For Immediate Release
Hello!
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In this Issue:
Some Thank-Yous
Some Online Resources
Upcoming Activities, Next Two Months
Old Pueblo's September & Later Activities
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Youth Education Programs
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Mission and Support
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SOME THANK-YOUS
This month we thank the following folks (in somewhat alphabetical order) who have joined or rejoined Old Pueblo Archaeology Center as members or who have made donations to support our general education programs since our previous first-of-the-month email blast:
Thomas Wright, Mary Wood, Trudy D. Williams, Andrew Vorsanger, Christopher Sugnet & Jennifer Cox, Sharon Strachan, Jane Stone, Glenn Stone, Harvey Smith, Robert & Louise Small, Lex Shaw, David Sewell, Karen & Phillip Russo, Dereka Rushbrook, John & Anne Rother, Janet Prinz, Terry & Sharon Poppleton, Gloria Nielsen, Douglas Newton, Matts Myhrman, Casey Myers, Sherry Mullens, Dan Morgan, Kyle Meredith, Sharon Ann McPeak, Michele Mandina, Kenneth Lund, Melissa Loeschen, Marie Lemay, Katja Lehmann, Aleta Lawrence, Sally Lanyon, Susan Kazmierski, John Kay, Mitchell Kagen, Charles E. Jenkins, Gary Huckleberry, James Greene & Martha Vogt, Allen Gill, Catherine Gates, Sharon Gartner, Kathleen Fullin, Jay Franklin, Katharine Ferguson, Gloria Fenner, Butch Farabee, Charity Everitt, Paul Everett, Joan & David Eerkes, Michael Eberhardt, Donald & Louise Doran, Al Dart, Richard & Rhonda Cuba, Connie Crawford, Garry & Janet Cantley, Judi Cameron, Elizabeth Butler, Larry Bourne, Bonnie Britton, James & Jeanne Bonk, Sharon Bigot, Bill Barington, Pam & Quentin Baker, Tim Askelson, William Aki, and Gregory Adolf.
Thank you all so much!
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 the recording of “The Gypsum Overlook Paleo-Archaic Archaeological Site in New Mexico’s White Sands” by archaeologist Matthew Cuba (June 20 Third Thursday Food for Thought) on Old Pueblo’s Youtube channel: <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos.
* Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society: What's in a Symbol? A Look at Hohokam Art and Imagery featuring archaeologist/ceramic analysit Linda Gregonis, June 17: <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Ir6wU4P9RMhhBpoZtiQHQ/videos> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Ir6wU4P9RMhhBpoZtiQHQ/videos.
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES, NEXT TWO MONTHS
The following listings include announcements about activities offered by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other organizations interested in archaeology, history and cultures. Time zones are specified only for online activities; each in-person activity listed is in the time zone of its location.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's activities are listed in green boldface 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.
Thursday July 11, 2024: Online
“The Land Leads Us: Indigenous Learnings in Conservation, Leadership, and Movements” free online presentation by anthropologist Charissa Miijessepe Wilson (Potawatomi & Kiikaapoa) sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
This presentation explores a holistic approach to land stewardship, emphasizing the spiritual interconnectedness of all living things and the importance of nurturing relationships with the land. Ms. Miijessepe Wilson highlights the concept of being an aspiring ancestor, which involves values-driven, intuitive leadership, and recognizing that progress includes learning from mistakes. She underscores the significance of generational sustainability, uplifting both youth and elders, and integrates these principles within the context of land stewardship at Bears Ears National Monument and the work of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition. Charissa Miijessepe Wilson learned and practiced Traditional Indigenous lifeways growing up on the Kickapoo Reservation, which led her to study cultural anthropology for knowledge on utilizing culture as a form of power-building and revitalization.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more and register visit <https://crowcanyon.org/programs/the-land-leads-us-indigenous-learnings-in-conservation-leadership-and-movements/> https://crowcanyon.org/programs/the-land-leads-us-indigenous-learnings-in-conservation-leadership-and-movements/.
