Coronado's Expedition to the Rio Grande

By Matthew F. Schmader

Afterword by Theodore S. Jojola / Foreword by Richard Flint and Flint Cushing Shirley

Winner of the 2026 Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez award from the Historical Society of New Mexico

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