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(2) Summary of Upcoming Presentations, Classes, Tours, and Other Activities.
(3) Details on Upcoming Activities [Following the Summary]
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(2) SUMMARY OF UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS, CLASSES, TOURS, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
(JUST A SUMMARY OF EACH ACTIVITY IS LISTED IN THIS SECTION! For details on
each activity see DETAILS ON UPCOMING ACTIVITIES below.)
LOOKING AHEAD: October 24, 2014 is deadline to purchase tickets for the
November 13, 2014 Jeep Cherokee Fundraising Raffle that benefits Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center and other charities. See November 13 announcement for
this event, below.
July 5, 2014 "Modern and Historical O'odham Culture" free presentation by
archaeologist Allen Dart
at Colossal Cave Mountain Park, 16721 E. Old Spanish Trail, Vail, Arizona*
July 5, 2014 “Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians”
free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dartat Colossal Cave Mountain Park,
16721 E. Old Spanish Trail, Vail, Arizona*
NEW MEXICO: July 16, 2014 “Casas Grandes Effigy Vessels: Portraits of
Individuals? Individual Potters?” free presentation by archaeologist Dr.
David Phillips for Grant County Archaeological Society at Mimbres Round Up
Lodge, Mimbres, NM
July 21, 2014 “La Frontera: A History of the Borderlands in Cochise County”
free presentation by Rebecca Orozco at Arizona Archaeological and Historical
Society meeting, Tucson*
Thursday-Sunday August 7-10, 2014, Annual Pecos Archaeological Conference at
Blue Mountain Scout Camp on the Manti-LaSal National Forest north of
Blanding, Utah*
NEW MEXICO: August 29-31, 2014 “Southwest Kiln Conference” at Tijeras
Ranger Station, 11776 New Mexico 337, Tijeras, New Mexico*
Mondays September 8-November 17, 2014 "Prehistory of the Southwest" class
with archaeologist Allen Dart at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson;
available for Arizona Archaeological Society Certification
September 13, 2014 “Pottery Types of the Tonto National Forest”
identification class with archaeologist J. Scott Wood sponsored by Desert
Foothills Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, at location to be
determined in the Cave Creek area*
September 15, 2014 “What! No Chiles in the Ancient Southwest?” free
presentation by Professor Paul E. Minnis at Arizona Archaeological and
Historical Society meeting, University Medical Center DuVal Auditorium,
Tucson*
September 18, 2014 “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner & presentation,
“Chiricahua Apaches
in Myth and History” with Cochise College’s Rebecca Orozco at restaurant to
be announced, Tucson
September 22, 2014 Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Autumnal Equinox Tour of
Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites” with
archaeologist Allen Dart departing from near Silverbell Road & Linda Vista
Blvd. in Marana, Arizona
Thursday-Monday September 25-29, 2014 “Chaco Canyon, Aztec, and Salmon Great
Pueblos and Other Archaeological Sites” Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
educational tour with archaeologist Marc Severson
October 3, 2014 “Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest” adult education
class with archaeologist Allen Dart for OLLI-UA Green Valley members at
First American Title, 101 S. La Canada Dr. #24, Green Valley, Arizona*
NEW MEXICO: Thursday-Saturday October 9-11, 2014 “18th Biennial Mogollon
Archaeology Conference” at Corbett Center Auditorium, New Mexico State
University, Las Cruces*
Sundays October 12-November 23, 2014 “Traditional Pottery Making Workshop”
with Andy Ward at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street,
Tucson.
October 16, 2014 “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner & presentation,
“The Eagle and the Archaeologists: The Lindberghs’ 1929 Southwest Aerial
Survey” with historian Erik Berg at restaurant to be announced, Tucson
October 18, 2014 “Autumn Fest 2014 Celebrating Apache Art and Culture” at
the Amerind Foundation,
2100 N. Amerind Rd., Dragoon, Arizona*
COLORADO: October 20-26, 2014 “Colorado Archaeology” educational tour led by
Zebulon Miracle, sponsored by the nonprofit Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary
(PGMA), departing from a place to be selected in Phoenix**
October 26, 2014 "Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam
Indians" free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Canoa Anza Days
at Historic Canoa Ranch, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley*
NEW MEXICO-TEXAS: Friday-Monday October 31-November 3, 2014 “Missions of the
River” Spanish Missions of the Rio Grande tour sponsored by the Southwestern
Mission Research Center in El Paso-Las Cruces area*
November 13, 2014 “Fundraising Raffle of a 2014 Jeep Cherokee” by Tucson’s
Jim Click Automotive Team. Old Pueblo Archaeology Center keeps 100% of the
proceeds from all raffle tickets it sells. Tickets 5 for $100 or $25 each.
