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(2) Upcoming Presentations, Classes, Tours, and Other Activities
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(2) UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS, CLASSES, TOURS, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Note that some activities listed here have deadlines for preregistration.
* One asterisk indicates that this is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center-sponsored program and that another organization must be contacted to
register or to obtain more information.
** Two asterisks indicates that this is not an Old Pueblo-sponsored program
but that Old Pueblo members can attend Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary (PGMA)
functions at PGMA‘s member-discount rates, and vice-versa.
**** Four asterisks is a prompt for more information or to indicate that Old
Pueblo is missing some information.
Wednesday December 10, 2014: Tubac AZ
“Guided Tour of the Barrio de Tubac Archaeological Site” south
of Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, meeting at the Park Visitor Center, 1
Presidio Drive, Tubac, Arizona*
10:30 a.m.-12 noon. $10 park admission fee includes tour of the
Presidio Park and visitor center
This special tour will visit a Spanish Colonial archaeological
site, just south of the State Park, that preserves remnants of the original
Tubac town site including residence foundations, a plaza area, refuse area,
and irrigation ditch segment. The tour will be guided by Phil Halpenny, who
brings a hydrologist's point of view to the history of the site, and other
local experts. Tour involves a walk of about 1¼ miles. Bring walking shoes,
sunscreen and hat. Limited to 15 people; reservations encouraged.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Shaw Kinsley at 520- 398-2252 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday December 11, 2014:Tucson
“The Apache Kid” presentation by Doug Hamilton at Pathfinders’
bring-your-own-dish-to-share pot luck and silent auction, Arizona Historical
Society Museum, 949 E. Second St., Tucson*
5:30-8 p.m. Free
Doug Hamilton, a retired professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering dedicated to research on southwestern history, gives this
event’s presentation about the Apache Kid, a highly respected First Sergeant
of Scouts with the U.S. Army. Unfortunately in 1887 he and other scouts were
involved in a fracas at the Army post at San Carlos for which the Kid was
arrested, tried in court in Globe, Arizona, and unjustly found guilty of
assault with intent to commit murder. With eight other prisoners he was to
be taken by stagecoach from Globe to Casa Grande, and all were then taken by
train to the Yuma Territorial Prison escorted by Gila County Sheriff Glen
Reynolds and Deputy Holmes. About four miles from Riverside, the prisoners
attacked, killed Reynolds and Holmes, and escaped into the desert. All
except the Apache Kid were eventually killed or captured.
Admission is free and open to the public. It is a pot-luck, so a
dish to share would be appreciated. This event will include a silent auction
and the Pathfinders Board will provide dessert. Free parking is available at
the AHS parking lot at Second Street and Euclid, entering from Euclid. All
funds raised will contribute to Pathfinders’ efforts to support the Arizona
Historical Society (AHS). Only cash or check accepted for the silent
auction.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. No reservations
needed. For more information contact Tommy Friedmann at [log in to unmask]
Saturday December 13, 2014: Tucson
“The Hopi Lifeways” free presentation by Alph H. Secakuku at the
Arizona State Museum, 1013 E University Blvd, Tucson*
2-4 p.m. Free
Mr. Secakuku, a member of the Hopi Tribe, artist, author,
composer of Hopi traditional music, and gallery owner, will discuss the
basics of the Hopi ceremonial calendar, Hopi values as he understands them,
and the spiritual representations of Hopi katsina dolls. He will bring
katsina dolls and overlay jewelry to augment his presentation. In 1997, the
Border Regional Library Association awarded the Southwest Book Award to Mr.
Secakuku for literary excellence and enrichment of the cultural heritage of
the Southwest.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday December 15, 2014: Tucson
“Archaeological Research Slam: Holiday Party” sponsored by the
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society at Petroglyphs Gallery in the
“Lost Barrio,” 228 S. Park Avenue , Tucson*
As a celebration of AAHS’ Grant and Research Program, the
holiday party will feature an Archaeology Research Slam in which ten
researchers will each give 3-minute presentations of their current projects.
There will be prizes for the top three presentations. Voting will be done by
attendees’ donations. Funds generated will support the AAHS Research Fund.
Presentations will be followed by potluck hors d’oeuvres and libations.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event.
No reservations needed. For details visit www.az-arch-and-hist.org
<http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/> or contact John D. Hall at Tucson
telephone 520-205-2553 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday December 18, 2014: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” dinner featuring the presentation “Antiquity of Irrigation in the
Southwest” by archaeologist Allen Dart at **** Tucson restaurant to be
announced
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the
restaurant’s menu)
Preliterate cultures in the American Southwest took advantage of
southern Arizona’s long growing season and tackled its challenge of limited
precipitation by developing the most extensive irrigation works in all of
North America. Agriculture was introduced into southern Arizona more than
4,000 years ago, and irrigation systems were developed here by at least
3,500 years before present – several hundred years before irrigation was
established in ancient Mexico. This study session provides an overview of
ancient Native American irrigation systems identified by archaeologists in
the southern Southwest and discusses their implications for understanding
social complexity.
Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the
restaurant’s menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to
benefit Old Pueblo’s educational efforts. Because seating is limited in
order for the program to be in compliance with the Fire Code, those wishing
to attend must call 520-798-1201 and must have their reservations confirmed
before 5 p.m. Wednesday December 17.
Saturday December 20, 2014: Tucson-Marana, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Near-Winter Solstice Tour of Los
Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites” with
archaeologist Allen Dart departs from northeast corner of Silverbell Road &
Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana, Arizona
8 a.m. to noon. $20 ($16 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
To explore ancient people's recognition of solstices and other
calendrical events, archaeologist Allen Dart (Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center's executive director) leads this tour to Los Morteros, an ancient
village site that includes a Hohokam ballcourt and bedrock mortars, and to
Picture Rocks, where ancient petroglyphs include a solstice and equinox
marker, dancing human-like figures, whimsical animals, and other rock
symbols made by Hohokam Indians between A.D. 650 and 1450. LIMITED TO 32
PEOPLE.
Reservations required by Friday December 19: 520-798-1201 or
[log in to unmask]
Saturday December 27, 2014:Tubac AZ
“Guided Tour of the Barrio de Tubac Archaeological Site” south
of Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, meeting at the Park Visitor Center, 1
Presidio Drive, Tubac, Arizona*
10:30 a.m.-12 noon. $10 park admission fee includes tour of the
Presidio Park and visitor center
This special tour will visit a Spanish Colonial archaeological
site, just south of the State Park, that preserves remnants of the original
Tubac town site including residence foundations, a plaza area, refuse area,
and irrigation ditch segment. The tour will be guided by Phil Halpenny, who
brings a hydrologist's point of view to the history of the site, and other
local experts. Tour involves a walk of about 1¼ miles. Bring walking shoes,
sunscreen and hat. Limited to 15 people; reservations encouraged.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Shaw Kinsley at 520- 398-2252 or [log in to unmask]
Wednesday January 7, 2015: Phoenix
“Ancient Native American Astronomical Practices” free
presentation by Kenneth Zoll, sponsored by the nonprofit Pueblo Grande
Museum Auxiliary (PGMA) at Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park,
4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix**
7:30-9 p.m. Free
This presentation by Kenneth Zoll, Executive Director of the
Verde Valley Archaeology Center, describes the diverse ways in which
prehistoric Native American cultures perceived and integrated the objects in
the sky into their worldview. Throughout history, the ability of a people to
survive has been tied to environmental conditions. The skill to predict the
seasons was an essential element in the ability to “control” those
conditions. Seasonal calendars became the foundation of early cultures for
hunting and gathering, planting and harvesting, worshiping and celebrating.
The goal of cultural astronomy is to understand how these early skywatchers
fashioned and refined systems for regulating their calendars around
celestial events, both cyclical and unique. This free event is made possible
by Arizona Humanities and PGMA. Donations are welcome.
** This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event,
however, Old Pueblo members can attend PGMA functions at PGMA‘s
member-discount rates, and vice-versa. No reservations are needed. For
details contact Pueblo Grande Museum at 602-495-0901 or
[log in to unmask]
Thursday January 15, 2015: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” dinner featuring the presentation “Underpinnings of Southern
Arizona Historical Archaeology: The Historical Record” by historian Jim
Turner at a Tucson restaurant to be announced
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the
restaurant’s menu)
Approximately 60 percent of southern Arizona’s pre-1964 Historic
period spanned the Spanish Colonial and Mexican periods when Spain, and
subsequently Mexico, granted large parcels of land in this region to a few
individuals to encourage non-Indian settlement and extraction of resources.
When the U.S. took over the territory, grantees’ heirs or purchasers (or
claimants) were able to petition the U.S. Government to recognize the
historic grants in the hope that the U.S. would give title to the grant
lands to the purchasers/claimants. Historian Jim Turner shows that the
history of southern Arizona land grants is essentially the history of water
use, that is, the land grants provide a kind of key to which portions of the
Gadsden Purchase area (the part of Arizona south of the Gila River) were the
most favorable for Spanish, Mexican, and later U.S. settlement. Because much
of the Spanish and Mexican settlement of southern Arizona was associated
with the land grants, they figure importantly in the historical archaeology
of this region. Archaeologists therefore need to be well-versed in the land
grant history of southern Arizona to understand and interpret the Spanish
Colonial, Mexican period, and even Territorial period archaeological sites.
Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s
menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old
Pueblo’s educational efforts. Because seating is limited in order for the
program to be in compliance with the Fire Code, those wishing to attend must
call 520-798-1201 and must have their reservations confirmed before 5 p.m.
Wednesday January 14.
Saturday January 17, 2015
“How Did People Make and Use Stone Tools?” hands-on
flintknapping session with Allen Denoyer at Archaeology Southwest, 300 N.
