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Remembering Gwinn Vivian
Some Online Resources
Upcoming Activities
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Mission and Support
Opt-Out Options
REMEMBERING GWINN VIVIAN
Dr. Richard Gwinnet Vivian – “Gwinn” to most everyone who knew him –
passed away this month after a long, distinguished, and respected career in
southwestern archaeology. The son of R. Gordon Vivian and Myrtle Vivian,
Gwinn was associated with Chaco Canyon archaeology for his whole life and
with the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona (ASM) for much of his
professional career. His love for the Chaco culture was inspired by his
father, who directed the ruins stabilization there prior to the 1970s and
reared Gwinn from age one in Chaco Canyon.
Gwinn went on to receive his BA and MA in anthropology from the
University of New Mexico in 1957 and 1960, respectively, and, upon
completing his dissertation, Aspects of Prehistoric Society in Chaco Canyon,
New Mexico, was awarded his PhD in anthropology from the University of
Arizona in 1970. That same that year he was hired as a staff archaeologist
by ASM, and eventually became ASM’s Associate Director and Curator of
Archaeology for Public Programs, authoring many publications along the way.
Among his important contributions at ASM before he retired in 1999 was his
work with leaders of Indian communities and Arizona lawmakers to develop new
rules and regulations for the 1990-revised Arizona Antiquity Act. For many
years after he retired, Gwinn continued to share his deep knowledge of Chaco
and southwestern archaeology, leading tours, giving lectures, and
participating in education programs throughout the Southwest. Videos of many
of his presentations can be found on Youtube.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center gratefully acknowledges Gwinn’s
contributions to southwestern archaeology and to our organization. He served
on Old Pueblo’s Board of Directors from January 1997 through January 2000,
and as our President for the latter two years of his term on the Board.
SOME ONLINE RESOURCES
Check out some of these online resources about archaeology, history,
and cultures that you can indulge in at any time! (Other upcoming online
offerings that are scheduled for specific days and times are listed
sequentially by date below under the UPCOMING ACTIVITIES heading.)
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES heading.)
* Crow Canyon Archaeological Center has posted the video of
archaeologist Patricia Crown’s recent presentation, The House of the
Cylinder Jars: Room 28 in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon:
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeiaCdm5v3cyVWL-n6qVBQ>
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeiaCdm5v3cyVWL-n6qVBQ.
* Pueblo Grande Museum & Archaeological Park (Phoenix) has created
several online exhibits highlighting the Museum’s extensive collections and
history:
<http://www.phoenix.gov/parks/arts-culture-history/pueblo-grande/exhibits/up
coming-exhibits>
www.phoenix.gov/parks/arts-culture-history/pueblo-grande/exhibits/upcoming-e
xhibits.
* The Texas Historical Commission has posted a video of archaeologist
Dr. Michael R. Waters’s presentation The First Americans and the Debra L.
Friedkin Site, Texas that discusses the Debra L. Friedkin and Gault sites,
two of the earliest archaeological sites in North America, along Buttermilk
Creek in central Texas: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RFT7kcKt_g>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RFT7kcKt_g.
* UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA offers a video of
Justin Dunnavant’s and Darartu Mulugeta’s presentation Archaeology in the
Popular Black Press: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_AVYFfTGtA.>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_AVYFfTGtA.
You can view these in the comfort of your home or office!
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
These listings include announcements about activities offered by Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center and other organizations interested in archaeology,
history and cultures. For activities marked “This is not an Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center event” the information may be out of date – Readers are
advised to confirm dates, times, and details with the organizers of those
activities.
Time zones are specified in these listings only for online activities.
Each in-person activity listed is in the time zone of its location.
Wednesday April 20, 2022: Tucson
“World Premiere of Canyon del Muerto” at the Fox Theatre, 7 W.
Congress St., Tucson*
7:30 p.m. $15.
The Arizona International Film Festival will feature the world
premiere of Canyon del Muerto about the life of Ann Axtell Morris, North
America’s first female archaeologist, on opening night at the 30th Arizona
International Film Festival. Morris worked side by side with the Navajo in
the 1920s in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, to uncover Basketmaker sites of the
Ancestral Pueblo culture. A central premise of the story is that archaeology
not only preserves and interprets history and culture but is a unifier of
humankind. Canyon del Muerto was produced in 2021 by First Line Films and
the Navajo Nation during the COVID 19 pandemic with support of multiple
Navajo Nation chapters, businesses, and land users based in and around
Canyon de Chelly and New Mexico’s Red Rock National Monument. The Navajo
Nation provided exclusive and unprecedented access to many Canyon de Chelly
archaeological sites that have never been filmed previously.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <https://foxtucson.com/event/az-film-fest/>
https://foxtucson.com/event/az-film-fest/.
Thursday April 21, 2022: Online
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “The Mimbres Twins and the
Rabbit in the Moon” presentation by archaeologist Marc Thompson, PhD
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). Free
This presentation documents illustrations from Classic Mimbres
Black-on-white ceramic bowls (1000-1130 CE) depicting the Panamerican
apologue of the Hero Twins saga. These motifs account for about 12% of
Mimbres figurative bowls and can be arranged in a narrative sequence from
birth, trials, tests, death, and resurrection of the Hero Twins, to
apotheosis as the sun and the moon. In this saga, the Hero Twins survive the
tests, trials, and ballgame challenge through guile, cunning feats, and as
tricksters of legerdemain. This tale, the characters, and the basic plot are
known throughout North, Central, and South America. The deep, fundamental
basis of the story revolves around dualities as in two sides of the same
coin; they include life and death, dark and light, and male and female.
Cognate Hero Twins motifs, both graphic and recorded, are documented on
Classic Maya ceramics (200-900 CE), in the 16th century Twins’ saga of the
Popol Vuh book of the Maya, and in US southwestern traditional tales.
Comparing these similar, but ethnically distinct accounts allows for a
fuller comprehension of these emblematic, evocative, heroic figures.
To register go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6KGzbimQRiKFQeCfagnl3A>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6KGzbimQRiKFQeCfagnl3A. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos
about the above-listed activity send an email to
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] with “Send April Third
Thursday flyer” in your email subject line.
Saturday April 23, 2022: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Vaquero Shelter and Painted Shelter Rock Art
Sites” with archaeologist Vicky Roberts meets at Shumla Archaeological
Research & Education Center (sponsoring organization), 28 Langtry St.,
Comstock, Texas*
8 a.m.-2 p.m. $160.