520-798-1201.
November 20, 2014 “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner & presentation,
“Landscape of the Spirits: Hohokam Rock Art of South Mountain Park” with
archaeologist Dr. Todd Bostwick at Dragon's View Asian Cuisine, Tucson
November 29, 2014 “Rock Art and Archaeology of Ventana Cave” Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center carpooling educational tour with archaeologist Allen
Dart departing from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson
December 18, 2014 Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” dinner - Guest speaker & Tucson restaurant location to be announced
January 15, 2015 Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” dinner - Guest speaker & Tucson restaurant location to be announced
Mondays January 19-February 9, 2015 "Archaeology, Cultures, and Ancient Arts
of Southern Arizona" adult education class for Recreation Centers of Sun
City West in the R. H. Johnson Recreation Center, Sun City West, Arizona
February 21, 2015 “White Tank Mountains Petroglyphs of Waterfall Canyon &
Mesquite Canyon” guided archaeological site tour with Allen Dart for
Recreation Centers of Sun City West in White Tank Mountain Regional Park,
Waddell, Arizona*
March 21, 2015 "Vista del Rio Archaeology Celebration" free children's
activities at City of Tucson's Vista del Rio Cultural Resource Park, 7575 E.
Desert Arbors St. (at Dos Hombres Road), Tucson
Saturday & Sunday March 28 & 29, 2015 “Southwest Indian Art Fair” at the
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, 1013 E University Blvd, Tucson*
* Not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored program.
** Not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored program, however, Old
Pueblo members can attend PGMA functions at PGMA‘s member-discount rates,
and vice-versa.
(3) DETAILS ON UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
LOOKING AHEAD: Friday October 24, 2014
Deadline to purchase tickets for the November 13 “Fundraising Raffle of
a 2014 Jeep Cherokee” by Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team to benefit Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center and other charities. See November 13 announcement
for this event, below.
Saturday July 5, 2014
“Modern and Historical O'odham Culture” free presentation by
archaeologist Allen Dart for the “Ha:san Bak Saguaro Harvest Celebration” at
Colossal Cave Mountain Park, 16721 E. Old Spanish Trail, Vail, Arizona*
Noon to 1 p.m. Free
The “Four Southern Tribes” of Arizona share a close relationship with
one another and can trace their ancestry to people who inhabited
south-central Arizona and part of northern Mexico through geographical,
archaeological, linguistic, oral tradition, and historical evidence. These
modern tribes refer to themselves as “O'odham” (‘the people’) in their
native language and historically have been called the Papago and Pima
Indians. They occupy several southern Arizona Indian reservations but many
of their members live and work in communities beyond the reservation
boundaries, in Arizona and elsewhere. This presentation provides a brief
introduction to the historical and modern O'odham cultures, their roots in
the ancient Paleoindian, Archaic, and Hohokam cultures identified by
archaeologists, and their prominent place in the modern world.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For
event details contact Lauren Hohl at the Park at 520-647-7121 or
[log in to unmask]; for information about the activity subject matter
contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Saturday July 5, 2014
“Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians” free
presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for the “Ha:san Bak Saguaro Harvest
Celebration” at Colossal Cave Mountain Park, 16721 E. Old Spanish Trail,
Vail, Arizona. Cosponsored by the Arizona Humanities.*
2-3 p.m. Free
The Hohokam Native American culture flourished in southern Arizona from
the sixth through fifteenth centuries, and the Akimel O'odham (Pima) and
Tohono O'odham (Papago) occupied this region historically. Ancient Hohokam
artifacts, architecture, and other material culture provide archaeologists
with clues for identifying where the Hohokam lived, for interpreting how
they adapted to the Sonoran Desert for centuries, and explaining why the
Hohokam culture mysteriously disappeared. In this presentation archaeologist
Allen Dart illustrates the material culture of the Hohokam and presents
possible interpretations about their relationships to the natural world,
their time reckoning, religious practices, beliefs, and deities, and
possible reasons for the eventual demise of their way of life. Funding for
the program is provided by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For
event details contact Lauren Hohl at the Park at 520-647-7121 or
[log in to unmask]; for information about the activity subject matter
contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
NEW MEXICO: Wednesday July 16, 2014
“Casas Grandes Effigy Vessels: Portraits of Individuals? Individual
Potters?” free presentation by archaeologist Dr. David Phillips for Grant
County Archaeological Society monthly meeting at the Mimbres Round Up Lodge
in Mimbres, New Mexico*
6-8 p.m. Free
David Phillips, Curator at the University of New Mexico’s Maxwell
Museum of Anthropology, looks at human effigy vessels created between AD
1200 and 1450 in the Casas Grandes area of northwestern Chihuahua. Bring a
dish to share at a potluck at 6 p.m.; presentation will follow a short
business meeting at 7.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Marilyn Markel at 575-536-9337 or [log in to unmask]
Monday July 21, 2014
“La Frontera: A History of the Borderlands in Cochise County” free
presentation by Rebecca Orozco at Arizona Archaeological and Historical
Society meeting, University Medical Center DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N.
