For Immediate Release
Some Archaeology, History, and Cultures
Activities Coming Up Soon
and correction to June 12 program announcement
Tuesday May 24, 2022: Tucson
“Arizona Legends, Myths, and Folklore” free presentation by
historian Jim Turner at Pima County Public Library – Woods Memorial Library,
3455 N. 1st Ave., Tucson*
1-2:30 p.m. Free.
From the time humans began to live in communities myths and legends
have sought to explain the universe and teach social values. “Arizona
Legends, Myths, and Folklore” presents stories from Hopi, Navajo, Apache,
and Tohono O’odham cultures as well as Hispanic, Euro-American and others.
You will learn about Navajo constellations, Spider Woman, Hopi katsinas, the
Tohono O’odham “Man in the Maze,” and Apache Big Owl stories. You’ll hear
about “El Tejano” the ghost who guards a treasure cave, La Llorona (crying
woman), lost gold mines, and how Wyatt Earp became a legend. Before retiring
from the Arizona Historical Society, Jim Turner worked with more than 70
museums across the state and co-authored the 4th-grade textbook The Arizona
Story and his pictorial history, Arizona: Celebration of the Grand Canyon
State (2012 Southwest Books of the Year selection). This program is made
possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information call 520-594-5445.
Wednesday May 25, 2022: Online
“Wine, Wheat, and Whatnots: The Material Culture of Cornerstones”
with historic sites curator Emily Utt sponsored by Utah State Historic
Preservation Office (SHPO), Salt Lake City*
11 a.m.-12 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free.
Placing a time capsule in a building is often a moment of
celebration in a construction project. From tools and books to food and
coins, the objects left behind during construction give us a glimpse into
the past and connects their stories to ours. Emily Utt is a historic sites
curator for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her work
focuses on architectural history and historic preservation research and
projects across the globe.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information or to register visit
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brown-bag-wine-wheat-and-whatnots-the-material
-culture-of-cornerstones-tickets-294049870077?aff=odcleoeventsincollection>
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brown-bag-wine-wheat-and-whatnots-the-material-
culture-of-cornerstones-tickets-294049870077?aff=odcleoeventsincollection.
Thursday May 26, 2022: Online
“The Central Arizona Project and the Taking of Diné (Navajo)
Resources” free online presentation by Dr. Andrew Curley sponsored by Crow
Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
Colonial difference is a story of national infrastructures. To
understand how colonialism works across Indigenous lands, we need to
appreciate the physical, legal, and political factors involved in the
building and expanding of national infrastructures in different historical
contexts; infrastructures that arrive in some places while denied in others.
Using archival documents, this presentation accounts for the colonial
politics necessary to bring Colorado River water into Phoenix and Tucson. It
highlights how the 1922 Colorado Compact, Arizona’s 1960s campaign for the
Central Arizona Project, and recent Indian water settlements between Arizona
and Navajo Nation worked to enlarge Arizona’s population and power while
denying Diné water claims. The infrastructures that emerged from these
events formed a coal-energy-water nexus reliant on Navajo coal while
constructing Arizona’s water network. In sum, these projects served as
colonial beachheads—temporal encroachments on Indigenous lands and
livelihoods that augment material and political differences over time and
exacerbate inequalities. Indigenous nations continue to thrive despite
decades of forced removal, land dispossession, and economic
underdevelopment. Within Indigenous communities, extractive industries
produce a particular kind of colonizing relationship that expands social
difference and creates new cultural understandings of resources. The social
forces at work are neither static nor two-dimensional, but are dynamic,
contradictory, and counter-intuitive. Dr. Curley’s research focuses on the
everyday incorporation of Indigenous nations into colonial economies.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more
and register visit
<https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/The-Central-Arizona-Project-and-
the-Taking-of-Dine-Navajo-Resources-with-Dr-Andrew-Curley>
https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/The-Central-Arizona-Project-and-t
he-Taking-of-Dine-Navajo-Resources-with-Dr-Andrew-Curley.
Saturday May 28, 2022: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Black Cave and Vaquero Shelter Rock Art Sites” with
archaeologist Vicky Roberts sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research &
Education Center, meets at Shumla Archaeological Research Center, 28 Langtry
St., Comstock, Texas*
8 a.m.-6 p.m. $160.
Black Cave is a large rockshelter within Upper Presa Canyon in
Seminole Canyon State Park that contains striking and vibrant rock art,
owing its preservation to its location high above the shelter floor (which
probably would have required the construction of scaffolding to create).
