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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 ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER’S
THIRD THURSDAYS PROGRAM
Tucson, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s monthly “Third Thursdays” lecture programs are held on the third Thursday of each month, free, with no advance reservations required, at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8, in the Marana Town Limits (northwest Tucson metro area), Arizona.
7:30 to 9 p.m. Free.
TITLE: “Archaeological Evidence of Women on the Spanish Frontier”
GUEST SPEAKER: Archaeologist Dr. Rebecca J. Waugh
****RESCHEDULED FROM JULY 19, 2007****
Time 7:30 p.m.
Place: Old Pueblo auditorium, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8, Tucson metro area.
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 spent the 2006-2007 school year as an instructor at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center working with classes from schools from throughout southern Arizona, and currently works for a Tucson cultural resources consulting company.
Dr. Waugh will discuss how the archaeological record at historical sites helps us understand how different subgroups of society, like women, may have contributed to the culture. On the Spanish colonial frontier in what is now Arizona, many different people made their lives at towns, presidios, ranchos, and other settlements, and the archaeological record enriches our 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. Waugh was originally scheduled to give this presentation on July 19, 2007, but had to cancel due to a death in the family. Old Pueblo is grateful that she is able to reschedule her program to August 16.
No reservations are needed to attend Old Pueblo’s Third Thursdays programs.
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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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