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Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's activities are listed in green boldface font. For activities marked “This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event” the information may be out of date – Readers are advised to confirm dates, times, and details with the organizers of those activities.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.
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Upcoming Activities
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SOME ONLINE RESOURCES
Check out 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.)
* Old Pueblo Archaeology Center has posted recordings of many of our Third Thursday Food for Thought and Indigenous Interests webinar presentations on our Youtube channel: <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos.
* Southwest Center, University of Arizona: Preserving Place & Empowering Community: The Past, Present, and Future of Camp Naco featuring Rebecca Orozco and R. Brooks Jeffery, April 1: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYWbVimV4q4> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYWbVimV4q4.
* Journal of Texas Archeology and History has released Special Volume #6: The Archaeology of Eagle Nest Canyon, Texas: Papers in Honor of Jack and Wilmuth Skiles focused on the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwestern Texas: <https://jtah.org/2024/03/21/j-t-a-h-special-volume-6-the-archaeology-of-eagle-nest-canyon-texas-papers-in-honor-of-jack-and-wilmuth-skiles/> https://jtah.org/2024/03/21/j-t-a-h-special-volume-6-the-archaeology-of-eagle-nest-canyon-texas-papers-in-honor-of-jack-and-wilmuth-skiles/.
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
The following listings include announcements about activities offered by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other organizations interested in archaeology, history and cultures. Time zones are specified only for online activities; each in-person activity listed is in the time zone of its location.
For activities marked “This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event” the information may be out of date – Readers are advised to confirm dates, times, and details with the organizers of those activities.
Monday April 15, 2024: Springerville, AZ
“Hiking into the Past: The Sierra Ancha Cliff Dwellings” free presentation by historian John Mack, PhD, for Little Colorado River Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, in the Udall Room, Springerville Heritage Center, 418 E. Main St., Springerville, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
6:30-8 pm. Free.
This presentation examines the remarkable living structures built by the people who first lived in the canyons of the Sierra Ancha wilderness during the early Middle Ages. The architectural dwellings reflect the culture and history of these people and help us understand their contributions to life in the Arizona desert. The presentation includes numerous photos from Mack’s expeditions. John Mack received his PhD in American history from the University of Kansas.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Bill Butler at 928-245-9098.
Monday April 15, 2024: Tucson and online
“What’s in a Symbol? A Look at Hohokam Art and Imagery” free presentation by archaeologist Linda Gregonis sponsored by Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS), optional online or in Environmental & Natural Resources (ENR) Bldg. 2, Room 107 (ground-floor auditorium), 1064 E. Lowell St., University of Arizona, Tucson*
7-8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
All cultures use symbols to convey ideas. In archaeological contexts, those symbols have become ways to define and differentiate archaeological cultures. But what did the symbols mean to the artisans who created them? The art that Hohokam craftspeople produced embodied the world (seen and unseen) as they understood it. They were influenced by weather, animals they encountered, plants they grew and used, pilgrimages they made, other people they met, and their ancestors. They translated their experiences into art, creating iconic motifs that were shared across a wide region. Using objects, design elements, and motifs that were made and used during the pre-Classic period (circa 600-1150 CE), Linda Gregonis will discuss how the Hohokam may have used symbols on different media including pottery, shell, stone, and rock surfaces to define group identity and express their view of the world. Ms. Gregonis is an independent researcher who has spent more than 40 years researching various aspects of Hohokam culture while working primarily as a ceramics analyst.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For in-person meeting, no reservations are needed and $1/hr parking is available in U of A 6th St. garage immediately east of ENR. For Zoom attendance preregister at <https://bit.ly/2024AprGregonis_REG> https://bit.ly/2024AprGregonis_REG. For details visit www.az-arch-and-hist.org <http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org> or contact Susan Bierer at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Tuesday April 16, 2024: Albuquerque and online
“Diné Storytelling, Hweeldi and the 1868 Treaty” free in-person and online presentation by Professor Jennifer Denetdale, PhD (Diné) for Albuquerque Archaeological Society meeting at Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, 2000 Mountain Rd. NW, Albuquerque, and online*
7:30 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
Dr. Denetdale will discuss the histories that are told about Hweeldi, the time when the Diné were prisoners of the United States from 1863 to 1868. The histories include Diné memories and how the Long Walk became part of Navajo nationalism. Jennifer Nez Denetdale, originally from Tohatchi, New Mexico, is a professor and the chair of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and author of Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita (University of Arizona Press, 2007). She has also written two histories for young adults and published numerous book chapters and journal articles.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to request Zoom link email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesday April 17, 2024: New Orleans
“Ten Steps for Recording a Rock Art Site” workshop with archaeologists and rock art researchers Larry Loendorf, Amanda Castaneda, Laurie White, and Mark Willis sponsored by Sacred Sites Research (Albuquerque) and the Society for American Archaeology Rock Art Interest Group at the SAA Annual Meetings at the New Orleans Marriott and the Sheraton New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana*
10 am-5 pm. $20 per person.
Material covered in this workshop includes up-to-date methods and techniques for recording pictograph and petroglyph sites, like use of DStretch image enhancement software, constructing 3D models with Structure from Motion, portable XRF, dating procedures, and drone mapping. Important parts of the workshop will include the use of software like Photoshop on drawing tablets to obtain finished panel drawings, and use of a total site approach to search for tools used to make the rock imagery and look for associated psychotropic plants like tobacco, datura, and others. Participants will be taught to look for sun/solar interactions, acoustics, and viewshed, much of the knowledge of which comes from working with Native Americans on-site during the recording process. The instructors have recorded rock image sites for dozens of years, including the Crow Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Aaron Brien, who will offer his thoughts through the workshop.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register visit <https://documents.saa.org/container/docs/default-source/doc-annualmeeting/preliminary-program/pdx2023_event-guide_final.pdf?sfvrsn=f4b1e4d0_9&_gl=1*1o96nxt*_ga*Nzg5MDY3NzYxLjE2OTkyOTQ2MDY.*_ga_6SSR7BY1NJ*MTcwNjMyMzcyMC40LjEuMTcwNjMyMzc5Mi4wLjAuMA> https://documents.saa.org/container/docs/default-source/doc-annualmeeting/preliminary-program/pdx2023_event.
Wednesday April 17, 2024: Online
“How We Reveal the Paint Sequence of Pecos River Style Murals” free Lunch & Learn presentation by David Keim, MA, sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, Comstock, Texas*
12 pm Central Standard Time. Free.
At Shumla we have said over and over that nothing in Pecos River Style art is random. But how do we know? How do we know the artists, whether 5,000 years ago or 2,000 years ago, followed the same rules about how the murals should be painted? In this Lunch & Learn, David will tell how a portable microscope and a sophisticated diagram software have led to some of Shumla’s most exciting discoveries.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to https://shumla.org/lunchandlearn/. For more information contact Shumla at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesday April 17, 2024: Online
“Investigating Plant and Animal Resources at the Harris Site: An Exercise in Ecosystem Engineering” free online presentation by archaeologist Kristin Corl, sponsored by the Grant County Archaeological Society (GCAS), Silver City, New Mexico*
6 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free.