Saturday July 13, 2024: Tucson
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Tour of the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at U of A” meets in the courtyard at Mercado San Agustín, 100 S. Avenida del Convento, Tucson
7:45 am to 12:30 pm. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
This Old Pueblo Archaeology Center summer tour visits two TOO-COOL environmental-science laboratories in Tucson – the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR), both administered by The University of Arizona (UA). The Tumamoc Desert Laboratory 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. The Tree-Ring Lab also has a venerable record of research in archaeology, astronomy, and environmental sciences, created in 1937 by the founder of dendrochronology as a science: UA Professor of Astronomy Andrew Ellicott Douglass. Tour presenters and guides will include archaeologists Paul and Suzanne Fish, the Tumamoc Lab’s Robert Villa and Lynne Schepartz, and LTRR docent Donna MacEachern. The drive from the Mercado San Agustín meeting place to the Tumamoc Lab is limited to five vehicles so tour is limited to 20 people and carpooling is required. After returning to the Mercado, all participants can take their own vehicles in a caravan to the LTRR.
Registration and prepayment are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Wednesday July 10, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Saturday July 13, 2024: Greer, AZ
“A Cultural Astronomy Study of the Casa Malpais National Historic Landmark Site in Springerville” free by Ken Zoll presentation sponsored by the Little Colorado River Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, in the Butterfly Lodge Museum Applewhite Pavilion, 4 Co Rd 1126, Greer, Arizona*
1 pm. Free.
An archaeoastronomical study of the Casa Malpais archaeological site near Springerville, Arizona, was conducted from 2008 to 2011. In this presentation Ken Zoll will discuss how certain features at the site were used for solar sunset observations by people of the Mogollon culture, and how several rock art formations were found to be astronomical seasonal markers. Researcher Ken Zoll, Executive Director Emeritus of the Verde Valley Archaeology Center in Camp Verde, Arizona, has written several books about archaeoastronomy in the Southwest.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information call 928-245-9098.
Saturday July 13, 2024: Benson, AZ
“Sunset Historical Film Tours” at the Mescal Movie Set, 1538 Drive Way, Benson, Arizona*
Tours begin at 6:30 and 7 pm. $20 per person (ages 17 and under free).
The Mescal Movie Set’s popular Sunset Historical Film Tour is a great way to visit the historical movie set, avoid the heat, and watch an incredible Arizona sunset! The set has been used in over 100 film productions, including many of your favorite classic westerns. Guests taking a Sunset Tour will visit buildings and street locations where memorable scenes from the films Tombstone, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Quick and the Dead, and many more movies were filmed,. including the Mercantile Store (built by Clint Eastwood for The Outlaw Josey Wales), the OK Corral and Oriental Saloon (Tombstone), Virgil’s and Wyatt’s cottages (Tombstone), the Redemption Saloon (The Quick and the Dead), the Livery (where Steve McQueen boarded his horse in Tom Horn), Paul Newman’s “Jersey Lily” (The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean), the Brothel (frequented by Frank Sinatra in Dirty Dingus Magee), and more iconic movie scene locations. The walking tour is a quarter mile long and lasts about one hour.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For reservations (required) go to <https://www.mescalmovieset.com/sunset-tours> https://www.mescalmovieset.com/sunset-tours. For more information call 520-255-6662.
Sunday July 14, 2024: Tucson*
“Barrio Viejo (Old Neighborhood)” walking tour sponsored by the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, starting at El Tiradito Wishing Shrine, 418 S. Main Ave., Tucson*
5:30-7 pm $30 ($20 Presidio Museum members); Optional: Add $10 to attend after-tour gathering at El Minuto Restaurant.
Experience the rich history of Tucson on the one-mile Barrio Viejo (“Old Neighborhood”) walking tour, which goes through the largest collection of historic Sonoran row houses in the United States. For over 100 years, Barrio Viejo was the heart of Tucson’s social, economic, and cultural life. On this 90-minute walking tour, your tour guide will discuss the history of the neighborhood, its architecture, and the individuals, businesses, and cultures that have met there. For an additional $10 participants have the option of joining the guide after the tour at the historic El Minuto Café for conversation, a margarita or alternative, and a cheese crisp.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register click on this date link: <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=14384&qid=1023209> Sunday, July 14, 5:30-7 pm; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday July 15, 2024: Online
“History and Landscape at Two Chacoan Communities in New Mexico” free presentation by archaeologist Kellam J. Throgmorton, PhD, sponsored by Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS), Tucson*
7-8 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
This presentation compares the archaeology of two Chacoan archaeological communities in New Mexico – Padilla Wash and Morris 40. Dating between 750 and 1250 CE, these two offer an extensive historical record before, during, and after the 850-1150 Chacoan era. Padilla Wash, in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, was an early Bonito phase community with a significant population in the 800-900s. Morris 40, on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation at the southern edge of the Mesa Verde region, originated as a large, aggregated village in the 800s and developed into a Chaco-style community during the late 1000s or early 1100s. In both cases, landscape was an important factor in community organization. Northern Arizona University Assistant Professor Throgmorton will compare and contrast the two communities to demonstrate how landscape manipulation may have been important to the expansion of Chacoan architecture and religious practices.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. To register <https://bit.ly/2024JulyThrogmorton_REG> click here. For details visit <http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org> www.az-arch-and-hist.org or contact Ralph Burrillo & Sebastian Chamorro at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesday July 17, 2024: Online
“Hearthstone Project Results 4 of 4: Motif Interpretation” free Lunch & Learn presentation by Carolyn Boyd, PhD, sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, Comstock, Texas*
12 pm Central Daylight Time. Free.
