MONDAY NOVEMBER 16 IS LAST CHANCE TO MAKE RESERVATIONS
FOR NOVEMBER 19 THIRD THURSDAY DINNER PROGRAM
Monday November 16 at 3:00 p.m.is the deadline for reservations and
dinner payments for the November 19“Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner presentation,“Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces”
with archaeologist Allen Dart at El Parador Mexican Restaurant Tucson.
The dinner fee of $18 per person covers a Mexican food buffet with
coffee, tea or soft drink, tax and gratuity, plus the presentation. El
Parador is located at 2744 E. Broadway Blvd. in Tucson. Our restaurant
room reservation is for 6 p.m., with dinner to be served starting at
6:20. The presentation will begin at 7 p.m.
The buffet allows one time through the serving line per person (not all
you can eat), and offers a carne seca or sautéed veggie chimichanga, 2
chicken taquitos, southwestern quesadilla, green corn tamale, refried
beans, tostada chips and salsa, and coffee, tea, or a soft drink.
If you wish to make a reservation OR IF YOU WANT THE VEGGIE CHIMICHANGA
please call Old Pueblo Archaeology Center at 520-798-1201 NO LATER THAN 3
P.M. MONDAY NOVEMBER 16 so that we can give El Parador our final
reservations count and menu preferences that afternoon. The $18 dinner
fee is due when making your reservations. Old Pueblo accepts Visa,
MasterCard, Discover, and Diners Club credit cards.
Regarding this month’s presentation: Native Americans in the Southwest
developed sophisticated skills in astronomy and predicting the seasons,
centuries before Old World peoples first entered the region. In this
presentation archaeologist Allen Dart discusses historically known
sky-watching practices of various southwestern peoples, and how their
ancestors’ observations of the heavens may have been commemorated in
ancient architecture and rock symbols. The program illustrates cardinal,
solstice, and equinox alignments and possible calendrical reckoning
features at such places as Arizona’s Casa Grande Ruins and Picture Rocks
petroglyph sites, New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon archaeological district, the
Hovenweep area of Utah, and the Mesa Verde and Chimney Rock regions of
Colorado. Mr. Dart also offers interpretation of how these discoveries
may relate to ancient Native American ritual.
The speaker for this “dinner-format” program is Old Pueblo’s Executive
Director Allen Dart, a Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA) with
extensive experience supervising cultural resource projects at Archaic,
Hohokam, Patayan, Ancestral Puebloan, Mogollon, protohistoric O'odham
(Piman), and historical archaeological sites. He has been employed by the
Arizona State Museum (University of Arizona), the Museum of New Mexico,
the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, and private consulting firms
developing archaeology contract and grant proposals, budgets, research
designs, National Register nominations, and publications for both
professional and avocational archaeologists. An active community
volunteer, Mr. Dart has donated his time to other archaeology and
history organizations including the Arizona Archaeological and Historical
Society, Arizona Archaeological Council, Arizona Archaeological Society,
State Historic Preservation Office, and United Way.
OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
THESE ADDITIONAL UPCOMING ACTIVITIES:
November 10, 2009 “Ancient Native American Pottery of Southern Arizona”
free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at Copper Queen Library,
Bisbee, Arizona*
Saturday November 14, 2009
“Deer Valley & Spur Cross Ranch Petroglyphs” guided fundraising tour with
Shelley Rasmussen and Allen Dart, starting at Deer Valley Rock Art
Center, 3711 W. Deer Valley Road, Phoenix.
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Fee $35 ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and
Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) includes all park entry fees
Maricopa County Parks Interpretive Ranger Shelly Rasmussen (an
archaeological Site Steward) and archaeologist Allen Dart guide this tour
to see hundreds of ancient petroglyphs and the rock art museum at Deer
Valley Rock Art Center north of Phoenix, and more petroglyphs in Spur
Cross Ranch Regional Park near Carefree, Arizona. Deer Valley Rock Art
Center features a museum with video, artifacts, interpretive signs, and a
gift shop. Along its outdoor, quarter-mile-long rock art trail we’ll view
some of the 47-acre preserve’s 1,571 known petroglyphs, which range from
700 to 10,000 years old and represent the Archaic, Hohokam, and Patayan
cultures. The Spur Cross Conservation Area intermediate-level hike is
about 3 miles roundtrip and takes about 3 hours of hill-climbing to a
Hohokam pueblo and two petroglyph sites. Bring your own picnic lunch and
water, wear comfortable hiking shoes.
Reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
**** IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about
the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer” and the event's
date in your email subject line.