The Harris site (LA 1867) is a Late Pithouse period (550-1000 CE) agricultural village located in New Mexico’s upper Mimbres River valley. This period is seen as a time of great demographic and social change and is typified by the transition to a sedentary agricultural subsistence strategy. While committed agriculturalists, the plant and animal remains recovered from the Harris site tell us that they continued to depend on a wide variety of wild resources even as they grew more dependent on agricultural practices. Their agricultural practices not only transformed the physical landscape but had cascading effects on other species in the environment. To better understand the ways in which people living at the Harris site interacted with their environment, Kristin Corl considers a variety of archaeological, environmental, and ethnographic data. In this talk she will focus on the faunal materials encountered at the Harris site help paint a more complete picture of the ways in which the surrounding environment of the village was constructed, maintained, and changed through the occupation of the site.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Contact the GCAS at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] for the Zoom link.
Thursday April 18, 2024: Online
“Climate History & Indigenous Futures: Climate Adaptation for Contested Landscapes” free online presentation by archaeologist Lindsey Schneider, sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4-5 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
This presentation considers how narratives of ecological damage – particularly those associated with climate change – have been used to constrain, contest, and erase Indigenous land relationships and tribal sovereignty. Yet, in the last few decades there has been a surge of interest in Indigenous environmental knowledges, particularly for its relevance in developing climate adaptation strategies. Tribal nations now find themselves being asked to share their traditional knowledge with the same colonial institutions that occupy and manage their homelands. What would it look like to rethink environmental land management through the lens of Indigenous futurisms? Using this framework, Dr. Schneider will discuss examples of the process of building institutional partnerships with tribal communities that center the needs, visions, and agency of tribal nations as a starting point for climate adaptation.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register visit https://crowcanyon.org/programs/climate-history-indigenous-futures-climate-adaptation-for-contested-landscapes/.
Thursday April 18, 2024: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring the presentation “Interaction on the Northern Mogollon Frontier: Perspectives from the Cañada Alamosa” by archaeologist Karl W. Laumbach, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
The Cañada Alamosa is a spring-fed canyon located on the northeastern edge of the Mimbres Mogollon world. The Ojo Caliente or Warm Spring supplies 2,000 gallons per minute, ensuring a perennial flow to the Rio Alamosa as it flows to the Rio Grande. Separated by 50 miles and the imposing Black Range from the Mimbres Mogollon cultural center, the canyon’s well-watered position on a “zone of interaction” between the Mogollon and Ancestral Pueblo peoples resulted in a unique cultural sequence from the pithouse period up to the abandonment of the canyon in the 14th century, reflecting a variety of local interactions as well as changes in their respective centers. Karl Laumbach’s archaeological career in southern New Mexico since 1974 included direction of the Human Systems Research nonprofit organization’s Cañada Alamosa project.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J1BZ0X4DRN-qDvxO4h60Tg> https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J1BZ0X4DRN-qDvxO4h60Tg. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
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April 19, 2024: Tucson
“Presidio District Tour – Why is Tucson the City It is Today” walking tour with historian Ken Scoville, sponsored by the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, beginning at the 1928 Pima County Courthouse, 115 N Church Ave, Tucson*
10 am-12 pm. $30 ($20 Presidio Museum members).
Beginning at Tucson’s 1928 Pima County Courthouse, guide Ken Scoville will discuss the archaeological efforts to find the Spanish presidio (fort), two earlier courthouses built at this same location, and the beginning of the burg now known as “the Old Pueblo.” El Presidio Historic District provides many of the answers to why Tucson is the city it is today. Homes constructed there responded to and later denied the desert environment. The constant pressure for change and real estate speculation in a growing city is also a part of the story as the infancy of historic districts established the desire to preserve the buildings and landscape environment of an area that connects to important past events and people in the community and nation.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information and to register click on this date link: Friday, April 19, 10 am-12 pm <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=9591&qid=854610> , or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday April 20, 2024: Tucson
“Agave Roast & Learn” free demonstration at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
8 am-12 pm. Free (donations appreciated).
Come experience an agave roast and learn about agave plants’ many uses! Members of the Hualapai Tribe will demonstrate their methods of roasting agave hearts, then share samples of this sweet, unique food. Talk to environmental and cultural organizations from around the region about agave’s unique uses, including how agave fiber can be used for ropes, shoes, and clothes. Experience a panel discussion about how agaves may make a comeback as a crop of the future.
9 -10:15 am: “Agave’s Potential as an Agricultural Alternative” paned discussion of how agave is a climate-smart crop of the future, with ecologist and earth system scientist Greg Barron-Gafford, PhD; Centro de Colaboración para la Ciencia y Cultura S.C. Vice President Valeria Cañedo; agave biotechnologist and geneticist Fabio Trigo Raya, PhD; Development of Regenerative Yields Cooperative co-founder Yadi Wang, PhD, and Mission Garden Curator Dena Cowan, moderator.
10:30 am: Agave roast with members of the Hualapai Tribe, who will describe their traditions and relationship to agave roasts, then open the roasting pit and share tastes with visitors.
This event is in conjunction with the Agave Heritage Festival: www.agaveheritagefestival.com <http://www.agaveheritagefestival.com> .
* 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 April 20, 2024: Near Sierra Vista, AZ
“History Walk to Murray Springs Clovis Site” sponsored by Friends of the San Pedro River, Sierra Vista, AZ starting east of Moson Rd., 1.28 miles north of E Highway 90 (AZ-90), Sierra Vista. From AZ-90 in Sierra Vista, drive north on Moson Rd. for 1.28 miles and turn east. Meet the docent at the gate to the site. The entrance to the site is searchable as “Murray Springs Clovis Site” in Google Maps.*
9-11 am. Free.
Join docents from the Friends of the San Pedro River for a tour of the Murray Springs mammoth kill site. Archaeologist Vance Haynes led an expedition here in the 1970s that found bones of megafauna that had been hunted, killed, butchered, and consumed by the Clovis Paleoindians 13,000 years ago. This is an easy walk of less than a half mile, though it does include dirt steps into and out of a dry wash. There is no shade, and it will be hot on sunny days. Please realistically assess your ability to do this walk. Wear a hat, sun protection, appropriate clothing, and sturdy shoes. Bring water and a snack.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact the Friends of the San Pedro River at 520-508-4445 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday April 20, 2024: Payson, AZ
“With Beauty Around: Canyon del Muerto Rock
Art Documentation Project” free presentation by Evelyn Billo and Robert Mark for Rim Country Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society meeting at Payson Public Library, 328 N. McLane Rd., Payson, Arizona*
10-11:30 am. Free.
Canyon de Chelly National Monument in the heart of Navajo country has beauty in the alcoves, on the cliffs, and with every landscape view. The two main canyons and their tributaries reveal Ancestral Pueblo images, traditional Navajo depictions, and historic scenes and inscriptions. Evelyn Billo and Dr. Robert Mark are retired US Geological Survey physical scientists who use modern technology to document petroglyph and pictograph sites. On April 20 Evelyn will present highlights from the 1999-2002 study in the Canyon del Muerto portion of Canyon de Chelly National Monument. This includes panoramic and enhanced photography, hidden pictograph gems, flash floods, and more.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit https://azarchsoc.org/RimCountry.
Saturday April 20, 2024: Tubac, AZ
“Adventures at the Presidio/Aventuras en el Presidio” family activities at Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel Street, Tubac, Arizona*
10 am-12 pm. $15/family ($12 for Tubac Presidio members).
