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SOME ONLINE RESOURCES
Check out some of these online resources about archaeology, history, and cultures that you can indulge in at any time! (Other upcoming online offerings that are scheduled for specific days and times are listed sequentially by date below under the UPCOMING ACTIVITIES heading.)
* Old Pueblo Archaeology Center has posted recordings of many of our Third Thursday Food for Thought and Indigenous Interests webinar presentations on our Youtube channel: <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos.
* School for Advanced Research: Women of the Lost Territory with lannery Burke and Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxJprkMdqo&t=22s> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxJprkMdqo&t=22s.
OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER’S ACTIVITIES IN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO
Thursday April 20, 2023: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring the presentation “The Civilian Conservation Corps in Southern Arizona and the Creation of a Transformed Landscape” by archaeologist William B. Gillespie, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is widely recognized as one of the most successful of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs that helped bring the country out of the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Some 3.5 million unemployed young men enrolled to work outdoors to protect forests, alleviate erosion, and develop the infrastructure of thousands of parks. The CCC was particularly active in southeastern Arizona, with nearly 40 camps, each occupied by approximately 100-200 enrollees, in use at various times between 1933 and 1942. Several agencies took advantage of CCC work crews to make improvements: The US Forest Service focused on fire prevention and constructing new roads, the National Park Service and Arizona’s Pima County emphasized developing infrastructure for recreation, the newly established federal Soil Conservation Service performed extensive erosion-control work, and the less well-documented Indian Division of the CCC employed many O’odham workers to develop new water sources for livestock. Throughout the parks, forests, and deserts of the region, the legacy of the CCC is still very much in evidence. Guest speaker Bill Gillespie is a retired Coronado National Forest archaeologist.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_thTCtZ4TTN2Ie7V-HF7spw> https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_thTCtZ4TTN2Ie7V-HF7spw. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
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Wednesdays May 10-July 26, 2023: Online
“Archaeology of the Southwest” 12-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
6:30 to 8:30 pm each Wednesday evening May 10 through July 26, 2023. $99 donation ($80 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society [AAS], and Friends of S’edav Va’aki Museum members), not counting cost of the recommended text or of optional Arizona Archaeological Society membership.
Archaeology of the Southwest is an introductory course that provides a basic overview of the US Southwest’s ancestral cultures. Its twelve evening class sessions will cover cultural sequences, dating systems, subsistence strategies, development of urbanization, depopulation 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 cultures for anyone interested in the archaeology of the Southwest, the class is a prerequisite for all other courses offered in the Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS) Certification/Education Program. Instructor Allen Dart is a registered professional archaeologist and executive director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. Minimum enrollment 10 people. For information on the AAS and its Certification program visit <http://www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603> www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Friday May 5, whichever is earlier. To register of for more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Thursday May 18, 2023: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “Making and Breaking Waves: Feminist Thought in Anthropology’s History” presentation by anthropologist Ruth Burgett Jolie, PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
In some circles, “the F-word” is “feminism”- a dirty word not to be discussed in good company. Yet, feminism, the political movement advocating for women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality, is an important concept to discuss as it is influenced by the social context in which we live. Feminism has impacted our day-to-day lives as well as anthropology as a discipline. This presentation provides a brief history of feminism in the United States, considers how feminism has impacted anthropology, and concludes with a discussion of how anthropology has impacted feminism. Dr. Ruth Burgett Jolie is Associate Curator of Education at the Arizona State Museum and affiliated Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O9eeHOzDTFqHrcPrNGiaBw> https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O9eeHOzDTFqHrcPrNGiaBw. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
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Saturday May 20, 2023: Tucson
“Arrowhead-making and Flintknapping Workshop” with flintknapper Sam Greenleaf at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson
9 am to noon. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum 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 Native Americans made traditional crafts and is not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale. Limited to six registrants. All participants are asked to wear face masks and to practice physical distancing during the workshop to avoid spreading COVID-19 virus.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Thursday May 18, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Saturday & Sunday May 20 & 21, 2023: Prescott & Prescott Valley, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Coyote Ruin, Fitzmaurice Ruin, and Museum of Indigenous People” tour with archaeologist Andrew Christenson, PhD, Prescott, Arizona.
11:30 am Saturday to 12 noon Sunday. $99 donation per person ($80 for members of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center or Friends of S’edav Va’aki Museum) covers all site entry fees and Old Pueblo’s expenses.
Archaeologist Dr. Andy Christenson leads this tour to two archaeological sites of west-central Arizona’s Prescott culture and to one of Arizona’s oldest anthropology museums. For the Coyote Ruin in Prescott, which was occupied from perhaps the 900s until after 1300 CE, excavations in the 1920s are the earliest in the Prescott area for which we have documentation. In 1998 and later additional excavations were conducted in 11 of Coyote’s 26 masonry rooms and two of its 10 pit structures, and many agricultural and water-control features were recorded. The Fitzmaurice Ruin on and near a prominent hilltop in Prescott Valley includes a 27-room pueblo and outlying structures dating between 1140 and 1300, stone-outlined areas interpreted as terraced and possibly canal-irrigated garden plots, and at least one petroglyph. Prescott’s Museum of Indigenous People, originally the Smoki Museum, is a complex of stone buildings completed in 1935 by a non-Native, community-minded social group, the “Smoki People,” with assistance from Depression-era work program participants. Participants are responsible for their own transportation, lodging, and meals.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Monday May 15, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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OTHER UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
These listings include announcements about activities offered by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other organizations interested in archaeology, history and cultures. Old Pueblo’s activities are listed in green font. For activities marked “This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event” the information may be out of date – Readers are advised to confirm dates, times, and details with the organizers of those activities.
Time zones are specified in these listings only for online activities. Each in-person activity listed is in the time zone of its location.
Wednesday April 19, 2023: Coolidge, AZ
Desert Rats, River Runners, and Canyon Crawlers: Four Arizona Explorers” free presentation with Gregory McNamee sponsored by Cochise College Center for Lifelong Learning at Cochise College Downtown Center, 2600 E. Wilcox Dr., Sierra Vista, Arizona*
12-1 pm. Free.
