For Immediate Release
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center is recognized as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization under the U.S. tax code, so donations and membership fees are tax-deductible up to amounts specified by law. Please visit www.oldpueblo.org/forms/donorfrm.php <http://www.oldpueblo.org/forms/donorfrm.php> to make a contribution – Your donations help us continue to provide hands-on education programs in archaeology, history, and cultures for children and adults!
This communication was posted to a listserve and does not include any illustrations. If you would like to receive versions of Old Pueblo’s monthly “upcoming activities” emails that contain color photos and other illustrations pertaining to the activities, you can subscribe to our email address book by visiting Old Pueblo’s www.oldpueblo.org <http://www.oldpueblo.org> home page and scrolling down to the “Subscribe” box to enter your name and email address. (You can unsubscribe from our activities emailings any time you wish.)
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Saturday March 7, 2020: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Vista del Rio Archaeological Site” free tours guided by archaeologist Allen Dart cosponsored by Vista del Rio Residents' Association, at the Vista del Rio Cultural Resource Park, 7575 E. Desert Arbors St. (at Dos Hombres Road), Tucson
9-11 a.m. (morning tour is full – waiting list started) and 1 to 3 p.m. (reservations required). Free.
In celebration of Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month, archaeologist Allen Dart (Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's executive director) leads these tours to Vista del Rio, an ancient village of the Hohokam culture that inhabited southern Arizona between AD 650 and 1450. The 9-11 a.m. tour is full but one can request to be added to its waiting list. Spaces are still available for the 1-3 p.m. tour.
Reservations are required by 5 p.m. Thursday March 5. To be added to waiting list for 9-11 a.m. tour or to request reservations for 1-3 p.m. tour call 520-798-1201 or email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Reservations required by 5 p.m. Thursday March 5. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity send an email to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> with “Send Vista del Rio flyer” in your email subject line.
Thursday March 19, 2020: Tucson-Marana, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Spring Equinox Tour of Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites” with archaeologist Allen Dart departing from near Silverbell Road and Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana, Arizona
8 a.m. to noon. $25 donation ($20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) helps cover Old Pueblo’s tour expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
The 2019 spring equinox occurs on March 20 at 2:58 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (9:58 p.m. GMT). To celebrate the vernal equinox and the annual Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month, 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 calendar marker, dancing human-like figures, whimsical animals, and other rock symbols made by Hohokam Indians between AD 650 and 1450. An equinox calendar petroglyph at the site exhibits a specific interaction with a ray of sunlight on the morning of each equinox regardless of the hour and minute of the actual celestial equinox, so participants in this tour will see that sunlight interaction with the calendar glyph unless clouds block the sunlight.
Reservations and donation prepayment required by 5 p.m. Tuesday March 17. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity send an email to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> with “Send March 20 tour flyer” in your email subject line.
Thursday March 19, 2020: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner featuring “Subjective Color in Mimbres Black-on-white Pottery” free presentation by archaeologist Dr. Stephanie M. Whittlesey at Karichimaka Mexican Restaurant, 5252 S. Mission Rd., Tucson
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s menu at your expense)
Many Mimbres black-on-white geometric designs produce the illusion of color when rotated rapidly, much like the subjective-color hallucination that has been known in the psychology of perception for more than a century. Subjective color is one of numerous neurophysiologically induced visual hallucinations that are universal in human beings and are produced by epilepsy, migraines, hallucinogens, certain diseases, and other causes. In her presentation for Old Pueblo, Dr. Stephanie Whittlesey will describe the phenomenon and the design characteristics that produce it, discuss similar visual hallucinations in the scientific literature, suggest that some of the designs may have been created by shamans based on visions they had experienced during trances and shamanic journeys, and speculate on the contribution of subjective color to Mimbres ritual organization.
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. on the Wednesday before the program date: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD PUEBLO WHETHER YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the Fire Code limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room. 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.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity send an email to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> with “Send March 19 Third Thursday flyer” in your email subject line.
Saturday April 4, 2020: Canoa Ranch, AZ
“Archaeology and History of Canoa Ranch” presentation and tours at Historic Canoa Ranch, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley, Arizona (accessible from I-19 Canoa Road Exit 56)
8 a.m. to noon. $30 donation ($24 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) helps cover Old Pueblo’s tour expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
This event begins with a PowerPoint presentation by Old Pueblo’s director Allen Dart titled “Before There Was a Canoa” about Canoa-area archaeology and history. The presentation is followed by a 1-hour “Anza Tour at Historic Canoa Ranch” and a “Tour of Historic Canoa Ranch” to be provided by Pima County Natural Resources, Parks & Recreation volunteers, then the morning’s program will conclude with a “Behind the Scenes Restoration Tour” by Pima County architectural preservationist Simon Herbert. The presentation and each tour will be limited to 32 registrants and will not be open to other Canoa Ranch visitors. Participants are encouraged to bring a sack lunch to enjoy after the program at Canoa Ranch’s Mesquite Grove, or to have lunch in one of the many nearby Green Valley restaurants.