Vaquero Shelter gets its name for the Historic period rock art depicting
two riders mounted on horseback with a longhorn cow and calf, adjacent to a
structure resembling a Spanish mission and a man in a Spanish uniform. Other
rock art styles are present denoting continued use throughout precontact
times. Painted Shelter is located near a spring-fed stream that runs in
front of the rock art panel and creates several long pools through the site.
Painted Shelter is home to the best-preserved examples of the Red Monochrome
style rock art, as well as remnant Pecos River style murals.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to
<file:///C:/Users/Allen/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Ou
tlook/T121CB56/www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For
more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturdays April 23 and 30, 2022: Southeastern AZ
“River History Walks” sponsored by Friends of the San Pedro
River in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (SPRNCA), Cochise
County, AZ*
9 a.m. each Saturday. Free.
The Friends of the San Pedro River History Walks in the San
Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area have resumed. Next walks scheduled
include:
• April 23, Clanton Ranch historic site.
• Saturday, April 30, San Pedro House exhibits and shop featuring large
selection of natural history books and nature themed items.
* These are not Old Pueblo Archaeology Center events. For
reservations email <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
For more information call 520-459-2555 or visit
<http://www.facebook.com/fspraz> www.facebook.com/fspraz.
Saturday April 23, 2022: Online
“T-A:ga (Our Story): An Introduction to the Culture and History
of the Tohono O'odham” free online presentation by Bernard G. Siquieros
sponsored by the Amerind Museum, Dragoon, Arizona*
11 a.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
In this illustrated talk, Bernard Siquieros will speak about the
O’odham – their land, language, history, food, and way of life – all
encompassed by the O’odham word himdag. You will learn about the traditional
territorial extent of the O’odham and the many ways that their himdag and
O’odham traditional lands in the Sonoran Desert are forever intertwined.
Bernard Siquieros, now retired, is a Tohono O’odham Nation community member.
In his long career, he has been a teacher, a coach, head of the Tohono
O’odham Nation’s Education Department, a Smithsonian National Museum of the
American Indian Community Curator, and a founder and Curator of Education at
the Tohono O’odham Nation’s Himdag Ki: Cultural Center and Museum. He is now
a trustee with Tohono O’odham Community College.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Y-5H5zz2Q9-tZcAAv0vb2w>
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Y-5H5zz2Q9-tZcAAv0vb2w.
Saturday April 23, 2022: Online
“The Enduring Legacies of Old Spanish Law and Water Rights in
the American Southwest” online presentation by Michael Brescia, PhD,
sponsored by the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum*
7 p.m. $5.
Since the mid-1800s, two international treaties have obliged the
United States to protect the property rights of Mexicans and Native
Americans living in a region of North America that once belonged to Mexico.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase provide important
constitutional guarantees that often have proven difficult to fulfill.
Historian Michael Brescia will explain the difficult historical and legal
issues involved in certain disputes over natural resources throughout the
American Southwest, while interspersing stories from his archival and field
research that highlight the intimate connections between individuals, their
communities, and the enduring impact of Spanish colonialism and U.S.
expansionism on North America.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event.
Pre-register at
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/calendar/salon-saloon-lecture-series-the-endurin
g-legacies-of-old-spanish-law-and-water-rights-in-the-american-southwest/>
https://tucsonpresidio.com/calendar/salon-saloon-lecture-series-the-enduring
-legacies-of-old-spanish-law-and-water-rights-in-the-american-southwest/.
Sunday April 24, 2022: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Fate Bell Shelter, Fate Bell Annex, and Running
Horse Rock Art Sites” with archaeologist Vicky Roberts sponsored by Shumla
Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Seminole Canyon State
Park & Historic Site on US-90 nine miles west of Comstock, Texas*
8 a.m.-3 p.m. $160.
Fate Bell Annex, Fate Bell Shelter, and Running Horse Shelter are all
situated in Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site. Fate Bell and Fate
Bell Annex are two of the most famous Pecos River style rock art sites in
the Lower Pecos Canyonlands with breath-taking rock art and extremely
well-preserved deposits. Running Horse Shelter offers beautiful remnant
Pecos River style rock art, intriguing Historic period art, and even a
historic stone wall. You’ll hear about the rock art, the lifeways of the
people who painted it, and Shumla’s most recent discoveries, and will see
4,000 years of history in this single day.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to
<file:///C:/Users/Allen/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Ou
tlook/T121CB56/www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For
more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Sunday April 24, 2022: Tucson
“Downtown Public Art Walking Tour” starting at Presidio San
Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
April 24, 9-11 a.m. $20 ($15 for Presidio Museum members). $5
adults, $1 ages 6-14, 5 & under Free.
Expert local tour guide Dorothy Yanez leads this tour to many
locations of Tucson’s public art, some of which are almost hidden if you
aren't looking in the right place.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Click here
to register:
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=2347&qid=465062> Sunday,
April 24, 9-11 am. For more information contact the Tucson Presidio Museum
at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Sunday April 24, 2022: Evanston, IL, and online
“The Pueblo III to IV Transition in the American Southwest” free
presentation with archaeologist Vincent M. LaMotta, PhD, sponsored by the
Chicago Archaeological Society, online via Zoom and live at the Evanston
Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., Evanston, Illinois*
3:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time. Free.
The 13th and 14th centuries encompassed a period of
environmental, demographic, and social upheaval in the northern American
Southwest. In this talk, Vincent M. LaMotta explores archaeological
perspectives on the Pueblo communities that emerged in this period, focusing
in particular on how archaeologists have reconstructed changes occurring
within them. Dr. LaMotta is on faculty at University of Illinois-Chicago.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To join
the meeting online go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84153364373?pwd=emF5MUtMM3Y3M3JFVm9WRHN2Wm9xdz09>
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84153364373?pwd=emF5MUtMM3Y3M3JFVm9WRHN2Wm9xdz09
Tuesday April 26, 2022: Online
“Arizona’s Vintage Signs: Lighting the Future” free online
presentation with historian Marshall Shore sponsored by Arizona Humanities,
Phoenix, and the Surprise Art and Culture Commission, Surprise, Arizona*
11 a.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Arizona has become a hotbed of preserving vintage signage and
neon. No wonder, with the rise of Arizona and automobile travel in the 40s,
50s and 60s. Thousands of people were traversing the broad expanses of
highways and byways across the Southwest. As the cars sped past,
restaurants, motels, curio shops and gas stations needed large, bright signs
to make an impression. This informative and entertaining visual presentation
explores the social significance of the rise of commercial neon signs,
references designers whose signs became iconic, and identifies efforts to
save our signage history. Arizona’s “Hip Historian” Marshall Shore’s passion
is uncovering the weird, the wonderful, and the obscure treasures from our
past: the semiforgotten people, places, and events that have made us who we
are today.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wp180v-bQrGjZu2bXledIw>
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wp180v-bQrGjZu2bXledIw.