Francisco Garcés, a Franciscan friar, arrived in what is now Arizona in 1768. Assigned to the church at San Xavier del Bac south of present-day Tucson, he traveled widely throughout Arizona and California, charting overland routes that later travelers would follow. Near where Garcés would meet his death in 1781, an American soldier named Joseph Christmas Ives embarked on an arduous expedition up the Colorado River, one of the first Americans to see what he called the Big Canyon. A dozen years later, the river-running explorer John Wesley Powell would name it the Grand Canyon, and a hundred years after that a writer named Edward Abbey would explore the canyon country, writing classic books such as Desert Solitaire and Black Sun. In this talk, Gregory McNamee will look back on the accomplishments of these four explorers, each of whom shaped our understanding of this wild, sometimes challenging place called Arizona. Gregory McNamee is a writer, editor, photographer, publisher, and author of 45 books. This program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Call 520-515-3636 or email <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] for more information.
Wednesday April 19, 2023: Online
“Understanding Lower Pecos Feline Imagery” free online presentation by archaeologist Diana Radillo Rolon, PhD, sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, Comstock, Texas*
1 pm Central Daylight Time. Free.
In her last Lunch & Learn, Dr. Diana Radillo Rolón presented the method to document and analyze 58 feline figures from 11 rock imagery sites in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands region. In this session she will talk about a repetitive pattern of felines associated with what she interprets as speech breath (lines coming out of or into the mouths of the figures), as well as sensory signs depicted in other parts of their bodies.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <https://shumla.org/lunchandlearnapr19/> https://shumla.org/lunchandlearnapr19/.
Wednesday April 19, 2023: Silver City, NM
“Bert and Hattie Cosgrove on Treasure Hill” free presentation by author Carolyn O’Bagy Davis, sponsored by the Grant County Archaeological Society at 2045 Memory Lane, Silver City, New Mexico*
5:30-7 pm. Free.
GCAS member Carolyn O’Bagy Davis, author of Treasured Earth: Hattie Cosgrove’s Mimbres Archaeology in the American Southwest, will discuss avocational archaeologists Bert and Hattie Cosgrove, who were instrumental in documenting and preserving a number of southwestern New Mexico archaeological sites including Arenas Valley's Treasure Hill. For a safe and comfortable experience the GCAS recommends that attendees follow the CDC and New Mexico Department of Health guidelines for indoor gatherings including masking, distancing, and vaccinations. Light refreshments provided; OK to bring your own light snacks or handy meal and beverage if desired.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Marilyn Gendron at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday April 20, 2023: Online
“Exploring Fremont Territoriality and Resource Defense in Nine Mile Canyon, Utah” free online presentation by archaeologist Weston McCool, PhD, sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
For over a century, researchers have suggested the presence of archaeological sites with explicit defensive functions in Nine Mile Canyon, Utah. The existence of large tower structures and remote storage units have led many to hypothesize that these features were part of a Fremont strategy to maintain territorial boundaries and defend resources from theft or raids. In this presentation, Dr. Weston McCool investigates the link between archaeological data and territoriality using Fremont sites from Nine Mile Canyon and geospatial statistical tests. His results support the hypothesis that the Nine Mile Canyon tower sites were defensive refuges
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more and register visit <https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Exploring-Fremont-Territoriality-and-Resource-Defense-in-Nine-Mile-Canyon-with-Dr-Weston-McCool> https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Exploring-Fremont-Territoriality-and-Resource-Defense-in-Nine-Mile-Canyon-with-Dr-Weston-McCool.
Thursday April 20, 2023: Tucson and online
“The Critical Indigenous Exchange” with Will Wilson sponsored by the Arizona State Museum (ASM) in Center for English as a Second Language (CESL) Auditorium 103, 1100 E. James E. Rogers Way, University of Arizona campus, Tucson AND ONLINE*
6:30-7:30 PM ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Artist and educator Will Wilson, who spent his formative years living on the Navajo Nation, will talk about his 35+ years in the photography world. Now Head of Photography at Santa Fe Community College, his photography centers around the continuation and transformation of customary Indigenous cultural practice, countering the ‘archival impulse’ embedded within the historical imageries of Native peoples. Through various methods of photography, Wilson combines digital technology, historic photographic processes, performance, and installation around themes of environmental activism, the impacts of cultural and environmental change on Indigenous peoples, and the possibility of cultural survival and renewal. His work is exhibited and collected internationally. A catered reception will follow the program next-door at the Arizona State Museum.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. If you can’t attend in person, register to join via Zoom at <https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jeHEzMCSSTOHWWZf7Kb-9Q> https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jeHEzMCSSTOHWWZf7Kb-9Q. For more information contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Friday April 21 or May 19, 2023: Tucson
“Santa Cruz River History Tour” sponsored by Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, starting and ending at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
11 am-1 pm. $30 ($25 for Presidio Museum members) includes admission to Mission Gardens.
This two-mile walking tour led by Mauro Trejo focuses on our relationship with the Santa Cruz River, how it supported Tucson’s early residents, and the factors in the 19th and 20th century that affected its demise. The tour begins and ends at Tucson’s Mission Gardens and includes the sites of the former Spanish mission and the O’odham village that was the origin of modern Tucson. Attendees also visit Tucson’s tallest tree and the Garden of Gethsemane, a holy site of statues made by WWI veteran and artist Felix Lucero in the 1940s.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register click on <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=6762&qid=712342> April 21, 11 am-1 pm or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=6763&qid=712342> May 19, 11 am-1 pm, or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Friday April 21, 2023: Santa Fe
“Untold Pueblo Stories: Hidden Histories and the Pueblo Diaspora” presentation by Diego Medina (Tiwa-Piro-Manso), Albert Alvidrez (Ysleta del Sur), and Jerry Dunbar (Ysleta del Sur) sponsored by School for Advanced Research (SAR) at Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 708 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, New Mexico*
1 pm. Free with museum admission.
Diego Medina, Albert Alvidrez, and Jerry Dunbar highlight underrepresented Pueblo stories in an exploration of the Ysleta del Sur and Tiwa-Piro-Manso histories. The panel discusses the effects of displacement on Pueblo communities and the larger Pueblo diaspora.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Preregistration for this event is closed. A block of seats is being reserved for walk-ins on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information contact SAR at 505-954-7200 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday April 22, 2023: Tucson
“Earth Day: History and Ecology of Water for Agriculture in the Sonoran Desert” activities at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
8 am-12 pm. $5 per person suggested donation.