Reservations and prepayment required by 5 p.m. Thursday March 26: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity send an email to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> with “Send Canoa Ranch flyer” in your email subject line.
Thursday April 16, 2020: Oro Valley, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner featuring “Reconstructing Land Use and Global Environmental Change in the Holocene” free presentation by Dr. Nicolas E. Gauthier at El Molinito Mexican Restaurant, 10180 N. Oracle Rd., Oro Valley, Arizona
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s menu at your expense)
When droughts and floods struck ancient agricultural societies, complex networks of exchange and interaction channeled resources into affected settlements and migrants away from them. Did these networks evolve in part to connect populations living in differing climate regimes? Nicolas Gauthier, postdoctoral research scientist in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and the School of Geography and Development at The University of Arizona, examines this relationship with a long-term archaeological case study in the pre-Hispanic North American Southwest, analyzing 7.5 million artifacts from a 250-year period at nearly 500 archaeological sites. He uses these artifacts to estimate how the flow of social information changed over time, and to measure how the intensity of social interaction between sites varied as a function of distance and several regional drought patterns. He concludes that accounting for different regional drivers of local climate variability is crucial for understanding the social impacts of droughts and floods in the past and present.
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. on the Wednesday before the program date: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD PUEBLO WHETHER YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the Fire Code limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room. 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.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity send an email to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> with “Send April 16 Third Thursday dinner flyer” in your email subject line.
Saturday April 18, 2020: Tucson
“Arrowhead-making and Flintknapping Workshop” with flintknapper Sam Greenleaf at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson
9 a.m. to noon. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members; 50% off for persons who have taken this class previously)
Learn how to make arrowheads, spear points, and other flaked stone artifacts just like ancient peoples did. In this workshop, flintknapping expert Sam Greenleaf provides participants with hands-on experience and learning on how pre-European Contact people made and used projectile points and other tools created from obsidian and other stone. All materials and equipment are provided. The class is designed to help modern people understand how pre-Contact Native Americans made traditional crafts and is not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale. Limited to six registrants.
Reservations and donation prepayments required by 5 p.m. Thursday April 16: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity send an email to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> with “Send flintknapping flyer” in your email subject line.
Tuesday May 19, 2020: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Behind the Scenes at Tucson’s Museums” educational tour starting at the Arizona State Museum, 1013 E. University Blvd., Tucson
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with 1 hour for lunch. A $59 donation per participant ($50 for members of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center & Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary) helps cover Old Pueblo’s tour expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures; donation amount does not include cost of lunch.
This tour’s special visits to the Arizona State Museum (ASM) and Tucson’s Arizona History Museum (AHM) will introduce you to museum professionals who are passionate about caring for Arizona’s largest and most significant archaeological and historical collections.
The ASM is the oldest and largest anthropology museum in the Southwest. During our 10 a.m.-to-noon morning visit there we will enter its climate-controlled storerooms holding incomparable examples of southwestern Indian pottery and basketry, its state-of-the-art conservation laboratory, and ASM’s nationally renowned zooarchaeology laboratory where scholars learn about human behavior by studying animal bone.
During a 12 to 1 p.m. break between museum visits, tour registrants have the option of bringing their own lunches and picnicking on the grassy ASM grounds or buying their lunches at one of the restaurants close to ASM and AHM. Then after lunch we will walk one block to visit the AHM on E. 2nd St. from 1 to 3 p.m. Operated by the Arizona Historical Society, the Tucson AHM is the largest history museum in Arizona, housing millions of objects representing our state’s post-Spanish-contact history. We will explore AHM’s gallery spaces on a guided tour, then join a curator to explore some of its collections holdings to see what’s not on the museum floor.
LIMITED TO NINE ADULTS so please register as soon as possible. Donation prepayment required within 10 days of reservation request; last day to request reservations is 5 p.m. Monday May 11: 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, send an email to [log in to unmask] with “Send Behind the Scenes flyer” in your email subject line.
Saturday-Sunday June 6-7, 2020: Near Winslow, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Homol’ovi and Rock Art Ranch Pueblos and Petroglyphs Tour” with archaeologist Rich Lange starting at Homolovi State Park Visitor Center (northeast of Winslow – take I-40 Exit 257 and drive 1.5 miles north on Hwy. 87)
1 p.m. Saturday to 1 p.m. or later Sunday; $95 donation per person ($76 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) includes all site entry fees and Old Pueblo’s expenses but no transportation, lodging, or meals.
