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This communication provides information on Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s upcoming activities. For details **** except for other organizations’ offerings and contacts listed below **** please visit Old Pueblo’s web site http://www.oldpueblo.org or contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] A copy of this information can be faxed or mailed upon request.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center is located at 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 7 in the Town of Marana, Arizona (northwestern Tucson metropolitan area). Please address all U.S. Postal Service correspondence to us at PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577.
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director
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: http://www.oldpueblo.org
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THIS WEEKEND (OR IN NOVEMBER OR DECEMBER):
OLD PUEBLO’S HANDS-ON ARROWHEAD-MAKING
AND FLINTKNAPPING WORKSHOP WITH SAM GREENLEAF
Arrowhead-making and flintknapping workshop at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8, in the Marana Town Limits, Arizona. In this 3-hour, hands-on workshop, flintknapper Sam Greenleaf teaches how to make arrowheads and spear points out of obsidian and other stones, to provide hands-on experience and knowledge of how prehistoric people made and used stone artifacts. Learn how to produce a flaked stone tool by breaking a desired size of flake off of a core of rock using a hammerstone, thinning and shaping the flake into the form of a projectile point or other stone tool using a bone or antler hammer, and finishing the tool using pressure-flaking technique. All necessary equipment is provided. Class is designed to help modern people understand how prehistoric Native Americans made and used artifacts, and is not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale. Class limited to 8 registrants age 16 and older.
October 13, 2007
November 17, 2007
December 15, 2007
Noon to 3 p.m. each date. $25; $20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members.
“ART FOR ARCHAEOLOGY III” FUNDRAISER
FOR OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER
** Friday October 19, 2007, at The Mountain Oyster Club, 6400 E. El Dorado Circle, Tucson
5:30-9:30 p.m. $50
Chaired by southern Arizona artist Buck McCain (the Friends of Western Art organization’s 2005 Artist of the Year), this fundraising event features auctions of original art, quilts, and collectibles generously donated by artists and other members of the community to benefit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s eduation programs. Cocktails, light buffet, the event’s silent auction, and preview of the evening’s live auction items will begin at 5:30 p.m. Auctioneers Excelerate Auction Group will commence the live auction at 7:30 p.m. Persons who cannot attend but are interested in bidding may submit proxy bids for auction items.
Advance reservations required by October 12: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] For questions about the event please visit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s http://www.oldpueblo.org/auction.html and http://www.oldpueblo.org/art.html web site pages, or contact Cynthia Cobb at 520-297-7707 or Carolyn O’Bagy Davis at 520-622-8957.
OLD PUEBLO’S FREE THIRD THURSDAYS PRESENTATIONS
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s monthly "Third Thursdays" guest speaker presentations are held on the third Thursday of every month from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center Auditorium, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (in the Marana Town Limits though Old Pueblo’s has a Tucson mailing address).
The Next Third Thursdays Program:
** October 18, 2007: "The Earliest Ancestors of Navajo and Apache in the Southwest" with archaeologist Dr. Ronald H. Towner. The Navajo and Apache are the only Athapaskan-speaking peoples in the Southwest. They are surrounded by Puebloans and Uto-Aztecan speakers such as the O’odham, Pai, and Yuman peoples, so how and when the Athapaskans entered the Southwest is one of the enduring questions of American anthropology and archaeology. This presentation discusses various theories and presents new archaeological data from early Navajo sites in the northern Southwest relevant to this issue. The results suggest a complex process that led to the development of distinct Athapaskan enclaves in the Southwest.
Ronald H. Towner is an Assistant Professor of Dendrochronology at the University of Arizona’s Laboratory of Tree-ring Research. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the U of A and has more than 25 years experience in archaeology. For the past two decades, he has worked with the Navajo Nation, the University, private contractors, and various government agencies to document and date early Navajo sites throughout the Colorado Plateau.