For thousands of years the Santa Cruz River fed a network of irrigation canals, the lifeblood of farming all along the valley. Mission Garden has created a water feature that flows directly above an ancient buried Hohokam-period canal. Come learn about the deep history, cultural traditions, and connections to water and agriculture at S-cuk shon, Tucson’s Birthplace, including hands-on science activities, freebies, and fun for youth and families. Hands-on science activities for youth and families will include “Creating a Cienega” led by science educator Elena Martin and aquatic conservation UA student Mathew Mayer; “Seedball Make and Take” with Cooperative Extension Ecological Restoration; dip netting in the acequia for amazing aquatic insects; Nature’s Notebook Scavenger Hunt; free puppets and books from Xerces; “Become a Citizen Scientist” with iNaturalist; and “Critter Craft” with Pima County Natural Resources. In addition, the following presentations are scheduled:
8-8:45 am: Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan, “Caretakers of the Land: Brief History of Land and Water Issues in San Xavier.” Ms. Ramon-Sauberon is a PhD candidate in American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona and on faculty at Tohono O'odham Community College. She is Tohono O'odham from the San Xavier District. At the TOCC she teaches Tohono O'odham History and Culture and Tohono O'odham Food Systems.
8:45-9:30 am: Jesús García, “Growing up in an Acequia Community.” Ethnoecologist Jesús Manuel García grew up in San Ysidro Magdalena across the road from an acequia, which was an integral part of the life of the farming community.
9:30-10:15 am: Michael Brescia, PhD, “The Lgacies of Spanish water Law and Acequias in the American Southwest.” Dr. Brescia is Head of Research and Curator of Ethnohistory at the Arizona State Museum. He is also a Professor of History and Faculty Affiliate of the James E. Rogers College of Law, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies and the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona.
10:15-11 am: Dennis Caldwell, "Wildlife and Acequias: creating a water feature to interpret history and restore an ecosystem.” Mr. Caldwell is a Tucson-based freelance biologist, native species pond builder, and graphic artist specializing in natural history educational outreach. His biology work focuses on recovery of endangered species of reptiles, amphibians, and fish of southern Arizona and Mexico.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <http://www.tucsonsbirthplace.org> www.tucsonsbirthplace.org or call 520-955-5200.
Saturday April 22, 2023: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to VV75 and the Red Linear Type Site” with archaeologist Katie Wilson sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site Visitors Center, US-90, Comstock, Texas*
8 am. $120.
VV75 contains extremely well preserved archaeological deposits and remnant Pecos River style rock art; it is the location where the very first radiocarbon samples for rock art in the Lower Pecos were collected. The Red Linear type site is a shallow overhang containing some of the best-preserved examples of Red Linear style of rock art. Some figures are seen interacting with various animal-like figures, like canids and deer, and provide us with an interesting contrast to the better-known Pecos River Style rock art. Both sites are located in Seminole Canyon State Park.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <http://www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Sunday April 23, 2023: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Fate Bell Annex, Fate Bell Shelter, and Running Horse Shelter” with archaeologist Katie Wilson sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site Visitors Center, US-90, Comstock, Texas*
8 am. $120.
Fate Bell Annex, Fate Bell Shelter, and Running Horse Shelter are all situated in Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site. Fate Bell is one of the most famous and largest Pecos River style rock art sites in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands Archeological District – a National Historic Landmark. The archaeological deposits within the shelter are also extremely well preserved. Then you will visit Running Horse Shelter, which offers, in addition to beautiful remnant Pecos River Style rock art, intriguing Historic period art and even a historic stone wall.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <http://www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Sunday April 23, 2023: Bernalillo, NM
“Kuaua Pottery: What the Sherds Reveal” free presentation by archaeologist Hayward Franklin, PhD, sponsored by Friends of Coronado Historic Site at the Bernalillo Town Hall Council Chambers, 829 Camino Del Pueblo, Bernalillo, New Mexico*
2-4 pm. $5 suggested donation.
Archaeologist Dr. Hayward Franklin will talk about his decades-long study of Pueblo pottery and the hundreds of sherds found at the Coronado Historic Site’s Kuaua Pueblo. Pieces of broken pottery can reveal the secrets hidden in crumbling adobe walls. From 2018 to 2019, with the help of trained volunteers, Dr. Franklin undertook a systematic gathering of 2,000 pottery sherds found around the perimeter of the 900-room Kuaua ruin. Using photographs of the painted fragments, he will explain how these broken pieces of clay shed light on the pueblo’s population, how the pueblo was used through different time periods, and who the inhabitants of Kuaua interacted and traded with. Refreshments will be served.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information call 505-670-4884 or email <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday April 24, 2023: Vail, AZ
“Old Vail Post Office Project Groundbreaking Celebration” hosted by Vail Preservation Society at 13105-2 E. Colossal Cave Ro,. Vail, Arizona*
2:30-6 pm. Free.
Celebrate the start of rehabilitation work on the 1908 Old Vail P.O. Between the Tracks in Vail! Adobe making, entertainment, Vail Mexican American Ranching Families exhibit, Vail Village walking tours, activities, and refreshments. Special remarks, well wishes, and groundbreaking at 4 pm. The 1908 Old Vail P.O. preservation project was awarded an Arizona State Parks Historic Preservation Grant. It is shovel ready, has an incredible construction team, and an adaptive reuse plan developed through community outreach that will create a heritage and cultural hub with unique student learning experiences, local attractions, and artists and artisans as the Vail Welcome & Heritage Center.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information call 520-419-4428 or email <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday April 27, 2023: Tucson
“Agave Prep and Firing the Pit Oven” and “Agave Fiber Workshop” at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
11 am-2 pm. $5 per person suggested donation.
From 11 am-12:30 pm Mission Garden will have a small gathering of its regulars to help get the agaves in the roasting pit for the Agave Heritage Festival event on Saturday April 29. Then from 12:30-2 pm Jesús García will demonstrate how to extract fiber from agave leaves and use them to make twine and other things.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <http://www.tucsonsbirthplace.org> www.tucsonsbirthplace.org or call 520-955-5200.
