For Immediate Release
Table of Contents
Some Thank-Yous
Some Online Resources
Upcoming Activities
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Youth Education Programs
Our 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 broadcast: Charlene Aparicio, Corinne & John Babcock, Jim & Marie Britton, Elizabeth Butler, Joyce Clarke, Tom Cloonan, Krieger Conradt, Al Dart, Sue Durling, Joy & Gilbert Facio, Butch Farabee, Robert Gleason-Moore, Marilyn Guida, Lynda Klasky, Paula Kulina & Ernie Garcia, Melissa Loeschen, Paula Lozar,Terry Mackin & Judy Applen, Robert Mossman, Bill Schmitt, and Jane Swicegood.
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 video recording of the July 13, 2021, presentation Indigenous Woman Coming Through: How I went from Educator and Community Organizer to Elected Official, which Pima County (Arizona) Recorder Gabriella Cázares-Kelly (Tohono O’odham) gave for Old Pueblo’s Indigenous Interests online series. In this talk, Ms. Cázares-Kelly discusses the significance of her wins as a “non-traditional candidate” in the 2020 primary and general elections, and shares how she was inspired to run, unexpected barriers she encountered during her campaign, and some priorities she and her staff began working on once she took office.
* And how about a two-fer? Old Pueblo also has posted the video of Talking Turkey: Domestic Turkeys in the US Southwest's Archeological Record (and a Little on Them Today), archaeologist Sharlot Hart’s presentation for Old Pueblo’s July 15 Third Thursday Food for Thought Zoom series. Both the July 13 and July 15 videos can be found on the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center Youtube Channel: <http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig> www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig.
* The Archaeological Conservancy has posted its Episode 4: Wells Petroglyph virtual tour of the Wells Petroglyph Preserve in northern New Mexico: <http://www.archaeologicalconservancy.org/virtual-tour-video-series-2020/episode-4-wells-petroglyph-preserve/> www.archaeologicalconservancy.org/virtual-tour-video-series-2020/episode-4-wells-petroglyph-preserve/.
Watch the ones that appeal to you in the comfort of your home or office!
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.
Thursday-Sunday August 5-8, 2021: Mancos, CO
“2021 Pecos Archaeological Conference” at Doc Lowell Flat in the San Juan National Forest about 7 miles northeast of Mancos, Colorado*
Times TBA. Registration $55 standard, $40 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 may camp or lodge in nearby communities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <http://www.pecosconference.org/> www.pecosconference.org/.
Saturday, August 7, 2021: Online
“From ‘Chief’ to Code Talker: Four Profiles of the Navajo Code Talkers” free online presentation with Dr. Laura Tohe sponsored by Chandler Public Library – Downtown Branch, Chandler, and Arizona Humanities, Phoenix*
10:30 a.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
During WWII a group of young Navajo men enlisted in the Marines without knowing that they would be called on to develop a secret code against the Japanese military. This select group of Code Talkers devised a Navajo language code that was accurate, quick, never broken, and saved many American lives. This talk profiles 4 Code Talkers who reflect on their lives growing up on the Navajo Nation homeland, their military service as Code Talkers, and the personal and spiritual costs of war that many struggled with after the war. They returned home without fanfare to continued poverty and lack of economic opportunity, yet persevered and overcame obstacles that helped change the Navajo Nation and their communities. Their stories are told with poignancy that reflect their resiliency and self-determination. Laura Tohe is Diné Sleepy Rock clan born for the Bitter Water clan. An Arizona State University Professor Emerita with Distinction, she holds a Ph.D. in Indigenous American Literature and was the Navajo Nation Poet Laureate for 2015-2019.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f3qWbmyNSS-SJ1NGzMWc7Q> https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f3qWbmyNSS-SJ1NGzMWc7Q.
Sunday August 8, 2021: Tucson
“Three Statues for Three Nations” celebration sponsored by the Kino Heritage Society at the Statue of Father Kino, Kino Blvd. & 15th St., Tucson, and at St. Augustine Cathedral, 192 S. Stone Ave., Tucson*
8:30 a.m. proclamation, 10 a.m. mass. Free.