November Third Thursdays program:
** November 15, 2007: "The ‘Kino Missions' of Arizona and Sonora" with anthropologist Dr. James S. "Big Jim" Griffith
OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER EDUCATIONAL TOURS
** November 3, 2007. “Ventana Cave Interpretive Center-Old Pueblo Education Programs Fundraising Tour” with Allen Dart
** November 10, 2007. "Baby Jesus Ridge Petroglyphs & Catalina-Area Archaeology" fundraising tour with archaeologist Sharon F. Urban
OASIS CENTER ANCIENT NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS CLASS
** “Ancient Southern Arizona Native American Arts” class at OASIS Center, Macy’s Dept. Store in El Con Mall, 3435 E. Broadway, Tucson (enter store on west side & take elevator to 3rd Floor). Archaeologist Allen Dart teaches this noncredit class on the material culture of southern Arizona's ancient Hohokam Indians, including their pottery, artifacts made from stone, seashell, bone, textiles, and rock art, including archaeological interpretations of what these materials indicate about Hohokam religious practices and social organization. Session 1 focuses on pottery, session 2 on other arts and interpretation, and session 3 will be a field trip to look at the Hohokam artifact collections housed at the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona.
Fridays November 2, 9, & 16, 2007
2 to 4 p.m. each date. $20. Advance reservations required: Call Cheryl at 520-323-7947 for info, register at Macy's OASIS office or online at http://www.oasisnet.org/tucson.
PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURES TOURS
All of the following Pima Community College tours are via passenger van departing from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson. ADVANCE RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE WITH PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE by calling Tucson telephone no. 520-206-6468.
** “VENTANA CAVE AND TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURE” (ST146). Goes to Ventana Cave archaeological site and rock art, villages in the Santa Rosa, Kaka, and Quijotoa valleys, Tohono O’odham government complex in Sells, and a reservation trading post. Bring a lunch and water.
November 13, 2007
January 8, 2008
February 5, 2008
February 26, 2008
8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on each date. $69
** “CASA GRANDE RUINS AND MIDDLE GILA VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY” (ST147). Coolidge-Florence area. Visit backcountry area of Casa Grande Ruins, other early and late Hohokam villages, historic Adamsville Cemetery, Pinal County Historical Society Museum. Bring a lunch and water.
December 4, 2007
January 22, 2008
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each date. $79
** “TUCSON-MARANA ROCK ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY” (ST149). Tour to Hohokam petroglyph, agricultural, and village sites (one with a “ballcourt” and bedrock mortars, another with a housing compound) in northwest Tucson-Marana metro area and in foothills of the western Tortolita Mountains. Bring a lunch and water.
December 18, 2007
February 19, 2008
8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each date. $69
** “MIMBRES RUINS, ROCK ART, AND MUSEUMS OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO” (ST585). Comprehensive tour to southwestern New Mexico’s Silver City area to visit Classic Mimbres pueblo ruins, Early Mogollon village archaeological sites, the Gila Cliff Dwellings, spectacular petroglyph sites, and a museum with one of the world’s finest collections of Mimbres Puebloan pottery (the kind with those spectacular human and animal figures). Tour includes transportation, lodging and entry fees. Offered by Pima Community College in affiliation with Old Pueblo Archaeology Center.
June 20-24, 2008
3 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Tuesday. $749
FREE ARIZONA HUMANITIES COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS
These free presentations are arranged for other organizations and funded by the Arizona Humanities Council. The following and other programs are available for nonprofit organizations statewide including public libraries, museums, historical sites, historical and archaeological societies, parks, tribal entities, high schools, community colleges, community centers and agencies (if open to all people all the time), and other organizations at the Arizona Humanities Council’s discretion. For information about how to arrange a program visit the Arizona Humanities Council’s http://www.azhumanities.org/speakers1.html web page or contact Erica Nunn at [log in to unmask] or 602-257-0335 ext 23 in Phoenix.
For meeting place details or directions for Allen Dart’s Arizona Humanities Council presentations listed below contact the person listed for the individual presentation; for information about the subject matter of the following presentations contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
** “ARTS AND CULTURE OF ANCIENT SOUTHERN ARIZONA HOHOKAM INDIANS”: Archaeologist Allen Dart illustrates artifacts, architecture, and other material culture of the ancient Hohokam Indians, and discusses archaeological interpretations of how these people tamed southern Arizona’s Sonoran Desert for centuries before their culture mysteriously disappeared.
October 25, 2007, for Friends of Sonoita Creek at Sonoita Creek State Natural Area Visitor Center near Patagonia, Arizona. 7-8 p.m. Park Ranger Jennifer Parks, 520-287-2791 or [log in to unmask] at the Sonoita Creek park.
