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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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Thursday May 15, 2008
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursdays" program: “The
Challenges of Investigating and Interpreting the Oldest Known Site in the
Phoenix Basin” with archaeologist A. E. “Gene” Rogge, Ph.D., at Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson
metro area).
7:30 to 9 p.m. Free.
When first discovered by archaeologists, the “Last Ditch” archaeological
site northeast of Phoenix was believed to be an extensive but extremely
sparse scatter of Hohokam Indian artifacts. However, test excavations
proved that in addition to Hohokam material, several archaeological
features dating to the Middle Archaic and Late Archaic/Early Agricultural
periods had been serendipitously buried, making Last Ditch the oldest
documented archaeological site in the Phoenix Basin. In 2006 and 2007, a
cluster of deeply buried hearth features at this nearly 200-acre site
were excavated. In this program Dr. Rogge will discuss the research
challenges of the ancient but meager archaeological record of the Last
Ditch site.
No reservations needed. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sunday May 18, 2008
“Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona” free presentation for Jewish War
Veterans at B'nai B’rith Covenant House, 4414 E. Second Street, Tucson.
Cosponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council.
10 to 11 a.m. Free.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist 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. Funding for program provided
by the Arizona Humanities Council.
No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Barbara Harow at
Tucson telephone 520-544-2311 or 520-991-5117, or [log in to unmask];
for information about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart
at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Saturday June 7, 2008
Youth Pottery Workshop at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road
Bldg. 6 (northwestern Tucson metro area).
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $45
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Youth Pottery Workshop exposes students
ages 12 through 18 to pottery as it has been made by Native Americans in
the Southwest for over 2,000 years. They will learn how clay is
processed and will hand-make their own pots using the coil-and-scrape and
the paddle-and-anvil methods. Gourd scrapers and wooden paddles will be
used to shape the pots and traditional designs will be applied using
mineral paints. The pots will remain at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
until they are dry and then fired. Students may pick up their pots after
firing. Minimum number of participants 8, maximum 15. Each student needs
to bring a lunch.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Wednesday June 18, 2008
“What Do We Do with Our Ancestors?” free presentation at Arizona Senior
Academy, 13701 E. Old Spanish Trail, Tucson, Arizona.
2:30-4:30 p.m. Free
Ever since archaeology became an intellectual pursuit many archaeologists
have held that all materials left behind by ancient peoples – including
human remains – are proper subjects for scientific study and that these
materials should be preserved in museums to keep them accessible for
future studies. However, many Native Americans and others believe human
remains and grave objects should not be subjected to scientific studies,
and that these remains should be respectfully reburied once disturbed.
Drawing on his education and experience as a professional archaeologist,
and on years of working closely with Native Americans in the Southwest,
Allen Dart facilitates a discussion with the audience about some of the
reasoning behind these disparate viewpoints, what to do when human
remains and grave objects come to light in archaeological excavations,
and laws that specify what is to be done when human remains are
discovered.
No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Kathie Van Brunt at
Tucson telephone 520-647-0980 or [log in to unmask]; for
information about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at
Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday June 19, 2008
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursdays" program: “Artifacts of
Ancient Americans: An Arrowhead Making and Flintknapping Demonstration”
with flintknapper Sam Greenleaf at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W.
Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson metro area).
7:30 to 9 p.m Free.
All known ancient cultures of the Americas created projectile points
(arrowheads or spearpoints) and other objects from stone by
flintknapping, which is the process of intentionally chipping stone
materials to produce artifacts. In this program modern flintknapper Sam
Greenleaf gives a direct demonstration of how arrowheads and spearpoints
are made from stone to better understand how ancient people made and used
stone artifacts.
No reservations needed. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Friday June 20-Tuesday June 24, 2008
Reservations required at least 3 days ahead.
“Mimbres Ruins, Rock Art, and Museums of Southern New Mexico” (ST585)
Pima Community College study tour (CRN 62714 Double Occupancy, CRN 62715
Single Occupancy)), with archaeologist Allen Dart via passenger van
departing from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson
3 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Tuesday. $749 Double Occupancy, $799 Single
Occupancy
Registered Professional Archaeologist Allen Dart leads this 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.
Advance reservations required: 520-206-6468 (Pima Community College,
Tucson).
Friday July 11, 2008
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free
presentation for Gila County Historical Society at Bullion Plaza Cultural
Center & Museum, 21 Plaza Circle, Miami, Arizona. Cosponsored by the
Arizona Humanities Council.
6-7:30 p.m. Free
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist 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.
No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Lynn Haak, Program
Chair, at 928-425-4344 or [log in to unmask] in Miami; for information
about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at Tucson
telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Tuesday July 15, 2008
“Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians” free
presentation for Friends of Picture Rocks at Picture Rocks Community
Center, 5615 N. Sanders Road, west of Tucson. For meeting details contact
Albert Lannon at 622-3561 or [log in to unmask] in Tucson.
6:30 p.m. iced tea social, 7 to 8:30 p.m. presentation. Free
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, 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. Directions from I-10 and
Ina Road: Go west on Ina, south/left on Wade Road, west/right onto
Picture Rocks, south/left on Sandario, west/right on Rudasill, south/left
on Sanders just past the school.