Four families are welcome to participate in this family-focused program to explore nature and create your very own nature craft to take home. This experience is designed to be enjoyed by all ages but the activities are best suited for ages 5 and up. And after the Adventure, kids under 13 can get in free and adults receive discounted admission of $5 per person (free for members) to explore the park and its historic buildings.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to https://www.tubacpresidio.org/events-1/adventures-at-the-presidio-april-20/ <https://www.tubacpresidio.org/events-1/adventures-at-the-presidio-april-20/form?utm_campaign=263acbd6-5f5d-446b-88aa-727d437d4fea&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=f00a65fb-93c5-4c84-b9a6-4946900ab9ae> . For more information call 520-398-2252 or email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Sunday April 21, 2024: Tucson
“Mansions of Main Avenue Walking Tour” with Alan Kruse sponsored by Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, meeting at Café a la C’art, 150 N. Main Ave., Tucson*
9-11 am. $30 (Presidio Museum members $20).
Presidio Museum tour guide Alan Kruse leads a 1/4-mile-long stroll down Main Avenue to view the homes and hear the stories of the movers and shakers of early Tucson who lived in them, including Hiram and Petra Stevens (a prominent merchant couple whose domestic life was less than perfect), Sam Hughes (called by some the “father of Tucson” but involved in the Camp Grant Massacre along Aravaipa Creek), Annie Cheyney (whose newly restored 1905 home was the talk of the town), Albert Steinfeld (famous department store proprietor), Frank Hereford (attorney who represented the defendants in the Wham Robbery), and William Herring (Wyatt Earp’s lawyer once upon a time).
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register click on this date link: Sunday, April 21, 9-11 am <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=9599&qid=854610> ; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Monday April 22, 2024: Tucson
“Fort Lowell Neighborhood Walking Tour” with historian Ken Scoville sponsored by the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum starting at Fort Lowell Park, 2900 N. Craycroft Rd., Tucson*
9:30-11:30 am. $30 ($20 for Presidio Museum members).
Historian and preservationist Ken Scoville explains how physical features, cultural layers, and political decisions have shaped not just the story of the district but the development of Arizona as well, from Apache wars to development wars. Discover why the Fort Lowell area and the State of Arizona are the places they are today.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register click on this date link: <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=572> Monday, April 22, 9:30 am-11:30 am; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday April 22, 2024: Glendale, AZ
“Arizona Water Use from Prehistory to the Present” free presentation by historian Jim Turner at Glendale Public Library Foothills Branch, 19055 N. 57th Ave., Glendale, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
6:30-7:45 pm. Free.
This presentation covers humankind’s water use and food supply interactions with Arizona’s ecology from Clovis culture hunter-gatherers to precontact irrigation canals, contemporary Hopi and Tohono O’odham dry farming, and present-day American farmers. Jim Turner examines how overhunting and climate change may have affected the wooly mammoth populations and the agriculture experiments that followed. The Southwest’s Indigenous people developed methods to survive the region’s harsh climate. The Hopi and Tohono O’odham not only altered their physical environment but developed a cultural belief system that espoused frugality and harmony with their natural surroundings. This presentation, which also describes major water use legislation over more than three centuries, is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Sarah Herlache at 623-930-3844 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesday April 24, 2024: Surprise, AZ
“Indigenous Signs and Symbols: Pee-Posh/Kwatsan” free presentation with Yolanda Hart Stevens (Pee-Posh/Quechan) for City of Surprise AZ Speaker series at Surprise City Hall Council Chambers, 16000 N. Civic Center Plaza, Surprise, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
11 am-12 pm. Free.
Native Americans in the U.S. are diverse, and their contributions have enriched our lives in countless ways. People do not always realize the origins of Native contributions to the language, culture, and traditions of the U.S. What are Native signs and symbols? What do they mean? Where do they appear? They can represent animals and appear in petroglyphs, attire and much, much more. Explore the traditions and history of the Pee-Posh/Kwatsan. Learn about the signs and symbols that have been passed down for generations, and the meaning of tattoos and markings for this tribe. Yolanda Hart Stevens is a successful artist, community activist, and enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, Pee-Posh/Quechan who resides in the village of Komatke, Arizona. This program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact the City of Surprise at 623-222-2920 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday April 25, 2024: Sedona, AZ
“The Yavapai Journey” free presentation by Clissene Lewis for Verde Valley Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society meeting at the Sedona Public Library, 3250 White Bear Road, Sedona, Arizona*
3:30 pm. Free.
Clissene Lewis, Cultural Coordinator for and member of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, will focus on the history and culture of her Yavapai People with an emphasis on the Fort McDowell Indian Community. The Yavapai have had a long, arduous journey and have overcome many obstacles over the years. This presentation is an opportunity to promote dialogue with other communities, to bring an awareness of a broken past, and to share the unique government-to-government relationship between Indian tribes and the U.S Government. Her presentation is illustrated with many historical photographs and is drawn from a mix of family, tribal, and nontribal sources and includes some surprising stories and facts.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Linda Krumrie at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Friday April 26, 2024: Tucson
“Santa Cruz River History Tour” sponsored by Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, starting and ending at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
9-11 am. $35 ($25 for Presidio Museum members) includes admission to Mission Gardens.
This two-mile walking tour led by Mauro Trejo focuses on our relationship with the Santa Cruz River, how it supported Tucson’s early residents, and the 19th and 20th century factors that affected its demise. The tour includes the sites of the former Spanish mission and O’odham village that was the origin of modern Tucson, plus visits to Tucson’s tallest tree and the Garden of Gethsemane, a holy site of statues made by WWI veteran and artist Felix Lucero in the 1940s.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register click on this date link: <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=9960&qid=870055> Friday, April 26, 9-11 am; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday April 27, 2024: Del Rio, TX
“Guided Tour to Crab and Sunburst Shelters” with archaeologist Katie Wilson sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Devils River State Natural Area – Dan Hughes (South) Unit, Miers Ranch Road, Del Rio, Texas*
8 am-4 pm. $120.
Crab and Sunburst shelters are located within the Devils River State Natural Area, 45 miles north of Del Rio. Hiking to these sites you will not only see Pecos River style rock art but also stunning views of the Devils River, one of the last pristine, wild rivers in Texas and a haven for adventurers from all walks of life. Access to this spring-fed river is extremely limited and is one of the reasons why it has remained one of Texas’s most protected treasures. These state-protected lands are home to a diverse range of plants and animals and also designated as an International Dark Sky Sanctuary.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <http://www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
April 27, 2024: Near Sierra Vista, AZ
“History Walk to Millville and Petroglyphs” sponsored by Friends of the San Pedro River, Sierra Vista, AZ starting at the Millville and Petroglyph Discovery Trail parking area. This trailhead is located 7.5 miles east of Sierra Vista on Charleston Road. Turn into the Millville parking area near the “Fire Danger Level” sign on the north side of Charleston Rd. and meet by the vault toilet. This location is searchable as “Millville and Petroglyph Discovery Trail” in Google Maps.*
9-11 am. Free.
Take a tour with an FSPR docent to of Millville, the location of several historic silver mills and a once-thriving town as well as an adjacent Indian rock art site. The tour will focus on the history of mining and the mills. which were active during the Tombstone silver boom. This is about a two-mile walk on an uneven dirt and gravel trail that crosses through a deep wash. There is no shade, and it will be hot on sunny days. Please realistically assess your ability to do this walk. Wear a hat, sun protection, appropriate clothing, and sturdy shoes. Bring water and a snack.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact the Friends of the San Pedro River at 520-508-4445 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday April 27, 2024: Dragoon, AZ
“Tohono O'odham Himdag in Brush and Lens” exhibit celebration and artist talk with Michael Chiago at the Amerind Museum, 2100 N. Amerind Rd., Dragoon, Arizona*
11 am. Free.