Ash Alley, Tucson*
9-11 a.m. $40 ($30 for Archaeology Southwest members)
In this beginner class, you will use ancient techniques and
replica tools to create a stone projectile point. You will also learn more
about how people made and used such points, and that points were just one
component of a complete hunting technology. Class is for individuals 18
years of age and older.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<http://archaeologysouthwest.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=325da4675407e
cc40a85a9db0&id=653951f117&e=2c419e3f9a> http://bit.ly/1zdfmSd.
Mondays January 19-February 9, 2015: Sun City West, AZ
"Archaeology, Cultures, and Ancient Arts of Southern Arizona"
adult education class for Recreation Centers of Sun City West in the R. H.
Johnson Recreation Center, 19803 R. H. Johnson Blvd., Sun City West, Arizona
Every Monday Jan. 19 & 26 and Feb. 2 & 9 from 6 to 8 p.m. Fee
$35
In this four-session class on Tuesday evenings, Allen Dart, a
Registered Professional Archaeologist and volunteer director of the Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center in Tucson, will provide information about the
archaeology and cultures of Arizona and the Southwest, focusing on the
arts and material culture of southern Arizona's prehistoric peoples. The
first session, "Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona," will summarize and
interpret the archaeology of Arizona from the earliest "Paleoindians"
through Archaic period hunters and foragers, the transition to true village
life, and the later prehistoric archaeological cultures (Puebloan, Mogollon,
Sinagua, Hohokam, Salado, and Patayan). Mr. Dart also will relate the
archaeological cultures to the Native American, European, Mexican,
African, and Asian peoples who have been part of our state's more recent
history. In Session 2, "Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam
Indians," artifacts, architecture, and other material culture of southern
Arizona's ancient Hohokam culture are illustrated and discussed. The arts
and culture that the Hohokam left behind provide archaeologists with clues
for interpreting their relationships to the natural world, time reckoning,
religious practices, beliefs, and deities, and possible reasons for the
eventual demise of their way of life. Session 3, "Ancient Native American
Pottery of Southern Arizona," focuses on some of the Native American
ceramic styles that characterized specific eras in southern Arizona
prehistory and history, and discusses how archaeologists use pottery for
dating archaeological sites and interpreting ancient lifeways of the
ancient Early Ceramic and Hohokam cultures, and of the historical Piman
(Tohono O'odham and Akimel O'odham), Yuman (including Mohave and Maricopa),
and Apachean peoples. Finally, in Session 4, "Set in Stone but Not in
Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art," Mr. Dart illustrates pictographs
(rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved or pecked on rocks) found
in the Southwest, and discusses how even the same rock art symbol may be
interpreted differently from popular, scientific, and modern Native
American perspectives.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Tamra Stark at 623-544-6194 or [log in to unmask] in
Sun City West; for information about the activity subject matter contact
Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Monday January 19, 2015: Tucson
“Searching for Golden Empires: Epic Cultural Collisions in 16th
Century America” free presentation by William K. Hartmann at Arizona
Archaeological and Historical Society meeting, University Medical Center
DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson*
7:30-9 p.m. Free
****Description coming
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No
reservations needed. For details visit www.az-arch-and-hist.org
<http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/> or contact John D. Hall at Tucson
telephone 520-205-2553 or [log in to unmask]
Thursdays January 22 and 29 and February 5 and 12, 2015
“At the Point of Contact” course sponsored by Arizona
Archaeological and Historical Society at Catalina Methodist Church, 2700 E.
Speedway Blvd., Tucson*
7-9 p.m. each Thursday. $30 for AAHS members, $45 nonmembers
This four-session class will examine the people who were in
southern Arizona from A.D. 1450 to the time of the Spanish arrival, their
initial interaction with Europeans, and subsequent cultural transformation,
as well as continuity. Sessions include: January 22, “Overview of the Tucson
Basin from A.D. 1450 to the Time of Spanish Contact” taught by Patrick Lyons
(Director, Arizona State Museum); and “The Sobaipuris” by Dale Brenneman
(Associate Curator of Documentary History, Arizona State Museum); January
29, “The Tohono O’odham” by Dr. Brenneman, Bernard Siquieros (Education
Curator, Tohono O’odham Cultural Center and Museum), and Ronald Geronimo
(Language & Culture Instructor, Tohono O’odham Community College); February
5, “The Apache” by Nicholas Laluk (Coronado National Forest, White Mountain
Apache Tribe) and Sarah Herr (Desert Archaeology, Inc.); and February 12,
“The Spanish Arrival” by Thomas Sheridan (The Southwest Center and School of
Anthropology, University of Arizona) and J. Homer Thiel (Desert Archaeology,
Inc.).
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Pre-registration
is required. Enrollment is limited to 35 people. Fee must be received by
January 1 to ensure a place in the class. To register email Lou Hillman at
[log in to unmask]
Friday January 23, 2015
“How Did People Make and Use Stone Tools?” hands-on
flintknapping session with Allen Denoyer at Archaeology Southwest, 300 N.