Archaeologist Rich Lange will lead this car-caravan educational tour to sites where archaeologists conducted excavations during the Arizona State Museum’s Homol’ovi Research Program from 1983 to 2016 and for which analyses and publications are still in progress. This will be an opportunity to visit three of the largest ancestral Hopi pueblos and an Early Agricultural-to-Great Pueblo period site in Homolovi State Park just outside of Winslow plus spectacular petroglyph panels near Winslow and at Rock Art Ranch south of Holbrook, Arizona. Sites to be visited include the Ancestral Pueblo village sites of Homolovi I (AD 1280-1400), Homolovi II (1360-1400), and Homolovi IV (1260-1280); a Basketmaker II (Early Agricultural) to Pueblo II/III stage (AD 500-850 and 1150-1225) village site; Brandy’s Pueblo (AD 1225-1254); a replica Navajo farmstead site; and petroglyphs dating between 8000 BC and the mid-1200s on the Rock Art Ranch in Chevelon Canyon south of Holbrook and at a rock art site near Winslow. Participants provide their own lodging, meals, and transportation.
Reservations and payment required by 5 p.m. Friday May 29: 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 send an email to [log in to unmask] with “Send Homolovi flyer” in your email subject line.
Saturday July 18, 2020: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Archaeology, Paleontology, and Environmental Sciences Laboratories Tour” to the University of Arizona’s Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill and Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research starting in the courtyard at Mercado San Agustin, 100 S. Avenida del Convento, Tucson
8 a.m. to noon: $30 donation ($24 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) helps cover Old Pueblo’s tour expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures
This Old Pueblo Archaeology Center summer tour visits two TOO-COOL environmental-science laboratories in Tucson – the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, both administered by The University of Arizona (UA). In the first tour segment at the Tumamoc Desert Laboratory, either archaeologist Dr. Anna Seiferle-Valencia or the lab’s director Dr. Ben Wilder will lead us through the Desert lab, which began its existence in 1903 as the Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory established by the Carnegie Institution of Washington and is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1940 the Carnegie Institution sold it to the US Forest Service for $1, and in 1956 the UA bought it from the U.S. government, promising in the deed to use it solely for research and education. During its 117 years of existence the Tumamoc Hill and Desert Laboratory staff have been on the cutting edge in the fields of paleontology and desert ecology.
The UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) also has a venerable record of research in archaeology, astronomy, and environmental sciences. Created in 1937 by UA Professor of Astronomy Andrew Ellicott Douglass, founder of the science of dendrochronology, the LTRR has helped establish many other dendrochronology and tree-ring science labs around the world and remains a foremost facility in environmental research, teaching, and outreach, as we will see as docent Randall Smith leads us through the tree-ring laboratory.
The first tour segment to Tumamoc Hill is limited to six vehicles so carpooling is required and no more than 24 people (in addition to Old Pueblo’s tour coordinator Allen Dart) can register depending on whether we can designate six 4-passenger vehicles for carpooling from Mercado San Agustin to the Desert Lab. After we leave there we will return to the Mercado where carpoolers can get back into their own vehicles, and we will caravan from the Mercado to the LTRR for the second tour segment. Reservations and donation prepayments are required by 5 p.m. Monday July 13: 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 send an email to [log in to unmask] with “Send July Labs tour flyer” in your email subject line.
Regards,
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director (Volunteer)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
520-798-1201
[log in to unmask]
www.oldpueblo.org
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(5) OPT-OUT OPTIONS
Old Pueblo typically sends two email ACTIVITY ANNOUNCEMENTS each month that tell about upcoming activities that we and other southwestern U.S. archaeology and history organizations offer. 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.
This communication came to you through a listserve from which Old Pueblo Archaeology Center cannot remove your email address. The listserves to which this message was posted and the email addresses to contact for inclusion in or removal from each one include:
AAC-L (no organizational affiliation): John Giacobbe <[log in to unmask]>
Arizona Archaeological Council: Caitlin Stewart <[log in to unmask]>
Archaeological Society of New Mexico: <[log in to unmask]>
Community Foundation for Southern Arizona Community Calendar-Ana Tello <[log in to unmask]>
Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists: Greg Williams <[log in to unmask]>
Historical Archaeology: <[log in to unmask]>
New Mexico Archaeological Council: David Phillips <[log in to unmask]>
Rock Art-Arizona State University: Gary Hein <[log in to unmask]>
Utah Professional Archaeological Council: <[log in to unmask]>
########################################################################
Access the HISTARCH Home Page and Archives:
https://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A0=HISTARCH
Unsubscribe from the HISTARCH List:
https://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?SUBED1=HISTARCH&A=1
########################################################################
|