For Immediate Release
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Upcoming Activities
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Children's Education Programs
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Our Mission and Support
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Announcements and Opt-Out Options
(1) UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
LOOKING AHEAD: Saturday December 1, 2018
December 1st is the deadline to purchase tickets for the December 13
“Millions for Tucson Raffle of a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit SUV, Two
First-Class Airline Tickets, and $5,000 Cash” by Tucson’s Jim Click
Automotive Team to benefit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center & other Tucson
charities. See full announcement for this event below.
Wednesday July 4, 2018: Tubac, AZ
“Old Fashion 4th of July Celebration” at Tubac Presidio State Historic
Park, 1 Burruel St., Tubac, Arizona*
10 a.m. to noon. Free
On Independence Day there will be FREE hot dogs, nachos, raspados,
watermelon and lemonade, and an assortment of activities for kids including
hula hoops, bean bag and ball toss, water balloons, coin guess, and face
painting. The “squirt-down” courtesy of the Tubac Fire Department will be
the cooling grand finale. This old-fashioned family celebration is organized
by the Presidio with help from local nonprofit organizations and private
donors. Park admission is FREE during the event. No reservations are
required. Bring a nonperishable food item and it will be donated to Amado
Food bank.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information call 520-398-2252.
Wednesday July 11, 2018: Winslow, AZ
“Rock Art of Australia” free presentation by Evelyn Billo and Robert
Mark for Homolovi Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, at Winslow
Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center (Historic Lorenzo Hubbell Trading Post),
523 W. Second St., Winslow, Arizona*
7 p.m. Free
Rock art researchers Evelyn Billo and Robert Mark have traveled the
world visiting and recording petroglyphs, pictographs, and combinations
thereof, so this presentation should be quite a treat! You can also join the
speakers and Chapter members for dinner at 5 p.m. at the historic La Posada
Turquoise Room (on your own tab).
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Sky Roshay at 928-536-3307 or [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday July 14, 2018: Tucson
TOUR FULL – WAITING LIST: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s
“Archaeology, Paleontology, and Environmental Sciences Laboratories Tour”
starting in the courtyard at Mercado San Agustin, 100 S. Avenida del
Convento, Tucson
8 a.m. to noon: $25 donation ($20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
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, Dr. Ben Wilder
will lead us through the Tumamoc Desert Laboratory, 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 115 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. Then after we leave there we will return to the
Mercado so 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. Wednesday July
11: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Monday July 16, 2018: Tucson
“Perforated Plates, Fish Bones, and the Archaeology of the Upper Gila
River in the Fourteenth Century” free presentation by Karen Schollmeyer for
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) meeting at Banner
University Medical Center DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson*
7:30-9 p.m. Free
Research at the Archaeology Southwest-University of Arizona Upper Gila
Preservation Archaeology Field School near Cliff, New Mexico, is focused on
how people of different origins and ethnicities formed long-lived
communities in the Southwest’s Upper Gila region during the AD 1300s. Cliff
Valley archaeological sites preserve evidence of long-established local
Mogollon traditions of pottery and architecture combining with traditions
imported from northeastern Arizona in the 1300s to form a new ideology that
included people from several different ethnic backgrounds. At the same time,
farmers found ways to use local plant and animal resources that resulted in
less archaeological evidence of resource depletion than the large villages
of previous centuries. Excavated rooms in Cliff Valley villages show an
interesting range of activities including craft production, purposeful
deposits of items created when people stopped living in certain rooms within
a village, and evidence for variability in how long or how often ancient
farmers lived in the same rooms and villages.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No
reservations needed. For details visit www.az-arch-and-hist.org
<http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org> or contact John D. Hall at 520-205-2553
or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Thursday-Sunday August 9-12, 2018: Flagstaff, AZ
“81st Pecos Archaeological Conference” at the Kaibab National Forest
Hotshot Camp on Snowbowl Road about 10 miles outside of Flagstaff, Arizona*
Times TBA. Registration $50 (student $40); optional add $25 for
Saturday evening dinner; extra costs for dance and conference memorabilia
Since 1927, when archaeologist Alfred Vincent Kidder first inspired
and organized the original Pecos Conference, professional and avocational
archaeologists have gathered under open skies somewhere in the southwestern
United States or northwestern Mexico during August for the nearly yearly
Pecos Conference. They set up a large tent for shade and spend three or more
days together discussing recent research, problems of the field, and the
challenges of the profession, and present and critique each others’ ideas
before committing them to publication. This year’s site will include the
conference tents, camping, water and some food sales.