Thursday April 27, 2023: Sedona, AZ
“Yavapai Rock Art: Kinyuriki of the Wipukpaia” free presentation by archaeologist Peter J. Pilles, Jr., for Verde Valley Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society meeting at Sedona Public Library, 3250 White Bear Road, Sedona, Arizona*
3:30 pm. Free.
The Red Rock Country around Sedona has long been the home of the Wiupukpaia – “the people at the foot of the red rocks.” Their relationship to the land is reflected by the many places and rock formations that are associated with their origin tradition and the exploits of Skataka’amche, a being anthropologists would identify as a “culture hero.” A culture hero typically teaches people the things they need to know in order to survive, kills monsters that threaten humans, creates features on the landscape, and other feats. The rockshelters and canyons of the Red Rock country are filled with pictographs created over the centuries by the people of many different cultures. Among them are recurrent elements and designs that are recognized by the Yavapai. Many of these resemble attributes of Skataka’amche and his interactions with other inhabitants of the region, as recorded in Yavapai traditions. This presentation will illustrate the pictography believed to represent the Yavapai people and their stories about the Red Rock country. Peter Pilles has been the Coconino Forest Archaeologist for over 30 years and is a member of the Museum of Northern Arizona Board of Trustees.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Linda Krumrie at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Friday April 28, 2023: Sun City West, AZ
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for the R. H. Johnson Library in the social hall west of the R. H. Johnson Recreation Center, 19803 N. R. H. Johnson Blvd., Sun City West, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
2-3:30 pm. Free.
Ancient Indian pictographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved or pecked on rocks) are claimed by some to be forms of writing for which meanings are known. But are such claims supported by archaeology or by Native Americans themselves? Mr. Dart illustrates southwestern petroglyphs and pictographs, and discusses how even the same rock art symbol may be interpreted differently from popular, scientific, and modern Native American perspectives. This program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact the library at 623-544-6130 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday April 29, 2023: Tucson
“Agave Heritage Festival” at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
7 am to noon. $5 per person suggested donation.
The garden opens early (7 am) for an agave planting in which all are welcome to help expand Mission Garden's thriving agave cultivation sites using some ancient agricultural techniques pioneered by Hohokam farmers. Partner organizations Bat Conservation International and Borderlands Restoration Network will help lead the project, providing insight on biodiversity and the ecological of these drought tolerant plants. No experience necessary; long pants and hats are recommended. All tools and gloves will be provided. Archaeologists Paul and Suzanne Fish will make a presentation about Hohokam agave cultivation and how it was not only used for food but also for its strong fiber, which can be put to a wide variety of uses. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum conservation research associate Jesús García will demonstrate how agave were roasted in this region historically, and still today in Mexico. Watch roasted agaves be taken out of the garden’s pit oven after being cooked there for about 48 hours. Jesús shares this rich and sweet resource with visitors and describes how agaves are not only a food of the past but a potential, very drought-tolerant, food of the future! Mission Garden also will offer agave raspados made with Mission Garden’s agave syrup.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <http://www.tucsonsbirthplace.org> www.tucsonsbirthplace.org or call 520-955-5200.
Saturday April 29, 2023: Online
“New Insights into the Old Period in Casas Grandes: 10 years of Viejo Period Research in Northern Mexico” free online presentation by Michael Searcy, PhD, sponsored by the Amerind Museum, Dragoon, Arizona*
11 am Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free (donations requested).
The Roots of Casas Grandes project (RCG) began in 2013 with the goal of understanding more about the Viejo period people who lived in the well-watered valleys of the eastern edge of the Chihuahuan Desert in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico, for over 500 years. This is also a time period that preceded the better known Medio period when the large city of Paquimé was built and the Casas Grandes region underwent significant cultural transformations. The combination of surveys, excavations, archival research, and various analyses of Viejo period materials has brought to light many new discoveries regarding the Casas Grandes people who populated the same river valleys that gave way to a 13-century cultural revolution and the construction of one of the largest city centers ever built in the US Southwest/Northwest Mexico in precolonial times. Michael Searcy is an associate professor of anthropology and archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at Brigham Young University.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X-hM4t8yT1qkPwZBSLjbhg> https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X-hM4t8yT1qkPwZBSLjbhg.
Saturday April 29, 2023: Tucson
“Pioneer Jews of Southern Arizona” Salon and Saloon lecture by Lori Shepherd sponsored by Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, at the pub at LaCo Restaurant, 201 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
2 pm. $5.
Lori Shepherd, executive director of the Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center, will discuss how early Jewish settlers in southern Arizona came seeking economic opportunity, adventure, and the possibility of a new life. Many played a critical role in the founding and development of their respective communities and towns. The first Jewish congregation in the Arizona Territory began to form in Tucson in 1880 when Isadore Gotthelf and his brothers Jake and Dave organized a small group that included Samuel Drachman and Alex Levin to form a congregation for worship and to philanthropically support the greater community. Come learn about these and many others who helped make Tucson and southern Arizona what they are today.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Tickets can be purchased at the door or online at <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=474> https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=474. For more information contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday April 29, 2023: El Paso
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at El Paso Museum of Archaeology, 4301 Woodrow Bean Trans Mountain Road, El Paso*
2-3:30 pm. Free.
For talk description see April 28 listing.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://epmarch.org/> https://epmarch.org/ or contact Itzel Barraza at 915-212-0421 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday May 2, 2023: Online
“Collaborating with Diné Communities” Archaeology Café online lecture by Wade Campbell presented by Archaeology Southwest (ASW), Tucson*
6 to 7 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Wade Campbell (Boston University), a Diné (Navajo) historical archaeologist whose research examines 17th century to present day relationships between Diné communities and other local groups in the US Southwest, will discuss collaborations among archaeologists and Diné communities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information go to <https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/collaborating-with-dine-communities/> https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/collaborating-with-dine-communities/.
Friday-Sunday May 5-7, 2023: Ruidoso, NM
“Archaeological Society of New Mexico Annual Meeting” hosted by Jornada Research Institute at the Ruidoso Convention Center, 111 Sierra Blanca Dr., Ruidoso, New Mexico*
Friday 5-9 pm, Saturday 9 am-9 pm, Sunday TBA per trip. $50 registration.