Tuesday April 26, 2022: Online
“Oaxacan Mezcal in the Global Craft Economy” free online
presentation by. Ronda Brulotte, PhD, sponsored by the Arizona State Museum
(ASM), University of Arizona, Tucson*
6-7 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Not only is mezcal Oaxaca’s fastest-growing rural industry, it
connects the region to an emergent network of producers, brokers, and
consumers across the US- Mexico border and beyond. Mezcal may be joining
more well-known foods of Mexican origin commonplace in U.S. markets (corn,
chile, chocolate), but its popularity is distinctly tied to the creation of
a new class of global food consumers who prize mezcal as craft within the
artisanal food movement. At the same time, its growing popularity is
spurring questions about the sustainability of the industry. In this
presentation Dr. Ronda Brulotte, University of New Mexico Associate
Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies and Associate Director for
Academic Programs at the Latin American and Iberian Institute at UNM,
explores Oaxacan mezcal as a newcomer to the global market. This program is
held in conjunction with ASM’s exhibit Wrapped in Color: Legacies of the
Mexican Sarape showing through July 2022.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to
<https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/oaxacan-mezcal-economy>
https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/oaxacan-mezcal-economy.
April 27, 2022: Online
“Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces” free Zoom
presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Friends of Ironwood Forest
(FOIF), Tucson.
6-7 p.m. Free.
Native Americans in the U.S. Southwest developed sophisticated
skills in astronomy and predicting the seasons, centuries before non-Indian
peoples entered the region. In this presentation archaeologist Allen Dart
discusses the petroglyphs at Picture Rocks, the architecture of the “Great
House” at Arizona's Casa Grande Ruins, and other archaeological evidence of
ancient southwestern astronomy and calendrical reckoning, and interprets how
these discoveries may have related to ancient Native American rituals. This
program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F68pr-YMR06H_UbzKr7D9g>
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F68pr-YMR06H_UbzKr7D9g. For
information about FOIF visit <https://ironwoodforest.org/>
https://ironwoodforest.org/.
Thursday April 28, 2022: Online
“Vigango, Ancestors, Sacred Objects, and Informed Consent: 15
Years of Restorative Justice at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science” free
online Waystation Program presentation by archaeologist Stephen E. Nash,
PhD, sponsored by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California,
Los Angeles*
12-1 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Free (donations requested).
During the last two decades, increasing awareness of the
frequently illicit origin of archaeological objects has resulted in changes
to acquisition policies in American museums. In addition, many museums are
re-evaluating the ethics of collecting and working with indigenous
communities to return or reinterpret sensitive cultural heritage. For more
than 15 years, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science has taken a leadership
role in repatriation and international returns by going above and beyond the
letter of the law(s), using the principles of justice, dialogue,
reciprocity, and respect to guide their activities. This talk examines the
museum’s success, and occasional failure, through a series of case studies:
the return of 30 vigango (ancestral grave posts) to the Mijikenda tribes of
coastal Kenya, and shrunken heads to the Shuar-speaking peoples of Ecuador;
the reburial of non-Native human remains in Crestone, Colorado; and the
repatriation of Native American ancestors to numerous Tribal Nations in the
US. Steve Nash, Director of Anthropology and the Avenir Conservation Center
at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, is an archaeologist, columnist,
and historian of science.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to
<https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkdOCgpj0pH9dFx-uy6KBboB4v-D9c9loc>
https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkdOCgpj0pH9dFx-uy6KBboB4v-D9c9loc.
Friday-Saturday April 29-30, 2022: Tucson
“Agave Heritage Festival” free activities sponsored by Friends
of Tucson’s Birthplace at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. each day. Free (donations requested).
In this two-day event, Friday features preparing agaves for
roasting, firing up of the roasting pit, and sealing the agave hearts in to
cook. There will be information tables, activities for kids, and a plant
sale (including plants from Borderlands Restoration Network that you can
pre-order), and researchers and authors Paul and Suzy Fish, Gary Nabhan,
Martha Burgess, Greg Starr, and others will give talks about agave. On
Saturday, come for three panel sessions on bat pollination and conservation,
regenerative agave agriculture, and agave spirits, plus amazing agave-themed
delicacies, agave-themed art exhibits, a plant sale, and experts at
information tables.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information and schedule of events go to
<https://www.missiongarden.org/events> https://www.missiongarden.org/events
or call 520-955-5200.
Saturday April 30, 2022: Dragoon, AZ
“Free Outdoor Movie Screening of 3:10 to Yuma (1957)” Loft Film
Fest on the Road event at the Amerind Museum, 2100 N. Amerind Rd., Dragoon,
Arizona*
7 p.m. Free.
Get ready for a fun-filled evening at Amerind with The Loft
Cinema. Beginning at 4 p.m. Amerind will offer free admission to the Museum,
with extended hours to 6 p.m. Then at 7 p.m. grab a chair and a bag of
popcorn for a screening of 3:10 to Yuma (1957) starring Glenn Ford, Van
Heflin, and Felicia Farr. The film features scenes shot in Texas Canyon,
including the Amerind Museum campus, as well as other locations throughout
Arizona.
Prior to the movie, check out Amerind’s “Through the Lens of
Navajo Photographer Priscilla Tacheney” photographs exhibit, showing through
April 30. A member of the Navajo Nation, Priscilla Tacheney is a Southwest
landscape and portrait photographer who has traveled to many scenic areas
across the Southwest looking to capture the beauty of Mother Earth and
Father Sky. Through the lens of her camera, she sees and captures the beauty
of the landscape and feels a connection with Nature’s subjects and its
energy.