Attendees also may camp or lodge in nearby communities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register or
for more information visit www.pecosconference.org/home.html
<http://www.pecosconference.org/home.html> or contact David Purcell at
928-607-0705 or [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Friday-Monday August 31-September 3, 2018: Arizona’s White Mountains
“Q-Ranch Pueblo Prehistoric Pottery Replication Workshop” with
instructor Andy Ward at Q-Ranch outside of Young, Arizona*
$876 (shared room; add $260 for private room) includes all meals, four
nights lodging, shuttle to and from Phoenix, prehistoric pottery workshop,
and all materials
This intensive four-day pottery workshop over Labor Day weekend will
immerse you in the ancient world of the prehistoric Pueblo people who lived
in the mountains of central Arizona and the beautiful pottery that they made
here. Q-Ranch Pueblo was one of the largest and most important pueblos in
this region from about 1260 to 1380. Participants of this workshop will
explore how these people lived and worked, examine ruins and artifacts, dig
and process native clay, minerals and other raw materials, and make pottery
authentic to the ancient traditions. Shuttle is available from Phoenix Sky
Harbor Airport to and from Q-Ranch. Limited to 12 students
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
www.andywardpottery.com/category/traditional-southwest-pottery-classes/
<http://www.andywardpottery.com/category/traditional-southwest-pottery-class
es/> .
Thursday September 20, 2018: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring the presentation “Frida's Roots: Understanding the Course
of Mexican History through Frida Kahlo and Her Artwork” by Dr. Michael M.
Brescia 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)
As one of several artists to emerge from the violence and chaos of the
Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, Frida Kahlo's lived experiences fashioned a
remarkable artistic talent that promoted across international borders
mexicanidad, or the spirit of a Mexican cultural identity. Despite living in
the professional shadows of her famous husband, the muralist Diego Rivera,
Frida added deeply personal elements to her artwork that simultaneously
reflected and contributed to historical understandings of Mexican culture.
In a richly illustrated PowerPoint presentation, Arizona State Museum
historian Dr. Michael Brescia will examine Frida Kahlo's life and show just
how intimately her artwork reveals the sweep of the Mexican historical
experience, from Pre-Columbian times to the mid-twentieth century.
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. on the
Wednesday before the program date: [log in to unmask]
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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.
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Saturday September 22, 2018: Tucson-Marana, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Autumn Equinox Tour of Los Morteros
and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites” with archaeologist Allen
Dart departing from near Silverbell Road & 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)
The 2018 autumnal equinox occurs on September 22 at 6:54 p.m. Mountain
Standard Time (Sept. 23 at 1:54 a.m. GMT). To celebrate this celestial
event, 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 A.D. 650 and 1450. LIMITED TO 32 PEOPLE.
Reservations and donation prepayment required by 5 p.m. Thursday
September 20: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
.
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Tuesday-Saturday September 25-29, 2018: Sacramento Mountains area, NM
Tour of the Sacramento Mountain Area in New Mexico” sponsored by
Arizona Pathfinders departing from Arizona Historical Society Museum, 949 E.
Second St., Tucson*
Meets at 7 a.m. Tuesday. $959 per person double occupancy (single
supplement add $270) covers all fees, gratuities, and meals except one
lunch; $200 deposit required
This tour includes visits to (alphabetically) Billy the Kid National
Byway Interpretive Center, Cloudcroft for shopping along historic Burro St.,
Dolan House, Fort. Stanton (established 1855), Heart of the Desert Pistachio
Farm, Hubbard Museum of the American West, Hurd La Rionda Gallery, Lincoln
State Museum, Mescalero Apache Reservation, Mesilla, New Mexico Museum of
Space History and New Horizons Dome Theater, Roswell Museum and Art Center,
Roswell UFO Museum, Sacramento Mountain Museum, Smokey Bear Historical Park,
and White Sands Missile Range Museum.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit www.azpathfinders.org <http://www.azpathfinders.org> or
email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Thursdays October 4, 11, & 25, & November 1, 2018: Tucson
“Making (Historical) Sense of Mexico” ASM Master Class taught by
historian Dr. Michael M. Brescia in the University of Arizona’s Old Main,
Silver and Sage Room, 1200 E. University Blvd., Tucson*
9:30 to 11:30 a.m. each Thursday; $200 ASM members ($80 tax
deductible), $250 nonmembers ($130 tax deductible); gift portion supports
Dr. Brescia’s research.