Ash Alley, Tucson*
9-11 a.m. $40 ($30 for Archaeology Southwest members)
In this beginner class, you will use ancient techniques and
replica tools to create a stone projectile point. You will also learn more
about how people made and used such points, and that points were just one
component of a complete hunting technology. Class is for individuals 18
years of age and older.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<http://archaeologysouthwest.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=325da4675407e
cc40a85a9db0&id=653951f117&e=2c419e3f9a> http://bit.ly/1zdfmSd.
Thursday January 29, 2015
“How Did People Make and Use Stone Tools?” hands-on
flintknapping session with Allen Denoyer at Archaeology Southwest, 300 N.
Ash Alley, Tucson*
9-11 a.m. $40 ($30 for Archaeology Southwest members)
In this beginner class, you will use ancient techniques and
replica tools to create a stone projectile point. You will also learn more
about how people made and used such points, and that points were just one
component of a complete hunting technology. Class is for individuals 18
years of age and older.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<http://archaeologysouthwest.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=325da4675407e
cc40a85a9db0&id=653951f117&e=2c419e3f9a> http://bit.ly/1zdfmSd.
Saturday January 31, 2015: Tohono O'odham Nation, AZ
“Rock Art and Archaeology of Ventana Cave” Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center carpooling educational tour with archaeologist Allen Dart
departing from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson
6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fee $35 ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members; no charge for members or
employees of the Tohono O’odham Nation)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center offers this early-morning carpool
tour onto the Tohono O’odham Nation to visit the Ventana Cave National
Historic Landmark site. During the Arizona State Museum’s 1940s excavations
in the cave, led by archaeologists Emil W. Haury and Julian Hayden, evidence
was found for human occupation going back from historic times to around
10,000 years ago. The cave, which actually is a very large rockshelter, also
contains pictographs, petroglyphs, and other archaeological features used by
Native Americans for thousands of years. Tour leaves Tucson at 6:30 a.m. to
ensure the pictographs can be seen in the best morning light. Fees will
benefit the Tohono O’odham Hickiwan District’s efforts to develop a
caretaker-interpretive center at Ventana Cave, and the nonprofit Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center’s education programs.
Reservations required by Wednesday January 29: 520-798-1201 or
[log in to unmask]
**** IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos
about the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer” and INCLUDE
THE EVENT’S DATE in your email subject line.
Wednesday February 4, 2015: Phoenix
“Arizona’s Historic Trading Posts” free presentation by author
Carolyn O’Bagy Davis, sponsored by the nonprofit Pueblo Grande Museum
Auxiliary (PGMA) at Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park, 4619 E.
Washington St., Phoenix**
7:30-9 p.m. Free
Early traders traveled through Arizona Territory, selling goods
from their wagons, but they soon built stores that evolved into trading and
social centers where wool, sheep, and Native arts were exchanged for sugar
and salt, pots, pans, bridles, and saddles. Navajo trading posts are best
known, but trading posts existed on every reservation in Arizona. Traders
became the intermediaries between Native peoples and the outside world,
providing not only hard goods, but other services including translation,
correspondence, and transportation. Trading posts also became destinations
for artists, authors, movie stars, and tourists. Although trading posts have
mostly disappeared today, they remain a romantic and historic part of our
great Southwest. This event is free and open to the public, made possible by
Arizona Humanities and PGMA. Donations are welcome.
** This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event,
however, Old Pueblo members can attend PGMA functions at PGMA‘s
member-discount rates, and vice-versa. No reservations are needed. For
details contact Pueblo Grande Museum at 602-495-0901 or
[log in to unmask]
Monday February 16, 2015: Tucson
“Women’s Health Demands Protective Cleanliness: Examining Health
and Illness in Early Twentieth Century Tucson” free presentation by Ashley
Morton at Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society meeting, University
Medical Center DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson*
7:30-9 p.m. Free
****Description coming.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event.
No reservations needed. For details visit www.az-arch-and-hist.org
<http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/> or contact John D. Hall at Tucson
telephone 520-205-2553 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday February 19, 2015: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” dinner featuring the presentation ****[Title, guest speaker, &
Tucson restaurant location to be announced]
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the
restaurant’s menu)
****Details coming.
Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the
restaurant’s menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to
benefit Old Pueblo’s educational efforts. Because seating is limited in
order for the program to be in compliance with the Fire Code, those wishing
to attend must call 520-798-1201 and must have their reservations confirmed
before 5 p.m. Wednesday February 18.
**** IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos
about the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer” and INCLUDE
THE EVENT’S DATE in your email subject line.
Saturday February 21, 2015:
Sun City West-Buckeye-Waddell, AZ:
“White Tank Mountains Petroglyphs of Waterfall Canyon & Mesquite
Canyon” guided archaeological site tour with Allen Dart for Recreation
Centers of Sun City West in White Tank Mountain Regional Park, 20304 W.