Campbell Ave., Tucson*
7:30 p.m. Free
Orozco will discuss the peoples who have occupied our borderlands
through history and their creation of boundaries: cultural, linguistic and
physical.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No
reservations are needed. For details contact Jon Boyd at Tucson telephone
520-444-6385 or visit www.az-arch-and-hist.org
<http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/> .
Thursday-Sunday August 7-10, 2014
Annual Pecos Archaeological Conference, this year at the Blue Mountain
Scout Camp on the Manti-LaSal National Forest north of Blanding, Utah*
Thursday evening conference registration and reception; Friday and
Saturday field reports and symposium on recent archaeological research;
Sunday archaeological site tours
Registration fee $40 before July 1, thereafter $50; $35 student any
time; other fees may apply
This annual conference, begun in 1927, brings southwestern professional
and avocational archaeologists, the general public, and media organizations
together under open skies at a different place in the Southwest every year
to share findings of recent archaeological research and to recent field
research and challenges of the profession. Open to all, the Pecos Conference
is an important opportunity for students and others interested in
archaeology and prehistory to meet with professional archaeologists
one-on-one to learn about archaeology, gain access to resources and to new
research opportunities, and test new methods and theories related to
archaeology.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For
more information visit
http://www.swanet.org/2014_pecos_conference/index.html or contact 2014
Principal Organizer James R. Allison, Brigham Young University, at
801-422-3059 or [log in to unmask]
NEW MEXICO: Friday-Sunday August 29-31, 2014
“Southwest Kiln Conference” at Tijeras Ranger Station, 11776 New Mexico
337, Tijeras, New Mexico*
Times TBA. $25 for those wanting to conduct their own firing or
contribute pots to be fired (includes T-shirt & food for the barbecue); $15
just to watch and learn (includes food cost)
The Southwest Kiln Conference is an informal gathering of
archaeologists, potters, and other folks interested in ancient and modern
southwestern ceramic technology. Held nearly every year since 2003 at
various sites in the American Southwest, this year it will be on Labor Day
weekend in Tijeras, NM, sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service in conjunction
with The Friends of Tijeras Pueblo. The ranger station is at Tijeras Pueblo,
one of the Southwest’s early pottery production sites, and the local area
offers exploration opportunities for local clays during the planned field
trip. Social activities and slide presentations are scheduled for August 29
and demonstrations and firings on August 30-31.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information email Southwest Kiln Conference at [log in to unmask]
or visit www.swkiln.com <http://www.swkiln.com/> .
Mondays September 8-November 17, 2014
"Prehistory of the Southwest" class with archaeologist Allen Dart at
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson (at Tucson
Unified School District's Ajo Service Center, just west of La Cholla Blvd.,
½-mile north of John F. Kennedy Park)
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. each Monday September 8 through November 17, 2014
(except no class on Veterans Day November 10). Fee $50 ($40 for Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members), not counting
cost of the recommended text or of optional Arizona Archaeological Society
membership. Minimum enrollment 8, maximum 32.
"Prehistory of the Southwest" is an introductory course in the study of
the American Southwest, developed by the Arizona Archaeological Society to
provide a basic overview of this region's archaeology and cultures. Ten
weekly evening class sessions will cover cultural sequences, dating systems,
subsistence strategies, development of urbanization, abandonments of
different areas at different times, and the general characteristics of major
cultural groups that have lived in the Southwest over the past 13,000-plus
years. Besides offering an up-to-date synthesis of southwestern prehistory
for anyone interested in the archaeology of the Southwest, the class can be
used as prerequisite for all other courses offered to members of the Arizona
Archaeological Society (AAS) enrolled in or interested in enrolling in the
AAS Certification Program. Instructor Allen Dart is a registered
professional archaeologist employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
and is volunteer executive director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center.
Reservations required, registration deadline Wednesday September 4:
520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] to register or for more information.
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Saturday September 13, 2014
“Pottery Types of the Tonto National Forest” identification class with
archaeologist J. Scott Wood sponsored by Desert Foothills Chapter, Arizona
Archaeological Society (AAS) at location to be determined in the Cave Creek
area*
9 a.m.-3 p.m. $35; AAS members only with priority to Desert Foothills
Chapter members
The Salado knew and used their surroundings well. They learned to
cultivate crops in small patches of fertile land on the craggy hillsides.