The headlines scream that Mexico in the new millennium has become a
lawless state riddled with political corruption, drug violence, and extreme
inequality, which push its citizens to seek economic security across the
international border in the United States. In this four-part series Dr.
Michael M. Brescia, University of Arizona Curator of Ethnohistory and
Affiliated Professor of History and Law, will take you beyond the media
headlines and political soundbites and introduce you to our southern
neighbor by examining the manner in which history, geography, and culture
have shaped modern Mexico since its independence from Spain in 1821. You
will learn about the tumultuous nineteenth century when Mexico experienced
four foreign invasions and routine civil discord, the violent upheaval of
the world’s first social revolution in the twentieth century, and the
challenges and opportunities associated with sharing a nearly 2,000-mile
border with the so-called Colossus of the North, the United States.
Registration includes campus parking, class materials, coffee and light
snacks.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday October 6, 2018: Marana, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Marana Hohokam Platform Mound
Archaeological Community Tour” guided by archaeologists Paul and Suzanne
Fish departing from Circle K convenience store, 13961 N. Sandario Rd.,
Marana, Arizona
8:30 a.m. to noon. $30 donation ($24 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
University of Arizona archaeologists Dr. Paul R. Fish and Dr. Suzanne
K. Fish lead this tour to selected archaeological sites in one of southern
Arizona’s largest ancient Hohokam communities. Our visit will include the
Marana Platform Mound site (which was surrounded by 40+ residential
compounds), a sampling of agricultural field locations including specialized
ones for agave cultivation, and a secondary compound center on the
upper-basin slope of the Tortolita Mountains. The Marana Mound site is one
of the very few Hohokam Early Classic period (AD 1150-1300) villages that
has wholly escaped the destruction resulting from modern agriculture and
urbanization and where adobe-wall remnants can be clearly identified on the
surface. We also will visit the location where a segment of the nearly
seven-mile-long Marana Mound site canal was identified from surface and
excavated remains before that area was included in a modern housing
development. These site visits will provide a basis for understanding the
social and economic processes during the Early Classic period, when
processes of Hohokam centralization and population aggregation greatly
accelerated.
Tour is limited to 20 people including guides. Reservations and
donation prepayment required by 5 p.m. Thursday October 4. 520-798-1201 or
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
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Sundays October 7, 14, 21, & 28, and November 4, 2018: Tucson
"Basic Traditional Pottery Making Workshop" with Andy Ward at Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson
2 to 5 p.m. each Sunday; $95 donation ($80 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) covers all materials,
instruction time, and facilities
A series of five pottery-making class sessions will be offered by
artist Andy Ward on Sunday afternoons October 7 through November 4, 2018.
The course introduces some history of southwestern Ancestral and Modern
Pueblo, Mogollon, and Hohokam pottery-making; demonstrates initial steps in
forming, shaping and smoothing bowls, jars, and other forms of hand-built
pottery using traditional hand-building techniques, gourd scrapers, mineral
paints, and yucca brushes instead of modern potters' wheels and paints; and
includes pottery firing. 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.
Session 1: History of pottery in southeastern Arizona and begin
forming pottery with coil and scrape method. Session 2: Finish forming and
begin scraping, smoothing, and polishing. Session 3: Slip and polish the
pots. Session 4: Paint designs on pots. Session 5: Open-air pottery firing.
Reservations and donation prepayment required by October 3:
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Thursday-Saturday October 11-13, 2018: Las Cruces, NM
“20th Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference” at University Museum
(Kent Hall) and Corbett Center Auditorium, New Mexico State University
(NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico*
5-7 p.m. Thursday, 8-5 Friday & Saturday; registration $45 before
September 26, $55 later
This biennial southwestern conference features presentations that
relate to the prehistoric, protohistoric, and historical archaeology of the
Mogollon region in the broadest sense including Mimbres, Jornada Mogollon,
northern Chihuahua, and the Mogollon Rim areas. A reception will be held
Thursday from 5-7 p.m. at NMSU’s University Museum (Kent Hall, 1280 E.
University Ave.) and all conference sessions will be held in the NMSU
Corbett Center Student Union Auditorium (2895 S. Locust St.) Friday and
Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit www.lonjul.net/mog2018/ <http://www.lonjul.net/mog2018/>
or contact Lonnie Ludeman at 575-522-1691 or [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday October 13, 2018: Tucson
“Arrowhead-making and Flintknapping Workshop” with flintknapper Sam
Greenleaf 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)
9 a.m. to noon. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) includes all materials and
equipment.