“At a Crossroads: Towards Changing Perspectives through Recent Research in Southeastern New Mexico” is the theme of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico annual meeting. Friday features a meet and greet session followed by buffet dinner, welcome address by Ruidoso’s mayor, and “Archaeology of Tularosa Canyon” lecture by David Greenwald. Eleven presentations are scheduled on Saturday focusing on the archaeology of southeastern New Mexico. At Saturday evening’s awards dinner archaeologist James Copeland will be honored with ASNM’s annual volume titled Documenting the Dinétah: Papers in Honor of James M. Copeland, then Myles Miller gives the Bandelier Lecture, “Jornada Mogollon Pueblo Communities in Time, Space, and Thought” about Jornada Mogollon settlements that date from 1300-1450. Five field trips are set for Sunday to registrants’ choices of the Creekside Village site, Willow Springs petroglyphs, Rio Bonito petroglyph trail, Three Rivers petroglyph site, and Monjeau Look Out.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://archaeologicalsocietynm.org/events/asnm-annual-meeting-2023/> https://archaeologicalsocietynm.org/events/asnm-annual-meeting-2023/.
Saturday May 6, 2023: Comstock, TX
“Ultimate Shumla HQ and Lab Tour” with archaeologist Katie Wilson sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Shumla Center, 28 Langtry St., Comstock, Texas*
9 am. $120.
Spend the day with Shumla staff at the Comstock headquarters for an in-depth look at Shumla’s digital archive! This Trek will take place in the office, with time spent learning about Shumla’s methods, research, and history. See Shumla’s one-of-a-kind plasma oxidation lab and get a glimpse of what processing samples for radiocarbon dating looks like. You will virtually explore several rock art sites through Shumla’s gigapanorama photos and 3D models. You’ll get an in depth look at the region’s rock art through Shumla’s digital preservation methods in this behind-the-scenes tour of what it’s like to work at Shumla!
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <http://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 7, 2023: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Running Horse Shelter and Seminole Canyon State Park Visitor Center Museum” with archaeologist Katie Wilson sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site Visitors Center, US-90, Comstock, Texas*
9:30 am. $60.
Running Horse Shelter is located in Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site. This rockshelter offers, in addition to beautiful remnant Pecos River Style rock art, intriguing Historic Period art and even a historic stone wall. Together, the group will see 4000 years of history in this single shelter. Participants will also get to spend time in the museum located within the visitor center at Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site. The museum covers the full range of the park’s history, from its earliest painters to the more recent railroad and ranching history of the region.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <http://www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesday May 10, 2023: Online
“Vintage Signs of Utah” free online Brown Bag Webinar with historian Lisa-Michelle Church sponsored by Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Salt Lake City*
11 am-12 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free.
Take a virtual road trip around Utah to see and learn about some amazing vintage signs that dot ourits landscape. Lisa-Michelle Church’s new book Vintage Signs of Utah is a beautifully photographed collection of vintage roadside signs around the state, including historic cafes, motels, theaters, stores, even a few ghost signsThe glowing neon, the quirky names, and the unusual shapes are fascinating. Explore the history of Utah sign artists and sign makers. You will see some familiar signs, learn about this entertaining form of art, and discover some fun aspects of Utah's visual history. Lisa-Michele Church has devoted more than 30 years to public and private service as an attorney and community activist, and runs Relentless History, a small nonprofit organization.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information and to register go to <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vintage-signs-of-utah-tickets-533991762737?aff=odcleoeventsincollection> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vintage-signs-of-utah-tickets-533991762737?aff=odcleoeventsincollection.
Wednesday May 10, 2023: Cave Creek, AZ
“Ancient Water Management in the Arizona Desert” free presentation by geoarchaeologist Gary Huckleberry, PhD, for Desert Foothills Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society meeting at Good Shepherd of the Hills Fellowship Hall, 6502 E. Cave Creek Rd., Cave Creek, Arizona*
7 pm refreshment & socialization, 7:30 presentation. Free.
Arizona has a long history of people managing water for agriculture and human consumption. Evidence for ancient water management is found across the state and includes canals, reservoirs, and wells. The earliest irrigation canals and reservoirs thus far identified are in the Tucson area and date to around 1500 and 500 BCE, respectively. Through time, canal systems expanded in size, culminating in the impressive network of channels built by the Hohokam (450-1450 CE) along the lower Salt and middle Gila rivers. Dr. Gary Huckleberry will review the diversity of evidence, focusing on archaeological discoveries made in the Sonoran Desert region of central and southern Arizona, and discuss what lessons we might gain by studying these ancient features with respect to today’s water challenges. Gary Huckleberry is an independent consultant and adjunct researcher at the University of Arizona who specializes in soils, landforms, and archaeology.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Mary Kearney at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Sunday-Friday May 14-19, 2023: Walnut Canyon National Monument, AZ
“Cliffs Ranger Station” volunteer-assisted cabin rehabilitation and repair sponsored by HistoriCorps and the National Park Service in Walnut Canyon National Monument, 3 Walnut Canyon Rd., (east of) Flagstaff, Arizona*
Participants arrive between 5 and 7 pm on Sunday, daylight hours daily thereafter. No fees.
Hidden inside Walnut Canyon National Monument is one of Arizona’s oldest surviving log structures and a rare example of “hog-trough” log framing. Built in 1904, the Ranger Cabin (originally known as the Cliffs Ranger Station) is significant as the first headquarters and museum in what is now Walnut Canyon National Monument, located roughly 20 minutes east of Flagstaff, Arizona. HistoriCorps invites participants in a week of carpentry to repair siding, doors, and trim, and window sashes. Crew will camp a short distance away (tents, truck campers, campervans, trailers, and RVs less than 25 feet long OK) and commute and take a short hike to the ranger cabin each day. No hookups or showers are available and the ground may not be perfectly level. Dogs are not allowed. HistoriCorps provides all meals, tools, training, equipment, and campsite. Volunteers are responsible for their own transportation to the campsite, sleeping equipment, work gloves, clothes, boots, and other personal gear.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register go to <https://historicorps.org/cliffs-ranger-station-az-2023/> https://historicorps.org/cliffs-ranger-station-az-2023/.