November 19, 2009 “Third Thursdays” presentation – See announcement above
November 20, 2009 “Ventana Cave and Tohono O’odham Nation Archaeology and
Culture” study tour with Allen Dart departing from Pima Community College,
Tucson*
Sunday November 22, 2009
"Amerind Foundation and Singing Wind Bookstore Thanksgiving Festival"
tour departing from Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street at
Tucson Unified School District’s Ajo Service Center, just west of La
Cholla Blvd., ½-mile north of John F. Kennedy Park, Tucson
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. $99 per person includes van transportation; or $39
if you provide your own transportation and drive in caravan with the Old
Pueblo tour van ($10 discount for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and
Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
Start your holiday season right with this wonderful Sunday drive to Texas
Canyon and a visit to the Amerind Foundation. This anthropological and
archaeological museum is located in the remote and beautiful Little
Dragoon Mountains of southeastern Arizona. The museum collections are
dedicated to the preservation of Native American cultures and histories.
Bring a sack lunch and we'll enjoy it under the arms of the spreading oak
trees. As we head back to Tucson, we will stop at the popular Singing
Wind bookstore for their Thanksgiving Festival. Winn Bundy, Singing
Wind's owner, always has a variety of authors on hand to sign copies of
books. Besides local authors, this year Elizabeth Lewis and Caleb Bach
are featured. We will be entertained with music and offered an array of
munchies.
THIS NEWS JUST IN: Singing Wind Bookshop proprietor Winifred J. “Win”
Bundy is the recipient of the 2009 Juliana Yoder Friend of the Humanities
Award from the Arizona Humanities Council. In 1974, at the age of 59, Ms.
Bundy opened the Singing Wind Bookshop in her home on a working cattle
ranch in Benson, Arizona. The bookstore specializes in literature of the
Southwest but also has a significant collection of works on art,
architecture, natural history, and Native America literature. In addition
to managing her book shop Win further cultivates the love of literature
and the humanities through the many activities she hosts at the shop,
including educational programs for school children, book discussions, and
author readings. She is a long time supporter of the University of
Arizona Poetry Center, serves on the University's Advisory Committee, and
has overseen several very successful fundraisers to build a permanent
home for one of the nation's largest collections of contemporary poetry.
The Singing Wind Bookshop has become a destination for tour buses and
highlighted in numerous travel guides, Time Magazine, Arizona Highways,
The New York Times and many Arizona newspapers. A visit to the Bookshop
may be one of the most unique book buying experiences of your life.
Guide Terri Contapay, a native of Arizona, has a Master's degree in
education and has led study tours for years with Pima Community College.
Her passion is exploring and learning about Arizona, and she is always
excited to share her experiences and knowledge with others. For tour
details contact Terri in Tucson at 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
**** IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about
the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer” and the event's
date in your email subject line.
Saturday December 5, 2009
“White Tank Mountains Petroglyphs of Waterfall Canyon & Mesquite Canyon”
guided fundraising tour with Shelley Rasmussen and Allen Dart, starting
at White Tank Mountain Regional Park Visitor Center, 13025 N. White Tank
Mountain Road in Waddell.
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Fee $30 ($24 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and
Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) includes all park entry fees
Maricopa County Parks Interpretive Ranger Shelly Rasmussen (an
archaeological Site Steward) and archaeologist Allen Dart guide this tour
to see hundreds of ancient petroglyphs in the 30,000-acre White Tank
Mountain Regional Park west of Phoenix. Tour includes a 3-hour walk along
the 2.5-mile-roundtrip, fairly flat Black Rock Loop Trail to see and
photograph dozens of Archaic and Hohokam petroglyphs; lunch at ramadas
with picnic facilities; then afternoon visits to three petroglyph sites
with Archaic and Hohokam rock art in a 3-hour, 2.5-mile-roundtrip hike
along the Mesquite Canyon trail, which includes some bush-whacking and
boulder-hopping. Bring your own picnic lunch and water, wear comfortable
hiking shoes.
Reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
**** IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about
the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer” and the event's
date in your email subject line.
December 9, 2009 “Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian
Rock Art” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for San Tan
Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, at Queen Creek Museum , Queen
Creek, Arizona*
December 11, 2009 “Casa Grande Ruins and Middle Gila Valley Archaeology
and History”
study tour with Allen Dart departing from Pima Community College, Tucson
December 12, 2009 Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Cultural Resources
Survey Techniques
Archaeological Field School Session on cultural resources survey
techniques led by archaeologist Allen Dart, RPA, starting at the Picture
Rocks Redemptorist Renewal Center, 7101 W. Picture Rocks Road, Tucson.