In 2023, Dr. Carolyn Boyd and Dr. Phil Dering conducted interviews and collected audio recordings as Indigenous Huichol consultants related Pecos River Style imagery to their own myths and cosmology. In today’s Lunch & Learn, Carolyn will share preliminary results of the analysis of these interviews. Viewers may marvel at how they reveal that deeply embedded symbols and concepts in the ancient rock art endure today in the ancestral knowledge of Indigenous Native America.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <https://shumla.org/lunchandlearn/> https://shumla.org/lunchandlearn/. For more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday July 18, 2024: Online
“Decolonizing Cartography: Reclaiming and Reimagining Indigenous Cartographic Traditions” free online presentation by geographer Annita Lucchesi, PhD, sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
Cartography, or the science of mapmaking, is often portrayed as a European invention and lives in popular imagination as primarily a tool of colonial exploration and domination. However, Indigenous peoples around the world have their own cartographic traditions and have been making maps of their homelands since time immemorial. In this webinar, Cheyenne geographer, Dr. Annita Lucchesi, will share her work in Indigenous cartography and why recognizing and uplifting Indigenous contributions to cartography is vital to the fields of cartography and geography and to building community wellness. Annita Hetoevehotohke’e Lucchesi is a researcher and scholar of Cheyenne and Italian descent, currently residing on her ancestral homelands in southeast Montana. She is Founder and Director of Research & Outreach of Sovereign Bodies Institute, a nonprofit research center dedicated to gender and sexual violence against Indigenous peoples.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more and register visit <https://crowcanyon.org/people/lucchesi-annita/> https://crowcanyon.org/people/lucchesi-annita/.
Thursday July 18, 2024: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring the presentation “Envisioning a Cultural Landscape” by cultural astronomy researcher Greg Munson, 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.
Greg Munson (Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest) will discuss new ways to record, document, and visualize the cultural landscape of the Greater American Southwest. The program emphasizes the SCAAS Cultural Landscapes Survey Program, which has tribal consultation as a key component. At the center of the program is expanding the concept of the archaeological site boundary to include resources from the local environment, relationships to nearby villages, how the architecture relates to the more distant landscape, and a building’s alignment to horizon features such as mountain peaks. SCAAS studies the connection of a site to astronomical cycles and features in the day and night sky, and explores new technologies for the visualization of buildings and the landscape like the use of dynamic panoramas, 3D modeling, and infographics. Its goals include establishing a common method of documenting and visualizing links between ancestral peoples and the land and sky that surrounded them so that we can better understand that we live in a unified cultural landscape, inseparable from its parts.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F8OZjRaARXC5n_njJZ7yJg> https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F8OZjRaARXC5n_njJZ7yJg. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
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Monday July 22, 2024: Flagstaff, AZ
“Archaeology’s Deep Time Perspective on Environment and Social Sustainability” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library, 300 W. Aspen Ave., Flagstaff, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
6-7:30 pm. Free.