The public is invited to join the entire Amerind community as it celebrates the exhibit Tohono O'odham Himdag in Brush and Lens: Painting by Michael Chiago and Photography of Bernard Siquieros that will be ongoing through October 31, 2024. Artist Michael Chiago will speak about his work at 11 am. Thanks to Amerind’s generous community partner Desert Diamond Casinos this event is free.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit https://www.amerind.org/events/artist-gallery-talk-reception-with-michael-chiago/ or contact Amerind at 520-586-3666 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday April 27, 2024: Tubac, AZ
“Álamos: A Colonial Silver Town in the Dry Tropics” presentation at Tubac Presidio State Historic Park visitor center, 1 Burruel Street, Tubac, Arizona*
2-3 pm. $15.
Imagine exploring a 17th-century colonial silver town in Mexico, learning about its culture and traditions as well as its ancient cemetery that comes alive for the Day of the Dead. This will be a vicarious trip to Álamos, Sonora, located in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains, from the comfort of Tubac Presidio's historic schoolhouse. This talk will explore this unique historical and natural landscape where the Sonoran Desert meets the subhumid tropical south of Mexico, as well as identify links between southern Arizona and Álamos.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register in advance go to https://www.tubacpresidio.org/events-1/alamos-a-colonial-silver-town-in-the-dry-tropics <https://www.tubacpresidio.org/events-1/alamos-a-colonial-silver-town-in-the-dry-tropics?cid=f00a65fb-93c5-4c84-b9a6-4946900ab9ae&utm_campaign=263acbd6-5f5d-446b-88aa-727d437d4fea&utm_medium=mail&utm_source=so> . For more information call 520-398-2252 or email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday April 27, 2024: Bluff, UT and online
“Envisioning a Cultural Landscape” free presentation with Gregory Munson, sponsored by Bears Ears Partnership at Bears Ears Education Center, 567 W. Main St., Hwy 191, Bluff, Utah, and online*
6 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free.
Gregory Munson (Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest) will discuss new ways to record, document and visualize the vast cultural landscape that describes the mesas, cliffs and canyons from the Canyons of the Ancients to the Bears Ears, focusng on the SCAAS Cultural Landscapes Survey Program. At the center of the program is expanding the concept of the archaeological site boundary to include resources from the local environment, relationships to nearby villages, how the architecture relates to the more distant landscape, alignment to horizon features such as mountain peaks and its connection to astronomical cycles and features in the day and night sky. The program implements new technologies in the use of photogrammetric 3D and terrain modeling to visualize a cultural landscape as a unified object that is inseparable from its parts.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register for the Zoom session go to <https://bearsearspartnership.org/events/gregory-munson-on-envisioning-a-cultural-landscape-2/individual-registration> https://bearsearspartnership.org/events/gregory-munson-on-envisioning-a-cultural-landscape-2/individual-registration. For more information call the Bears Ears Education Center at 435-672-2402 or contact Greg Munson at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Sunday April 28, 2024: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Painted Shelter” with archaeologist Katie Wilson sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Shumla Center, 28 Langtry St., Comstock, Texas*
8 am-2 pm. $60.
Painted Shelter is in an unnamed tributary canyon of the Rio Grande on private property. A spring-fed stream runs in front of the pictographs panel, creating several long pools. Painted Shelter is home to the best-preserved example of the Red Monochrome style of rock imagery as well as remnant Pecos River style murals.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <http://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 28, 2024: Santa Fe
“10,000 Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences” lecture by archaeologist Tim A. Kohler cosponsored by the School for Advanced Research (SAR) and the New Mexico History Museum at the Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., Santa Fe, New Mexico*
2-3:30 pm. $3 to $10.
This year's Linda S. Cordell Lecture features Washington State University Regents Professor Emeritus of Archaeology and Evolutionary Anthropology Tim Kohler, who asks how and why inequality developed. To answer, he draws on new, unpublished data from the Global Dynamics of Inequality project, of which he is co-director. Dr. Kohler will explain why inequality has long been a critical social issue and why it persists. His presentation will include an examination of the pre-Hispanic Southwest, including Chaco Canyon.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to https://sarweb.org/date/10000-years-of-inequality-tim-a-kohler/ <https://sarweb.org/date/10000-years-of-inequality-tim-a-kohler/?bbeml=tp-YelBNYwGo02zo8rFIgpcGg.jAOO6mIWNnEu7E2mtvf-_tw.rA_sWaGEvuUOsU9Y7lvajpA.lZrv6jslJQk2BMaH9motngg> . For more information contact SAR at 505-954-7200 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Sunday April 28, 2024: Tucson*
“Barrio Viejo (Old Neighborhood)” walking tour sponsored by the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, starting at El Tiradito Wishing Shrine, 418 S. Main Ave., Tucson*
10-11:30 am. $30 ($20 Presidio Museum members); Optional: Add $10 to attend after-tour gathering at El Minuto Restaurant.
Experience the rich history of Tucson on the one-mile Barrio Viejo (“Old Neighborhood”) walking tour, which goes through the largest collection of historic Sonoran row houses in the United States. For over 100 years, Barrio Viejo was the heart of Tucson’s social, economic, and cultural life. On this 90-minute walking tour, your tour guide will discuss the history of the neighborhood, its architecture, and the individuals, businesses, and cultures that have met there. For an additional $10 participants have the option of joining the 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 or to register click on this date link: <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=13034&qid=993073> Sunday, April 28, 10-11:30 am; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesday May 1, 2024: San Tan Valley, AZ
“Thinking about the American Southwest” free presentation with geographer Scott Warren at San Tan Valley Library Bronze Room (Building A), 31505 N. Schnepft Rd., San Tan Valley, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
10-11:30 am. Free.
For many of us, the American Southwest is distinctive because of its landscape, culture, and history. We see, for instance, its mountains, deserts, and canyons. We are aware of its diverse cultures. And we have some understanding of the Indigenous, Mexican, and U.S. histories that have brought us to the present moment. But a careful examination of these taken-for-granted features reveals that there is more than meets the eye. Beneath this surface we find that the American Southwest is as much a product of the imagination as it is a geographical fact. In this presentation we take insights from the field of cultural geography to consider how the Southwest came to be a distinctive region both on the ground and in our minds, and we question whether these distinctive landscapes conceal as much as they reveal about our southwestern society. Scott Warren is an academic geographer whkose research, teaching, and experience is at the intersection of people and place in the broad Mexico-U.S. borderland. This program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information call the Library at 520-866-8035.
Wednesday May 1, 2024: Online
“Telling the Story of Iosepa: Archaeology, Oral History, and Public Education” free online presentation with Ally Gerlach sponsored by Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Salt Lake City*
12-1 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free.
Archaeology offers a fascinating window into history through the study of material objects. By combining artifacts with written records and oral histories, a clearer picture of the past emerges. It's crucial for archaeologists to engage the public, making knowledge accessible and engaging. A case study from the Iosepa, Utah settlement illustrates this, as collaboration with descendant communities resulted in a mobile exhibit. This approach showcases how community involvement enriches public understanding of archaeology, fostering diverse narratives and interpretations of the past.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to https://utah-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PQViQCtVQgivlf8nZOLKRA#/registration. For more information contact Elizabeth Hora at 801-535-2504 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Thursday May 2, 2024: Tucson
“Caretakers of the Land: History of Land and Water in the San Xavier Community” presentation by Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan, PhD (Tohono O’odham) in Tohono Chul Park’s Wilson Room (at the front of the park next to the bistro), 7366 N Paseo Del Norte, Tucson; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
5:30-7 pm. Free.