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 prehistoric people made and used projectile points and other
tools created from obsidian and other stone. The class is designed to help
modern people understand how prehistoric Native Americans made traditional
crafts, and is not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale.
Minimum enrollment 6, maximum 8.
Reservations and donation prepayment required by 5 p.m. Thursday
October 11: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
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Thursday October 18, 2018: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring the presentation “In Search of the First Americans across
the Greater Southwest” by archaeologist Dr. Vance T. Holliday at U-Like
Oriental Buffet Restaurant, 5101 N. Oracle Road, Tucson
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free; enjoy buffet-style dinner at your own expense
The First Americans – the so-called “Paleoindians” – were the earliest
hunters and gatherers to settle in the southwestern U.S. and northwestern
Mexico. They lived at a time when the climate was substantially different
than today – generally cooler and wetter – and when large mammals of the
Pleistocene epoch such as mammoth, mastodon, horse, camel, dire wolf, big
cats, and bears were still around. Clovis type projectile points made by the
earliest known Paleoindian groups in the region some 13,500-13,000 years
before present (BP) have been found with the remains of mammoth and other
extinct megafauna. Paleoindian sites of the Folsom culture that succeeded
Clovis ca. 13,000-12,000 years BP are rare in southern Arizona and Sonora
but more common on the Colorado Plateau of northern Arizona and northwestern
New Mexico, in the Great Plains, and they are locally quite dense along the
greater Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico and southern Colorado. By Folsom
time most of the Pleistocene megafauna were extinct except for Bison
antiquus, and Folsom people apparently became expert hunters of those
now-extinct bison. Even younger Paleoindian sites of the 12,500-11,000 years
BP era also are known from the Rio Grande region but they seem to be fewer
than Folsom. By those late Paleoindian times the climate was significantly
warmer and drier than during the Clovis or Folsom periods and human adaptive
behavior was likely shifting toward more sedentary “Archaic” lifestyles with
increased focus on plant gathering and use of local resources.
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. on the
Wednesday before the program date: [log in to unmask]
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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.
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Friday October 19, 2018: Tucson
“Recent Research in Commodities Exchange in Arizona Archaeology” is
the theme of the Arizona Archaeological Council’s annual conference at the
Arizona History Museum, 949 E. Second St., Tucson*
Time & registration fees TBA
A diverse group of presenters will discuss aspect of this year’s
commodities exchange theme at this annual gathering. This year’s conference
also features an afternoon panel discussion building on an earlier one at
the June 2018 Arizona Historic Preservation Conference and that will focus
on ways that the current political climate affects the practice of
archaeology.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit arizonaarchaeologicalcouncil.org/
<http://arizonaarchaeologicalcouncil.org/> .
Saturday & Sunday October 20-21, 2018: Payson, AZ
“Arizona Archaeological Society State Meeting” at Mazatzal Hotel &
Casino, Highway 87 Mile Marker 251, Payson, Arizona.
Saturday 9:30-10:30 a.m. business meeting followed by field trips both
days. $40 per person
In addition to AAS business this annual gathering offers lots of
opportunities to learn more about Arizona’s vast prehistoric heritage, plus
great food and just plain fun. After the Saturday morning general membership
meeting the Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning field trips are planned to
include Goat Camp archaeological excavations, led by archaeologist Scott
Wood: Stabilization work has been done on rooms 1 and 15 of this ancient
pueblo and none of the room excavations have been backfilled yet so you can
see a village emerging. Some of the artifacts that have been uncovered will
be on display in the Mazatzal meeting room. Risser Ruin, led by Jim Britton:
Jim was involved in the excavation and stabilization of this pueblo and has
an interesting story about the collapsed wall. Also check out the Rim
Country Museum tour to see Risser Ruin displays and artifacts, including a
copper bell. Petroglyphs Seldom Seen led by Bob & Del Wright: Goes to a
group of petroglyphs in an out-of-the-way area rarely visited by anyone,
even hunters. 1.5 miles round trip in open range, 400 ft. elevation change,
about 3 hours. Flowing Springs: Includes a one-of-a-kind petroglyph called
13 Turtles. This is a fairly short trip. Onyx Creek or the Way Cool site: A
hike along a scenic creek to an open area with a pictograph and petroglyphs,
large bedrock metates, and a boulder with 25 or more cupules. Rim
Country Museum: Small town museums are gems! Payson’s museum will delight
and surprise you! See Zane Gray’s cabin, Risser Ruin artifacts, and exhibits
detailing Payson’s history and memorable citizens. Located on lovely Green
Valley Lake with a great walking path. Cannon Ball and Highway 247
petroglyphs sites, led by Bob & Del Wright: Cannon Ball includes three sets
of recently found rock art along a fairly easy trail, approx. 30 minutes.