The Kino Heritage Society invites public participation in its commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Kino statue presentation to Segno, Italy, from Tucson, Arizona. Public activities for the celebration include an 8:30 a.m. proclamation presentation by Tucson Mayor Regina Romero in front of the Statue of Father Kino at Kino Blvd. and 15th St., and a 10 a.m. mass at St. Augustine Cathedral with concelebrants Fr. Greg Adolf, Fr. Christopher Corbally, and Fr. Peter Neely. In Segno, where Kino was born Eusebio Chini, a celebration paying homage to Kino will include a Mass in the town square celebrated by the Archbishop of Trent Lauro Tisi. A third Kino celebration is planned for a later date in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, where the third equestrian bronze statue was gifted in 1989. Kino died March 15, 1711, at age 65 in Magdalena, and his skeletal remains are on view there in La Plaza Monumental.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Fr. Greg Adolf at 520-458-2925 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Sundays-Fridays August 8-13, August 15-20, or August 22-27, 2021: Boulder County, CO
“Hessie Cabin” HistoriCorps and Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest-sponsored volunteer-assisted rehabilitation project in former Hessie townsite, Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest in Boulder County, Colorado*
Arrive between 6 and 8 p.m. Sunday; daylight hours daily thereafter. No fees.
Located at one of the most popular access points to the dramatic alpine lakes of the Indian Peaks Wilderness (like Jasper Lake, shown above), the former townsite of Hessie today just holds a few remaining structures. Hessie Cabin is one of the few standing residential structures left from Boulder County’s mining history. Hessie (population 80 at its peak) was abandoned ca. 1910 due to a lack of economic activity but eventually it became a celebrated destination for explorers and historians. Volunteers on this project will camp at nearby Kelly Dahl Campground (no hookups; ground may not be perfectly level). Work will include methodically dismantling and reassembling the log cabin, replacing deteriorated logs and other elements.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. All meals, tools, training, equipment, and campsite or shared indoor lodging provided except dinner on the first night. Volunteers are responsible for bringing their own gear including reusable cloth face masks, gloves, sturdy work clothes and boots, and appropriate sleeping equipment. For more information visit <https://historicorps.org/hessie-cabin-co-2021/> historicorps.org/hessie-cabin-co-2021/ or contact HistoriCorps at 720-287-0100 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Mondays August 9, 23, & 30: Online;
or Thursdays August 12 & 26 and September 2, 2021: Tucson
“A Taste of Judaism” free online or in-person class with Rabbi Scott Saulson sponsored by Temple Emanu-El/Congregation Or Chadash, 225 N. Country Club Rd., Tucson*
6-8 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time Mondays or 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursdays. Free.
Curious About Judaism? If you have wanted to learn more about it but haven’t been sure where to start, this is an opportunity to take a 3-session introductory course either online or in person. Encounter the big ideas and texts that make up Judaism’s rich tapestry. A Taste of Judaism® provides an entryway to community, connection, and rich meaning. Everyone is welcome and students’ questions are always welcome. This course is designed for anyone curious about Judaism, interfaith couples, those raising Jewish children, spiritual seekers, and individuals considering conversion. It offers a safe and welcoming place to explore, and assumes no previous Jewish knowledge.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Abby Limmer at 520-403-9894 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday August 10, 2021: Online
FRANK Talk: “What is Decolonization and Why Does it Matter?” Arizona Humanities Virtual FRANK Talk by Rowdy Duncan, sponsored by Arizona Humanities, Phoenix, and Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
The history of colonialism and how to “decolonize” is a hot topic among Indigenous peoples and some scholars, including when it comes to archaeology. However, probably most members of the general public and even some professional archaeologists have no concept of why an understanding of colonialism is important. To fathom what decolonization means today, we first must understand historically what colonialism is, and how it has shaped our thinking and actions. In the Americas, who was, and who was not colonized? Colonialist thinking can permeate education, media, government policies, and our lived experiences every day. Colonialist thinking can empower some of us while disenfranchising, exploiting or marginalizing others. In what ways do we consciously or unconsciously engage in colonialist practices, beliefs, or concepts today? What steps can we take to begin to decolonize our thinking, and why does it matter? What is the cost to individuals or communities if we choose not to? What is the benefit to individuals or communities if we choose to “decolonize” our thinking and act differently? Join this interactive discussion about the impact of colonization and decolonization on the way we live and work together. Guest presenter Rowdy Duncan (Phoenix College and Anytown AZ) has worked in the field of diversity and inclusion for over a decade.