The deep time perspective that archaeology and related disciplines provide about natural hazards, environmental change, and human adaptation not only is a valuable supplement to historical records, it sometimes contradicts historical data used by modern societies to make decisions affecting social sustainability and human safety. What can be learned from scientific evidence that virtually all prehistoric farming cultures in Arizona and the Southwest eventually surpassed their thresholds of sustainability, leading to collapse or reorganization of their societies? Could the disastrous damages to nuclear power plants damaged by the Japanese tsunami of 2011 have been avoided if the engineers who decided where to build those plants had not ignored evidence of prehistoric tsunamis? This presentation looks at archaeological, geological, and sustainable-agricultural evidence on environmental changes and how human cultures have adapted to those changes, and discusses the value of a “beyond history” perspective for modern society. This program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information call 928-213-2331 or email <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday July 25, 2024: Online
“History, Art and Place: Buffalo Soldiers in the American West” free online presentation by Eric J. Carpio, sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
In the buffalo soldiers: reVision exhibition at the Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center in Fort Garland, Colorado, history, place, and fine art intersect for an examination of the complicated legacy of the all-Black Army regiments established in 1866 following the Civil War. Known as Buffalo Soldiers, these regiments played an important role in the American westward expansion and displacement of Indigenous populations. Through the lens of a multiethnic, multigender team of artists from across the United States, buffalo soldiers: reVision disrupts common narratives of Manifest Destiny and presents an opportunity to reconcile some of the most difficult aspects of our collective past. This presentation includes a short film. Eric Carpio is the Director of the Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center and Chief Community Museum Officer for History Colorado.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more and register visit
<https://crowcanyon.org/programs/history-art-and-place-buffalo-soldiers-in-the-american-west/> https://crowcanyon.org/programs/history-art-and-place-buffalo-soldiers-in-the-american-west/.
Friday July 26, 2024: 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*
8-10 am. $35 ($25 for Presidio Museum members) includes admission to Mission Garden.
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 19th and 20th century factors that affected its demise. The tour includes the sites of the former Spanish mission and O’odham village that was the origin of modern Tucson, plus visits to 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 this date link: <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=14389&qid=1023209> Friday, July 26, 8-10 am; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
August 1-4, 2024: Prescott National Forest, AZ
“2024 Pecos Archaeological Conference” at Forest Roads 635 and 9090N approximately 17 miles northwest of Chino Valley, Arizona.*
See times below. Registration $80 ($70 student); dinner & other amenities extra.
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. In recent years, Native Americans, avocational archaeologists, the general public, and media organizations have come to play an increasingly important role, serving as participants and as audience, to celebrate archaeological research and to mark cultural continuity. Attendees can tent and RV camp at the conference site at no additional fee or lodge in nearby communities.
Schedule: Thursday 1 pm onsite camping opens; 5:30-7 pm reception; Friday & Saturday 8:30 am-5 pm presentations, posters, silent auction, vendor tents, and affinity group meetups; Friday around dusk star party and 8-10 pm Open Mic Night; Saturday 11 am business meeting, 5:30 pm happy hour, 6:30 pm dinner (served by El Paraíso, purchase dinner tickets in advance), and 8 pm band music; Sunday field trips.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Online registration available through July 12. For more information and to register visit <http://www.pecosconference.org/> www.pecosconference.org/.
Friday August 2, 2024: Sierra Vista, AZ
“The Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival at the Marriott Fairfield Inn and Suites, 3855 El Mercado Loop, Sierra Vista, Arizona.
12-1:15 pm. Free.
Before 1500 CE, Native American cultures took advantage of southern Arizona’s long growing season and tackled its challenge of limited precipitation by developing the earliest and most extensive irrigation works in all of North America. Agriculture was introduced to Arizona more than 4,000 years before present, and irrigation systems were developed there at least 3,500 years ago – several hundred years before irrigation was established in ancient Mexico. This presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart provides an overview of ancient irrigation systems in the southern Southwest and discusses irrigation’s implications for understanding social complexity. The meeting room is just around the corner from the hotel’s main entrance foyer: first room on right down the hallway.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <http://www.swwings.org> http://www.swwings.org or contact Glenn Minuth at 520-263-4507 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday August 8, 2024: Online
“Autonomy: Core Element of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt” free online presentation by Jon Ghahate, sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
The long part of United States history before 1492 is often not taught, nor is the historical event of the Pueblo Revolt that occurred 94 years before the Declaration of Independence was envisioned by its writers. In 1680, after enduring 82 years of oppression, harsh feudal rule, forced religious conversion, slavery, and warfare, the ancestors of today’s Southwest Pueblo peoples were forced to resort to violent opposition to the invaders of their homelands. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was the Pueblos’ response to ensuring there would be a future, a perpetuation of their cultures, their existential beliefs, their languages, and in essence, their very existence. To understand the factors contributing to the Pueblo Revolt, it is essential to know about the Pueblo peoples and their legacies as human societies. In this presentation Jon Ghahate from the Pueblos of Laguna and Zuni provides some of this context.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more and register visit <https://crowcanyon.org/programs/autonomy-core-element-of-the-1680-pueblo-revolt/> https://crowcanyon.org/programs/autonomy-core-element-of-the-1680-pueblo-revolt/.