November 8, 2007, at Elsie S. Hogan Community Library, 207 W. Maley, Willcox. 5-6 p.m. Librarian Gary Clement or Library Director Tom Miner, 520-384-4271 ext. 4250 or [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
January 10, 2008, at Indian Hills Public Library, 66907 Indian Hills Way, Salome. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Librarian Sharon Hillhouse, 928-859-4271 or [log in to unmask]
January 18, 2008, at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, 1100 Ruins Dr., Coolidge. 2-3 p.m. Park Ranger Alan Stanz, 520-723-3172 or [log in to unmask] in Coolidge.
April 15, 2008, at Heard Museum West, 16126 N. Civic Center Plaza, Surprise. 1-2 p.m. Jaclyn M. Roessel, 623-344-2203 or [log in to unmask] in Surprise.
** “ANCIENT NATIVE AMERICAN POTTERY OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA”: Allen Dart illustrates Native American ceramic styles that were in vogue during specific periods of southern Arizona prehistory and history, and discusses the usefulness of pottery for dating archaeological sites and interpreting ancient lifeways.
March 13, 2008, for Friends of Sonoita Creek at Sonoita Creek State Natural Area Visitor Center near Patagonia, Arizona. 7-8 p.m. Park Ranger Jennifer Parks, 520-287-2791 or [log in to unmask]
March 21, 2008, at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, 1100 Ruins Dr., Coolidge. 2-3 p.m. Park Ranger Alan Stanz, 520-723-3172 or [log in to unmask] in Coolidge.
** “WHAT DO WE DO WITH OUR ANCESTORS?”: Allen Dart discusses how human remains are treated by people of different cultures, what is done when human remains and grave objects come to light in archaeological excavations, and laws that specify what must be done when human remains are discovered.
November 28, 2007, at Sierra Vista Public Library, 2600 E. Tacoma St., Sierra Vista. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Librarian Kate Draper, 520-458-4225 or [log in to unmask] in Sierra Vista
January 15, 2008, for Verde Historical Society at Clemenceau School/Museum board room, 1 North Willard St. (NE corner Mingus Ave. & Willard St.), Cottonwood. 1-2 p.m. Clemenceau Heritage Museum, 928-634-2868; or James McMeekin, 928-634-3540 or [log in to unmask] in Cottonwood.
February 28, 2008, for Friends of Sonoita Creek at Sonoita Creek State Natural Area Visitor Center near Patagonia, Arizona. 7-8 p.m. Park Ranger Jennifer Parks, 520-287-2791 or [log in to unmask]
March 12, 2008, at Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. (near Indian School Road & Scottsdale Rd.), Scottsdale. 7-8:30 p.m. Librarian Sara Schettler, 480-312-6021 or [log in to unmask] in Scottsdale.
April 10, 2008, at La Pilita Museum, 420 S. Main Avenue, Tucson. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Carol Cribbet-Bell or Joan Daniels, 520-882-7454 or [log in to unmask] in Tucson.
** “ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURES OF ARIZONA”: Allen Dart illustrates and discusses Arizona’s earliest Paleoindians and Archaic period hunters and foragers, the development of archaeological villages, the Puebloan, Mogollon, Sinagua, Hohokam, Salado, and Patayan archaeological cultures, and the connections between those ancient peoples and Arizona’s historical cultures.
November 29, 2007, for Friends of Sonoita Creek at Sonoita Creek State Natural Area Visitor Center near Patagonia, Arizona. 7-8 p.m. Park Ranger Jennifer Parks, 520-287-2791 or [log in to unmask]
February 15, 2008, at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, 1100 Ruins Dr., Coolidge. 2-3 p.m. Park Ranger Alan Stanz, 520-723-3172 or [log in to unmask] in Coolidge.
** “SET IN STONE BUT NOT IN MEANING: SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN ROCK ART”: Allen Dart illustrates pictographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved or pecked on rocks), and discusses how even the same rock art symbol may be interpreted differently from popular, scientific, and modern Native American perspectives.
January 24, 2008, for Friends of Sonoita Creek at Sonoita Creek State Natural Area Visitor Center near Patagonia, Arizona. 7-8 p.m. Park Ranger Jennifer Parks, 520-287-2791 or [log in to unmask]
April 18, 2008, at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, 1100 Ruins Dr., Coolidge. 2-3 p.m. Park Ranger Alan Stanz, 520-723-3172 or [log in to unmask] in Coolidge.
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