During the Museum’s extended hours prior to the film viewing,
the Amerind Museum Store will offer 10% off merchandise (including Priscilla
Tacheney Exhibit Photographs) to nonmembers and 20% off to Amerind members.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <http://www.amerind.org/events> www.amerind.org/events or
contact Amerind at 520-586-3666 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Sunday May 1, 2022: Tucson
“Agave Expo Night: Opening the Roasting Pit & Mezcal Tastings,
Mingle with Mezcaleros, Food and Music” sponsored by La Luna Mezcal and
Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane,
Tucson*
6-8:30 p.m. $75 (includes 2 drinks (neat pour of mezcal
expression and mezcal cocktail with Mission Garden infusion) and food (small
bites).
Following up on Mission Garden’s April 29-30 Agave Heritage
Festival days, this Sunday evening event that benefits Mission Garden
celebrates the opening of the agave roasting pit and tasting the smoky
sweet, caramelized penca and biguata (roasted agave leaves and heart). The
evening includes talks, demonstrations, and music with Jesus Garcia
(Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum), Sal Picazo Chavez (La Luna), Eduardo Costa
(flamenco and classical guitar), cultivators, agave experts, assorted La
Luna Mezcal spirits and cocktails paired with delicious local food prepared
by Exo Roast, and – Oh Yeah – opening the roasting pit and sampling roasted
agave.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <http://www.tucsonsbirthplace.org>
www.tucsonsbirthplace.org or call 520-955-5200.
Tuesday May 3, 2022: Online
“Birds of the Sun: Macaws, Parrots, and People” free Archaeology
Café online lecture by Christopher W. Schwartz (Arizona State University),
Patricia A. Gilman (University of Oklahoma) and Stephen Plog sponsored by
Archaeology Southwest (ASW), Tucson*
6 to 7 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Macaws and parrots are colorful birds generally native to areas
south of the US-Mexico border, but they are present in numerous
archaeological sites in Arizona and New Mexico as well as at the very large
site of Paquimé just south of the border in Chihuahua. Archaeologists have
paid too little attention to these birds except to highlight the existence
and possible importance of interactions between the peoples of Mesoamerica
and the US Southwest and Mexican Northwest. This presentation by Christopher
W. Schwartz (Arizona State University), Patricia A. Gilman (University of
Oklahoma) and Stephen Plog (Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia) will
focus on recent detailed analyses of these birds and what we know about them
as a result.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to
<http://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/birds-of-the-sun-macaws-parrots-a
nd-people/>
www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/birds-of-the-sun-macaws-parrots-and-peopl
e/.
Tuesdays & Thursdays May 3, 5, 10, 12, and 17, 2022: Online
“‘Deus vult’ – The Religious and Material Dimensions of Violence
against the Established Order in Modern World History” online Master Class
taught by Michael Brescia, PhD, sponsored by the Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona (ASM), Tucson*
10-11:30 a.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time on each date. $150
(ASM members $100). Credit card payments incur a 3% fee.
Invoking an all-powerful deity to effect radical changes in the
social and political order has deep roots in world history. Efforts to
restore or revitalize cultural identity and promote economic security cuts
across geographical boundaries and reveals the extent to which religious
understandings of material well-being intersect and conflict with
established political power, economic systems, and accepted social norms. In
his new Master Class, Michael Brescia identifies case studies from world
history since 1600 to illustrate how individuals, families, and communities
filtered their lived experiences through a religious framework in order to
make sense of changes imposed from the outside. Resistance to such changes
often took the form of violence and rebellion, with a potent millenarian
streak that promised its adherents economic renewal, spiritual redemption,
and a new social order. Case studies include Indigenous and other rebellions
across Spanish North America. Dr. Michael M. Brescia is a curator of
ethnohistory at ASM and affiliated professor of history and law at the
University of Arizona.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to
<https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3nxVz5x2RgaQBFSLdkaEnQ>
https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3nxVz5x2RgaQBFSLdkaEnQ.
Thursday-Saturday May 5-7, 2022: Online
“Archaeological Society of New Mexico Virtual Annual Meeting”
online hosted by the Taos Archaeological Society*
Starting Thursday at 12 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Registrants
receive program and list of lecture topics; registration free with $15
donation ($30 gives access to recordings, $50 includes recordings access and
T-shirt). Early registration ends April 15.
“Taos at the Crossroads of Trade” is the theme of this year’s
ASNM event, which includes three afternoons of one-hour lectures by invited
speakers plus an online auction and awards ceremonies.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <https://taosarch.wildapricot.org/>
https://taosarch.wildapricot.org/ or contact Phil Alldritt at
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday May 7, 2022: Tucson
“Indigenous Corn Traditions at Mission Garden” free activity
sponsored by Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace at Mission Garden, 946 W.
Mission Lane, Tucson*
8 a.m. to noon. $5 per person suggested donation.
Mission Garden teams with Ajo CSA to plant and interpret O’odham
60-day corn. See a demonstration of preparing traditional ga’iwsa (chicos)
and a yummy tasting of this corn dish. Blue Corn Custom Designs and San
Xavier Coop Farm will be among exhibitors. This is part of a larger Pueblos
de Maíz festival happening concurrently in Tucson, San Antonio, Mérida and
Puebla, coordinated in Tucson by Tucson City of Gastronomy.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://www.missiongarden.org/events/indigenous-corn-traditions-at-mission-
garden>
https://www.missiongarden.org/events/indigenous-corn-traditions-at-mission-g
arden or call 520-955-5200.
Saturday May 7, 2021: Gallup NM
“Native American Art Auction” sponsored by Friends of Hubbell at
Gallup Community Service Center, 410 Bataan Veterans St., Gallup, New
Mexico*
9-11:30 a.m. preview, 12-5 p.m. auction. Free to browse.
Its Native American art auctions are the Friends of Hubbell
nonprofit organization’s biggest fundraising events, providing economic
assistance to the artists and community and enabling the Friends to fund a
scholarship program, the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site in its
endeavors, and other special events. The sales and auction process returns
approximately 85 cents of every dollar sold to the Native American
community, with no sales tax or entrance fees for the buyers. Generally 400+
auction items are entered.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://friendsofhubbell.org/native-american-art-auctions/>
https://friendsofhubbell.org/native-american-art-auctions/ or contact
Friends of Hubbell at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturday May 7, 2021: Florence, AZ
“First Saturday at the Museum!” free open house and activities
at the Pinal County Historical Museum, 715 S. Main St., Florence, Arizona*
11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.
Bring the entire family to the Pinal County Historical Museum on
any First Saturday of the month through June. On First Saturdays, the museum
waives admission fees to provide visitors with an affordable, educational,
and family-friendly experience. Rotating activities include a scavenger
hunt, a local geology activity, backyard bingo, desert animals, and more.