They collected rain water for later use. Some group members wove textiles
from native plants, including cotton; others made pottery from local red
clay and decorated the vessels with intricate black and white designs. The
unique style of black and white designs on red pottery known as Salado
polychrome or Roosevelt redware is associated with the ancient Salado
culture. However, not all Salado ceramics were decorated – a plain pottery
was used for daily use whereas decorated ware may have been reserved for
ceremonies. Because Salado pottery is found throughout the Southwest,
decorated ware may also have been used for trade with other American Indian
groups. To learn more about the pottery types, especially the Salado wares,
join Tonto National Forest archaeologist Scott Wood for a day of learning
the ceramic types.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Reservations
required. For more information contact [log in to unmask]
Monday September 15, 2014
“What! No Chiles in the Ancient Southwest?” free presentation by
Professor Paul E. Minnis at Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society
meeting, University Medical Center DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.,
Tucson*
7:30-9 p.m. Free
****[Description coming]
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No
reservations are needed. For details contact Jon Boyd at Tucson telephone
520-444-6385 or visit www.az-arch-and-hist.org
<http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/> .
Thursday September 18, 2014
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring the presentation “Chiricahua Apaches in Myth and History”
with Cochise College-Douglas History and Anthropology Instructor Rebecca
Orozco at ****[restaurant to be announced], Tucson
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s
menu)
As the last Native American group to reach a peace accord with the U.S.
government, the Chiricahua Apache were often featured in the press. Famous
warriors Geronimo and Naiche were photographed many times. Their story has
been the basis of numerous feature films. The story of their conflict first
with the Spaniards and Mexicans who claimed their homeland, and later with
the Americans expanding into the region in a policy of Manifest Destiny, has
become a mix of history and heresy. The full story never will be completely
known. This presentation contains a collection of historic photos from the
end of an era – the late 1800s – that tell the story of the clash of the
people trying save their lifeway and homeland and the people who believed
the land was empty and open for settlement.
Those wishing to attend must call 520-798-1201 and must have their
reservations confirmed before 5 p.m. Wednesday September 17 because the
fire-safety ordinance limits attendance. There is no entry fee but guests
are asked to purchase their own dinners so that the restaurant won’t charge
Old Pueblo for their seats, and donations will be requested to benefit Old
Pueblo’s educational efforts.
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Monday September 22, 2014
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Autumnal Equinox Tour of Los Morteros
and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites” with archaeologist Allen
Dart, departing from northeast corner of Silverbell Road & Linda Vista Blvd.
in Marana, Arizona
8 a.m. to noon. $20 ($16 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
The 2014 autumnal equinox is Tuesday September 23 at 2:29 Universal
Time (London), but that translates to Monday September 22 at 7:29 PM MST in
Tucson. To celebrate the autumnal equinox, archaeologist Allen Dart (Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center's executive director) leads this tour to Los
Morteros, an ancient village site that includes a Hohokam ballcourt and
bedrock mortars, and to Picture Rocks, where ancient petroglyphs include a
solstice and equinox marker, dancing human-like figures, whimsical animals,
and other rock symbols made by Hohokam Indians between A.D. 650 and 1450.
LIMITED TO 32 PEOPLE. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED by 5 p.m. Friday September
19: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
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NEW MEXICO: Thursday-Monday September 25-29, 2014
“Chaco Canyon, Aztec, and Salmon Great Pueblos and Other Archaeological
Sites” Old Pueblo Archaeology Center educational tour with archaeologist
Marc Severson. Drive your own vehicle and meet tour in Gallup, NM, on
Thursday; actual touring begins Friday and continues through Sunday, with
optional (extra-cost) Monday visit to sites on the Zuni Indian Reservation.
Fee for Friday-Sunday touring: $195 ($175 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members); fee for individual days
including optional Monday trip to Zuni area: $70 per day ($60/day for Old
Pueblo and PGMA members). Participants are responsible for their own
transportation, meals, and lodging. Tour leader will stay at Red Lion Hotels
in Gallup and Farmington. Hotels, camping, and other accommodations for
those who wish to arrange their own lodging are available in and near Gallup
and Farmington; camping spaces in the Chaco Canyon campground are limted so
reservations there are highly recommended.
