Dan Simplicio

Zuni Pueblo tribal member, silversmith and fetish carver Dan Simplicio is Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s cultural specialist. Simplicio’s work focuses on education, consulting with museums on exhibits and collections and teaching the Zuni language, history, culture and cosmology. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork throughout the Southwest and worked as a cultural resource specialist for the Zuni Historic Preservation Office. He has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of New Mexico.