Monday May 15, 2023: Glendale, AZ
“Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Glendale Public Library-Foothills Library, 19055 N 57th Ave, Glendale. Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
6:30-8 pm. Free.
Native Americans in the U.S. Southwest developed sophisticated skills in astronomy and predicting the seasons, centuries before non-Indian peoples entered the region. In this presentation archaeologist Allen Dart discusses the petroglyphs at Picture Rocks, the architecture of the “Great House” at Arizona's Casa Grande Ruins, and other archaeological evidence of ancient southwestern astronomy and calendrical reckoning, and interprets how these discoveries may have related to ancient Native American rituals. This program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Sarah Herlache at 623-930-3844 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesday May 17, 2023: Online
“First Peoples of Great Salt Lake: A Cultural Landscape” free online Brown Bag Webinar with archaeologist Steven R. Simms, PhD, sponsored by Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Salt Lake City*
This is a story of more than 700 generations of Indigenous Americans in a cultural landscape centered on, but also much larger than, the Great Salt Lake. From Nevada, across Utah and Idaho, to the center of Wyoming is a cultural landscape whose deep history dissolves state lines. The story here takes a different approach to understanding the ancients than is typical of archaeology. It conveys findings from the natural and social sciences, but this is not a science book. It is not about objects. It is a story of place – where people lived and how they lived. It is a story of language histories, the mingling of peoples, Indigenous and immigrants, and the transformations that arise from interaction, both through cooperation and conflict. It is a story of cultural resilience, persistence, and a changing sense of place. It is a story far deeper in time than any modern genealogy can trace. Steve Simms is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Utah State University.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information and to register go to <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-peoples-of-great-salt-lake-a-cultural-landscape-tickets-533996085667?aff=odcleoeventsincollection> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-peoples-of-great-salt-lake-a-cultural-landscape-tickets-533996085667?aff=odcleoeventsincollection.
Saturday May 20: Payson, AZ
“Ancestral Yuman Ceramics: Problems and Prospects” free presentation by anthropologist Aaron M. Wright for Rim Country Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society meeting at Payson Public Library, 328 N. McLane Road, Payson, Arizona*
Research into the Ancestral Yuman World – better known as the Patayan archaeological tradition – is nearly a century in the making, but we still have a poor grasp of it relative to other cultural traditions of the North American Southwest. Chronological troubles and impediments are primarily to blame. The Patayan ceramic typology is the principal basis on which archaeologists date Ancestral Yuman sites and material, but studies have consistently shown that the chronology associated with it is inaccurate. This talk reviews the many problems and outlines fruitful ways forward with a case study from the lower Gila River.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Dennis Dubose at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday May 20: Dryden, TX
“Guided Tour to Meyers Springs Rock Art Site and Historic Fort” with archaeologist Katie Wilson sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Meets in Dryden, Texas, Intersection of TX-349 and US-HWY 90 then caravans to Meyers Springs Ranch*
10 am. $120.
Meyers Springs has fragments of Pecos River Style rock art and Historic period images including horses, warriors on horseback, missions, crosses, figures wearing ecclesiastical robes, a horse-drawn wagon, teepees, shields, bows and arrows, and bison. After visiting the rockshelter, participants will see the nearby historic Camp Meyers Springs, a United States Army subpost for Fort Clark in Brackettville from 1880-1884. Most of the structures for the camp were tents and left little to no trace on the landscape, but one stone structure still stands. The day will conclude with a tour of Shumla’s research facility in Comstock, Texas.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <http://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 21, 2023: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Black Cave and Vaquero Shelter” with archaeologist Katie Wilson sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Shumla Center, 28 Langtry St., Comstock, Texas*
8 am. $120.
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 <http://www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday May 25, 2023: Tucson and online
“Excavating Tucson's Chinese-American Past: From South China Villages to a Southwest Pueblo” free presentation with anthropologist Laura W. Ng, sponsored by the Arizona State Museum (ASM) and the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center (TCCC), at the TCCC, 1288 W. River Rd., Tucson*
10:45 to noon. Free. A separate buffet lunch will follow the presentation.
During the 20th century, the Chinese American community in Tucson was dispersed; the majority of Chinese migrants operated grocery stores and restaurants that served multiethnic neighborhoods in the Old Pueblo. In 1968, the Tucson Urban Renewal project destroyed some of these Chinese-owned businesses, but buried deposits and standing structures related to Chinese migrants were archaeologically investigated. In this presentation Laura W. Ng, PhD, assistant professor of anthropology at Grinnell College, focuses on the archaeology of the so-called Ying On Association compound, which housed Chinese social organizations including a clubhouse as well as Chinese boarders. Census records show that virtually all of the Ying On residents were men, but Dr. Ng's research indicates these men were not “bachelors” or “sojourners” as they have been characterized, and that they had long and sustained interactions with their Indigenous and Mexican neighbors in Tucson.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For reservations email Robin Blackwood at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] If you can’t attend in person, register to join via Zoom at <https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xCOVieDoSha45rdsO9mRUw> https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xCOVieDoSha45rdsO9mRUw.
Wednesday May 31, 2023: Online
“Reforging the Fremont Frontier” free online Brown Bag Webinar with archaeologist Katie Richards, PhD, sponsored by Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Salt Lake City*
11 am-12 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free.
For decades, archaeologists have debated how best to interpret the Fremont region. Because of its unique position, the material remains have often presented as an intriguing and confusing syncretic blend of Southwestern and other. Early Fremont archaeologists emphasized the similarities between the Fremont and other groups of the northern Southwest, earning the region the moniker of the Northern Periphery. In subsequent decades, however, archaeologists emphasized that the region was much more than a diluted version of a Puebloan Southwest core by focusing more on local development and downplaying connections to the Southwest. Katie Richards argues that Fremont is best understood when we explore the complex interplay of local development and Southwestern influence within the context of the social changes that occurred during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III periods in the northern Southwest. Dr. Richards received her BA. and MA from Brigham Young University and her PhD from Washington State University.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information and to register go to <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reforging-the-fremont-frontier-tickets-533998011427> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reforging-the-fremont-frontier-tickets-533998011427.
