Kathleen Fiero
Kathy Fiero grew
up in northern California picking prunes and milking cows.
Berkeley in the ‘60s was eye-opening, but she managed to graduate
with a BA.
She became an anthropologist at the University of Arizona, graduating
with an MA.
She spent years following her husband from Flagstaff to Santa Fe,
Denver to Mesa Verde.
Holding jobs as diverse as museum tech, community college instructor,
and field archaeologist,
she worked for the Museum of Northern Arizona, the Laboratory of Anthropology,
the Colorado Department of Transportation and the National Park Service.
At Mesa Verde she was a seasonal archaeologist in the Division of
Resources for four seasons,
and then a permanent employee supervising the stabilization crew for
16 years.
Just before retiring she worked two seasons at Bandelier National
Monument documenting Pueblo architecture.
She and her husband now live in Santa Fe and find the city very exciting,
but at the same time
they pine for the clear air and skies of Mesa Verde. She has written
numerous technical reports on excavation
and stabilization projects but is most proud of the recently published
book, Balcony House: A History of a Cliff Dwelling.
Dirt,
Water, Stone:
A Century of Preserving Mesa Verde
Kathleen
Fiero