Stop by on May 7th and check out what is new at the museum and gift shop!
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact the Pinal County Historical Museum at 520-868-4382 or
[log in to unmask]
Sundays-Fridays May 8-13, 15-20, or 22-27, or May 29-June 3, 2022: South of
Flagstaff, AZ
“Buck Mountain Fire Lookout Tower, AZ” HistoriCorps and Coconino
National Forest offer volunteer-assisted rehabilitation and repair
conservation project in the forest about 50 miles south of Flagstaff,
Arizona*
Arrive Sunday evening; daylight hours Monday-Friday. No fees.
The Buck Mountain Fire Lookout Tower was built in 1939 and used
seasonally. The Ranger District no longer actively uses the lookout for
surveillance and fire prevention, and proposes to reuse it as a recreation
facility for public lodging as part of the Forest Service Arizona Cabin
Rental Program. The lookout requires maintenance and repairs to make it safe
for public use. Once the fire lookout tower is repaired and approved as a
recreational cabin rental, it will be the only historic lookout available to
the public for lodging in the Southwest region. Volunteers for this project
will camp onsite. Access to camp requires high-clearance vehicle; no RV
spaces and no hookups are available but there will be restrooms and potable
water onsite.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information or to register email <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Tuesday May 10, 2022: Online
“Indigenous Interests” free Zoom online presentation “Mapping
Yaqui History” by Anabel Galindo, PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). Free.
Dr. Anabel Galindo explores the Yaqui mobility from the late
colonial period to the early 20th century. She centers mobility as a
theoretical framework to emphasize the importance of moving away from
misconstrued notions about Indigenous peoples and their histories. Dr.
Galindo received her PhD from the University of Arizona and currently is a
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Arizona State University’s Center for
Imagination in the Borderlands as well as a history instructor for the
Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Indigenous Interests” free Zoom
webinar series provides Native American presenters with a forum for
discussing issues important to Indigenous peoples today. The series is
hosted by Martina Dawley (Hualapai-Diné), Anabel Galindo (Yaqui), and Maegan
Lopez (Tohono O’odham), all of whom are members of Old Pueblo’s board of
directors.
To register for the program go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nMPlIhxoSguZt7qPxePv3Q>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nMPlIhxoSguZt7qPxePv3Q. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos
about the above-listed activity send an email to
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] with “Send May 10 Indigenous
Interests flyer” in your email subject line.
Wednesday May 11, 2022: Online
“The Hearthstone Project: Using Archaeological Science to Study
Pictographs” free online presentation by Karen L. Steelman, PhD, for San Tan
Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, Queen Creek, Arizona*
7 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Dr. Steelman is director of the Shumla Archaeological Research &
Education Center’s 14C Plasma Oxidation Laboratory. She has a PhD in
analytical chemistry, was trained as an archaeological chemist, and is a
leading international rock art researcher.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Marie Britton at 480-390-3491 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturday May 14, 2022: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Halo Shelter and Shumla Archaeological Center
HQ” with archaeologist Vicky Roberts meets at Shumla Archaeological Research
& Education Center (sponsoring organization), 28 Langtry St., Comstock,
Texas*
8 a.m.-3 p.m. $160.
Halo Shelter sits within a small tributary that feeds into the main
branch of Dead Man’s Creek, approximately 5 km from the Devils River on a
private ranch in Val Verde County. Halo boasts one of the best-preserved
Pecos River style pictograph panels in the region. The site gets its name
from a unique arch motif with rayed lines extending from it over the top of
several figures’ heads. Along with the halo motif, there is a wide
assortment of unique Pecos River style figures and motifs intricately
executed and vibrant. Afterwards, enjoy a tour of Shumla’s research facility
and plasma oxidation laboratory.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to
<file:///C:/Users/Allen/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Ou
tlook/T121CB56/www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For
more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Monday May 16, 2022: Tucson and online
“Hechizas: A History of Looting and Ceramic Fakes in Northwest
Chihuahua” presentation, live or Zoom option, by archaeologist Fabiola E.
Silva for Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) meeting in
University of Arizona’s Environmental & Natural Resources Bldg. 2 Room 107
(ground-floor auditorium Bldg. 2 Room 107 (ground-floor auditorium), 1064 E.
Lowell St., Tucson (Park in U of A 6th St. garage for $1/hr.)*
7-8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
In the early 1970s a pottery movement inspired by precontact
Casas Grandes ceramic styles emerged in Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico. This
movement was led by the potter Juan Quezada and his patron Spencer
MacCallum. The origin story told by MacCallum and Quezada, and retold by
many others, is one filled with inspiration and chance encounters. However,
their story fails to acknowledge how looting and the creation of ceramic
fakes contributed to the development of this modern pottery movement. This
presentation will examine the emergence of ceramic fakes in northwestern
Chihuahua, establish their defining characteristics, and explore their role
in ceramic analysis. Data for this study were collected through extensive
interviews with looters, collectors, and elder potters from the region. In
addition, a ceramic replication project was conducted by elder potters
Macario Ortiz and Reynaldo Quezada in order to document the process of
making hechizas (ceramic fakes). Fabiola Silva is Cultural Resource Manager
and Tribal Liaison for Fort Bliss Military Installation.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event.
To attend online register at <https://bit.ly/2022MaySilvaREG-OP>
https://bit.ly/2022MaySilvaREG-OP. For details visit
<http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org> www.az-arch-and-hist.org or contact Fran
Maiuri at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesday-Tuesday May 18-May 24, 2020: New Mexico
“New Mexico’s El Camino Real de la Tierra Adentro Tour”
sponsored by Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, Tucson*
8 a.m. Wednesday-6ish p.m. Tuesday. $2,200 ($2,000 Presidio
Museum members) double occupancy (add $200 for single); $100 off if paid in
full by March 1.
Follow the old Spanish Royal Road of the Interior Lands for a
regional exploration into the Hispanic heritage of New Mexico in this
6-night, 7-day trip that includes overnight stops in Mesilla and Ruidoso
plus 4 overnights in Santa Fe. The tour will roughly follow El Camino Real
de la Tierra Adentro with an eastern detour to see the White Sands National
Park, Lincoln, and the Salinas Pueblo missions on the way north.