Vaquero Shelter gets its name for the Historic period rock art depicting two
riders mounted on horseback with a longhorn cow and calf adjacent to a
structure resembling a Spanish mission and a man in a Spanish uniform. Other
rock art styles are present denoting continued use throughout precontact
times.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to
<file:///C:/Users/Allen/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Ou
tlook/T121CB56/www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For
more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Sunday May 29, 2022: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Fate Bell Shelter, Fate Bell Annex, and Running
Horse Rock Art Sites” with archaeologist Vicky Roberts sponsored by Shumla
Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Seminole Canyon State
Park & Historic Site on US-90, nine miles west of Comstock, Texas*
8 a.m.-3 p.m. $160.
Fate Bell Annex, Fate Bell Shelter, and Running Horse Shelter are
all situated in Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site. Fate Bell and
Fate Bell Annex are two of the most famous Pecos River style rock art sites
in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands with breath-taking rock art and extremely
well-preserved deposits. Running Horse Shelter offers beautiful remnant
Pecos River style rock art, intriguing Historic period art, and even a
historic stone wall. You’ll hear about the rock art, the lifeways of the
people who painted it, and Shumla’s most recent discoveries, and will see
4,000 years of history in this single day.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to
<file:///C:/Users/Allen/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Ou
tlook/T121CB56/www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For
more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Wednesday June 1, 2022: Online
“Looking Back at Early Prehistoric Agriculture at Las Cienegas” free
online Learn and Lunch presentation with archaeologists Bill Gillespie,
Connie Darby, and Shela McFarlin, sponsored by Cienega Watershed
Partnership, Vail, Arizona*
12-1 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Archaeologists Gillespie, Darby, and McFarlin will discuss recent
studies along Cienega Creek southeast of Tucson in Las Cienegas National
Conservation Area managed by the Bureau of Land Management. It has long been
known that the floodplains of Cienega Creek and its tributaries supported
some of the earliest agricultural development in southern Arizona. These
ancient sites, some dating back to 4000 years ago, continue to be important
to understanding how, why, and when agriculture/maize agriculture became an
increasingly dominant means of subsistence for communities living in the
area. This presentation will cover the significance of this period and
important Cienega sites, results of new surveys in 2022 to relocate older
recorded sites, and future protection and monitoring needs.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To join the
meeting on June 1 go to <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84658504052>
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84658504052 and enter this passcode: Cienega
Thursday-Sunday June 2-5, 2022: Ruidoso, NM
“Tularosa Basin Conference” sponsored by Jornada Research Institute
(JRI) and the Village of Ruidoso at Ruidoso Convention Center, 111 Sierra
Blanca Dr., Ruidoso, New Mexico*
Thursday evening through Sunday morning. $35 ($25 seniors and
students; discounts for JRI members – see
<https://jornadaresearchinstitute.com/>
https://jornadaresearchinstitute.com/).
Expanding beyond southern New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin this year, the
Tularosa Basin Conference’s June 2 keynote address will be “Men of Iron,
Gods of Thunder and Lightning: Coronado in Arizona” by Deni Seymour, PhD,
talking about her recent discovery of archaeological sites in southern
Arizona’s Santa Cruz and San Bernardino valleys that she firmly associates
with the 1540-1542 Coronado expedition. On June 3 and 4 there will be
presentations on topics associated with the Tularosa Basin, the Sierra
Blanca region, and Ruidoso including archaeology, Earth and ecological
studies, history of the Ruidoso area, the Spanish Entrada and colonial
period, and rock art and celestial markers. Guided tours to various sites
and points of historic interest are scheduled for June 5.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Seating
limited, preregistration is required. For more information visit
<https://jornadaresearchinstitute.com/2022-tularosa-basin-conference/>
https://jornadaresearchinstitute.com/2022-tularosa-basin-conference/ or
contact Dave Greenwald at 575-430-8854 (text works best) or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Correction to June 12 program announcement
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s May 9 upcoming-activities email
blast listed an incorrect Zoom link for the San Diego Rock Art Association’s
4 p.m. Sunday June 12 “Rock Imagery of Bears Ears National Monument” free
online presentation with archaeologist Wanda Raschkow. The correct link is
<https://www.sandiegorockart.org/meetings.html>
https://www.sandiegorockart.org/meetings.html. Our thanks to Ken Hedges for
letting us know of the error.
Have a nice week!
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director (Volunteer)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
520-798-1201
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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