Farming has always been the way of life for the Tohono O’odham community in San Xavier, located just south of Tucson. Their way of life depended on access to the land and to the water, namely the Santa Cruz River, which nourished agriculture in the area for generations. But a history of division sown through government land allotments and land development plans, coupled with the declining flow of the Santa Cruz, fractured community farming. How did the community come together to revitalize the land for future generations? What lessons can we learn from their story? Join Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan for a program about land, water, and community in San Xavier. Dr. Ramon-Sauberan is Tohono O’odham from the San Xavier District. She serves as faculty in the Tohono O’odham Studies Program at Tohono O’odham Community College and as the Tohono O’odham Nation Education Development Liaison for Kitt Peak National Observatory.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Vivianna Sanchez at 520-742-6455 ext 228 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Friday-Sunday May 3-5, 2024: Las Vegas, NM
“Archaeological Society of New Mexico (ASNM) Annual Meeting” hosted by the Site Steward Foundation (SSF) at the Plaza Hotel, 230 Plaza St., Las Vegas, New Mexico*
Times TBA. Registration $50 until April 1, thereafter $60 ($30 students with ID); Saturday buffet dinner extra (purchase by April 1).
“Archaeology of Northeastern New Mexico and Pueblo-Plains Interactions” is the theme of this year’s ASNM Conference. Friday, registration and tour signup, meet and greet reception, appetizers, cash bar, silent auction, affiliates tables. Saturday, registration and tour signup, coffee, pastries and fruit, affiliates tables, session presentations, ASNM members meeting, silent auction, cash bar, buffet dinner, awards and Bandelier Lecture “Interesting Times: A Career Perspective on Archaeology, History, and Identity in New Mexico” by archaeologist Dr. Eric Blinman. Sunday tour options: Arroyo Hondo Pueblo Tour (Santa Fe), La Cieneguilla Petroglyphs (Santa Fe), Forked Lightning Pueblo (Pecos National Historic Park), El Pueblo (LA 1697 south of San Jose along I-25), Mills Canyon Comanche Pictographs (Mills, NM). Discounted hotel room rates available for conference registrants at the Plaza Hotel and Castaneda Hotel, Las Vegas; reservations for discounted room rate due by April 1.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information go to https://archaeologicalsocietynm.org/.
Saturday May 4, 2024: Gallup, NM
“Friends of Hubbell Native Arts Auction” sponsored by Friends of Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, at Gallup Community Center, 410 Bataan Veterans St., Gallup, New Mexico*
Preview 9-11:30 am, auction 12-4 pm. Free to attend and free parking.
Approximately 350 items will be auctioned in this Friends of Hubbell Trading Post semiannual event that generates funds for Native American college scholarships. The Friends of Hubbell organization contributes to the management objectives of the National Park Service at Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, supports revitalization of Native American arts and crafts, and provides college scholarships to Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Acoma, Laguna, and Southern Ute Nation students. The Gallup Community Center is most easily accessed from I-40 Exit 22. A special room rate is available at La Quinta Inn in Gallup when you mention FoH.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit www.friendsorhubbell.org <http://www.friendsorhubbell.org> or email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday May 4, 2024: Near Sierra Vista, AZ
“History Walk to Clanton Ranch” free history hike sponsored by the Friends of the San Pedro River (FSPR), Sierra Vista, Arizona, starting at the Escapule Trailhead. Escapule Rd. intersects with Charleston Rd. 6 miles east of Sierra Vista; from there turn south on Escapule Rd. and drive 1.3 miles south; look for a dirt parking area on the left side where a docent will place a directional sign at its entrance, a left turn; location is searchable in Google Maps as "Escapule Trailhead”*
9-11 am. Free.
FSPR docent Sandy Heusman leads this walk to the Clanton Ranch site. Here Old Man Clanton grazed (stolen) cattle in a large pasture along the San Pedro River. This site was a key location in the Wyatt Earp vs. The Cowboys epic. The round trip to the site requires 1.5 miles of walking total. The trail is uneven gravel and dirt. The last 20 feet or so go up a gradual hill on a rocky, uneve`n trail. Please realistically assess your ability to participate in this walk.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information call 520-508-4445 or email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday & Sunday May 4 & 5, 2024: Bernalillo, NM
“Bernalillo Indian Arts Festival” in Loretto Park, 237 S. Camino Del Pueblo, Bernalillo, New Mexico*
Contact BIAF for hours. Free to browse.
The Bernalillo Indian Arts Festival (BIAF) is an annual Indian Art Market presented by Authentic Native Arts Association, Inc. This Native American event is a traditional festival with classification standards of excellence. A true Indian Market, it features 200 juried artists,a nd there is a performance on the main stage starting each hour.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Sara Chadwick at 505-867-9667 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesday May 8, 2024: Online
“Early 20th Century Urban Apartments: Then and Now” free online presentation with Amber Anderson and Roger Roper, sponsored by Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Salt Lake City*
12-1 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free.
Amber Anderson and Roger Roper are guides for Salt Lake City's "urban apartment" boom, with around 200 buildings constructed between 1902 and 1930 still standing today. Join this webinar to learn about the architecture and social context shaping this innovative housing, compared to modern apartment trends. Dive into project case studies, uncovering the motivations driving recent rehabilitation efforts for these historic urban apartments. Register now for an insightful presentation on how past solutions inform contemporary urban living.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to https://utah-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_70ynfusQRTGGXN_p51ESAQ#/registration. For more information contact Elizabeth Hora at 801-535-2504 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesday May 8, 2024: Cave Creek, AZ
“Arizona Water Use from Prehistory to the Present” free presentation by historian Jim Turner for Desert Foothills Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society meeting at Good Shepherd of the Hills Fellowship Hall, 6502 E. Cave Creek Rd., Cave Creek, Arizona*
7:30-8:30 pm; refreshment and socialization beginning at 7 pm. Free.
See April 22 listing for talk description.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Mary Kearney at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Wednesdays May 8-August 7, 2024: Online
“The Mogollon Culture of the US Southwest” 14-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 pm each Wednesday evening May 8-August 7, 2024. $109 donation per person ($90 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures. Donation does not include cost of optional AAS membership or AAS Certification Program enrollment.
Registered Professional Archaeologist Allen Dart teaches this class in 14 two-hour sessions on Wednesday evenings May 8-August 7, 2024, to explore the archaeology of the ancient Mogollon culture of the American Southwest. The class covers the history of Mogollon archaeology, Mogollon origins, the complex subregional Mogollon “branches,” chronology of habitation, subsistence and settlement patterns through time, artifacts, rock art, religious and social organization, depopulation and movement, and descendant peoples. 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 – Mogollon” course. Students seeking AAS Certification are expected to prepare a brief research report to be presented orally or in written or video format. 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 the TCE 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 pm Friday May 3, whichever is earlier. To register or 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 Mogollon class flyer” in your email subject line.
Wednesday-Monday May 8-13, 2024: New Mexico communities
TOUR FULL – WAITING LIST “SMRC Spring 2024 New Mexico Tour” sponsored by Southwestern Mission Research Center, Tucson*
7:30 am Wednesday-4:30 pm Monday. $1,495 per person, double occupancy ($1,895 single) includes motor coach transportation, all accommodations, venue fees, honorariums, most meals, snacks and beverages.