White Tank Mountain Road, Waddell, Arizona*
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. $35 fee includes park entry fee
Archaeologist Allen Dart guides this tour to see hundreds of
ancient petroglyphs in the 30,000-acre White Tank Mountain Regional Park
west of Phoenix. Tour includes a 3-hour walk along the 2.5-mile-roundtrip,
fairly flat Waterfall Canyon-Black Rock Loop Trail to see and photograph
dozens of Archaic and Hohokam petroglyphs; lunch at ramadas with picnic
facilities; then an afternoon hike to three petroglyph sites with Archaic
and Hohokam rock art in a 3-hour, 2.5-mile-roundtrip hike along the Mesquite
Canyon trail, which includes some bush-whacking and boulder-hopping. Bring
your own picnic lunch and water, wear comfortable hiking shoes.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Register
for the tour online at www.rcscw.com (click on the EXPLORE tab in left-hand
column). For more information about registration contact Tamra Stark at
623-544-6194 or [log in to unmask] in Sun City West; for information
about the activity subject matter contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone
520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Saturday March 7, 2015: Yuma, AZ
“Arizona Archaeology Expo” at Quartermaster Depot State Historic
Park, 201 N. 4th Avenue in Yuma*
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free
Reflecting the selection of the City of Yuma for this year’s
Arizona Archaeology Expo, the theme for this year's Arizona Archaeology and
Heritage Awareness Month is “Confluence of Travel, Trade, and Culture
Through Time.” The Arizona Archaeology Expo, the month’s featured event, is
held in a different community each year and features archaeology-related
hands-on activities, craft demonstrations, and other fun and educational
events. This year’s event at Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park will
include displays by archaeological and historical organizations, museums,
Native American tribes, state and federal agencies, and others, allowing
visitors to participate as archaeologists might in their research today, or
make crafts and tools that teach how prehistoric Native Americans and other
early inhabitants survived in the Southwest. Cultural and historical
demonstrations, talks by archaeologists, and interactive activities will
help make the past come alive, and tours of local rock art and pueblo
archaeological sites will be offered. Free-prize raffles will occur
throughout the day.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event.
For more detailed information, contact Kris Dobschuetz, SHPO Compliance
Specialist, at 602-542-7141 or [log in to unmask]
Wednesday March 11, 2015: Queen Creek, AZ
"Archaeology's Deep Time Perspective on Environment and Social
Sustainability" free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Arizona
Archaeological Society, San Tan Chapter, at Queen Creek Museum, 20435 S. Old
Ellsworth Road (southeast corner of Ellsworth and Queen Creek Roads), Queen
Creek Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
7:30 p.m. Free
The deep time perspective that archaeology and related
disciplines provide about natural hazards, environmental change, and human
adaptation not only is a valuable supplement to historical records, it
sometimes contradicts historical data used by modern societies to make
decisions affecting social sustainability and human safety. What can be
learned from scientific evidence that virtually all prehistoric farming
cultures in Arizona and the Southwest eventually surpassed their thresholds
of sustainability, leading to collapse or reorganization of their societies?
Could the disastrous damages to nuclear power plants damaged by the Japanese
tsunami of 2011 have been avoided if the engineers who decided where to
build those plants had not ignored evidence of prehistoric tsunamis? This
presentation looks at archaeological, geological, and
sustainable-agricultural evidence on environmental changes and how human
cultures have adapted to those changes, and discusses the value of a "beyond
history" perspective for modern society. This program was made possible by
Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Marie Britton at 480-390-3491 or [log in to unmask]; for
information about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at
Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Saturday March 14, 2015: Coolidge, AZ
"Ancestral Indian Life Skills Day” sponsored by Casa Grande
Ruins National Monument in partnership with Old Pueblo Archaeology Center,
at the Monument, 1100 Ruins Drive, Coolidge, Arizona
9 a.m.-3 p.m. Park general admission fees apply to access ruins
and museum. No fees for participation in event activities held at park
picnic area.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Casa Grande Ruins National
Monument will provide a fun-filled day of hands-on archeology activities for
children and adults alike including games, crafts, and demonstrations. Come
try your hand creating your own petroglyph, playing traditional games, and
more. Watch a flintknapper show how to make an arrowhead! Play traditional
Native American calendar-stick and other games on the ground, color
artifacts on coloring pages, grind corn using an ancient metate and mano,
practice bopping bunnies with rabbit-throwing-sticks! Learn how to make your
own petroglyphs, hand-built pottery, stone jewelry, cordage and agave rope,
split-twig-figurines, and dance rattles that you can take home! Activities
will take place in the park picnic area near the ballcourt. General park
admission applies for admittance to the museum and access to the ruins.
Admission for adults and children 16 years of age and older is $5.00.
Children 15 and younger are free.