Hwy 247 petroglyphs are scattered on ground boulders on a high mesa. Total
1-way distance is about ½ mile. Maximum 5 cars. Anderson Pass (Jaws & Turkey
Track site): Rock art near Lake Mary between Payson and Flagstaff, led by Ed
Spicer. Cline Terrace Platform Mound Ruin led by archaeologist Scott Wood:
The Cline Terrace site (A.D. 1280-1400) includes is one of the most
thoroughly documented Hohokam-style platform mounds, in the Tonto Basin near
Roosevelt Lake. Saturday evening dinner, awards, and presentation: Keynote
speaker Jane Kolber presents “Rock Art of the World.”
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Glenda Simmons at 928-684-3251 or [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday October 27, 2018: Ironwood Forest National Monument, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Chukui Kawi/Cerro Prieto: Yoeme
Sacred Mountain, Hohokam Trincheras, and Petroglyphs” car-caravan cultural
sites tour with Yoeme traditional culture specialist Felipe S. Molina and
archaeologist Allen Dart, meeting at McDonald’s restaurant, 13934 N.
Sandario Rd., Marana, Arizona (accessible from Interstate 10 Exit 236
(Marana)
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. A $45 donation per participant ($36 for members of
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center & Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary) helps cover
Old Pueblo’s tour expenses and supports education programs on archaeology
and Yoeme traditional culture.
Cerro Prieto (Spanish for ‘Dark Hill’), a volcanic peak that rises
about 900 feet above the surrounding plain in the Ironwood Forest National
Monument northwest of Tucson, is a sacred place known to the Yoeme (Yaqui
Indians) as Chukui Kawi (‘Black Mountain’). Situated in close proximity to
the Inscription Hill and Pan Quemado petroglyph sites, Cerro Prieto also s
one of the largest and most complex U.S. archaeological sites featuring
trincheras – massive rock-work terraces built on steep hillsides. The site’s
archaeological features were constructed and used by the Hohokam culture
during the Tanque Verde phase (AD 1150-1300) and include house foundations,
waffle gardens, check dams, trail systems, petroglyphs, rock walls, talus
pits, and a stone source used to produce agave knives, suggesting its use
for a variety of residential functions, ceremonies, and agriculture. During
this trip, Yoeme traditional culture specialist Felipe Molina will discuss
the significance of Chukui Kawi to the Yoeme, and archaeologist Al Dart will
lead us to some of the Cerro Prieto trincheras and the nearby Pan Quemado
and Inscription Hill petroglyphs.
Reservations and donation prepayments required by 5 p.m. Wednesday
October 24: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Thursday November 15, 2018: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring the presentation “The Peaceful Enemies: Tucson’s Apaches de
Paz, 1786-1873” by historian Jim Turner 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)
Apaches de Paz, the ‘Peaceful Enemies’ (Apachu means “enemy” in Zuni),
were also known as Manso Apaches. When they immigrated from the Great Plains
the Athapaskan-speaking Apache retained their hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
That included raiding, which led to violence and retaliatory attacks. But in
1786 New Spain’s Viceroy Bernardo de Galvez called for a plan that involved
forming peace camps for the Apaches. If they agreed to settle in camps near
the presidios the Apaches would receive allotments of beef, blankets, and
guns. The Spanish army also provided the Mansos with horses and used them as
auxiliary troops against other Apaches who were still raiding. The Galvez
plan was successful for several decades, and by 1871 there were still more
than a hundred Apaches de Paz living near Tucson and others who had
intermarried with the Tohono O’odham and lived near San Xavier Mission.
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. on the
Wednesday before the program date: [log in to unmask]
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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.
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the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer for November 15
Third Thursday” in your email subject line.