This tour with SMRC’s knowledgeable scholars as guides departs via motor coach from Tucson and focuses on historic sites important in central New Mexico’s Spanish colonial period. It will visit Las Cruces, Old Mesilla, Socorro, the Salinas missions (Abó, Gran Quivira, and Quarai), Albuquerque’s Old Town, El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, the Santa Fe Plaza and surroundings, Pecos National Historical Park, San Miguel del Vado, and Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Villanueva. It also includes stops at New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute and, in Mesilla, the Farmer’s Market, the Rio Grande Winery (including wine tasting), a margarita party at La Posta.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Registration and final payment due April 1st. For more information contact Monica Young at 520-621-6278 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Tuesday & Wednesday May 14 & 15, 2024: Albuquerque
“Looting, Vandalism and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act” training sponsored by Jornada Research Institute (JRI, Tularosa, NM) at U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Area Office, 555 Broadway Blvd NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico*
9 am-4 pm each day. $190 ($180 JRI members and students).
This two-day workshop will combine classroom instruction and field applications covering major legislation (including the Archaeological Resources Protection Act), legal and criminal frameworks, case studies and damage assessment procedures. Field instruction includes assessing and recording site damage from looting and vandalism. The class counts toward the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division’s continuing education requirements on an hour-to-hour basis.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Jeffery Hanson at 817-658-5544 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesday May 15, 2024: Online
“What Have We Learned about the Mural at Fate Bell” free Lunch & Learn presentation by Diana Radillo Rolón, PhD, sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, Comstock, Texas*
12 pm Central Daylight Time. Free.
One of the murals Shumla has focused on during the Hearthstone Project is the composition at the south end of Fate Bell Shelter in Seminole Canyon State Park, Texas. It is exceptionally well preserved and highly complex. In today’s Lunch & Learn, Diana will share what researchers are learning about this key five-figure mural through digital microscopy, high-tech illustration, and the knowledge shared by Indigenous elders.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to https://shumla.org/lunchandlearn/. For more information contact Shumla at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesday May 15, 2024: Online
“Archaeology Behind the Lens” free online presentation with Matt Stirn, sponsored by Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Salt Lake City*
12-1 pm Mountain Daylight Time: Free.
What is it like photographing pyramids in Sudan for Smithsonian Magazine? How about covering an excavation from a Trojan War palace in Greece for The New York Times? In this lecture archaeologist and photojournalist Matt Stirn will talk about his transition from researching precontact villages in the Rocky Mountains to covering archaeology stories around the world for magazines and newspapers.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to https://utah-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hMDmqGvUQcSxs_WB6AO4wA#/registration. For more information contact Elizabeth Hora at 801-535-2504 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesday May 15, 2024: Online
“Recalibrating the Significance of Prehistoric Sites of the Great Sage Plain in the Mesa Verde Heartland” free online presentation with Jason Chuipka, sponsored by Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Salt Lake City*
6-7 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free.
This free public webinar explores the significance of the Great Sage Plain's archaeological sites. From sacred landscapes for Native American communities to valuable data sources for researchers, these sites captivate with their timeless allure. Discover how they intertwine with political agendas, garnering national and international attention. Stretching from Mesa Verde to the Abajo Mountains, this vast expanse holds stories of the past and challenges of preservation. Delve into the sociocultural dynamics of ancient societies and the modern efforts to safeguard these cultural treasures.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to https://utah-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UM5eoLF_RzKwGeGuniaBZg. For more information contact Elizabeth Hora at 801-535-2504 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Thursday May 16, 2024: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring the presentation “’Of Noble Kings Descended’: Colonial Documents and the Ancient Southwest” by archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
Early Spanish and Mexican records may have much to tell us about the ancient Southwest. Those records, of course, recount events and conditions of their times, but many also contain startling information apparently relevant to older places like Chaco Canyon and Casas Grandes. From Villagrá to von Humboldt, Dr. Lekson will review a number of “possible/potential/probable” insights for deeper history found in early colonial documents, and will contextualize these in light of Native accounts and archaeological data.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Np83er-RGaBcugjFIAuwA> https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Np83er-RGaBcugjFIAuwA. 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 [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> with “Send May 16 THIRDTHURSDAY flyer” in your email subject line.
Thursday-Monday May 16 - 20, 2024: Farmington, NM and online
“ARARA 2024 Conference” sponsored by the American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA) at the Courtyard Marriott, 560 Scott Ave., Farmington, New Mexico*
Times TBA. $95 per member; discounts for students, children, and Native American attendees. Virtual option $75 per household.
For this 50th anniversary conference ARARA returns to the New Mexico city where its first one was held in 1974: Farmington, near the “four corners” where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona come together. Farmington is surrounded by a culturally significant landscape with abundant rock imagery and other archaeological sites including Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Canyon of the Ancients, and Canyon de Chelly. The Aztec and Salmon ruins are nearby in the San Juan Valley and the Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute, Jicarilla Apache, and Navajo Nations surround Farmington. A special preconference trip to the Mesa Prieta petroglyphs site near Velarde, NM, is planned for Thursday May 16. There are many field trip options to choose from on Friday and Monday, and a reception, speakers, and awards on Friday evening. Saturday features presentations and an evening reception at San Juan County’s Salmon Ruins Museum, and a members meeting, presentations, and banquet are on tap for Sunday. And for the first time ARARA will offer a virtual-only registration option so people who choose not to travel to Farmington can watch the Saturday and Sunday daytime presentations and participate in the member meeting.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit https://arara.wildapricot.org/Conference-Info-2024-Details#Registration. To register for the virtual conference go to https://arara.wildapricot.org/event-5646592. The conference is open to ARARA members only – to join, click here <https://arara.wildapricot.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=PUhi%2bX03O3zNd0h%2fQY45zB11%2bMgc8hWnHwukbPwtB9kdE2gt6YwewULjuZ6jcTVy%2fHD2%2bogj%2bWtatiY%2bE1TwpI0SOuj943BC7GfCBnrhGxw%3d> .
Monday May 20, 2024: Tucson and online
“Los Barros de Juan Quezada (The Clays of Juan Quezada): Ethnographic and Compositional Analyses of Juan Quezada’s Clay Sources in and near Juan Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico” free presentation by archaeologists Maren Hopkins and Kelsey Hanson, sponsored by Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS), optional online or in Environmental & Natural Resources (ENR) Bldg. 2, Room 107 (ground-floor auditorium), 1064 E. Lowell St., University of Arizona, Tucson*
7-8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Juan Quezada is a well-known ceramic artisan from the village of Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico, who spent his lifetime studying the rocks and minerals near his home. While his contribution to the internationally renowned Mata Ortiz pottery tradition is well established, his knowledge of the physical environment remains an understudied aspect of his life’s work. In an effort to highlight this important component of Juan Quezada’s legacy, Maren Hopkins and Kelsey Hanson documented various clay sources near Mata Ortiz and studied them compositionally using techniques common in archaeology, including neutron activation analysis (NAA), x-ray fluorescence (XRF), x-ray diffraction (XRD), and petrography. As the project progressed, the story of Juan Quezada’s clays evolved into a rich narrative of personal and shared experiences, history, land tenure, geology, toponomy, and more. Juan Quezada’s story brought the land to life. The compositional component of the project led to a new understanding of identity through the materialization of unique geological signatures expressed in each clay in terms of elements, minerals, and particles that are inherently tied to Mata Ortiz pots found on people’s shelves and mantles worldwide.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For in-person meeting, no reservations are needed and $1/hr parking is available in U of A 6th St. garage immediately east of ENR. To register for online presentation go to https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mqvsW6x2SMGVmdTm2mofFw#/registration. For details visit www.az-arch-and-hist.org <http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org> or contact Susan Bierer at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesday May 22, 2024: Online
“Local History of Northwestern Band of Shoshone Living” free online presentation with Bradley Parry (Shoshone), sponsored by Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Salt Lake City*
12-1 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free.