8 a.m. to 3 p.m. $20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center members
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center is offering training in archaeological
survey methods as part of a research project to identify and record
archaeological sites that may be present near the Picture Rocks
petroglyphs site northwest of Tucson. Training will be provided in
archaeological site identification, recording, and interpretation; use of
degree-reading compass and global positioning systems equipment;
interpretation of aerial photographs and topographic maps; photography;
and other archaeological methods.
Reservations and Old Pueblo Archaeology Center membership at Individual
or higher level required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
**** IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about
the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer” and the event's
date in your email subject line.
December 17, 2009 Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” dinner & presentation: Program title & speaker to be announced
January 8, 2010 “Picture Rocks, Los Morteros & Tortolita Mtns Hohokam site
tour” with Allen Dart departing from Pima Community College, Tucson
January 10, 2010 Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Cultural Resources Survey
Techniques Archaeological Field School Session (Old Pueblo members only)
**** SEE DECEMBER 12 ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION; IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL
YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity please
reply with “Send flyer” and the event's date in your email subject line.
January 29, 2010 “Ventana Cave and Tohono O’odham Nation Archaeology and
Culture”study tour with Allen Dart departing from Pima Community College,
Tucson.
February 6, 2010 Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Cultural Resources Survey
Techniques
Archaeological Field School Session (Old Pueblo members only)
**** SEE DECEMBER 12 ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION; IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL
YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity please
reply with “Send flyer” and the event's date in your email subject line.
February 19, 2010 “Casa Grande Ruins and Middle Gila Archaeology” study
tour with Allen Dart departing from Pima Community College, Tucson [or
possibly different tour – call for update]
March 13, 2010 “Vista del Rio Archaeology Celebration” featuring
children’s activities and guided archaeological site tours at the City of
Tucson’s Vista del Rio Cultural Resource Park*
Friday June 11-Tuesday June 15, 2010
(Reservation deadline Friday June 4, 2010)
"Mimbres Ruins, Rock Art, and Museums of Southern New Mexico" archaeology
education “flex-tour” tour with Registered Professional Archaeologist
Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, van departing
from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson, or drive your
own vehicle and meet tour in Silver City, NM
3 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Tuesday. $799 per person includes van transport
and lodging (double accommodations; single $839); or $200 if you provide
your own transport and lodging; $25 discount for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members
Registered Professional Archaeologist Allen Dart leads this “flex-tour” –
featuring your choice of whether the tour sponsor or you will provide the
transportation and lodging – to Classic Mimbres and Early Mogollon
village archaeological sites, spectacular petroglyph sites, and a museum
with probably the finest Mimbres Puebloan pottery collection in the
world, all in southwestern New Mexico’s Silver City, Mimbres, and Deming
areas. Places tentatively to be visited include the original Mogollon
Village and Harris sites excavated by archaeologist Emil W. Haury; the
Gila Cliff Dwellings; Classic Mimbres sites (Beauregard-Montezuma,
Cottonwood, Gattons Park, Lake Roberts Vista, Mattocks, Old Town, and
Woodrow); the Frying Pan Canyon and Pony Hills petroglyph sites; and the
Western New Mexico University Museum. The tour will be based in Silver
City and depart from a hotel there each morning. Hotels, camping, and
other accommodations for those who wish to arrange their own lodging and
transport are available in Silver City. Registrants are responsible for
their own meals. Van tour includes transportation and lodging.
Reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
**** IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about
the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer” and the event's
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* Asterisked programs may be sponsored by organizations other than Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center.
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Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s mission is to educate children and adults
to understand and appreciate archaeology and other cultures, to foster
the preservation of archaeological and historical sites, and to develop a
lifelong concern for the importance of nonrenewable resources and
traditional cultures. Old Pueblo is recognized as a 501(c)(3)
not-for-profit organization under the U.S. tax code so donations and Old
Pueblo membership fees are tax-deductible up to amounts allowed by the
Internal Revenue Service.
If you are a member of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, THANK YOU FOR YOUR
SUPPORT! If you are not an Old Pueblo member we would be grateful if you
would become one so you can provide more support for our education and
research programs and receive membership benefits. You can become a
member by going to Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s
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Donations by check can be made payable to “OPAC” and mailed to Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577. You can
also donate using your Visa, MasterCard, or Discover credit card either
by calling Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or by clicking on “Donation Form”
at Old Pueblo’s secure www.oldpueblo.org/donate.html web page.
All of us at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center appreciate your support!
Regards,
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
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