Participants will learn about and explore the Gadsden Purchase, earthen
architecture in Mesilla, the White Sands, the 17th century Salinas missions,
historic Lincoln and Billy the Kid, Santa Fe’s world-class museums and
cultural attractions, Las Trampas, Taos, Los Luceros State Historic Site,
and El Santuario de Chimayo. Trip registration includes chartered bus
transportation and guide services, admission fees to Santa Fe museums and
New Mexico cultural sites, and all breakfasts (6) and dinners (6) but not
lunches. * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/calendar/travel-new-mexicos-el-camino-real-de-la
-tierra-adentro-tour/>
https://tucsonpresidio.com/calendar/travel-new-mexicos-el-camino-real-de-la-
tierra-adentro-tour/ or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594
or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday May 19, 2022: Online
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” free
Zoom online program featuring “The Elk Ridge Community in the Mimbres Pueblo
World” presentation by archaeologist Barbara J. Roth, PhD
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). Free
Elk Ridge was the largest pueblo in the northern portion of the
Mimbres River valley during the Classic Mimbres period (1000-1130 CE).
Recent excavations at the site combined with survey data indicate that it
was part of a thriving community with social ties to other nearby pueblos
and likely served as the ritual and perhaps economic hub for these smaller
pueblos. In this presentation, Dr. Roth will discuss data from fieldwork she
directed at Elk Ridge and surrounding sites and will explore how and why Elk
Ridge played such a prominent role in this portion of the Mimbres River
Valley.
To register go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1tPSIzRPQjO30CZ5u-0sYw>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1tPSIzRPQjO30CZ5u-0sYw. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. For each Old Pueblo Zoom presentation,
we let the presenter decide whether he or she wants for the program to be
recorded and made available online. No recording decision has yet been made
for this program.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos
about the above-listed activity send an email to
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] with “Send May Third Thursday
flyer” in your email subject line.
Saturday May 21, 2022: Tucson
“San Ysidro Festival ” sponsored by Friends of Tucson’s
Birthplace at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
8 a.m. to noon. $5 per person suggested donation.
Help recreate one of Tucson's historic festivals – the spring
wheat harvest. It fell by the wayside with the decline of agriculture on the
historical floodplain of the Santa Cruz River in Tucson, Mission Garden
brings it back to life on the saint’s day for Saint Isadore, patron saint of
farmers and laborers. Watch the wheat harvested, threshed, and winnowed, and
taste the pozole de trigo.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <http://www.tucsonsbirthplace.org>
www.tucsonsbirthplace.org or call 520-955-5200.
Saturday May 21, June 18, July 16, August 20, September 17, or October 15,
2022: Tucson
“Barrio Viejo Walking Tour” starting at El Tiradito Shrine, 420
S. Main Ave., Tucson*
5:30-7 p.m. $25 ($20 Presidio Museum members).
Experience the rich history of Tucson’s Barrio Viejo (the “old
neighborhood”) by taking this one-mile walking tour with Presidio Museum
docent and board member Mauro Trejo. For over 100 years, Barrio Viejo was
the heart of Tucson’s social, economic, and cultural life. This 90-minute
tour winds through the largest collection of Sonoran row houses in the US,
in Tucson’s oldest neighborhood. Your guide will discuss the history of the
neighborhood, its architecture, and the individuals, businesses, and
cultures that met there. For an additional $10 and 30 minutes participants
can join the tour guide after the tour at the historic El Minuto Café for
conversation, a margarita (or alternative) and a cheese crisp.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <http://www.TucsonPresidio.com> www.TucsonPresidio.com or
contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesday-Saturday May 25-28, 2022: Navajo Nation, AZ
“Walking in the Beauty Way with the Diné: Canyon de Chelly &
Environs” guided tour starting in Ganado, Arizona, sponsored by Verde Valley
Archaeology Center Camp Verde, Arizona*
Wednesday-Sunday afternoons, Mountain Daylight Time. $615 (VVAC
members $550).
This four-day, three-night excursion starts at Hubbell Trading
Post, the oldest continuously operated trading post in the American
Southwest. The evening will be spent in dialogue learning from a Diné
(Navajo) Wisdom Keeper. The following day join Diné guides for a custom tour
in the enchanting landscape of Canyon de Chelly, a 26-mile canyon of 30- to
1,000-foot cliffs, one of the most beautiful places on earth. Ancestral
Pueblo people inhabited these peach-colored sandstone canyons for thousands
of years, gradually replacing their pithouse structures with ones of stone
set into overhangs. Other activities include visiting local artists and
exploring Betatakin Pueblo in Navajo National Monument. Limited to 15
people.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <https://www.verdevalleyarchaeology.org/hikes>
https://www.verdevalleyarchaeology.org/hikes or contact VVAC at 928-567-0066
or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturday May 28, 2022: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Black Cave and Vaquero Shelter Rock Art Sites”
with archaeologist Vicky Roberts sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research
& Education Center, meets at Shumla Archaeological Research Center, 28
Langtry St., Comstock, Texas*
8 a.m.-6 p.m. $160.
Black Cave is a large rockshelter within Upper Presa Canyon in
Seminole Canyon State Park that contains striking and vibrant rock art,
owing its preservation to its location high above the shelter floor (which
probably would have required the construction of scaffolding to create).
Vaquero Shelter gets its name for the Historic period rock art depicting two
riders mounted on horseback with a longhorn cow and calf adjacent to a
structure resembling a Spanish mission and a man in a Spanish uniform. Other
rock art styles are present denoting continued use throughout precontact
times.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to
<file:///C:/Users/Allen/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Ou
tlook/T121CB56/www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For
more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Sunday May 29, 2022: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Fate Bell Shelter, Fate Bell Annex, and Running
Horse Rock Art Sites” with archaeologist Vicky Roberts sponsored by Shumla
Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Seminole Canyon State
Park & Historic Site on US-90, nine miles west of Comstock, Texas*
8 a.m.-3 p.m. $160.
Fate Bell Annex, Fate Bell Shelter, and Running Horse Shelter are all
situated in Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site. Fate Bell and Fate
Bell Annex are two of the most famous Pecos River style rock art sites in
the Lower Pecos Canyonlands with breath-taking rock art and extremely
well-preserved deposits. Running Horse Shelter offers beautiful remnant
Pecos River style rock art, intriguing Historic period art, and even a
historic stone wall. You’ll hear about the rock art, the lifeways of the
people who painted it, and Shumla’s most recent discoveries, and will see
4,000 years of history in this single day.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to
<file:///C:/Users/Allen/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Ou
tlook/T121CB56/www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For
more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Monday June 6-Friday July 15, 2022: Tijeras, NM
“NMSU Archaeological Field School” sponsored by New Mexico State
University (Las Cruces) in Tijeras Canyon east of Albuquerque, New Mexico*
Times TBA. Fees include NMSU tuition for six credit hours plus
$1,200 for transportation, food, and facilities.
