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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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OLD PUEBLO’S HANDS-ON TRADITIONAL POTTERY MAKING
WORKSHOPS WITH JOHN GUERIN
Sundays February 3-March 16, 2008
TRADITIONAL POTTERY MAKING LEVEL 1 WORKSHOP with John Guerin at Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road, Building 8, Tucson-Marana.
2 to 5 p.m. each Sunday. Fee $69; $55.20 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 February 3 and ending March
16, 2008, including a clay-gathering field trip on February 10. 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]
Sundays April 6-May 17, 2008 (no class on Mother’s Day May 11)
TRADITIONAL POTTERY MAKING LEVEL 2 WORKSHOP with John Guerin at Old
Pueblo Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road, Building 8,
Tucson-Marana.
2 to 5 p.m. each Sunday. Fee $79; $63.20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members; includes all materials
except clay.
This 6-Sunday workshop builds on the pottery hand-building techniques
taught in Old Pueblo’s Level 1 class (which included initial steps in
forming, shaping and smoothing, and completion of bowls, jars, canteens,
ladles, and rattles of both smooth and corrugated pottery – using methods
often used by modern Native American potters who use traditional
materials, without the modern potter’s wheel). The Level 2 class
instruction focuses on larger pots, applique, carving, sgraffito (shallow
carving through an outer slip layer), Pueblo-type storytellers, Zuni-type
owls, and applying micaceous slips. 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.
Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS) certification may be offered to
persons who complete Traditional Pottery Making workshop Levels 1, 2, & 3
(Level 3 is offered when there is enough demand); AAS certification
requirements include 60 hours of instruction and hands-on work. Minimum
enrollment 10, maximum 15.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
OLD PUEBLO’S HANDS-ON ARROWHEAD-MAKING
AND FLINTKNAPPING WORKSHOPS WITH SAM GREENLEAF
(CHOICE OF THREE SEPARATE WORKSHOPS)
Sunday February 24, 2008
Sunday March 30, 2008
Sunday April 27, 2008
ARROWHEAD-MAKING AND FLINTKNAPPING WORKSHOP at Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson metro area).
Noon to 3 p.m. each date. $25; $20 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]
OLD PUEBLO’S FREE THIRD THURSDAYS PRESENTATIONS
Thursday February 21, 2008
“ANCIENT BURIAL PRACTICES AT THE YUMA WASH HOHOKAM ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE”
by bioarchaeologists John A. McClelland & Jessica Cerezo-Roman at Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson
metro area).
7:30 to 9 p.m Free.
Recent excavations at Yuma Wash, a Tucson-area Hohokam Classic period
(A.D. 1100-1450) archaeological site, have revealed a diverse range of
burial practices including primary inhumation, primary cremation, and
secondary cremation. The guest speakers for this presentation will
identify demographic patterns, and examine differences related to the
size and configuration of burial pits and the types and numbers of
funerary objects present. Some of the variation in burial treatment may
have to do with changes in customs over generations, but the differences
probably also reflect social diversity, variation in practices between
contemporaneous lineages, differences in treatment related to the age of
the deceased or circumstances related to death, and different stages in a
complex mortuary ritual. Burials were found to be concentrated in some
areas of the archaeological site but no major differences were apparent
in the burials’ depositional situations. The guest speakers will compare
their observations about the Yuma Wash site burials with burial practices
reported at other Hohokam Classic period sites investigated in recent
years, to point out how a study of burial practices on a larger scale can
expand our understanding of Hohokam society and ideology.
Thursday March 20, 2008
"EXCAVATIONS AT A PREHISTORIC GATEWAY COMMUNITY IN THE UPPER SAN PEDRO
VALLEY" by archaeologist Douglas B. Craig, Ph.D., at Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson metro
area). 7:30 to 9 p.m Free.
Thursday April 17, 2008
“RECENT RESEARCH ON ARIZONA’S SAN PEDRO VALLEY PALEOINDIANS, OTHER EARLY
PEOPLE, AND THE COSMIC CATASTROPHE” with archaeologist Jesse Ballenger at
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern
Tucson metro area). 7:30 to 9 p.m Free.
No reservations are needed for the free Third Thursdays programs.
520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] for more information.
OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER EDUCATIONAL TOURS
Saturday March 1, 2008
“Ventana Cave and Tohono O’odham Nation Archaeology Month Tour” with
archaeologist Allen Dart via carpools departing from southeast corner of
Pima Community College parking lot, 401 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson
8 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Fee $20 per person ($16 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center & Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
Ventana Cave, a National Historic Landmark archaeological site on the
Tohono O’odham Reservation, is a rockshelter with rock art and other
archaeological features used by Native Americans for 10,000 years. This
carpool tour led by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director,
archaeologist Allen Dart, will also visit the Tohono O’odham government
complex in Sells, Tohono O’odham villages in the Santa Rosa, Kaka, and
Quijotoa valleys, and a reservation trading post. Tour fees will benefit
Old Pueblo’s education programs and the Tohono O’odham Hickiwan
District’s efforts to develop a caretaker-interpretive center at Ventana
Cave. Bring a lunch and water.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Saturday March 15, 2008
“PICTURE ROCKS PETROGLYPHS SITE: QUADRUPEDS, PEOPLE, AND OTHER SYMBOLS IN
STONE” guided tour with archaeologist Allen Dart, beginning at Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 7, Tucson, and carpooling to
the rock art site.
8 to 10 a.m. Free.
Archaeologist Allen Dart leads this tour to view rock art depictions of
dancing human-like figures, whimsical animals, and ritually important
rock art petroglyphs made by the Hohokam Indians between A.D. 650 and
1450. Limited to 32 people.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Saturday March 29, 2008
"BABY JESUS RIDGE PETROGLYPHS SITE" guided tour with archaeologist Sharon
F. Urban, starting at southeast corner of the Oracle Road -Golder Ranch
Road intersection in Catalina.