To register for the Zoom meeting go to <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rceytqDojGtUGEWlztiWz2Q7qQdZOR2gX> https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rceytqDojGtUGEWlztiWz2Q7qQdZOR2gX. For more information contact Julianne Cheng Stratman at 602-257-0335 ext 26 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Saturday August 14, 2021: Online
“The Euro-American ‘Discovery’ of the Coso Petroglyphs” free online presentation by Sandy Rogers sponsored by American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA)*
5:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Free (donations requested).
The Coso petroglyphs, located on the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station (CLNAWS) in southern California, constitute a concentrated and extensive collection of rock art. Location on restricted military lands has protected it since World War II, but what happened before access to the CLNAWS land was restricted by the Navy in 1943? The petroglyphs there were known by local Native American groups for millennia, and were subsequently “discovered” by Euro-American settlers and prospectors. This lecture will describe the Coso rock art district and trace the events in its “discovery” by Euro-American society from the early 19th century up to the 1968 publication of a detailed study of the Coso petroglyphs. Alexander “Sandy” Rogers holds advanced degrees in physics and anthropology, and in retirement worked in contract archaeology and as the archaeology curator of the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, California.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <https://arara.wildapricot.org/event-4391194/Registration> arara.wildapricot.org/event-4391194/Registration.
Thursday August 19, 2021: Online
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online dinnertime program featuring “Pre-Hispanic Copper Artifacts Recovered from the Gila National Forest-Mimbres Area of Southwestern New Mexico” presentation by archaeologist Christopher D. Adams
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
Twelve years of on-going research by Gila National Forest archaeologist Christopher D. Adams has resulted in identification of 97 pre-Hispanic, Mimbres culture copper artifacts: 73 native copper nuggets, 3 fetishes, 3 clapper bells, 15 other copper bells, 2 pendants, and 1 hammered/worked copper artifact. Adams has surveyed approximately 30 Mimbres sites on the Gila National Forest and, in addition, 6 native copper nuggets have been re-identified in Mimbres collections of New Mexico museums. Of unique importance is a Mimbres Classic Black-on-white Style III bowl excavated from the Bradsby Site (LA78337) on the Gila National Forest that exhibits what appear to be stylized images of copper bells. Dr. Steven Shackley’s x-ray fluorescence analyses on 70 of the Mimbres copper artifacts initially suggest the copper came from the same production event and/or same smelter for the copper bells. The closest source for the Mimbres copper would have been in the area of the Santa Rita Copper Mine. Unfortunately, any surface copper areas that would have been mined there by the Mimbres people have since been disturbed by 20th-century mining so there are no traces of Mimbres mining there today. Sourcing of the Mimbres copper is still underway.
To register go to <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U4MT21z6Qhm-jP4XMblodw> https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U4MT21z6Qhm-jP4XMblodw. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
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Friday August 20, 2021: Tucson
“Celebrate All Things Tucson / S-cuk-Sǫn” Tucson free birthday celebration at Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
Gates open at 5:45, program starts at 6:15 p.m. Free.
This fiesta presented by the Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission and the Presidio Museum is an annual tradition celebrating the anniversary of the 1775 date when arriving Spanish established the Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón (using a Hispanicized spelling of the S-cuk-Sǫn word they had heard from the locals). Celebrate the variety of cultures that make the Tucson region special including:
• 5:45 p.m. mariachi music by Los Changuitos Feos
• 7:25 p.m. folklorico dancing by Cienega High School Folklorico Club
• 8:00 p.m. waila music by Gertie N the T.O. Boyz (dancing encouraged)
Visitors also will have the opportunity to discover the region’s rich history through family crafts and demonstrations from community partners Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, the Arizona Historical Society, the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum, atlatl-and-spear-throwing activities by Archaeology Southwest, and Buffalo Soldier and Presidio Garrison re-enactors. Food and drink will include taco bar from El Charro and a cash bar.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <http://www.TucsonPresidio.com> www.TucsonPresidio.com or contact April Bourie at 520-444-3687 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday-Friday August 23-27, 2021: Phoenix
“Paddle and Anvil Pottery Workshop” with Piipaash artist Ron Carlos the Heard Museum, 2301 N. Central Ave., Phoenix*
10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. Free to those selected.
