For Immediate Release
Hello!
This message is to let you know that Tucson's nonprofit Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center still has a few openings on our March and April tours.
Saturday March 2, 2024: Tucson
Only two openings left - but see ENCORE March 2 Vista del Rio tour
listing below! Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Vista del Rio Archaeological
Site Free Tour" guided by archaeologist Allen Dart at the Vista del Rio
Cultural Resource Park, 7575 E. Desert Arbors St. (at Dos Hombres Road),
Tucson
9-11 am. Free.
In celebration of Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month,
archaeologist Allen Dart (Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's executive
director) leads this tour to Vista del Rio, an ancient village of the
southern Arizona Hohokam archaeological culture that was inhabited between
1000 and 1150 CE. Archaeological test excavations there revealed evidence of
Hohokam houses, outdoor ovens and pits, and possibly an ancient irrigation
canal. These features are no longer visible but in this tour Mr. Dart will
show subtle clues to their existence.
Reservations are required by 5 pm Thursday February 29: 520-798-1201
or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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about the above-listed activity send an email to
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Tour flyer" in your email subject line.
Saturday March 2, 2024: Tucson
Several openings left: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Vista del Rio
Archaeological Site 1 to 3 pm ENCORE Free Tour" guided by archaeologist
Allen Dart at the Vista del Rio Cultural Resource Park, 7575 E. Desert
Arbors St. (at Dos Hombres Road), Tucson
1-3 pm. Free.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's 9-11 am "Vista del Rio Archaeological
Site Free Tour" celebrating Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month
has filled so quickly after it was announced that we are offering this
second, same-day opportunity to tour the site from 1-3 pm. See description
for the morning tour above.
Reservations are required by 5 pm Thursday February 29: 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 Vista del Rio AFTERNOON flyer" in your email
subject line.
Tuesday March 19, 2024: Tucson-Marana, AZ
Tour full but has short waiting list: Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center's "Spring Equinox Tour to 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 am to noon. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center and S'edav Va'aki Museum Foundation members) helps cover Old Pueblo's
tour expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and
traditional cultures.
The 2024 vernal equinox occurs on Tuesday March 19, 2024 at
8:06 pm Mountain Standard Time (Mar. 20, 3:06 am 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 mostly Hohokam Indians between 800 and 1100 CE.
An equinox calendar petroglyph at the site 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.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm
Sunday March 17, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[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 [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with "Send Spring Equinox Tour flyer" in your
email subject line.
Saturday April 6, 2024: Fort Huachuca/Sierra Vista & Naco, AZ
Only six openings left: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's
"Garden Canyon, Fort Huachuca, and Camp Naco Pictographs, Archaeology, and
History" tour with archaeologist Allen Dart and historic architect R. Brooks
Jeffery, starting at the Van Deman Gate Visitor Control Center, Hatfield
St., Fort Huachuca, Arizona
8:30 am to 3:30 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.
Located on the historic Fort Huachuca Army Post, the Garden
Canyon site is a precontact American Indian settlement near where the
Mogollon, Hohokam, and Trincheras archaeological cultures came together.
Limited excavations at this site revealed remnants of pithouses and
above-ground dwellings, funerary features, and pottery and other artifacts.
Farther up Garden Canyon, a few hundred feet above its floor, are
rockshelters that contain pictographs that may have been painted in the
1700s by Apaches. In part 1 of this tour archaeologist Allen Dart, Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center's Executive Director, will guide our visit to
these sites and the Fort Huachuca Museum, which focuses on the region's
military history. After visiting Fort Huachuca, the tour group will take a
lunch break then caravan from Sierra Vista to Naco, Arizona to visit
historic Camp Naco. This early twentieth-century Buffalo Soldiers
installation is now the target of a City of Bisbee rehabilitation effort to
explore a wide range of future uses that commemorate history, expand
cultural opportunities, and serve as a resource for the communities of Naco
and southern Cochise County. Tour participants need to bring picnic lunch
and water, wear sturdy hiking shoes, and be able to hike along a short,
narrow mountain trail.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm
Monday April 1st, whichever is earlier: 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 Garden Canyon
flyer" in your email subject line.
And speaking of limited tour openings: Old Pueblo's rained-out February 10
Badger Springs Pueblo and Petroglyphs tour has been rescheduled to November
and has limited spaces left.
Saturday November 2, 2024: Agua Fria National Monument, AZ
Only three openings left: 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).
8:30 am to 3:30 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.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm
Sunday October 27, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[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 [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with "Send Badger Springs flyer" in your email
subject line.
OUR MISSION AND SUPPORT
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 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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Old Pueblo as a member!
Warmest regards,
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director (Volunteer)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
520-798-1201
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