The archaeological sites in Chaco Canyon are some of the most famous,
yet enigmatic, sites in the Southwest. A World Heritage Site, Chaco attracts
thousands of visitors each year, yet most people see only sand, mud, rock
walls, and a treeless desolate landscape. Old Pueblo's tour will take you
beyond the simple brochures and photo-ops to explore the multiple contexts
of the people who created these magnificent structures. We not only examine
sites within Chaco Canyon, but also outlier sites north and south of the
canyon proper. The tour is guided by Marc Severson, who has worked as a
professional archaeologist and educator since 1972 and is a 20-year-veteran
leader of southwestern tours for Pima Community College and Old Pueblo.
Tentative itinerary:
Thursday: Travel day to meet at Red Lion Hotel, Gallup, NM, check in
with Marc or in the Red Lion lobby by 7 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time and stay
overnight in Gallup. Friday: Drive from Gallup to Chaco Canyon to tour Great
House sites on its north side. Afterward drive to Farmington, NM, to stay
overnight. Saturday: Tour Aztec Ruins in morning, Salmon Ruins in afternoon.
Stay in Farmington overnight. Sunday: Drive from Farmington to Chaco Canyon
to tour “Small House sites” and Casa Rinconada Great Kiva on its south side.
If time permits on the way back to Gallup we will visit the Pueblo Pintado
Chacoan Outlier archaeological site. Stay overnight in Gallup. Monday
option: Drive from Gallup to Zuni Pueblo to visit Our Lady of Guadalupe
historic mission church built in 1629; its interior walls feature murals
illustrating traditional Zuni ceremonial life (the life's work of Alex
Seowtewa and his sons). Also we will visit the Village of the Great Kivas
Chacoan Outlier site, the Zuni Eagle Rehabilitation center, and the home of
the Lalios to see their native pottery and jewelry.
Deadline for the required reservations is Friday September 12:
520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
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Friday October 3, 2014
“Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest” adult education class with
archaeologist Allen Dart, RPA, for OLLI-UA Green Valley members at First
American Title, 101 S. La Canada Dr. #24 (in Green Valley Mall), Green
Valley, Arizona*
3:30 to 5 p.m. Open only to Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
members who reside in Green Valley; OLLI-UA Green Valley membership fee of
$95 for Fall session or $130 for entire year covers this course
Preliterate cultures in the American Southwest took advantage of
southern Arizona’s long growing season and tackled its challenge of limited
precipitation by developing the most extensive irrigation works in all of
North America. Agriculture was introduced into southern Arizona more than
4,000 years ago, and irrigation systems were developed here by at least
3,500 years before present – several hundred years before irrigation was
established in ancient Mexico. This study session provides an overview of
ancient Native American irrigation systems identified by archaeologists in
the southern Southwest and discusses their implications for understanding
social complexity.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. To join
Green Valley OLLI visit www.olli.arizona.edu/olli to download a registration
and payment form or pay and register online; for information about this
course contact Paula Kulina at 602-317-1488 or [log in to unmask], or Allen
Dart at 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sundays October 12-November 23, 2014
“Traditional Pottery Making Workshop” with Andy Ward at Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, just west of La Cholla Blvd.,
½-mile north of John F. Kennedy Park, Tucson.
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, which participants will collect during class field trip.
A series of seven pottery-making class sessions will be offered by
artist Andy Ward on seven Sunday afternoons October 12 through November 23,
2014, including a clay-gathering field trip on October 19. 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 traditional hand-building
pottery techniques 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 Pueblo, 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 and jars of both smooth and corrugated pottery, by
scraping, polishing, slipping and painting. The paddle-and-anvil
hand-building method is also demonstrated.
Reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
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NEW MEXICO: Thursday-Saturday October 9-11, 2014
“18th Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference” at Corbett Center
Auditorium, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces*
5-7 p.m. Thursday (reception at NMSU Museum); 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday &
Saturday; Registration fee $40 if preregister prior to Sept. 26, thereafter
or on-site registration $50
This conference featgures papers and presentations on the archaeology
of the Mogollon region in the broadest sense including the northern
Chihuahua, Jornada, and Mogollon Rim areas.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Lonnie C. Ludeman at [log in to unmask] or visit
www.lonjul.net/mog201.
Thursday October 16, 2014
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring the presentation “The Eagle and the Archaeologists: The
Lindberghs’ 1929 Southwest Aerial Survey” with historian Erik Berg at
****[restaurant to be announced], Tucson; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s
menu)
Charles Lindbergh is best known for his famous 1927 flight across the
Atlantic Ocean. But few realize that Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, played a
brief but important role in archaeology. In 1929 they teamed up with noted
archaeologist Alfred Kidder to conduct an unprecedented aerial photographic
survey of southwestern prehistoric sites and geologic features including
Chaco Canyon, the Grand Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly. Featuring Lindbergh’s
historic photographs, this presentation describes this adventurous
pioneering collaboration of aviation and archaeology.