Saturday August 10, 2024: 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 S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members; 50% off for persons who have taken this class previously) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
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.
Registration and prepayment are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Thursday August 8, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Sunday August 11, 2024: Online
“Slithering… Horned and Crested Serpents in Jornada Mogollon and Mimbres Iconography” free online presentation by rock art researcher Margaret Berrier, sponsored by the San Diego Rock Art Association, San Diego, California*
4 pm Pacific Daylight Time. Free.
Horned, crested, and feathered serpents have been documented throughout North America. Rock art author Polly Schaafsma stated that “horned, and sometimes feathered” serpents are less frequent in the Jornada Mogollon rock imagery and that their distribution is mostly in the vicinity of El Paso. Several authors have suggested this figure has an affinity with the Mexican deity Quetzalcoatl, and state that these are “signature images” of the Jornada Mogollon style. Margaret “Marglyph” Berrier’s overview of these figures in Jornada Mogollon rock imagery and in Mogollon and Mimbres ceramics documents their distribution beyond the vicinity of El Paso (but still in the Jornada Mogollon Region) and shows that none of the images have feathers. The imagery includes a few striking examples but overall the number of horned and crested serpents is incidental rather than significant, suggesting that horned and crested snakes may not qualify as a signature image of the Jornada Mogollon. Marglyph has researched, recorded, and photographed rock art sites in the west and in other countries since 1986, concentrating on the documentation and study of rock imagery in southern New Mexico and western Texas.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register for the Zoom program go to <https://www.sandiegorockart.org/meeting_registration.html> https://www.sandiegorockart.org/meeting_registration.html.
Thursday August 15, 2024: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring the presentation “An Embarrassment of Riches: Tree-Ring Dating and the (Mis-)Interpretation of Southwestern Archaeology” by archaeologist Stephen E. Nash, 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 December 1929, National Geographic Magazine published new tree-ring dates for a small, select group of archaeological sites in the American Southwest. For the first time ever, archaeologists then knew how old those sites actually were, but the annually resolved dates often proved difficult to interpret when compared to other archaeological data, which cannot be as finely resolved with respect to dating and time. Ever since then, however, southwestern archaeologists have been blessed with an incredibly rich, and still growing, database of calendar-year tree-ring dates to guide their analyses. Unfortunately, our interpretations often play fast and loose with the underlying data, and our interpretations may not be as reasonable as we might think. In this presentation, Dr. Stephen E. Nash will examine the history of southwestern archaeological tree-ring dating to explore what might, or might not, be reasonable to infer from large sets of tree-ring dates.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gmON_cDdS2WmPfniPv2Gsg> https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gmON_cDdS2WmPfniPv2Gsg. 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 22, 2024: Online
“Mid-to-Late Holocene Hydroclimate in the Southwest USA: Evidence from Lava Tube Ice” free online presentation by paleoenvironmentalist Bogdan P. Onac, PhD, sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
The southwestern United States historically has faced droughts and tough climate conditions that have predated the extensive effects of human-caused climate change. Dr. Bogdan Onac’s research has focused on reconstructing the hydroclimate patterns of the mid-to-late Holocene period by using the delta-O-18 (δ18O) technique of measuring the deviation in ratio of two stable isotopes of oxygen in perennial ice found in lava tubes located in the El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico. Analysis of three recovered ice cores each 95 to 110 cm in length led Dr. Onac to infer that future climatic conditions in the Southwest could lean towards aridity, especially if dominated by La Niña-like dry winters, potentially intensified by the negative phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). Dr. Onac is a University of South Florida Professor of Karst Geology and Paleoclimate.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more and register visit <https://crowcanyon.org/people/onac-bogdan/> https://crowcanyon.org/people/onac-bogdan/.