The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has lived in what is now northern Utah, eastern Idaho, and western Wyoming since time immemorial. Brad Parry, Vice-Chairman of the Northwestern Band, knows these histories well. His presentation will discuss the history of Shoshone migration patterns and interaction with fur trappers and Mormon pioneers. He calls on his background in natural resources to talk about how plants and animals were used to survive in this beautiful, difficult environment that the Shoshone call home.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to https://utah-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DrwdmaJKT7igU6aasmvlcg#/registration. For more information contact Elizabeth Hora at 801-535-2504 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Sundays-Fridays May 26-31, June 2-7, June 9-14, and June 16-21:
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, CO
““Hornbek Homestead” volunteer-assisted rehabilitation, repair, and stabilization project sponsored by HistoriCorps and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado*
Arrive between 5 and 7 pm first day; daylight hours daily thereafter. No fees.
The Hornbek Homestead built in 1878 is significant for its association with the Homestead Act of 1862 as being the first application to the Florissant area west of Colorado Springs. Today the homestead survives under stewardship of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, which acquired the property in 1973. This season’s effort focuses on restoring the traditionally constructed outbuildings: a bunkhouse, carriage shed, and milk barn. Tents, truck campers, and small campervans are welcome. RVs and trailers cannot be accommodated at this project location. HistoriCorps provides all meals, tools, training, equipment, and a campsite. Showers are available. Volunteers are responsible for their own transportation to the campsite, sleeping equipment, work gloves, clothes and boots, and other personal gear.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information and to register go to https://historicorps.org/hornbek-homestead-co-2024/ or contact HistoriCorps at 720-287-0100 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesday May 29, 2024: Online
“With Great Power Comes Great Hydroelectricity” free online presentation with Jansen Bennett, sponsored by Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Salt Lake City*
12-1 pm Mountain Daylight Time: Free.
Take a virtual journey through history as architect Jansen Bennett guides you on an exclusive tour of one of the oldest hydroelectric power plants in western North America. Together, we’ll examine the fascinating Olmstead Hydroelectric Plant, nestled at the mouth of Provo Canyon, through an immersive video tour. This webinar provides insights into the plant’s design, construction, and ongoing technological upgrades. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions about the architectural history of the plant, making this a truly interactive experience.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to https://utah-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DrwdmaJKT7igU6aasmvlcg#/registration. For more information contact Elizabeth Hora at 801-535-2504 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday July 13, 2024: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Tour of the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at U of A” meets in the courtyard at Mercado San Agustín, 100 S. Avenida del Convento, Tucson
7:45 am to 12:30 pm. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
This Old Pueblo Archaeology Center summer tour visits two TOO-COOL environmental-science laboratories in Tucson – the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR), both administered by The University of Arizona (UA). The Tumamoc Desert Laboratory began its existence in 1903 as the Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory established by the Carnegie Institution of Washington and is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Tree-Ring Lab also has a venerable record of research in archaeology, astronomy, and environmental sciences, created in 1937 by the founder of dendrochronology as a science: UA Professor of Astronomy Andrew Ellicott Douglass. Tour presenters and guides will include archaeologists Paul and Suzanne Fish, the Tumamoc Lab’s Robert Villa and Lynne Schepartz, and LTRR docent Donna MacEachern. The drive from the Mercado San Agustín meeting place to the Tumamoc Lab is limited to five vehicles so tour is limited to 20 people and carpooling is required. After returning to the Mercado, all participants can take their own vehicles in a caravan to the LTRR.
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Saturday August 31, 2024: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Popol Vuh and the Hero Twins in Mesoamerica and the US Southwest” tour led by Mary Jo McMullen and Allen Dart at Tucson Museum of Art (TMA), 140 N. Main Ave., Tucson
1 to 3:30 pm. $25 donation ($20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
Sidestepping Tucson’s August heat, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s comfortable indoor tour this month will be at the Tucson Museum of Art downtown, led by TMA docent and Old Pueblo member Mary Jo McMullen. TMA’s “Popol Vuh and the Maya Art of Storytelling” exhibit focuses on art and lore related to the Popol Vuh, a narrative of the K’iche Maya about the origins of the world and heroic twin brothers who descended to the underworld to conquer Death. Archaeologist Allen Dart will comment on precontact images in the US Southwest that may depict elements of the Hero Twins story, and will assist Mary Jo in answering questions about the Popol Vuh exhibit and two others included in the tour: “Art of the Ancient Americas” and “Stories from Clay: Indigenous Art Pottery.” We encourage participants to visit TMA’s other galleries and gift shop after the tour since the donation to Old Pueblo provides entry fee to all of the Museum’s galleries. Tour is limited to 20 people.
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September 4-December 11, 2024 (skipping October 23): Online
“The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona” 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
Each Wednesday 6:30 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time through Oct. 30). $109 donation per person ($90 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, AAS, and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures. 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 14 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 –Hohokam” 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.
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Sunday September 22, 2024: Tucson-Marana, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Autumn Equinox Tour to Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Sites” with archaeologist Allen Dart departing from near Silverbell Road and Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana, Arizona
8 am to noon. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
The 2024 autumn equinox occurs on Sunday Sept. 22, 2024 at 5:44 am Arizona/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time; 12:44 pm Greenwich Mean Time). To celebrate the equinox day (but not the exact time!) and explore ancient people's recognition of equinoxes 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, bedrock mortars, and other archaeological features; and to Picture Rocks, where ancient petroglyphs include a solstice and equinox calendar marker, dancing human-like figures, whimsical animals, and other rock symbols made by Hohokam Indians between 800 and 1100 CE. An equinox calendar petroglyph at Picture Rocks exhibits a specific interaction with a ray of sunlight on the morning of each equinox regardless of the hour and minute of the actual celestial equinox, so participants in this tour will see that sunlight interaction with the calendar glyph unless clouds block the sunlight.
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Saturday October 19, 2024: Tucson
“Vista Del Rio Archaeology Celebration” free children's activities sponsored by the Vista del Rio Residents Association and Old Pueblo Archaeology Center at the City of Tucson's Vista del Rio Cultural Resource Park, 7575 E. Desert Arbors St. (at Dos Hombres Road), Tucson
9 am to 3 pm. Free.
This outdoor program features hands-on activities, demonstrations, and information to make people aware of an ancient village site in Tucson's Vista del Rio Cultural Park where people lived between 1000 and 1150 CE. Adults and children, especially ages 6 to 12, can learn about people of the Hohokam archaeological culture who lived at Vista del Rio and elsewhere in southern Arizona through this Saturday’s activities along the park’s trails. There will be demonstrations of traditional Native American pottery-making and arrowhead-making plus opportunities to play traditional Native American games, grind corn using an ancient metate and mano, practice throwing a rabbit stick, and make your own hand-built pottery, stone-and-bead jewelry, split-twig-figurines, cordage, and dance rattles to take home.
No reservations are needed. For more information contact Old Pueblo Archaeology Center in Tucson at 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Saturday November 2, 2024: Agua Fria National Monument, AZ
TOUR FULL – WAITING LIST Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Badger Springs Pueblo and Petroglyphs Archaeology and Geology Tour” with JJ Golio and Allen Dart in Agua Fria National Monument, starting at Badger Springs Trailhead parking area ca. 1 mile east of Interstate-17 Exit 256 (Badger Springs).