Raised in Flagstaff, Arizona, Erik Berg is an award-winning historian
and writer with a special interest in the early twentieth century Southwest
and the impact of science and technology. In addition to contributing to
several books, his work has appeared in the Journal of Arizona History,
Arizona Highways, and Sedona Magazine. A past president of the Grand Canyon
Historical Society, Berg currently lives in Phoenix.
Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s
menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old
Pueblo’s educational efforts. Because seating is limited in order for the
program to be in compliance with the Fire Code, those wishing to attend must
call 520-798-1201 and must have their reservations confirmed before 5 p.m.
Wednesday October 15.
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Saturday, October 18, 2014
“Autumn Fest 2014 Celebrating Apache Art and Culture” at the Amerind
Foundation, 2100 N. Amerind Rd., Dragoon, Arizona*
****Details coming.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact ****
COLORADO: Monday-Sunday October 20-26, 2014
“Colorado Archaeology” educational tour led by Zebulon Miracle,
sponsored by the nonprofit Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary (PGMA), departing
from a place to be selected in Phoenix**
$815 for PGMA members, $865 nonmember; single supplement $420; price
includes van transportation, airport transfers, lodging, and admission, and
$100 donation to Pueblo Grande Museum; does not include airfare to Grand
Junction or meals.
This hands-on expedition will visit the beautiful Anasazi Heritage
Center to get oriented, before visiting Lowell Pueblo. It will also spend an
entire day at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center to tour its labs and
learn proper field techniques, then will visit the Ute Tribal Park and Mesa
Verde National Monument. It will continue to Colorado’s newest National
Monument, Chimney Rock, and culminate with a visit to the Southern Ute
Cultural Center.
** This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event,
however, Old Pueblo members can attend PGMA functions at PGMA‘s
member-discount rates, and vice-versa. For additional information call
602-495-0901, email [log in to unmask], or visit pueblogrande.org/van-tours/
Sunday October 26, 2014
"Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians" free
presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Canoa Anza Days at Historic
Canoa Ranch, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley, Arizona (along I-19
East Frontage Road between the Continental and Canoa exits); Cosponsored by
the Arizona Humanities.*
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Free
The Hohokam Native American culture flourished in southern Arizona from
the sixth through fifteenth centuries, and the Akimel O'odham (Pima) and
Tohono O'odham (Papago) occupied this region historically. Ancient Hohokam
artifacts, architecture, and other material culture provide archaeologists
with clues for identifying where the Hohokam lived, for interpreting how
they adapted to the Sonoran Desert for centuries, and explaining why the
Hohokam culture mysteriously disappeared. In this presentation archaeologist
Allen Dart illustrates the material culture of the Hohokam and presents
possible interpretations about their relationships to the natural world,
their time reckoning, religious practices, beliefs, and deities, and
possible reasons for the eventual demise of their way of life. Funding for
the program is provided by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For
event details contact Dawn Morley at 520-289-3940 or [log in to unmask];
for information about the activity subject matter contact Allen Dart at
Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
NEW MEXICO-TEXAS: Friday-Monday October 31-November 3, 2014
“Missions of the River” tour of Spanish Missions of the Rio Grande,
sponsored by the Southwestern Mission Research Center, in El Paso, Texas-Las
Cruces, New Mexico area*
Times TBA. $650 per person double occupancy (for single add $100)
Join Tucson’s renowned Southwestern Mission Research Center for a tour
of the Socorro and Ysleta mission churches established by the Spanish
settlers and Indians who fled Northern New Mexico in 1680 at the time of the
Pueblo revolt. The tour will also visit a rare presidio chapel and the
village of San Elizario, as well as the old adobe town of Mesilla, New
Mexico. Tour includes all three nights in Las Cruces and visits to museums,
a chili institute, and festivities celebrating El Día de los Muertos. Enjoy
sopaipillas, New Mexico red and green chili, some yummy Texas BBQ, and a
little shopping along the way.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For
reservations or more information contact Gail Bornfield at 520-797-8825 or
[log in to unmask]
Thursday November 13, 2014
“Fundraising Raffle of a 2014 Jeep Cherokee” by Tucson’s Jim Click
Automotive Team. Old Pueblo Archaeology Center gets to keep 100% of the
proceeds from all raffle tickets that it sells
Tickets are 5 for $100 or $25 each
The Jim Click Automotive Team is presenting a new 2014 Jeep Cherokee to
be used as the featured prize in a raffle to raise one million dollars for
Tucson-area nonprofit organizations. With your $25 contribution (or 5 raffle
tickets for $100) you could win the 2014 Jeep Cherokee. The best part is
that 100% of your contribution will support Tucson charities, including Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center, which gets to keep all the proceeds from the
tickets that Old Pueblo sells. Your donation to purchase one or more raffle
tickets will help Old Pueblo Archaeology Center provide more archaeology and
culture education programs for children who would not be able to afford our
programs without your help.