Saturday August 31, 2024: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Popol Vuh and the Hero Twins in Mesoamerica and the US Southwest” tour led by Mary Jo McMullen and Allen Dart at Tucson Museum of Art (TMA), 140 N. Main Ave., Tucson
1 to 3:30 pm. $25 donation ($20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
Sidestepping Tucson’s August heat, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s comfortable indoor tour this month will be at the Tucson Museum of Art downtown, led by TMA docent and Old Pueblo member Mary Jo McMullen. TMA’s “Popol Vuh and the Maya Art of Storytelling” exhibit focuses on art and lore related to the Popol Vuh, a narrative of the K’iche Maya about the origins of the world and heroic twin brothers who descended to the underworld to conquer Death. Archaeologist Allen Dart will comment on precontact images in the US Southwest that may depict elements of the Hero Twins story, and will assist Mary Jo in answering questions about the Popol Vuh exhibit and two others included in the tour: “Art of the Ancient Americas” and “Stories from Clay: Indigenous Art Pottery.” We encourage participants to visit TMA’s other galleries and gift shop after the tour since the donation to Old Pueblo provides entry fee to all of the Museum’s galleries. Tour is limited to 20 people.
Registration and prepayment are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Thursday August 29, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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OLD PUEBLO'S SEPTEMBER & LATER ACTIVITIES
September 4-December 11, 2024 (skipping October 23): Online
“The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona” 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
Each Wednesday 6:30 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time through Oct. 30). $109 donation per person ($90 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society, Arizona Site Stewards, and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures. 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 14 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 –Hohokam” 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.
Registration and prepayment are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Friday August 30, 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 19, 2024: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring the presentation “Archaeology on the Rocks: Investigating an 18th-century Spanish Land Grant in Tijeras Canyon, NM” by archaeologist Kelly L. Jenks, 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 1763, New Mexico’s Spanish colonial Governor Cachupín approved an application by 19 petitioners for a grant of community land east of Albuquerque in Cañón de Carnué, now known as Tijeras Canyon. The grantees were expected to defend these lands by building a fortified plaza. The governor also stipulated that these lands were to be used for agricultural purposes. Seven years later Apaches attacked this settlement and the survivors fled the canyon. When they refused to resettle, they were ordered to go back and destroy their homes. The New Mexico State University Archaeological Field School resurveyed the site of this 18th-century plaza in 2021 and returned in 2022 to do test excavation, stabilization work, and more survey, and to investigate artifacts from a 1946 field school at this site. These projects offer intriguing new insights into who these people were, why they settled in this place, how they made their living, and what happened when they left. Dr. Kelly Jenks is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the University Museum at NMSU, Las Cruces.
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Sunday September 22, 2024: Tucson-Marana, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Autumn Equinox Tour to Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Sites” with archaeologist Allen Dart departing from near Silverbell Road and Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana, Arizona
8 am to noon. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
The 2024 autumn equinox occurs on Sunday Sept. 22, 2024 at 5:44 am Arizona/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time; 12:44 pm Greenwich Mean Time). To celebrate the equinox day (but not the exact time!) and explore ancient people's recognition of equinoxes and other calendrical events, 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, bedrock mortars, and other archaeological features; 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 800 and 1100 CE. An equinox calendar petroglyph at Picture Rocks exhibits a specific interaction with a ray of sunlight on the morning of each equinox regardless of the hour and minute of the actual celestial equinox, so participants in this tour will see that sunlight interaction with the calendar glyph unless clouds block the sunlight.
Registration and prepayment are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Thursday September 19, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Thursday October 17, 2024: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring the presentation “New Archaeological Insights from Ancient DNA” by archaeologist/geneticist Jakob W. Sedig, 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 this talk, Jakob Sedig will explore how ancient DNA (aDNA) data generated by Proyecto de Investigación de Poblaciones Antiguas en el Norte y Occidente de México (PIPANOM) are providing new insight on the people who lived in central, western, and northern Mexico hundreds and thousands of years ago. Data from over 300 individuals spread across Mexico, including from sites such as Tzintzuntzan, Cueva de los Muertos Chicos, and Paquimé, have shed light onto long-standing questions about migration and interaction of different archaeological cultures in key eras of Mexico’s past. Jakob will also discuss how the PIPANOM dataset has revealed previously unknown information about the individuals who lived at these sites, and how combining the PIPANOM dataset with previously published aDNA data from across the Americas allows researchers to understand better the movement and interaction of different groups across cultural boundaries. Finally, he will review how PIPANOM has brought together archaeologists, geneticists, researchers, analysts, and students from different backgrounds and countries.
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Saturday October 19, 2024: Tucson
“Vista Del Rio Archaeology Celebration” free family activities sponsored by the Vista del Rio Residents Association and Old Pueblo Archaeology Center at the City of Tucson's Vista del Rio Cultural Resource Park, 7575 E. Desert Arbors St. (at Dos Hombres Road), Tucson
9 am to 1 pm. Free.