10 am to 5 pm. $55 donation per person ($45 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
Agua Fria National Monument, located approximately 40 miles north of central Phoenix, was established in 2000 by President Bill Clinton to protect its extensive and important cultural and natural resources. Encompassing two mesas, the canyon of the Agua Fria River, and the river’s tributaries including Badger Spring Wash, the monument protects numerous archaeological sites as well as outstanding geological and biological resources. This Old Pueblo tour will visit Badger Springs Pueblo, a 70-plus room precontact settlement perched atop a high bluff, plus ancient boulder metates and bedrock outcrops with figurative petroglyphs. It also will stop at a historical arrastre – an ore-grinding mill in which heavy stones attached to horizontal poles radiating from a central pillar were turned by a draft animal or powered by water to drag the stones on the mill’s floor of stone to pulverize ore. Guides also will point out and interpret geologic processes in which Badger Spring Wash cut through the basalt and granodiorite to create colorful red, pink, yellow, green, brown, white, dark gray, and black formations, some including xenoliths.
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Wednesday December 4, 2024
Wednesday December 4 at 5 pm is the deadline for getting tickets from Old Pueblo Archaeology Center for the 2024 Jim Click “Millions for Tucson Raffle,” for which the prizes are a 2024 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe Plug-in Hybrid SUV valued at $61,180 (MSRP), two first-class round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the world, and $5,000 cash.
On Thursday December 12, Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give away a 2024 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe Plug-in Hybrid SUV in a raffle to raise $Millions for southern Arizona nonprofit organizations including Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. With your contribution you could win this slick but rugged 2024 vehicle (MSRP starting at $61,180) – or two first-class round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply), or $5,000 in cash! Ticket sales benefit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other southern Arizona charities, so get your tickets from Old Pueblo before we sell all the ones that have been allotted to us!
Cost: 5 tickets for $100 or $25 per ticket. And 100% of what you contribute to Old Pueblo for tickets will go directly to Old Pueblo’s education programs because Old Pueblo gets to keep all of the proceeds from our ticket sales!
Old Pueblo’s raffle rules: To be entered in the raffle Old Pueblo Archaeology Center must receive your request for tickets and your donation for them no later than 5 pm Wednesday December 4th so we can turn in all of our sold tickets to the raffle manager the next day. Old Pueblo must account for all tickets issued to us and must return all unsold tickets, so advance payment for tickets is required. Tickets may be purchased through the PayPal “Donation” button on Old Pueblo’s <http://www.oldpueblo.org> www.oldpueblo.org home page or by calling 520-603-6181 to provide your Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express card payment authorization. Once payment is received, Old Pueblo will enter your name and contact information on your ticket(s), enter your ticket(s) into the drawing, and mail you the correspondingly numbered ticket stubs with a letter acknowledging your contribution.
Winners consent to be photographed and for their names and likenesses to be used by the Jim Click Automotive Team and/or the Russell Public Communications firm for publicity and advertising purposes.
For tickets or more information about Old Pueblo’s involvement in the raffle contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] For more information about The Jim Click Automotive Team’s Millions for Tucson Raffle itself visit <http://www.millionsfortucson.org> www.millionsfortucson.org.
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Saturday December 7, 2024: Ironwood Forest National Monument, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Chukui Kawi/Cerro Prieto ֍ Inscription Hill ֎ Pan Quemado: Yoeme Sacred Mountain, Hohokam Trincheras, and Petroglyphs” car-caravan cultural sites tour with Yoeme traditional culture specialist Felipe S. Molina and archaeologist Allen Dart, meeting at McDonald’s restaurant, 13934 N. Sandario Rd., Marana, Arizona (near Interstate 10 Exit 236).
8 am to 4 pm. $55 donation per person ($45 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
Cerro Prieto (Spanish for “Dark Hill”) is a volcanic peak soaring about 900 feet above the surrounding plain in the Ironwood Forest National Monument northwest of Tucson. It is a sacred place known to the Yoeme (Yaqui Indians) as Chukui Kawi (“Black Mountain”) and one of the largest and most complex US archaeological sites featuring trincheras – massive rock-work terraces built on steep hillsides. The archaeological features were constructed and used by the Hohokam culture during the Tanque Verde phase (1150-1300 CE) and include house foundations, waffle gardens, check dams, trail systems, petroglyphs, rock walls, talus pits, and a stone source used to produce agave knives, suggesting its use for a variety of residential functions, ceremonies, and agriculture. Inscription Hill contains one of the densest petroglyph groupings in southern Arizona, encompassing at least 1,225 individual glyphs plus bedrock metates, trincheras, trail segments, and talus pits. During this trip Yoeme traditional culture specialist Felipe Molina will discuss the significance of Chukui Kawi to the Yoeme and archaeologist Al Dart will lead us to some of the Cerro Prieto trincheras and the nearby Inscription Hill petroglyphs.
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Saturday February 8, 2025: Tucson & Marana, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's “Tucson and Marana Yoeme (Yaqui Indian) Communities” car-caravan cultural sites tour with Yoeme traditional culture specialist Felipe S. Molina starting in the Santa Cruz River Park ramada at 1317 W. Irvington Road, Tucson (on south side of Irvington just west of the Santa Cruz River)
8 am to 1 pm. $35 donation per person ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
Felipe S. Molina was taught the Indigenous language, culture, and history of the Yoemem (Yaqui Indians) by his maternal grandfather and grandmother, his grandmother's cousin, and several elders from Tucson's original Pascua Village. A steady stream of Yoeme migrated into southern Arizona to escape the Mexican government's war on and deportations of the Yoeme in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By 1940 there were about 3,000 Yoeme in Arizona, mostly living in the well-established villages of Libre (Barrio Libre) and Pascua (Barrio Loco) in Tucson, Yoem Pueblo and Wiilo Kampo in Marana, and others near Eloy, Somerton, Phoenix, and Scottsdale. Mr. Molina will lead this tour to places settled historically by Yoeme in the Tucson and Marana areas including Bwe'u Hu'upa (Big Mesquite) Village, the San Martin Church and plaza in the 39th Street Community (Barrio Libre), Pascua, Ili Hu'upa, Wiilo Kampo, and his home community of Yoem Pueblo including its San Juan Church and plaza.
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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, so donations and membership fees are tax-deductible up to amounts specified by law.
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For payment by mail please make check or money order payable to Old Pueblo Archaeology Center or simply OPAC, and include a printed explanation of what your payment is for. If it’s for or includes a membership fee, you can print the Enrollment/Subscription form from Old Pueblo’s www.oldpueblo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Old-Pueblo-Membership-Subscription-Application-Form-20181215.doc <https://www.oldpueblo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Old-Pueblo-Membership-Subscription-Application-Form-20181215.doc> web page and complete the appropriate information on that form. Mail payment and information sheet to Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717. (Mail sent to Old Pueblo’s street address gets returned to senders because there is no mailbox at our street address.)
To start or renew an Old Pueblo membership online you can visit our www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/ <http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/> web page, scroll down to the bottom of that page, and follow the instructions for using our secure online membership form or our printable Enrollment/Subscription form.
To make a donation using PayPal, please go to the www.oldpueblo.org <http://www.oldpueblo.org> home page, scroll down to the “Donate” section, click on the “Donate” button above the PayPal logo, and follow the prompts.
To make a credit card or debit card payment without going online you can call Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201, tell the person who answers you’d like to make a credit card donation or payment, and provide your card authorization. We advise that you do not provide credit card or debit card numbers to us in an email. Old Pueblo accepts Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express card payments.
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,
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director (Volunteer)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
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