A maximum of 50,000 tickets will be sold. To be entered in the drawing
tickets must be received by Old Pueblo by October 24 so that we can turn
them in to the Jim Click Automotive Team’s raffle coordinator by October 31.
The drawing will be held on November 13.
The rules of the raffle require that Old Pueblo account for all tickets
issued to us and that we return all unsold tickets, therefore payment in
advance is required in order to obtain tickets. The ticket price is $25
apiece or five tickets for $100. Tickets may be purchased by check sent to
our PO box address listed below, by calling me on my cell phone
(520-603-6181) to provide your Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or Diners Club
credit card payment information, or through the PayPal portal on Old
Pueblo’s www.oldpueblo.org <http://www.oldpueblo.org/> home page. Once you
have provided payment, Old Pueblo will enter your ticket(s) into the drawing
for you and will mail you the correspondingly numbered ticket stub(s) with a
letter acknowledging your contribution.
For tickets or more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or
[log in to unmask] For more information about the Jim Click Automotive
Team’s 2014 Jeep Cherokee raffle visit the Raffle Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/JeepCherokeeRaffle.
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Thursday November 20, 2014
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring the presentation “Landscape of the Spirits: Hohokam Rock
Art of South Mountain Park” with archaeologist Dr. Todd Bostwick at Dragon's
View Asian Cuisine, 400 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson; cosponsored by Arizona
Humanities
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s
menu)
The South Mountains in Phoenix contain more than 8,000 Hohokam
petroglyphs. This program discusses Dr. Bostwick’s long-term study of these
ancient glyphs and describes the various types of designs, their general
distribution, and their possible meanings. Interpretations of the
petroglyphs include the marking of trails, territories, and astronomical
events, as well as dream or trance imagery based on O’odham (Pima) oral
traditions. Most of the trails currently used by hikers in the South
Mountains contain Hohokam rock art, indicating that these trails date back
at least 800 years.
Todd Bostwick has conducted archaeological research in the Southwest
for 35 years, was the Phoenix City Archaeologist at Pueblo Grande Museum for
21 years, and is now the Senior Research Archaeologist for PaleoWest
Archaeology in Phoenix and Director of Archaeology for the Verde Valley
Archaeology Center in Camp Verde. Dr. Bostwick has published numerous
articles and books on Southwest history and prehistory and has received
several awards, including the Governor’s Award in Public Archaeology in
2005.
Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s
menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old
Pueblo’s educational efforts. Because seating is limited in order for the
program to be in compliance with the Fire Code, those wishing to attend must
call 520-798-1201 and must have their reservations confirmed before 5 p.m.
Wednesday November 19.
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Saturday November 29, 2014
“Rock Art and Archaeology of Ventana Cave” Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center carpooling educational tour with archaeologist Allen Dart departing
from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson
6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fee $35 ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members; no charge for members or
employees of the Tohono O’odham Nation)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center offers this early-morning carpool tour
onto the Tohono O’odham Nation to visit the Ventana Cave National Historic
Landmark site. During the Arizona State Museum’s 1940s excavations in the
cave, led by archaeologists Emil W. Haury and Julian Hayden, evidence was
found for human occupation going back from historic times to around 10,000
years ago. The cave, which actually is a very large rockshelter, also
contains pictographs, petroglyphs, and other archaeological features used by
Native Americans for thousands of years. Tour leaves Tucson at 6:30 a.m. to
ensure the pictographs can be seen in the best morning light. Fees will
benefit the Tohono O’odham Hickiwan District’s efforts to develop a
caretaker-interpretive center at Ventana Cave, and the nonprofit Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center’s education programs.