No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Albert Lannon at
622-3561 or [log in to unmask] in Tucson; for information about the
presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone
520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday August 28, 2008
“Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona” free presentation at Pima County
Public Library, 101 N. Stone Ave., Tucson. Cosponsored by the Arizona
Humanities Council.
Noon to 1 p.m. Free.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist 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. Funding for program provided
by the Arizona Humanities Council.
No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Librarian Coni
Weatherford at 520-791-4391 or [log in to unmask] in Tucson; for
information about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at
Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sunday September 21, 2008
Arrowhead-making and flintknapping workshop in Tucson. Address to be
announced.
Noon to 3 p.m. $35; $28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members
Flintknapper Sam Greenleaf teaches hands-on workshop on making arrowheads
and spearpoints out of stone to better understand how ancient people made
and used stone artifacts. 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.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sundays October 5 through November 16, 2008
Traditional Pottery Making Level 1 Workshop with John Guerin in Tucson.
Address to be announced.
2 to 5 p.m. each Sunday. Fee $89; $63.20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members; includes all materials
except clay, which participants will collect during class field trip.
A series of 7 pottery-making class sessions will be offered by artist
John Guerin each Sunday afternoon beginning October 5 and ending November
16, 2008, including a clay-gathering field trip on October 12. The class
is designed to help modern people understand how prehistoric Native
Americans made and used pottery, and is not intended to train students
how to make artwork for sale. The Level 1 class demonstrates pottery
making techniques the instructor has learned from modern Native American
potters, using gourd scrapers, mineral paints, and yucca brushes instead
of modern potters’ wheels and paint. The course introduces some history
of southwestern Ancestral and Modern Puebloan, Mogollon, and Hohokam
pottery-making, includes a field trip in which participants dig their own
clay, and demonstrates initial steps in forming, shaping and smoothing,
and completion of bowls, jars, canteens, ladles, and rattles of both
smooth and corrugated pottery, by scraping, sanding, polishing, slipping
and painting. The paddle-and-anvil handbuilding method is also
demonstrated. Arizona Archaeological Society certification may be offered
to persons who complete Traditional Pottery Making workshop Levels 1, 2,
& 3 (Levels 2 and 3 offered when there is enough demand); certification
requirements include 60 hours of instruction and hands-on work.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday October 16, 2008
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursdays" program: “The ‘Deep
Structure’ of Early Archaic Rock Art: Human Universals” with Professor
Ekkehart Malotki in Tucson. Address to be announced.
7:30 to 9 p.m Free.
On a global scale, all earliest art-making traditions consist of
abstract-geometric motifs and nonfigurative patterns, regardless of
whether they occur on portable objects or on rock surfaces. This is also
true for the rock art of the American West, which houses a wealth of
nonrepresentational images, both painted and engraved. To shed light on
this most enigmatic yet fascinating imagery, which to many rock art
researchers is of little interest since it seems to offer no insights
into the minds of its creators, Professor Malotki resorts to human
universals and cutting-edge ideas gleaned from neuroscience and
evolutionary psychology. In addition to presenting novel ideas, he hopes
to heighten awe and respect for the area's rock art legacy through
striking photographs.
No reservations needed. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sunday October 19, 2008
Arrowhead-making and flintknapping workshop in Tucson. Address to be
announced.
Noon to 3 p.m. $35; $28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members
Flintknapper Sam Greenleaf teaches hands-on workshop on making arrowheads
and spearpoints out of stone to better understand how ancient people made
and used stone artifacts. 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.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sunday November 16, 2008
Arrowhead-making and flintknapping workshop in Tucson. Address to be
announced.
Noon to 3 p.m. $35; $28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members
Flintknapper Sam Greenleaf teaches hands-on workshop on making arrowheads
and spearpoints out of stone to better understand how ancient people made
and used stone artifacts. 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.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday November 20, 2008
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursdays" program: "Voices from
Inside a Black Snake: Religious Monuments along Arizona and Sonora
Highways" with anthropologist Dr. James S. "Big Jim" Griffith, Ph.D., in
Tucson. Address to be announced.
7:30 to 9 p.m Free.
Did you ever wonder about all of those white crosses and tiny chapels
that you see along southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico’s highways? Jim
Griffith will provide some fascinating insights about them in this
presentation.
No reservations needed. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday December 11, 2008
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free
presentation at Pima County Public Library, 101 N. Stone Ave., Tucson.
Cosponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council.
Noon to 1 p.m. Free.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist 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.
No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Librarian Coni
Weatherford at 520-791-4391 or [log in to unmask] in Tucson; for
information about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at
Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sunday December 14, 2008
Arrowhead-making and flintknapping workshop in Tucson. Address to be
announced.
Noon to 3 p.m. $35; $28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members
Flintknapper Sam Greenleaf teaches hands-on workshop on making arrowheads
and spearpoints out of stone to better understand how ancient people made
and used stone artifacts. 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.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Yours truly,
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: www.oldpueblo.org
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