This outdoor program features hands-on activities, demonstrations, and information to make people aware of an ancient village site in Tucson's Vista del Rio Cultural Park where people lived between 1000 and 1150 CE. Adults and children, especially ages 6 to 12, can learn about people of the Hohokam archaeological culture who lived at Vista del Rio and elsewhere in southern Arizona through this Saturday’s activities along the park’s trails. There will be demonstrations of traditional Native American pottery-making and arrowhead-making plus opportunities to play traditional Native American games, grind corn using an ancient metate and mano, practice throwing a rabbit stick, and make your own hand-built pottery, stone-and-bead jewelry, split-twig-figurines, cordage, and dance rattles to take home.
No reservations are needed. For more information contact Old Pueblo Archaeology Center in Tucson at 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Saturday November 2, 2024: Agua Fria National Monument, AZ
TOUR FULL – WAITING LIST Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Badger Springs Pueblo and Petroglyphs Archaeology and Geology Tour” with JJ Golio and Allen Dart in Agua Fria National Monument, starting at Badger Springs Trailhead parking area ca. 1 mile east of Interstate-17 Exit 256 (Badger Springs).
10 am to 5 pm. $55 donation per person ($45 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
Agua Fria National Monument, located approximately 40 miles north of central Phoenix, was established in 2000 by President Bill Clinton to protect its extensive and important cultural and natural resources. Encompassing two mesas, the canyon of the Agua Fria River, and the river’s tributaries including Badger Spring Wash, the monument protects numerous archaeological sites as well as outstanding geological and biological resources. This Old Pueblo tour will visit Badger Springs Pueblo, a 70-plus room precontact settlement perched atop a high bluff, plus ancient boulder metates and bedrock outcrops with figurative petroglyphs. It also will stop at a historical arrastre – an ore-grinding mill in which heavy stones attached to horizontal poles radiating from a central pillar were turned by a draft animal or powered by water to drag the stones on the mill’s floor of stone to pulverize ore. Guides also will point out and interpret geologic processes in which Badger Spring Wash cut through the basalt and granodiorite to create colorful red, pink, yellow, green, brown, white, dark gray, and black formations, some including xenoliths.
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Thursday November 21, 2024: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program – preesenter and topic to be announced
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Wednesday December 4, 2024: Tucson and beyond
Wednesday December 4 at 5 pm is the deadline for getting tickets from Old Pueblo Archaeology Center for the 2024 Jim Click “Millions for Tucson Raffle,” for which the prizes are a 2024 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe Plug-in Hybrid SUV valued at $61,180 (MSRP), two first-class round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the world, and $5,000 cash.
On Thursday December 12, Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give away a 2024 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe Plug-in Hybrid SUV in a raffle to raise $Millions for southern Arizona nonprofit organizations including Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. With your contribution you could win this slick but rugged 2024 vehicle (MSRP starting at $61,180) – or two first-class round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply), or $5,000 in cash! Ticket sales benefit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other southern Arizona charities, so get your tickets from Old Pueblo before we sell all the ones that have been allotted to us!
Cost: 5 tickets for $100 or $25 per ticket. 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 4th 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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Saturday December 7, 2024: Ironwood Forest National Monument, AZ
TOUR FULL – WAITING LIST Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Chukui Kawi/Cerro Prieto ֍ Inscription Hill ֎ Pan Quemado: 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 (near Interstate 10 Exit 236).
8 am to 4 pm. $55 donation per person $45 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
Cerro Prieto (Spanish for “Dark Hill”) is a volcanic peak soaring about 900 feet above the surrounding plain in the Ironwood Forest National Monument northwest of Tucson. It is a sacred place known to the Yoeme (Yaqui Indians) as Chukui Kawi (“Black Mountain”) and one of the largest and most complex US archaeological sites featuring trincheras – massive rock-work terraces built on steep hillsides. The archaeological features were constructed and used by the Hohokam culture during the Tanque Verde phase (1150-1300 CE) 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. Inscription Hill contains one of the densest petroglyph groupings in southern Arizona, encompassing at least 1,225 individual glyphs plus bedrock metates, trincheras, trail segments, and talus pits. 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 Inscription Hill petroglyphs. Participants provide their own transportation and picnic lunches.