Reservations required by Wednesday January 29: 520-798-1201 or
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Mondays January 19-February 9, 2015
"Archaeology, Cultures, and Ancient Arts of Southern Arizona" adult
education class for Recreation Centers of Sun City West in the R. H. Johnson
Recreation Center, 19803 R. H. Johnson Blvd., Sun City West, Arizona
Every Monday Jan. 19 & 26 and Feb. 2 & 9 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Fee ****$40
In this four-session class on Tuesday evenings, Mr. Allen Dart, a
Registered Professional Archaeologist and volunteer director of the Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center in Tucson, will provide information about the
archaeology and cultures of Arizona and the Southwest, focusing on the
arts and material culture of southern Arizona's prehistoric peoples. The
first session, "Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona," will summarize and
interpret the archaeology of Arizona from the earliest "Paleoindians"
through Archaic period hunters and foragers, the transition to true village
life, and the later prehistoric archaeological cultures (Puebloan, Mogollon,
Sinagua, Hohokam, Salado, and Patayan). Mr. Dart also will relate the
archaeological cultures to the Native American, European, Mexican,
African, and Asian peoples who have been part of our state's more recent
history. In Session 2, "Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam
Indians," artifacts, architecture, and other material culture of southern
Arizona's ancient Hohokam culture are illustrated and discussed. The arts
and culture that the Hohokam left behind provide archaeologists with clues
for interpreting their relationships to the natural world, time reckoning,
religious practices, beliefs, and deities, and possible reasons for the
eventual demise of their way of life. Session 3, "Ancient Native American
Pottery of Southern Arizona," focuses on some of the Native American
ceramic styles that characterized specific eras in southern Arizona
prehistory and history, and discusses how archaeologists use pottery for
dating archaeological sites and interpreting ancient lifeways of the
ancient Early Ceramic and Hohokam cultures, and of the historical Piman
(Tohono O'odham and Akimel O'odham), Yuman (including Mohave and Maricopa),
and Apachean peoples. Finally, in Session 4, "Set in Stone but Not in
Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art," Mr. Dart illustrates pictographs
(rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved or pecked on rocks) found
in the Southwest, and discusses how even the same rock art symbol may be
interpreted differently from popular, scientific, and modern Native
American perspectives.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Tamra Stark at 623-544-6194 or [log in to unmask] in
Sun City West; for information about the activity subject matter contact
Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Saturday February 21, 2015
“White Tank Mountains Petroglyphs of Waterfall Canyon & Mesquite
Canyon” guided archaeological site tour with Allen Dart for Recreation
Centers of Sun City West in White Tank Mountain Regional Park, 13025 N.
White Tank Mountain Road, Waddell, Arizona*
10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fee **** ****? includes park entry fee
Archaeologist Allen Dart guides 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 Waterfall Canyon-Black Rock Loop Trail to see and photograph dozens of
Archaic and Hohokam petroglyphs; lunch at ramadas with picnic facilities;
then an afternoon hike 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.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Tamra Stark at 623-544-6194 or [log in to unmask] in
Sun City West; for information about the activity subject matter contact
Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Saturday March 21, 2015
"Vista del Rio Archaeology Celebration" free children's activities at
City of Tucson's Vista del Rio Cultural Resource Park, 7575 E. Desert Arbors
St. (at Dos Hombres Road), Tucson
9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free.
This Old Pueblo Archaeology Center program, sponsored by Vista del Rio
Residents' Association, features hands-on activities, demonstrations, and
informational materials along the trails through Tucson's Vista del Rio
Cultural Park, where part of an ancient Hohokam Indian village is preserved,
to educate children, especially ages 6 to 12, about the ancient people who
lived at Vista del Rio and elsewhere in southern Arizona. Activities along
the trails through the park include demonstrations of traditional Native
American pottery-making and arrowhead-making, grinding corn using an ancient
metate and mano, learning to play traditional Native American games, and
making pottery and other hand-crafted artifacts to take home.
No reservations needed. For more information contact Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center in Tucson at 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Saturday & Sunday March 28 & 29, 2015
“Southwest Indian Art Fair” at the Arizona State Museum (ASM),
University of Arizona, 1013 E University Blvd, Tucson*
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday; $10 per adult ($7 for
ASM members)
Southern Arizona’s premier Indian art show and market is on Arizona
State Museum’s front lawn, rain or shine. Shop for a wide array of
top-quality, handmade art as you meet 200 Native artists from around the
region all selling directly to the public. Talk with them about their work
and learn about their ancient cultures. Choose from pottery, katsina dolls,
paintings, jewelry, baskets, rugs, blankets, and much more. Bring the whole
family to enjoy artist demonstrations, Native foods, lively music, and
colorful dance performances.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or
[log in to unmask]
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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, therefore 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 a member 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
http://www.oldpueblo.org/member.html web page, scrolling to the bottom of
that page, and following the instructions for using our secure online
membership form or our printable Enrollment/Subscription form.
Membership fees, and donations, also can be made using cash or check.
Checks may be made payable to “OPAC” and mailed to Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577. (Please do not send cash through
the mail.) 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 (Volunteer)
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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Disclosure: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's Executive Director Allen
Dart volunteers his time to Old Pueblo. Mr. Dart works full-time as a
cultural resources specialist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service in Arizona. Views expressed in communications from Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center do not necessarily represent views of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture or of the United States.
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