The primary goal of NMSU’s archaeological field schools is to
train students in field methods by participating in active, ongoing field
research programs in the Southwest. Archaeological field training is
essential for any student who hopes to gain professional employment in
archaeology but the NMSU field school is also a wonderful opportunity for
anyone who wants to learn about archaeology by participating in a real dig.
Fieldwork for this 6-week field school will take place in the Tijeras Canyon
- Cañon de Carnué area east of Albuquerque. Most of the research will focus
on the ca. 17631846 Spanish colonial and Mexican period settlement of the
Cañon de Carnué Land Grant. Field training will include pedestrian survey,
manual and digital mapping, excavation, feature documentation, artifact
processing, artifact analysis techniques, community archaeology, and
cultural resource management.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information go to
<https://anthropology.nmsu.edu/projects/field-school.html?ms=sat_email&utm_c
ampaign=sat&utm_medium=email&utm_source=aswemail&emci=651b74fb-f9a0-ec11-a22
a-281878b85110&emdi=0aebd88c-58a1-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&ceid=15100>
https://anthropology.nmsu.edu/projects/field-school.html?ms=sat_email&utm_ca
mpaign=sat&utm_medium=email&utm_source=aswemail&emci=651b74fb-f9a0-ec11-a22a
-281878b85110&emdi=0aebd88c-58a1-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&ceid=15100 or
contact Dr. Kelly Jenks at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesdays June 8-August 24, 2022: Online
“Archaeology of the Southwest” 12-session online adult education
class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. each Wednesday evening June 8 through August
24, 2022. $99 donation ($80 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona
Archaeological Society [AAS], and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum members),
not counting cost of the recommended text or of optional Arizona
Archaeological Society membership.
Archaeology of the Southwest is an introductory course that
provides a basic overview of the U.S. Southwest’s ancestral cultures. Its
twelve evening class sessions will cover cultural sequences, dating systems,
subsistence strategies, development of urbanization, depopulation of
different areas at different times, and the general characteristics of major
cultural groups that have lived in the Southwest over the past 13,000-plus
years. Besides offering an up-to-date synthesis of southwestern cultures for
anyone interested in the archaeology of the Southwest, the class is a
prerequisite for all other courses offered in the Arizona Archaeological
Society (AAS) Certification/Education Program. Instructor Allen Dart is a
registered professional archaeologist and executive director of Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center. Minimum enrollment 10 people. For information on the AAS
and its Certification program visit <http://www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603>
www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Friday June 3, whichever is earlier. To register of for more information
contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos
about the above-listed activity send an email to
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] with “Send June-August
Archaeology class flyer” in your email subject line.
Monday-Friday June 13-17 or 20-24, 2022: Tucson
“Live Tucson’s History” summer camp for ages 8-12 at Presidio
San Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. each day. $290 (Presidio Museum members
$265). Lunch and snacks are NOT provided.
Children ages 8-12 become early inhabitants of Tucson and
experience history hands-on. Camp participants will experience how people in
the Presidio lived through a series of hands-on activities that may include
blacksmithing/tinsmithing, training to be a Spanish soldier, experiencing
foods that are native to the Sonoran Desert, or even candle making.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <http://www.TucsonPresidio.com> www.TucsonPresidio.com or
contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday June 16, 2022: Online
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “Diné History’s Impact on
Jewelry” presentation by Nanibaa Beck, cosponsored by Arizona Humanities,
Phoenix
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). Free.
Nanibaa Beck, a second-generation Diné (Navajo) jeweler,
provides a history of Diné jewelry over the century, focusing on changes in
each decade. She will relate the shifting techniques, styles, and meanings
of the art over the years to important events in Diné history including the
impact of boarding schools, training schools, and access to new styles and
materials on Navajo jewelry over this expanded period of time. Being
intricately connected to the creation process motivated Ms. Beck to become
more knowledgeable about the multifaceted areas surrounding Native American
art. In November 2013 she founded NotAbove Jewelry after an “aha moment” in
which a small thank-you card project sparked the idea for the original
language necklaces that connect to her Diné culture. Today, NotAbove
reflects vibrant Native creative expressions and the growth of an Diné
‘Asdzáá (woman) as a metalsmith. This program is made possible by Arizona
Humanities. It will not be recorded.
Go to
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8QpCuw1XQ6O09j5IeJVwDQ>
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8QpCuw1XQ6O09j5IeJVwDQ to
register. For more information contact Old Pueblo at
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos
about the above-listed activity send an email to
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] with “Send June Third
Thursday flyer” in your email subject line.
Monday-Friday June 20-24, 2022: Tucson
“The Cultures of Tucson” summer camp for ages 11-14 at Presidio
San Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. each day. $290 (Presidio Museum members
$265). Lunch and snacks are NOT provided.
Participants will learn about the history and culture of the
Tucson area through a series of hands-on activities that may include making
adobe bricks by hand, learning traditional stories, and making soap from
native plants.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <http://www.TucsonPresidio.com> www.TucsonPresidio.com or
contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday-Friday June 27-July 1, 2022: Tucson
“Archaeology Summer Camp” for ages 10-14 at Presidio San Agustín
del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. each day. $290 (Presidio Museum members
$265). Lunch and snacks are NOT provided.
Campers will learn how archaeologists really work through a
series of hands-on activities that include using pre-Hispanic tools,
excavating a simulated archaeological site, and analyzing the artifacts they
have found. This camp teaches the science of archaeological and artifact
analysis. There is some digging but most time is spent on what happens
before and after the dig.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <http://www.TucsonPresidio.com> www.TucsonPresidio.com or
contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday July 12, 2022: Online
“Indigenous Interests” free Zoom online presentation sponsored
by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). Free.
Speaker and topic to be announced soon.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Indigenous Interests” free Zoom
webinar series provides Native American presenters with a forum for
discussing issues important to Indigenous peoples today. The series is
hosted by Martina Dawley (Hualapai-Diné), Anabel Galindo (Yaqui), and Maegan
Lopez (Tohono O’odham), all of whom are members of Old Pueblo’s board of
directors.