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Thursday December 19, 2024: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program – preesenter and topic to be announced
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Saturday January 11, 2025: San Pedro Valley, AZ
“San Pedro Valley Paleoindians, Petroglyphs, and Prospectors” archaeology and history tour with Vance Holliday, Merle Kilpatrick, and Allen Dart sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson, and Friends of the San Pedro River (FOTSPR), starting in Sierra Vista, Arizona
9 am-5 pm or later. $55 donation per person ($45 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
Archaeologist Vance T. Holliday, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Arizona, is joined by historian Merle Kilpatrick (Friends of the San Pedro River) and archaeologist Al Dart (Old Pueblo Archaeology Center) in guiding this trip to archaeological and historic sites in southern Arizona’s upper San Pedro River valley featuring 13,000 years of history. The tour will start at the Walmart Supercenter, 500 N. Highway 90, Sierra Vista, and proceed in a vehicle caravan to Murray Springs, Millville, and Fairbank. Unlike dentist Doc Holliday of historic Tombstone fame, today’s Dr. Holliday is an expert on the earliest humans in the Americas who will lead our ca. ¼ mile roundtrip hike to the Murray Springs site and discuss other San Pedro Valley the Clovis-culture mammoth-kill sites. After a picnic lunch at Murray Springs, Mr. Kilpatrick and Al Dart will lead participants on a 1.8-mile-roundtrip trail to the Millville historic ore-processing mill ruins and precontact petroglyphs. Finally, Merle will take us through some of the historic buildings at the Historic Fairbank Townsite (ghost town) and its nearby historic cemetery. Participants provide their own transportation and picnic lunches.
Registration and prepayment are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Tuesday January 7, 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 January 16, 2025: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring the presentation “Rediscovery of the Chichilticale Archaeological Site Visited by Coronado” 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. Free.
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Saturday February 8, 2025: 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 per person ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s 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. Participants provide their own transportation.
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Thursday February 20, 2025: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring the presentation “The Closest Neighbors of Paquimé” by archaeologist Paul Minnis, PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Paquimé, also known as Casas Grandes, was one of the major prehispanic centers in the US Southwest and northwestern Mexico. Despite the historical neglect of this site and its surrounding region by archaeologists, researchers from several countries have begun to better illuminate its rise, influence over surrounding areas, and final demise. This talk especially highlights two decades of research that Paul Minnis and colleague Michael Whalen have conducted around this important ancient community. Dr. Minnis is a professor emeritus of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma.
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Thursday March 20, 2025: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring the presentation “Crossing the Akimel to Snaketown: The Ancestral Connection to Modern Day O’Odham” by archaeologist Reylynne Williams, 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 O’Odham village of Snaketown is located on the Gila River Indian Community and situated north of the Gila River within the respective District Four Stotonic Community. Snaketown was infamous for the archaeology conducted in 1934-35 and 1964-65 expeditions but not for its connection with the Akimel O’Odham of the Gila River Indian Community. Let’s go on a journey together experiencing the life, sounds and culture of the Akimel O’Odham at Snaketown.
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OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER’S YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s youth education programs are on hiatus for the summer. However, you can find information about them at the links listed below.
* OPEN3 Simulated Archaeological Excavation Education Program: <https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/open3-simulated-excavation-classrooms/> https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/open3-simulated-excavation-classrooms/.
* OPENOUT Archaeology Outreach Presentations “Ancient People of Arizona,” “Lifestyle of the Hohokam,” and “What is an Archaeologist?”: <https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/> https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/.
* Tours for Youth: <https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/site-tours-classrooms/> https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/site-tours-classrooms/.
OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER’S 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 you can again receive membership benefits. Old Pueblo members receive substantial discounts on most of our tours and other activities for which donations or fees are required.
Payment Options for Donations and Memberships
For payment by mail please make check or money order payable to Old Pueblo Archaeology Center or simply OPAC, and include a printed explanation of what your payment is for. If it’s for or includes a membership fee, you can print the Enrollment/Subscription form from Old Pueblo’s <https://www.oldpueblo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Old-Pueblo-Membership-Subscription-Application-Form-20181215.doc> www.oldpueblo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Old-Pueblo-Membership-Subscription-Application-Form-20181215.doc web page and complete the appropriate information on that form. Mail payment and information sheet to Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717. (Mail sent to Old Pueblo’s street address gets returned to senders because there is no mailbox at our street address.)
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, and Discover 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
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