No reservations needed. For more information visit the
http://www.nps.gov/cagr/index.htm web site or contact Casa Grande Ruins
National Monument at 520-723-3172 or Old Pueblo Archaeology Center in Tucson
at 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Monday March 16, 2015: Tucson
“Archaeological Excavations at Ironwood Village: A Hohokam
Ballcourt Site in Marana” free presentation by Todd W. Bostwick at Arizona
Archaeological and Historical Society meeting, University Medical Center
DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson*
7:30-9 p.m. Free
****Description coming.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event.
No reservations needed. For details visit www.az-arch-and-hist.org
<http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/> or contact John D. Hall at Tucson
telephone 520-205-2553 or [log in to unmask]
Tuesday March 17, 2015: Bisbee, AZ
"Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians"
free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at Copper Queen Library, 6
Main St., Bisbee, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
5:30-6:30 p.m. Free
The Hohokam Native American culture flourished in southern
Arizona from the sixth through fifteenth centuries, and the Akimel O'odham
(Pima) and Tohono O'odham (Papago) occupied this region historically.
Ancient Hohokam artifacts, architecture, and other material culture provide
archaeologists with clues for identifying where the Hohokam lived, for
interpreting how they adapted to the Sonoran Desert for centuries, and
explaining why the Hohokam culture mysteriously disappeared. In this
presentation archaeologist Allen Dart illustrates the material culture of
the Hohokam and presents possible interpretations about their relationships
to the natural world, their time reckoning, religious practices, beliefs,
and deities, and possible reasons for the eventual demise of their way of
life. This program was made possible by Arizona Humanities..
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For
event details contact Librarian Peg White at 520-432-4232 or
[log in to unmask]; for information about the activity subject matter
contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday March 19, 2015: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” dinner featuring the presentation “Arizona State Museum Research
at Rock Art Ranch: Filling in Space and Time” by Richard C. Lange at
Dragon’s View Asian Cuisine, 400 N. Bonita Avenue (just west of the Santa
Cruz River between St. Mary's Rd. & Congress St.)
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the
restaurant’s menu)
****Details coming.
Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the
restaurant’s menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to
benefit Old Pueblo’s educational efforts. Because seating is limited in
order for the program to be in compliance with the Fire Code, those wishing
to attend must call 520-798-1201 and must have their reservations confirmed
before 5 p.m. Wednesday March 18.
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Friday March 20, 2015: Tucson-Marana, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Spring Equinox Tour of Los
Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites” with
archaeologist Allen Dart, departing from near Silverbell Road and Linda
Vista Blvd. in Marana, Arizona
8 a.m. to noon. $20 ($16 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and
Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
As part of the annual Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness
Month celebration, archaeologist Allen Dart (Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s
executive director) leads this tour to Los Morteros, an ancient village site
that includes a Hohokam ballcourt and bedrock mortars, and to Picture Rocks,
where ancient petroglyphs include a solstice and equinox marker, dancing
human-like figures, whimsical animals, and other rock symbols made by
Hohokam Indians between AD 650 and 1450.
Reservations required by Wednesday March 18. 520-798-1201 or
[log in to unmask]
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about the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer” and INCLUDE
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Saturday March 21, 2015: Tucson
"Vista del Rio Archaeology Celebration" free children's activities at
City of Tucson's Vista del Rio Cultural Resource Park, 7575 E. Desert Arbors
St. (at Dos Hombres Road), Tucson
9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free
This Old Pueblo Archaeology Center program, sponsored by Vista del Rio
Residents' Association, features hands-on activities, demonstrations, and
informational materials along the trails through Tucson's Vista del Rio
Cultural Park, where part of an ancient Hohokam Indian village is preserved,
to educate children, especially ages 6 to 12, about the ancient people who
lived at Vista del Rio and elsewhere in southern Arizona. Activities along
the trails through the park include demonstrations of traditional Native
American pottery-making and arrowhead-making, grinding your own corn using
an ancient metate and mano, learning to play traditional Native American
games, rabbit-throwing-stick target practice, and making hand-built pottery,
cordage and stone-and-bead jewelry, split-twig-figurines, and dance rattles
that you can take home.
