DEADLINES COMING UP
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January 15 or January 31 OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER-SPONSORED activities
listed below please reply with "Send flyer" and INCLUDE THE EVENT DATE in
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RESERVATION DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY JANUARY 14 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center's JANUARY 15, 6 to 8:30 p.m., "Third Thursday Food for Thought"
dinner featuring the presentation "Underpinnings of Southern Arizona
Historical Archaeology: The Historical Record" by historian Jim Turner at
Dragon's View Asian Cuisine, 400 N. Bonita Avenue, Tucson. Approximately 60
percent of southern Arizona's pre-1964 Historic period spanned the Spanish
Colonial and Mexican periods when Spain, and subsequently Mexico, granted
large parcels of land in this region to a few individuals to encourage
non-Indian settlement and extraction of resources. When the U.S. took over
the territory, grantees' heirs or purchasers (or claimants) were able to
petition the U.S. Government to recognize the historic grants in the hope
that the U.S. would give title to the grant lands to the
purchasers/claimants. Historian Jim Turner shows that the history of
southern Arizona land grants is essentially the history of water use, that
is, the land grants provide a kind of key to which portions of the Gadsden
Purchase area (the part of Arizona south of the Gila River) were the most
favorable for Spanish, Mexican, and later U.S. settlement. Because much of
the Spanish and Mexican settlement of southern Arizona was associated with
the land grants, they figure importantly in the historical archaeology of
this region. Archaeologists therefore need to be well-versed in the land
grant history of southern Arizona to understand and interpret the Spanish
Colonial, Mexican period, and even Territorial period archaeological sites.
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED BEFORE 5 P.M. WEDNESDAY JANUARY 14 AND
MUST BE CONFIRMED BY OLD PUEBLO because of Fire Code limits on attendance:
520-798-1201. Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the
restaurant's menu. 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.
RESERVATION DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center's SATURDAY JANUARY 31, 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., "Rock Art and
Archaeology of Ventana Cave" carpooling educational tour with archaeologist
Allen Dart departing from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave.,
Tucson. Old Pueblo 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. 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). RESERVATIONS ARE
REQUIRED BY WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
HERE'S A LATE ENTRY FOR WHICH RESERVATIONS ARE RECOMMENDED.
This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event, and Old Pueblo does not
have a flyer available for it.
Sunday January 18, 2015
"The Earliest Apache in Arizona: Evidence and Arguments"
presentation by archaeologist Deni J. Seymour at Tubac Presidio State
Historic Park, 1 Presidio Drive in Tubac, Arizona*
2-3 p.m. Free with regular park entry fee
Recent research provides evidence of ancestral Apaches in the
southern Southwest at least as early as the A.D. 1300s. Some of this
evidence comes from chronometric dates obtained from a feature type that
comparative ethnographic information (including rarely used land claims
documents) indicates were used for storage. These features, called platform
caches, provide rare and ideal material for accurate dating because they are
often covered with grass or leaves. Dates from these features, on Apache
pottery, and from roasting pits, all in direct association with Apache
material culture of other types (including rock art), provide a continuous
sequence of use from at least as early as the A.D. 1300s through the late
1700s. New information about a western route south to this region is
combined with other evidence regarding the presence of the earliest
ancestral Apache three centuries earlier than many have argued, even in
areas where Coronado did not see them.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Save your place
by emailing Shaw Kinsley at [log in to unmask]; for more information on
this and other talks visit
https://independent.academia.edu/DeniSeymour/Talks.
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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KINDS OF REGULAR EMAIL ANNOUNCEMENTS WE SEND
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center typically sends two email ACTIVITY
ANNOUNCEMENTS each month that tell about upcoming activities offered by Old
Pueblo and other southwestern U.S. archaeology and history organizations. We
also email pdf copies of our Old Pueblo Archaeology newsletter to our
members, subscribers, and some other recipients, usually no more often than
once every three months.
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listserves. If you do not wish to receive emails through one of these lists
you will need to contact the list manager listed below, because Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center cannot remove your email address from any of these
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