Saturday December 1, 2018: Coronado National Forest, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center‘s “Dragoon Springs Stage Station
Historic Archaeological Site Tour” with archaeologist Dr. Deni J. Seymour
departing from a meeting place TBA
****Time & donation amount TBA
**** Description coming.
Reservations and donation prepayment required by by 5 p.m. Wednesday
November 28. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
.
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flyer” in your email subject line.
December 1st is the deadline to purchase tickets
for the Thursday December 13, 2018: Tucson
“Millions for Tucson” Raffle of a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit, Two
First-Class Airline Tickets, and $5,000 Cash by Tucson’s Jim Click
Automotive Team to benefit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center & other Tucson
charities
Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give away a 2018 Jeep Grand
Cherokee Summit SUV in a raffle to raise millions of dollars for Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center and other southern Arizona nonprofit organizations. With
your contribution you could win this 2018 vehicle – or the second prize of
two first-class airline tickets to anywhere in the world or the third prize
of $5,000 in cash! And 100% of your contribution will support Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center, which gets to keep all of the proceeds from our sales of
the tickets for this “Millions for Tucson” raffle! Winner consents to be
photographed and for his or her name and likeness to be used by the Jim
Click Automotive Team and/or the representing public relations agency
(Russell Public Communications) for publicity and advertising purposes.
Tickets for the raffle are 5 for $100 or $25 each. Your donation to purchase
raffle tickets will help Old Pueblo Archaeology Center provide more
archaeology and culture education programs for children who would not be
able to afford our programs without your help. To be entered in the raffle
your contribution for tickets must be received (not postmarked) by Old
Pueblo by Friday December 1st so that we can turn the raffle tickets in to
the Jim Click Automotive Team’s coordinator by December 7. The drawing will
be held on December 13.
The rules of the raffle require that Old Pueblo account for all
tickets issued to us and that we return all unsold tickets; therefore,
payment in advance is required in order to obtain tickets from us. Tickets
may be purchased by check sent to our PO box address listed below, by
calling Allen Dart at 520-603-6181 to provide your Visa, MasterCard, or
Discover card payment authorization, or through the PayPal portal on Old
Pueblo’s www.oldpueblo.org <http://www.oldpueblo.org> home page. Once you
have provided payment, Old Pueblo will enter your ticket(s) into the drawing
and will mail you the correspondingly numbered ticket stub(s) with a letter
acknowledging your contribution.
For tickets or more information about Old Pueblo’s involvement in the
raffle contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> . For more information about the Jim Click
Automotive Team’s Millions for Tucson raffle itself visit
www.millionsfortucson.org <http://www.millionsfortucson.org> .
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the above-listed activity please reply with “Send December Jeep Raffle
flyer” in your email subject line.
Tuesdays January 15-March 19, 2019: Tucson
“Prehistory of the Southwest” class with archaeologist Allen Dart at
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson (at Tucson
Unified School District's Ajo Service Center, just west of La Cholla Blvd.,
½-mile north of John F. Kennedy Park)
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. each Tuesday evening January 15, 22 & 29, February
5, 12, 19 & 26, and March 5, 12 & 19, 2019. $95 donation ($80 for Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members), not counting
cost of the recommended text or of optional Arizona Archaeological Society
membership. Minimum enrollment 8, maximum 20.
“Prehistory of the Southwest” is 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. Ten
weekly evening class sessions will cover 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. Instructor Allen Dart is a registered
professional archaeologist employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
and is volunteer executive director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center.
Reservations and prepayment required, registration deadline Friday
January 11. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
to register or for more information.
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the above-listed activity please reply with “Send Prehistory class flyer” in
your email subject line.
Saturday February 2, 2019: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Tucson and Marana Yoeme (Yaqui
Indian) Communities” car-caravan cultural sites tour with Yoeme traditional
culture specialist Felipe S. Molina starting in the Santa Cruz River Park
ramada at 1317 W. Irvington Road, Tucson (on south side of Irvington just
west of the Santa Cruz River)
8 a.m. to 1 p.m.; $25 ($20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and
Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
Felipe S. Molina was taught the indigenous language, culture, and
history of the Yoemem (Yaqui Indians) by his maternal grandfather and
grandmother, his grandmother's cousin, and several elders from Tucson's
original Pascua Village. A steady stream of Yoeme migrated into southern
Arizona to escape the Mexican government's war on and deportations of the
Yoeme in the 1890s and early 1900s. By 1940 there were about 3,000 Yoeme in
Arizona, mostly living in the well-established villages of Libre (Barrio
Libre) and Pascua (Barrio Loco) in Tucson, Yoem Pueblo and Wiilo Kampo in
Marana, and others near Eloy, Somerton, Phoenix, and Scottsdale. Mr. Molina
will lead this tour to places settled historically by Yoeme in the Tucson
and Marana areas including Bwe'u Hu'upa (Big Mesquite) Village, the San
Martin Church and plaza in the 39th Street Community (Barrio Libre), Pascua,
Ili Hu'upa, Wiilo Kampo, and his home community of Yoem Pueblo including its
San Juan Church and plaza.
