THE LATEST "OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY" BULLETIN IS NOW AVAILABLE
The latest issue of the "Old Pueblo Archaeology" quarterly bulletin has
just been published! Unlike our usual issue bulletin, this one is a
double issue that features an interesting article by historic architect
Harris Sobin about a historic site identified during an Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center cultural resources survey -- the Anderson Clayton
Cotton Gin in Marana, Arizona.
Like every issue, the current one is written in a nontechnical format,
includes ample illustrations, and is published electronically in pdf
format for on-line access. Each issue of "Old Pueblo Archaeology" includes
one or more feature articles about southwestern archaeology, history, or
cultures and provides news about Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's
activities and program offerings.
If you are not currently an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center member or
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OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
THE FOLLOWING UPCOMING ACTIVITIES:
FREE PRESENTATIONS THIS MONTH
Tuesday September 8, 2009
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free
presentation for Arizona Archaeological Society Agua Fria Chapter at
Glendale Public Library, 5959 W. Brown St. in Glendale, Arizona.
Cosponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council.
6:30-8 p.m. Free.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist 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. Funding for program provided by the Arizona
Humanities Council.
No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Sandy Gauthier at
602-717-8219 or [log in to unmask] in Glendale; for information about
the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone
520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday September 10, 2009
"Archaeology and You: Preserving the Past for the Future" free
presentation by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist
Allen Dart, for Arizona Archaeological Society, Tubac/Santa Cruz Chapter
at Santa Cruz County's North County Facility, 50 Bridge Road in Tubac,
Arizona
7-8:30 p.m. Free.
Tombs in an ancient Maya city are sacked by looters seeking artifacts to
sell. Relic collectors lease an archaeological site and dig it up to
collect artifacts, leaving craters littered with human bones and broken
grave objects. A petroglyph is chiseled out of a rock face. Someone out
walking finds an ancient artifact and takes it home. All of these actions
destroy part of the archaeological record of humankind. In this
presentation archaeologist Allen Dart notes that artifacts and cultural
features ranging from small pieces of pottery and arrowheads to
petroglyphs, glass bottles, coins, and other historical objects often are
the only sources of information that archaeologists have to answer
questions about an ancient people's way of life, which makes it important
for these items to be left undisturbed in their original context.
No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Alan Sorkowitz at
520-207-7151 (home) or 609-280-2401 (cell) or [log in to unmask] in Green
Valley, AZ; for information about the presentation subject matter contact
Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
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Thursday September 17, 2009
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursdays” free presentation:
“Mesoamerica and Hohokam Symbolism, Public Architecture, and Ideology”
with archaeologist Dr. Paul R. Fish at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center,
2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson (in Tucson Unified School District’s Ajo
Service Center, just west of La Cholla Blvd., ½-mile north of John F.
Kennedy Park).
7:30 to 9 p.m. Free.
Precursors in ancient western Mexico are known for many of the stylistic
and symbolic expressions of the Hohokam. Ballcourts and platform mounds,
the forms of monumental architecture used by the Hohokam, are prime
examples, as are more ordinary kinds of buildings such as courtyard
groups and adobe houses. Similarities in the iconography incorporated
into Hohokam pottery, jewelry, and ritual objects suggest that ideologies
as well as material styles were shared. This presentation summarizes
interaction between the Hohokam and West Mexico during the earlier part
of the Hohokam sequence, but it also considers regional variation in
these connections during the Classic period, which has received less
attention. Late pre-contact public food and alcohol consumption, textile
production and style, and evidence for the variable presence of Mexican
visitors are discussed. Hohokam archaeological cases raise questions of
how related material remains, as well as cultural and symbolic systems
are transmitted and assimilated among distant and differing societies.
Old Pueblo’s guest speaker this month is Paul R. Fish (Ph.D. Arizona
State University, Anthropology), Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State
Museum and Professor, School of Anthropology at the University of
Arizona. Dr. Fish has studied the Hohokam tradition for over 30 years
and is an author of numerous publications on the Prehispanic archaeology
of the Southwest/Mexican Northwest borderlands. He is co-editor of the
recently published books The Hohokam Millennium (School for Advanced
Research Press) and Trincheras Sites in Time, Space, and Society
(University of Arizona Press). Dr. Fish and his wife Dr. Suzanne K. Fish
are co-recipients of this year’s Byron S. Cummings Award presented by the
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society for outstanding
southwestern anthropological research.
No reservations needed. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
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OTHER UPCOMING ACTIVITIES:
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Tuesdays September 29 through December 15, 2009
"Prehistory of the Southwest" class with archaeologist Allen Dart at 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.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. each Tuesday Sept. 29 through Dec. 15, 2009 (except no
classes on October 20 or November 10). Fee $50 ($40 for Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members), not
counting cost of text recommended for the course. Minimum enrollment 8,
maximum 24.
A series of 10 "Prehistory of the Southwest" class sessions will be
offered by archaeologist Allen Dart in this Tuesday series of "Prehistory
of the Southwest." 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. The class
includes discussions of 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.
Reservations required, registration deadline Sept. 22, 2009: 520-798-1201
or [log in to unmask] to register or for more information.
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Thursday October 15, 2009
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner
& presentation: "Anarchy in Ancient Arizona: Breakdown in Society at the
End of the Hohokam Colonial Period” with archaeologist William L. Deaver,
at El Parador Mexican Restaurant, 2744 E. Broadway Blvd. in Tucson.