Monday-Friday June 5-9, 2023: Tucson
“Archaeology Camp” at Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
8:30 am-2:30 pm. $290 (Presidio Museum members $265)
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an archaeologist? Now is your chance to find out! This camp teaches the science of archaeological and artifact analysis as well as history. Campers ages 9-14 will learn how archaeologists really work through a series of hands-on activities that include:
**Excavating a simulated archaeological site
**Analyzing the artifacts found during excavation
**Using precontact tools
**Making string from agave
Some activities will take place in the Presidio Museum’s new Early People’s Park (which includes a replica pithouse). The excavation and artifact analysis will take place on June 9 from 8:30 am-2:30 pm at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 E. 44th St., Tucson.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For more information or to register go to <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=465> https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=465 or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Friday June 9, 2023: Salt Lake City
“Utah Historic Preservation Conference” sponsored by the Utah State Historic Preservation Office and Preservation Utah, at the historic Columbus School/Columbus Community Center, 2531 S 400 E, South Salt Lake, Utah*
8 am-5 pm. $15 registration fee.
“Preservation Engaged: Celebrating Utah's Communities” is the theme of the 2023 Utah Historic Preservation Conference. With an expanded program, slightly different look, and all of the old favorites — this year’s conference will include tracks dedicated to Main Street and Cultural Site Stewardship in addition to traditional Preservation topics. This will be an engaging day of information sessions, panel discussions, and hands-on demonstrations and workshops.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information and to register visit <https://ushpo.utah.gov/conference/> https://ushpo.utah.gov/conference/.
Saturday June 10 to Saturday June 17, 2023: Nacogdoches County, TX
“TAS Archeological Field School” directed by archaeologist Dr. Tamra Walter and regional experts, sponsored by the Texas Archeological Society (TAS), based at the Nacogdoches County Exposition and Civic Center, 3805 NW Stallings Dr., Nacogdoches, Texas*
Daily times TBA. Adult 1-3 days $120, 4 or more days $170; nonparticipant 1-3 days $60, 4 or more days $80; ages 7-17, 1-3 days $45, 4 or more days $70.
Each summer, the Texas Archeological Society (TAS) sponsors a week-long archeological field school that provides training in archeological techniques to Society members and contributes important new data to the state's archeological and historical heritage. For the 2023 field school, excavations will be conducted at the Gallant Falls Site (41NA344), an important contact period Mission Concepcion site, and at two nearby and associated Hainai Caddo structures at the Ben Gallant site (41NA338) and the Belle Gallant site (41NA346). No prior archeological experience is necessary. Activities and learning opportunities are offered for all ages, including excavation techniques, survey methods, and special training for newcomers and teachers. The TAS field school spans seven days and is led by professional archeologists and trained avocationals. Participants may register for a minimum of three days or for the full week and choose excavation, survey, or the laboratory. Volunteers may also participate in the afternoon and evening workshops, educational programs, and social activities spread throughout the week. Several Field School Scholarships are available. Field School Director Tamra L. Walter is an Associate Professor of Archaeology at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit the TAS Field School page at <https://www.txarch.org/Field-School> https://www.txarch.org/Field-School.
Monday-Friday June 12-16, 2023: Tucson
“The Cultures of Tucson Camp” at Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
8:30 am-2:30 pm. $290 (Presidio Museum members $265)
Have you ever wondered about the people who were responsible for the growth of the city of Tucson? In this camp kids ages 8-14 will learn about these cultures and share their own through a series of hands on activities and demonstrations provided by various local cultural organizations, including:
**Tohono O’odham Nation
**Tucson Chinese Cultural Center
**Mexican American Heritage and History Museum
**Jewish History Museum.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register visit <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=467> https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=467 or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday June 15, 2023: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “A Photo Essay of the Apache Surrender” presentation by historian Bill Cavaliere, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
Using a comparison of old photographs with recent ones taken of the same places, Bill Cavaliere will discuss the Chiricahua Apaches and their early frontier photographers, with the emphasis on C. S. Fly, Ben Wittick, and A. Frank Randall. Cavaliere travelled far and wide to locate the scenes where the 1800s shots were taken. Some were very easy to find, such as the photographs taken at Fort Bowie, while others were more difficult, especially ones taken by Tombstone photographer C. S. Fly in Cañon de los Embudos in northern Sonora, Mexico, which entailed modern-day driving on rough four-wheel-drive roads through remote areas disputed by rival drug cartels. Bill’s obsession was finding the location of Fly’s famous “Council Photo” that depicts Geronimo and other hostile Apaches negotiating peace terms with General George Crook and his soldiers.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-FSKZAk5RIeSw_mIj9vc7Q> https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-FSKZAk5RIeSw_mIj9vc7Q. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the above-listed activity send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] with “Send June Third Thursday flyer” in your email subject line.
Monday-Friday June 19-23, 2023: Tucson
“Living History & Re-enactment Camp” at Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
8:30 am-2:30 pm. $290 (Presidio Museum members $265).