Reservations and prepayment required by Wednesday January 30:
520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
**** IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with photos about the
above-listed activity please reply with “Send Yoeme Communities tour flyer”
in your email subject line.
(2) CHILDREN'S EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Reservations are taken continually for school classes and other
children’s groups take advantage of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s OPEN3
simulated archaeological excavation, OPENOUT archaeology outreach
presentations, and archaeological site-touring children’s education
programs.
The OPEN3 Simulated Archaeological Excavation Education Program
The Old Pueblo Educational Neighborhood (OPEN) program allows students
and adults to learn what archaeology is all about by excavation in “OPEN3,”
a full-scale model of an archaeological site. OPEN3 is a simulated
excavation site that archaeologists have constructed to resemble a southern
Arizona Hohokam Indian ruin. It has full-size replicas of prehistoric
pithouses and outdoor features that the Hohokam used for cooking, storage,
and other (sometimes surprising) purposes. Students participating in the
program get to learn and practice techniques used to excavate real
archaeological sites. They are also exposed to scientific interpretation of
how ancient people constructed their houses, what they looked like, ate, and
believed in, and how they created beauty in their lives.
OPENOUT Archaeology Outreach Presentations
Old Pueblo’s OPENOUT (Old Pueblo Educational Neighborhood Outreach)
program offers 45-60 minute presentations by professional archaeologists.
Each presentation shows kids how some aspects of everyday life have changed
while others have stayed the same.
The “Ancient People of Arizona” presentation gives children an
overview of how the Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi), Mogollon, and Hohokam
peoples lived.
The “Lifestyle of the Hohokam” program shows children how the ancient
Hohokam lived.
The “Ancient People of Arizona” and “Lifestyle of the Hohokam”
presentations both include real and replica artifacts, plus abundant
illustrations to help children experience how prehistoric Native Americans
of our area lived and to appreciate the arts they created.
“What is an Archaeologist?” is a program designed to give children an
idea of what archaeologists do, how they do it, and how they learn about
people through their work. This presentation includes examples of the tools
archaeologists work with, real and replica artifacts, and activities to help
children experience how archaeologists interpret the past.
The hands-on materials and fun lesson plans in our OPENOUT programs
bring archaeology and the past alive for children and are a perfect prelude
for the OPEN3 simulated archaeological excavation program.
Tours for Youth
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center offers guided tours to real
archaeological sites for classrooms and other organized children’s groups.
Heritage sites that can be visited in this program include a choice of the
Picture Rocks petroglyphs site (visited by the school group shown in the
accompanying photo), Los Morteros Hohokam Village, or Vista del Rio Hohokam
Village. Each youth tour is a guided visit that does not include
archaeological excavation; participants are not allowed to collect
artifacts.
For details and pricing of our children’s education programs please
visit our
http://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/
web page.
(3) OUR MISSION AND SUPPORT
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.
If you are a member of Old Pueblo, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! If your
membership has lapsed, we would be grateful if you would rejoin us so that
you can again receive membership benefits. Old Pueblo members receive
substantial discounts on most of our tours and other activities for which
both Old Pueblo and the Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary charge fees.
You can start or renew your membership by visiting
www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/
<http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/> and scrolling down to the
bottom of that page to follow the instructions for using our secure online
membership form or our printable Enrollment/Subscription form.
To make a donation using PayPal, please go to Old Pueblo’s
www.oldpueblo.org <http://www.oldpueblo.org> home page, scroll down to the
“Donate” section, click on the “Donate” button above the PayPal logo, and
follow the prompts.
You also can donate using a major credit or debit card by visiting Old
Pueblo’s secure donations web page:
http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/donations/.
Donations by check can be made payable to “OPAC” and mailed to Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577.
All of us at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center appreciate your
support! I hope you enjoy reading this and future issues of the Old Pueblo
Archaeology bulletin!
Regards,
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
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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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