6 to 8:30 p.m. $18 per person includes restaurant buffet dinner, coffee,
tea or soft drink, tax and gratuity, plus the presentation; the buffet is
per person, one time through, and not all you can eat
Southern Arizona’s ancient Hohokam culture is perhaps best known for its
extensive irrigation systems; an iconography including depictions of
plants, animals, and people expressed in shell, stone, and clay;
cremation death ritual; and a regionalized ceremonial system focused on
public architectural features interpreted as ballcourts. The Hohokam
heartland lay north of Tucson along the Gila and Salt rivers. In the
eighth century A.D., Hohokam culture spread across central and southern
Arizona including the Tucson Basin. Conventionally, the Hohokam culture
tenure across this region is thought to have persisted until the end of
prehistory in the middle fifteenth century. In this presentation
archaeologist William A. Deaver presents a different view, contending
that Hohokam cultural influence and tenure in the Tucson Basin ended at
the conclusion of the Colonial period, in the mid tenth century. At that
time, he suggests, ballcourts cease to be used, ballcourt settlements
ceased to be centralized focal points of communities, many established
settlements were abandoned, population was redistributed across the
landscape, and the intensive importation of pottery, stone, and shell
objects from the Gila Basin into the Tucson area was greatly diminished.
The collapse of the Hohokam way of life in the Tucson Basin led to a
period of anarchy in which authority was decentralized and became vested
in the heads of individual households.
Old Pueblo’s guest speaker for this month’s revised dinner-format version
of the Third Thursdays program is William L. Deaver, who holds Bachelor
of Arts (1979) and Master of Arts (1990) degrees in anthropology from the
University of Arizona and has worked as an archaeologist in the American
Southwest for more than 30 years. Mr. Deaver has specialized in the study
of prehistoric pottery and how ceramics reflect people’s identity, and
also in chronology and chronometry. One of his particular interests is
the application of the archaeomagnetic dating technique to develop the
high-precision chronologies necessary to detect the archaeological
signatures of distinct social groups. He has worked as an archaeologist
with the Arizona State Museum’s Cultural Resource Management Division, as
a Research Associate in the University of Arizona Department of
Geosciences, and as a Project Director for the cultural resources
consulting firm Statistical Research, Inc. Currently he is a Project
Manager and Principal Investigator with WestLand Resources, Inc., a
Tucson environmental and cultural resources consulting company.
Reservations and $18 dinner payment are due by 3:00 p.m. Monday October
12. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
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October 18, 2009 “Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian
Rock Art” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at Petroglyph
National Monument, Albuquerque, NM*
October 20, 2009 “Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces”
free presentation by Allen Dart for Colorado Archaeological Society, Pikes
Peak Chapter at Falcon Police Station Public Room, Colorado Springs,
Colorado*
October 21, 2009 “Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian
Rock Art” free presentation by Allen Dart for Colorado Archaeology
Society, Chipeta Chapter at First Methodist Church, Montrose, Colorado*
October 22, 2009 "Archaeology and You: Preserving the Past for the Future"
free presentation by Allen Dart at Edge of the Cedars Museum State Park,
660 West 400 North, Blanding, Utah*
Sundays October 25 through December 13, 2009
Traditional Pottery Making Level 1 Workshop with John Guerin at 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.
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 7 pottery-making class sessions will be offered by artist
John Guerin on seven Sunday afternoons October 25 through December 13,
2009 (except Nov. 29 Thanksgiving weekend), including a clay-gathering
field trip on November 1. 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.
Reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
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November 1, 2009 Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Cultural Resources Survey
Techniques Archaeological Field School Session (Old Pueblo members only)
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Wednesday November 4, 2009 “Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona
Hohokam Indians”
free presentation at Arizona Western College, Yuma*
November 6, 2009 “Tucson-Marana Rock Art and Archaeology” study tour with
Allen Dart departing from Pima Community College, Tucson*
November 10, 2009 “Ancient Native American Pottery of Southern Arizona”
free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at Copper Queen Library,
Bisbee, Arizona*
November 14, 2009 “Deer Valley & Spur Cross Ranch Petroglyphs” guided tour
with Shelley Rasmussen and Allen Dart starting at Deer Valley Rock Art
Center, Phoenix
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November 20, 2009 “Ventana Cave and Tohono O’odham Nation Archaeology and
Culture” study tour with Allen Dart departing from Pima Community College,
Tucson*
November 22, 2009 “Amerind Foundation and Singing Wind Bookstore
Thanksgiving Festival” guided tour with Terri Contapay starting at Tucson
International Airport Economy Parking Lot on E. Corona Drive, Tucson
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December 5, 2009 “White Tank Mountains Petroglyphs of Waterfall Canyon &
Mesquite Canyon” guided tour with Shelley Rasmussen and Allen Dart
starting at White Tank Mountain Regional Park in Waddell
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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(Old Pueblo members
only)
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the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer” and the event's
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January 8, 2010 “Tucson-Marana Rock Art and Archaeology” study tour with
Allen Dart departing from Pima Community College, Tucson [or possibly
different tour – call for update]*
January 10, 2010 Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Cultural Resources Survey
Techniques Archaeological Field School Session (Old Pueblo members only)
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the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer” and the event's
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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)
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the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer” and the event's
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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]
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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
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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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