8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free
Archaeological rock art expert Sharon F. Urban will guide this free tour
to see hundreds of ancient petroglyphs at the Baby Jesus Ridge
archaeological site (also known as the Rail N Ranch site, Sheep Tank
site, and Lost and Found site) on the boulder-strewn western piedmont of
the Santa Catalina Mountains. The tour will meet at the southeast corner
of the Oracle Road-Golder Ranch Road intersection (0.7 mile north of
Oracle Road Milepost 85). From there we will form carpools to drive to
the rock art vicinity, then take a 3-mile-round-trip hike over mostly
flat, sandy ground to see the petroglyphs. High clearance vehicles
capable of traversing a short rough dirt road are required for
carpooling.
No reservations needed. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE-OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER
PARTNERSHIP STUDY TOUR
Friday June 20-Tuesday June 24, 2008
“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).
PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURES TOURS
Tuesday February 5, 2008; second tour offered Tuesday February 26, 2008
“VENTANA CAVE AND TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURE” (ST146)
Pima Community College study tour (CRN 60828), with archaeologist Allen
Dart via passenger van departing from Pima Community College, 401 N.
Bonita Ave., Tucson
8 a.m. to 6 p.m. $69
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist Allen Dart, leads
van tour 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.
Advance reservations required: 520-206-6468 (Pima Community College, Tucson)
Tuesday February 19, 2008
“TUCSON-MARANA ROCK ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY” (ST149) Pima Community College
study tour (CRN 60830), with archaeologist Allen Dart via passenger van
departing from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson
8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. $69
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist Allen Dart, leads
van tour to Hohokam petroglyph, agricultural, and village sites (one with
a “ballcourt” and bedrock mortars, another with a housing compound).
Bring a lunch and water.
Advance reservations required: 520-206-6468 (Pima Community College, Tucson)
FREE ARIZONA HUMANITIES COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS
These free presentations and others are available to 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 some other organizations if scheduled
through the Arizona Humanities Council. 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.
Friday March 28, 2008
“MALE BONDING AROUND THE CAMPFIRE: CONSTRUCTING MYTHS OF HOHOKAM
MILITARISM” free presentation by Ann Hibner Koblitz, Ph.D., at Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson
metro area).
7:30 to 9 p.m Free.
The Hohokam people of central Arizona and their neighbors have long been
of interest to archaeologists of the Southwest, and the prevailing image
of them has varied significantly over time. Lately there has been a shift
among some scholars toward viewing the Hohokam as constantly embroiled in
warfare. This presentation analyzes this trend in archaeological writing
in terms of modern American cultures of aggressive masculinity. On the
basis of scant evidence, some archaeologists have created a story of war
and militarism that harmonizes well with early 21st-century attitudes
toward conflict. Explore whether this warlike image has much bearing on
the actual lives and pursuits of indigenous populations of the time. Ann
Koblitz is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State
University, Tempe. She has published books and articles on Russian women
scientists and mathematicians, gender and science theory, historical and
cross-cultural comparisons of women in science, and women in Territorial
Arizona. Currently she is working on "Sex and Herbs and Birth Control"--
a study of women's fertility control possibilities in different
historical periods and cultures.
No reservations needed. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
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.
Wednesday February 27, 2008, at Arizona Senior Academy, 13701 E. Old
Spanish Trail, Tucson (Vail area). 2:30-4:30 p.m. Kathie Van Brunt,
Tucson telephone 520-647-0980 or [log in to unmask]
Friday March 21, 2008, at Southeast Regional Library, 775 N. Greenfield
Road, Gilbert, Arizona. 7-8:30 p.m. Librarian Beth Woodard, Gilbert
telephone number 602-652-3207 or [log in to unmask]
Tuesday 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.
Thursday April 24, 2008, at Biosphere 2, 32540 S. Biosphere Road, Oracle,
Arizona.. 7-8 p.m. Karl Peterson in Casa Grande at 602-300-6952 or
520-836-3237, or [log in to unmask]
“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.
Thursday 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]
Friday 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.
Wednesday April 9, 2008, at Arizona Senior Academy, 13701 E. Old Spanish
Trail, Tucson (Vail area). 2:30-4:30 p.m. Kathie Van Brunt at Tucson
telephone 520-647-0980 or [log in to unmask]
“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.
Thursday 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]
Wednesday 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.
Thursday 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.
Friday 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.
Friday 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.
Wednesday April 30, 2008, at Arizona Senior Academy, 13701 E. Old Spanish
Trail, Tucson (Vail area). 2:30-4:30 p.m. Kathie Van Brunt at Tucson
telephone 520-647-0980 or [log in to unmask]
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February 12: You could win a 2008 Ford Mustang "Bullitt" in a raffle that
Tucson's Jim Click Automotive Team is holding to benefit Old Pueblo and
other nonprofit organizations. To purchase one or more of the $25 tickets
using your Visa or Mastercard please call me at 520-798-1201. Or, go to
Old Pueblo’s www.oldpueblo.org/donate.html web page, click on the
highlighted "donation form" string, and fill in the prompts; for "Level of
Support" select "Other" and enter the dollar amount you wish to spend for
tickets (at $25 each); in the Comment box indicate that the contribution
is to purchase tickets for the Mustang Bullitt raffle. Mustang raffle
ticket purchases are not tax-deductible but the full $25 you spend for
each ticket will go directly to Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. Deadline
for entry is February 11, 2008.]
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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