To register for the program go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wn7PTGxBQSaQ1PLWfoOLnA>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wn7PTGxBQSaQ1PLWfoOLnA. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
Thursday July 21, 2022: Online
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “Ecological Knowledge and
Practices of Traditional Southwestern Agriculturists” presentation by Gary
P. Nabhan, PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). Free
Description coming.
To register go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ruxu_i6vRo2lZMKfykrlUA>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ruxu_i6vRo2lZMKfykrlUA. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. For each Old Pueblo Zoom presentation,
we let the presenter decide whether he or she wants for the program to be
recorded and made available online. No recording decision has yet been made
for this program.
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Thursday August 18, 2022: Online
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “The Full Story of Pueblo Grande
(or at Least a Few Chapters)” presentation by City of Phoenix Archaeologist
Laurene Montero, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). Free
Pueblo Grande is one of the last remaining precontact Hohokam
villages with an intact platform mound – or va’aki – in Arizona’s lower Salt
River valley. Its importance to descendant Tribal communities is recognized
today, and Pueblo Grande continues to yield a wealth of information
regarding the past and its connection to the present. Excavation projects in
almost 80 percent of this village have unearthed many archaeological
features, providing information for compiling a new research database. The
continued challenge to preserve, research, and interpret pieces of this
important place in the face of a changing urban landscape has required
creativity, collaboration, and devotion on the part of a diverse group of
volunteers and professionals. This Third Thursday presentation will combine
a brief history of the archaeology of Pueblo Grande, its role in the
surrounding irrigation community archaeologists call Canal System 2, and its
value as a resource for continued preservation archaeology.
To register go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ynVTuQ14QLSOnrcrosWEYw>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ynVTuQ14QLSOnrcrosWEYw. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. For each Old Pueblo Zoom presentation,
we let the presenter decide whether he or she wants for the program to be
recorded and made available online. No recording decision has yet been made
for this program.
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Tuesday September 13, 2022: Online
“Indigenous Interests” free Zoom online presentation sponsored
by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). Free.
Speaker and topic to be announced.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Indigenous Interests” free Zoom
webinar series provides Native American presenters with a forum for
discussing issues important to Indigenous peoples today. The series is
hosted by Martina Dawley (Hualapai-Diné), Anabel Galindo (Yaqui), and Maegan
Lopez (Tohono O’odham), all of whom are members of Old Pueblo’s board of
directors.
To register for the program go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I6V1sk2PTEukauXCO3Dv4Q>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I6V1sk2PTEukauXCO3Dv4Q. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
Thursday September 15, 2022: Online
(An Encore from March 17)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “The Sinagua: Fact or Fiction?”
presentation by archaeologist Peter J. Pilles, Jr.
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). Free.
“Sinagua” is the name first coined in 1939 to refer to the
pre-European people who inhabited the Flagstaff region of north-central
Arizona. But what, exactly, does this mean? Does Sinagua refer to a
geographic area, a specific kind of pottery, an actual grouping of people,
or is it something else? These are difficult questions this presentation
will attempt to explore. The Sinagua archaeological area of Arizona has been
considered a cultural “frontier,” characterized as a blend of other
cultures, yet unique enough to warrant its own cultural designation.
However, over the years, this uniqueness dissolved as old interpretations
were no longer satisfactorily explaining what archaeologists were finding.
By the 1960s, new areas of study and new explanatory models were developed.
However, these paradigm shifts have failed to satisfactorily answer the
questions posed by past interpretations. These shifts beg the major
questions: Who were the Sinagua, how do they fit into the “Big Picture” of
Southwest prehistory, and what happened to the culture? In order to bring
closure to these questions, archaeologists need to explain how past
questions have been . . . not exactly the wrong questions, but they need to
be re-fitted and examined under a different lens, focused by degrees of
scale. This presentation will attempt to illustrate these different
approaches, as well as to demonstrate that the concept of “Sinagua” is both
fact AND fiction.
Archaeologist Peter Pilles has studied the Southwest’s Sinagua
archaeological culture for decades. In this presentation (rescheduled from
March 17 when he was unable to share his PowerPoint file) he will give an
overview of Sinagua and how it related to the surrounding, contemporary
Hohokam, Mogollon, Ancestral Pueblo, and Patayan cultures.
To register go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hLUS_B7-R_exp0XxQAKrBw>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hLUS_B7-R_exp0XxQAKrBw. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. For each Old Pueblo Zoom presentation,
we let the presenter decide whether he or she wants for the program to be
recorded and made available online. No recording decision has yet been made
for this program.
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Wednesdays September 21-December 14, 2022: Online
“The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona” 12-session online
adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time) each Wednesday September 21-December 14 (except skip
Wednesday October 26); $99 donation ($80 for members of Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society [AAS], and Friends of
Pueblo Grande Museum); donation does not include costs of recommended text
(The Hohokam Millennium by Paul R. Fish and Suzanne K. Fish, editors) or of
the optional AAS membership or AAS Certification Program enrollment.
Registered Professional Archaeologist Allen Dart teaches this
class in 12 two-hour sessions to explore the archaeology of the ancient
Hohokam culture of the American Southwest. The class covers Hohokam origins,
subsistence and settlement systems, social and organizational systems,
material culture including ceramics, other artifacts, and architecture,
interaction within and beyond the Hohokam culture's regional boundaries, and
ideas on religion and exchange. Students seeking the AAS Certification are
expected to prepare a brief research report to be presented orally or in
written or video format. Minimum enrollment 10 people. The class meets the
requirements of the Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS) Training,
Certification and Education (TCE) program's “Advanced Southwest Archaeology
– The Hohokam of Southern Arizona” class. The AAS basic “Archaeology of the
Southwest” class is recommended as a prerequisite but this is negotiable
with the instructor. For information on the AAS and its Certification
program visit <http://www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603>
www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603.
Reservations and prepayment are due 10 days after reservation
request or by 5 p.m. Friday September 16, whichever is earlier. To register
or for more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or
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adults to understand and appreciate archaeology and other cultures, to
foster the preservation of archaeological and historical sites, and to
develop a lifelong concern for the importance of nonrenewable resources and
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All of us at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center appreciate your support!
I hope you enjoy reading this and future issues of Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center’s upcoming-activities announcements!
Warmest regards,
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Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
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