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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 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: www.oldpueblo.org
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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).
Next Third Thursdays Program:
** Thursday August 16, 2007, “Archaeological Evidence of Women on the Spanish Colonial Frontier” by Rebecca Waugh, Ph.D. [Rescheduled from July 19.] On the Spanish colonial frontier in what is now Arizona, many different people made their lives at towns, presidios, ranchos, and other settlements. The archaeological record at these historical sites helps us understand how different segments of society, like women, may have contributed to the culture, and this record enriches understanding of how colonial Spanish society developed on the frontier. Archaeologists may infer that women were present in Spanish colonial sites when excavations recover artifacts and personal items that probably belonged to women, or that were frequently used in the kinds of jobs women did. This presentation will show how archaeologists use historical supply invoices and records, paintings, and artifacts excavated at other early Spanish sites to identify the kinds of artifacts that may indicate that!
women lived at a particular place, whether or not there are historical records of women there. Dr. Rebecca J. Waugh earned her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Arizona in December 2005. Her dissertation investigated methods that could be used to identify women at Spanish sites in Arizona using the archaeological record. Dr. Waugh has spent the 2006-2007 school year as an instructor at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, working with classes from schools from throughout southern Arizona.
Additional Third Thursdays programs are coming up on:
September 20, 2007
October 18, 2007
November 15, 2007
December 20, 2007
OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER EDUCATIONAL TOURS
** September 12-16, 2007. "Traditional and Modern Hopi Culture" fundraising tour of Hopi villages with Emory Sekaquaptewa
** October 13, 2007. “Historic Kentucky Camp and the Boston Gulch Hydraulic Mining Operations” fundraising tour with archaeologists Allen Dart and William B. Gillespie
** 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 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
FREE PRESENTATION IN SHOW LOW ON AUGUST 18
** “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. August 18, 2007, for Torreon Golf Club at Torreon Coffee Connection, Summit Trail and Sugar Pine Way, Show Low. 1-2 p.m. Free. Cheryl Ford, 928-205-3188 or [log in to unmask] in Show Low.
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 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.
** “ANCIENT NATIVE AMERICAN POTTERS 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.
August 11, 2007, for Yavapai-Apache Nation at Tribal Headquarters, 2400 W. Datsi, Camp Verde. 10 a.m.-noon. Delores Plunkett, 928-649-6963 or [log in to unmask] in Camp Verde.
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]
** “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.
August 23, 2007, for Glendale Public Library, 5959 W. Brown St., Glendale. 7-8 p.m. Librarian Anne Owens, 623-930-3573 or [log in to unmask] in Glendale.
September 8, 2007, for Yavapai-Apache Nation at Tribal Headquarters, 2400 W. Datsi, Camp Verde. 10 a.m.-noon. Delores Plunkett, 928-649-6963 or [log in to unmask] in Camp Verde.
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]
** “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]
** “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]
OLD PUEBLO’S HANDS-ON TRADITIONAL POTTERY MAKING
LEVEL 1 WORKSHOP WITH JOHN GUERIN
A series of 7 pottery-making class sessions will be offered by artist John Guerin each Sunday afternoon beginning October 7 and ending November 18, 2007, including a clay-gathering field trip on Oct. 14. 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.
7-session workshop Sundays October 7-November 18, 2007, 2 to 5 p.m. each Sunday, at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road, Building 8, Tucson-Marana. 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.
OLD PUEBLO’S HANDS-ON ARROWHEAD-MAKING
AND FLINTKNAPPING WORKSHOPS 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. 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.
October 13, 2007
November 17, 2007
December 15, 2007
1 to 3 p.m. each date. $25; $20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members.
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