RESERVATION DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center’s Thursday December 20, 2012 “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner & presentation: “From Kill Sites to Hunting Grounds: The Late
Prehistoric Stone Architecture of the Two Medicine River Valley, Montana”
with archaeologist Jesse Ballenger, Ph.D., at La Parrilla Suiza Mexican
Restaurant, 2720 N. Oracle Road, Tucson. 6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your
own dinner off of the restaurant’s menu). This presentation summarizes
the results of five years of intensive survey and excavation by the
University of Arizona’s Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA)
and the Blackfeet Tribe in the Two Medicine River Valley, Montana. In
2012 alone more than 6,500 individual rock cairns were point-located to
reveal a glimpse of what may be the most complete bison drive-line
systems yet documented in the northwestern Plains. Our guest speaker will
discuss the subtle monumentality and complexity of these ephemeral
hunting features in relation to intensified bison harvesting during the
Old Woman’s phase, ca. AD 1000-1700. Old Pueblo’s guest speaker for this
“dinner-format” program is Dr. Jesse Ballenger, a Senior Project Director
at the Tucson consulting firm Statistical Research, Inc., and an Adjunct
Assistant Professor at the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona.
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. The restaurant needs advance notice to
schedule staff and must limit seating to comply with the fire code, so
reservations are due by 5 p.m. Wednesday December 19. 520-798-1201 or
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RESERVATION DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center’s Friday December 21, 2012 “Winter Solstice Tour of Los Morteros
and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites” with archaeologist
Allen Dart, departing from Silverbell Road & Linda Vista Blvd. area in
northwestern Tucson metro area. 8 a.m. to noon. $15 ($12 for Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members). To
explore ancient people’s recognition of solstices and other calendrical
events, 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. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
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