Camp participants ages 7-14 will experience how people in the Presidio lived through a series of hands-on activities. They will also learn about local history through role play, theatrical re-enactment, and fictional dramatization of historical events. The Presidio Museum is the ideal setting for young imaginations to bring Tucson’s unique history alive. With access to a wide array of period structures, backdrops, costumes, and props, young participants will truly feel they are living history through:
**Blacksmithing/tinsmithing
**Doing the chores of a Spanish soldier
**Experiencing foods that are native to the Sonoran Desert
**Making adobe bricks
**Playing traditional games
**Learning hands-on local agricultural practices
**Play-acting and creation of short skits based on historical characters and events using period costumes and sets.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register visit <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=466> https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=466 or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday July 20, 2023: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “’O’odham Place Names: Meanings, Origins and Histories” presentation by Harry J. Winters, Jr., PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
When he was 14 or 15 years old, Harry Winters, Jr., came across John D. Mitchell’s 1953 book Lost Mines and Buried Treasures along the Old Frontier. Mitchell’s tales inspired him to become a geological engineer in the mining industry, partly because of his interest in mathematics, physics, geology and engineering, but also because mining geology (which he calls “modern prospecting”) offered the opportunity to roam the deserts and mountains. He began prospecting and camping in the Arizona desert, and in 1956 he and his friend Ted McIntyre drove into the Tohono O'odham Nation lands (then known as the Papago Indian Reservation). Eventually their 1947 Plymouth got stuck in a narrow wash and an ’O’odham man came over to see what had happened. That fellow, Enos Miguel, didn’t speak English and the boys didn’t speak ’O’odham, but Enos could see what was needed so walked over to his house, brought out a shovel and some boards, and soon Harry and Ted were on their way. Enos was Harry’s first of many O'odham friends made over the next six-plus decades. Combining those friendships with his interest in geology and Native place names, Harry learned the ’O’odham language, spoke with lots of ’O’odham about their knowledge of the landscape, and eventually authored the 1,002-page (not counting the 56 pages in the table of contents and other front matter) tome ’O'odham Place Names: Meanings, Origins and Histories, Arizona and Sonora, Second Edition (2020, SRI Press, Tucson). In this month’s Third Thursday Food for Thought presentation, Dr. Harry Winters, Jr., recounts some of his travels and shares some of his deep knowledge of the ’O’odham landscape lore on both sides of the modern US-Mexico border.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e0QYkHObRfCvES3XfFiESg> https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e0QYkHObRfCvES3XfFiESg. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
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Thursday August 17, 2023: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “New Discoveries of Coronado-era Archaeological Sites in Southern Arizona” presentation by archaeologist Deni J. Seymour, PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
Description coming.
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Wednesdays September 6-December 6, 2023
(skipping October 25 and November 22): Online
"The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona" 12-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
6:30 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time through Nov. 1st) each Wednesday. $99 donation ($80 for members of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society [AAS], and Friends of S’edav Va’aki Museum); donation does not include costs of recommended text (The Hohokam Millennium by Paul R. Fish and Suzanne K. Fish, editors) or of the optional AAS membership or AAS Certification Program enrollment.
Registered Professional Archaeologist Allen Dart teaches this class in 12 two-hour sessions to explore the archaeology of the ancient Hohokam culture of the American Southwest. The class covers Hohokam origins, subsistence and settlement systems, social and organizational systems, material culture including ceramics, other artifacts, and architecture, interaction within and beyond the Hohokam culture's regional boundaries, and ideas on religion and exchange. Students seeking the AAS Certification are expected to prepare a brief research report to be presented orally or in written or video format. Minimum enrollment 10 people. The class meets the requirements of the Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS) Training, Certification and Education (TCE) program's “Advanced Southwest Archaeology – The Hohokam of Southern Arizona” class. The AAS basic “Archaeology of the Southwest” class is recommended as a prerequisite but this is negotiable with the instructor. For information on the AAS and its Certification program visit <http://www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603> www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603.
Reservations and prepayment are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Friday September 1st, whichever is earlier. To register or for more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Thursday September 21, 2023: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “The Historical George McJunkin Reimagined through His Archaeological Sites” presentation by archaeologist Brian W. Kenny, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
Description coming.
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Saturday October 7, 2023: Tucson & Marana, AZ
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 am to 1 pm. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of S’edav Va’aki Museum members) helps cover Old Pueblo’s tour expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
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 late 19th and early 20th centuries. 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.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m. Wednesday January 25, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
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Wednesday December 6, 2023: Online or by mail
You could win a 2023 Ford Bronco Raptor valued at $76,580, or two first-class round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the world, or $5,000 cash in “The Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle” on December 14! Ticket sales benefit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other southern Arizona charities so get your tickets from Old Pueblo before 5 pm Wednesday December 6!
Cost: $25 per ticket.
On Thursday December 14, Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give away a 2023 Ford Bronco Raptor Edition SUV in a raffle to raise $2,500,000 for southern Arizona nonprofit organizations including Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. With your contribution you could win this fantastic 2023 vehicle (List Price $76,580) – or two first-class round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the world, or $5,000 in cash! And 100% of what you contribute to Old Pueblo for tickets will go directly to Old Pueblo’s education programs because Old Pueblo gets to keep all of the proceeds from our ticket sales!
Old Pueblo’s raffle rules: To be entered in the raffle Old Pueblo Archaeology Center must receive your request for tickets and your donation for them no later than 5 pm Wednesday December 6th so we can turn in all of our sold tickets to the raffle manager the next day. Old Pueblo must account for all tickets issued to us and must return all unsold tickets, so advance payment for tickets is required. Tickets may be purchased through the PayPal “Donation” button on Old Pueblo’s <http://www.oldpueblo.org> www.oldpueblo.org home page or by calling 520-603-6181 to provide your Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express card payment authorization. Once payment is received, Old Pueblo will enter your name and contact information on your ticket(s), enter your ticket(s) into the drawing, and mail you the correspondingly numbered ticket stubs with a letter acknowledging your contribution.
Winners consent to be photographed and for their names and likenesses to be used by the Jim Click Automotive Team and/or the Russell Public Communications firm for publicity and advertising purposes.
For tickets or more information about Old Pueblo’s involvement in the raffle contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] For more information about The Jim Click Automotive Team’s Millions for Tucson Raffle itself visit <http://www.millionsfortucson.org> www.millionsfortucson.org.
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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.
Old Pueblo 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.
Do you like getting our announcements about upcoming activities? Or would you like to help us continue to provide hands-on education programs in archaeology, history, and cultures for children and adults? THEN PLEASE: Visit <http://www.oldpueblo.org/forms/donorfrm.php> www.oldpueblo.org/forms/donorfrm.php to make a contribution, or see below for information on how you can support Old Pueblo as a member!
Payment Options for Donations and Memberships
To start or renew an Old Pueblo membership online you can visit our <http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/> www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/ web page, scroll down to the bottom of that page, and 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 the <http://www.oldpueblo.org> www.oldpueblo.org home page, scroll down to the “Donate” section, click on the “Donate” button above the PayPal logo, and follow the prompts.
To make a credit card or debit card payment without going online you can call Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201, tell the person who answers you’d like to make a credit card donation or payment, and provide your card authorization. We advise that you do not provide credit card or debit card numbers to us in an email. Old Pueblo accepts Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express card payments.
All of us at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center appreciate your support! I hope you enjoy reading this and future issues of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s upcoming-activities announcements!
Warmest regards,
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director (Volunteer)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
520-798-1201
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