No reservations needed. For more information contact Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center in Tucson at 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sunday March 29, 2015: Camp Verde, AZ
"Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art"
free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Verde Valley Archaeology
Fair sponsored by Verde Valley Archaeology Center at Camp Verde Community
Center, 395 S. Main Street, Camp Verde, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona
Humanities*
1:30 p.m. Free
Native Americans in the Southwest developed sophisticated skills in
astronomy and predicting the seasons, centuries before Old World peoples
first 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 was made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For
event details contact Kenneth Zoll in Sedona at 928-593-0364 or
[log in to unmask]; for information about the activity subject matter
contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Saturday & Sunday March 28 & 29, 2015: Tucson
“Southwest Indian Art Fair” at the Arizona State Museum (ASM),
University of Arizona, 1013 E University Blvd, Tucson*
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday; $10 per adult ($7 for
ASM members)
Southern Arizona’s premier Indian art show and market is on Arizona
State Museum’s front lawn, rain or shine. Shop for a wide array of
top-quality, handmade art as you meet 200 Native artists from around the
region all selling directly to the public. Talk with them about their work
and learn about their ancient cultures. Choose from pottery, katsina dolls,
paintings, jewelry, baskets, rugs, blankets, and much more. Bring the whole
family to enjoy artist demonstrations, Native foods, lively music, and
colorful dance performances.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or
[log in to unmask]
Tuesday April 7, 2015: Sierra Vista, AZ
"Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians"
free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for “Amazing Arizona” speaker
series at Sierra Vista Public Library, 2600 E. Tacoma St., Sierra Vista,
Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
1-2 p.m. Free
The Hohokam Native American culture flourished in southern
Arizona from the sixth through fifteenth centuries, and the Akimel O'odham
(Pima) and Tohono O'odham (Papago) occupied this region historically.
Ancient Hohokam artifacts, architecture, and other material culture provide
archaeologists with clues for identifying where the Hohokam lived, for
interpreting how they adapted to the Sonoran Desert for centuries, and
explaining why the Hohokam culture mysteriously disappeared. In this
presentation archaeologist Allen Dart illustrates the material culture of
the Hohokam and presents possible interpretations about their relationships
to the natural world, their time reckoning, religious practices, beliefs,
and deities, and possible reasons for the eventual demise of their way of
life. This program was made possible by Arizona Humanities..
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event.
For event details contact Librarian Susan Abend at 520-439-2263 or
[log in to unmask]; for information about the activity subject
matter contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or
[log in to unmask]
Thursday April 9-Monday April 13, 2015: NEW MEXICO
“Western New Mexico Missions and Cultures Tour” sponsored by
Southwestern Mission Research Center from Tucson to Winslow, Arizona, and
historic missions, Indian Pueblos, and other historic places in western and
southern New Mexico*
8 a.m. Thursday-5 p.m. Monday; fee $995 includes coach
transportation, 4 nights accommodations, 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 3 dinners
This tour includes visits to historic La Posada Hotel and Old
Trails Museum in Winslow; Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission at Pueblo of Zuni;
either Hawikuh Pueblo or Village of the Great Kivas archaeological site;
El Morro National Monument’s Inscription Rock, Box Canyon, Atsinna
Pueblo, gift shop, and museum; Ácoma Pueblo and its Spanish mission
church and Cultural Center Museum; Laguna Pueblo and its Spanish mission;
San Miguel Mission Church in Socorro; El Camino Real International
Heritage Center along the Río Grande south of Socorro; historic La Posta
Restaurant in Old Mesilla; the Chile Pepper Institute (including Chile
Pepper Tasting) at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces; and the Amerind
Foundation Museum in Dragoon, Arizona. Along the way SMRC’s knowledgeable
volunteers discuss early expeditions led by Coronado, Espejo, and Oñate to
the Hopi, Zuni, and Río Grande Pueblo countries, the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, and
other Spanish Colonial history.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Registration
deadline March 12. For reservations or more information contact Gail
Bornfield at 520-797-8825 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturday and Sunday April 11 & 12, & Sunday April 19, 2015
"Ancient Native American Pottery Replication Workshop: Corrugated Ware
of the Mogollon Culture" taught by ceramist Andy Ward at Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, just west of La Cholla Blvd.,
½-mile north of John F. Kennedy Park, Tucson.
9 a.m. to noon & 1-4 p.m. on first two days; 9 a.m. to noon on
second Sunday. Fee $70 ($56 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members); each participant must provide a small
water bowl, hand towel, & 2 plastic grocery bags; clay & all other class
materials are provided.
In this workshop students will explore and authentically
recreate corrugated pottery as it was made by the prehistoric Mogollon
culture. Mogollon corrugated pottery is sometimes overlooked because it is
not flashy like polished and painted pottery types, but a close examination
reveals an elegance of form and sophisticated techniques used in
construction. Workshop participants will learn the history of these pottery
types and experience the entire process of reproducing them from processing
raw materials, to hand coiling vessels, culminating in an authentic outdoor
pottery firing. This workshop will take place over the course of one weekend
during which the pots are created completely then left to dry, followed
later by a Sunday morning in which we will fire all the pottery produced.
Each participant will leave with a beautiful, authentic, finished
reproduction of a prehistoric corrugated pot. Any participants who are
unable to attend the later firing can arrange to have their pots fired and
shipped to them (student pays for shipping).
Instructor Andy Ward is a diligent student of southwestern
prehistory and archaeology who has worked with archaeologists to locate
resources in field surveys and in excavations. He began working to reproduce
prehistoric pottery while still in high school and has successfully
recreated many of the prehistoric pottery types of southern Arizona.
Reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
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Tuesday-Thursday April 14-16, 2015: SONORA
“Kino Missions Tour: Celebrating El Día de los Muertos”
sponsored by Southwestern Mission Research Center (SMRC) in northern Sonora,
Mexico*
$495 per person includes transportation, lodging (double occupancy),
and meals
More than 300 years ago, a tireless Jesuit priest by the name of
Eusebio Francisco Kino made countless forays on horseback throughout much of
what is now the northern Mexican state of Sonora and Arizona. Father Kino
brought with him ideas and material culture – chiefly the Christian faith,
the Spanish language, cattle, and crops – that would change the region
deeply and forever.
Join SMRC in retracing the steps of Kino and the missionaries who
followed him, guided by scholars and enthusiasts who know and love the
region and volunteer their time to share it with others. Along the way
you’ll stand in awe before the evocative church ruins of Cocóspera and Átil,
marvel at the mysteries of the spectral paintings on the church walls at
Pitiquito, delight in the exuberance of Magdalena, take in the simple beauty
of Oquitoa, and bask in the rosy glow on the setting sun as it reflects off
the twin towers of Caborca’s mission. You’ll take a side trip into
prehistory with a visit to the archaeological site of Trincheras and its new
museum. You’ll lunch al fresco near the river at Tubutama, and in the shade
of quince trees watered by the centuries-old acequia just across from San
Ignacio’s church. And at day’s end, you’ll savor dinner and margaritas on
the patio of SMRC’s host hotel.
Best of all, you’ll have many opportunities to meet the open and
friendly people of Sonora – whose traditions, language, and ethnicity
combine the region’s Native and Spanish cultures, representing the best of
both worlds. And on this special El Día de los Muertos weekend you’ll
experience the festive spirit with which they honor and cherish their dearly
departed.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For reservations
or more information contact Dale Brenneman at 520-621-6278 or
[log in to unmask] Passport required. Reservation deadline
September 30, 2014.
Thursday April 16, 2015: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” dinner featuring the presentation “The Billingsley Hopi Dancers” by
Kenneth Zoll at ****[restaurant to be announced], Tucson; cosponsored by
Arizona Humanities
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the
restaurant’s menu)
In 1921 the Hopi were told that “church people” petitioned
Congress to stop their “pagan” dancing. A platform was erected on the U.S.
Capitol steps where both Houses of Congress assembled with their families to
see the Hopi dancers. Following the performance, Congress passed a
Resolution giving the Hopi permission to carry on their dancing “for all
time.” The dancers continued to perform culminating in performances at
Carnegie Hall in 1955. The Verde Valley Archaeology Center and Hopi Tribe
jointly received a grant to preserve a rare 1957 film of the dancers. This
presentation provides background and shows the film.
Kenneth Zoll is the Executive Director of the Verde Valley
Archaeology Center in Camp Verde. He is also a site steward with the Arizona
State Historic Preservation Office, and a volunteer docent at cultural
heritage sites in the Coconino National Forest. He has conducted extensive
fieldwork in cultural astronomy of the Southwest and is a certified
instructor in cultural astronomy with the Arizona Archaeological Society.
Zoll is the author of several popular books on cultural astronomy and rock
art in Central Arizona, as well as several cultural astronomy articles in
professional publications.
This program was made possible by Arizona Humanities.
Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the
restaurant’s menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to
benefit Old Pueblo’s educational efforts. Because seating is limited in
order for the program to be in compliance with the Fire Code, those wishing
to attend must call 520-798-1201 and must have their reservations confirmed
before 5 p.m. Wednesday April 15.
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Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s mission is to educate children and
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
traditional cultures. Old Pueblo is recognized as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
organization under the U.S. tax code, therefore donations and Old Pueblo
membership fees are tax-deductible up to amounts allowed by the Internal
Revenue Service.
If you are a member of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, THANK YOU FOR
YOUR SUPPORT! If you are not an Old Pueblo member we would be grateful if
you would become a member so you can provide more support for our education
and research programs and receive membership benefits. You can become a
member by going to Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s
http://www.oldpueblo.org/member.html web page, scrolling to the bottom of
that page, and following the instructions for using our secure online
membership form or our printable Enrollment/Subscription form.
Membership fees, and donations, also can be made using cash or
check. Checks may be made payable to “OPAC” and mailed to Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577. (Please do not send
cash through the mail.) You can also donate using your Visa, MasterCard, or
Discover credit card, either by calling Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or by
clicking on “Donation Form” at Old Pueblo’s secure
www.oldpueblo.org/donate.html web page.
All of us at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center appreciate your support!
Regards,
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director (Volunteer)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
(520) 798-1201 office, (520) 798-1966 fax
Email: [log in to unmask]
URL: www.oldpueblo.org <http://www.oldpueblo.org/>
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Disclosure: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's Executive Director Allen
Dart volunteers his time to Old Pueblo. Mr. Dart works full-time as a
cultural resources specialist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service in Arizona. Views expressed in communications from Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center do not necessarily represent views of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture or of the United States.
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