The Heard Museum Master Artist Workshop series provides-up-and-coming and mid-career artists access to mentorship with a master-level artist. This in-person workshop will be instructed by Piipaash artist Ron Carlos over five days at the Heard Museum. Meals will be provided (small breakfast and lunch). Space is limited. Applicants will only be notified if selected. All are welcome to apply.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To request a reservation go to <https://narg.heard.org/upcoming-workshops/> narg.heard.org/upcoming-workshops/.
Tuesday August 31, 2021: Online
“Mesoamerica/Ancient Southwest Chocolate Trade” free online Zoom lecture by Michael Ruggeri, sponsored by the Aztlan Listserv*
7 p.m. Central Daylight Time. Free
Trade between Mesoamerica and the ancient Southwest in macaws, parrot feathers, copper bells, turquoise, turkeys, pottery was well known to archaeologists for some time. Only recently have we become aware of the large chocolate trade between Mesoamerica and the Southwest from the 9th century on.Researcher Patricia Crown had seen cylindrical vessels at Maya sites that previous researchers discovered contained chocolate. Using sophisticated new technology, the chemical building blocks of chocolate, theobromine and caffeine, were found in these vessels. In 2009, Crown was looking at cylindrical vessels from the Chaco Canyon, Ancestral Pueblo site of Pueblo Bonito that looked like the ones she saw at Maya sites, and she saw these Chaco vessels contained pigment decoration applied in the same manner as the Maya used in decorating their vessels. After she ascertained that these vessels may also contain chemical proof of chocolate, she and her team analyzed them. In Pueblo Bonito Room 28, she found layers of these types of jars, and with further digging, found an astounding 200,000 ceramic items. She sorted out the cylindrical ones and had them tested for theobromine and caffeine, and sure enough, the tests came back positive. We now know that the Ancient Pueblo people were trading for chocolate grown 1,200 miles to the south in Mesoamerica around 1000 CE. Michael Ruggeri, Professor Emeritus from the City Colleges of Chicago, will discuss Mesoamerican and Chaco uses of chocolate, along with pottery bowls that archaeologist Dorothy Washburn analyzed from the site of Alkali Ridge, Utah, that date to 780 CE and also contained theobromine and caffeine.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83950845951.
Saturday September 4, 2021: Comstock, TX
“Shumla Treks – Guided Tour to Fate Bell Shelter, Fate Bell Annex, and Running Horse Rock Art Sites” with archaeologist Vicky Roberts sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Seminole Canyon State Park & Historic Site on US-90, nine miles west of Comstock, Texas*
8 a.m.-3 p.m. $160.
Fate Bell Annex, Fate Bell Shelter, and Running Horse Shelter are all situated in Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site. Fate Bell and Fate Bell Annex are two of the most famous Pecos River style rock art sites in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands with breath-taking rock art and extremely well-preserved deposits. Running Horse Shelter offers beautiful remnant Pecos River style rock art, intriguing Historic period art, and even a historic stone wall. You’ll hear about the rock art, the lifeways of the people who painted it, and Shumla’s most recent discoveries, and will see 4,000 years of history in this single day.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <http://www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For more information contact Vicky Roberts at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Sunday September 5, 2021: Comstock, TX
“Shumla Treks – Guided tour to Halo Shelter and Private Access to the Devils River” with archaeologist Vicky Roberts sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Shumla Archaeological Research Center, 28 Langtry St., Comstock, Texas*
8 a.m.-6 p.m. $160.
Halo Shelter sits within a small tributary approximately 5 km from the Devils River on a private ranch in Val Verde County, Texas. Halo boasts one of the best-preserved Pecos River style pictograph panels in the region, featuring a wide assortment of figures and motifs intricately executed in vibrant colors. The pristine Devils River is one of the last wild rivers in Texas and is a haven for adventurers from all walks of life. Access to this spring-fed river is extremely limited and is one of the reasons why this river has remained one of Texas’ most protected treasures.
* 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 Vicky Roberts at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Wednesdays September 8, 15, 22, & 29, 2021: Online
“Clovis to Kino: Archaeology of the Southwest Borderlands” online Master Class taught by Dr. James T. Watson, sponsored by the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona (ASM), Tucson*
10-11:30 a.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time on each date. $130 (ASM members $80). Credit card payments incur a 3% fee.
The desert Borderlands of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico present a foreboding but ecologically diverse environment that supported human occupation as far back as the earliest Americans and led to the development of large precolonial civilizations characterized by some of the most complex irrigation systems in the Americas. Today this area is substantially defined by the political border between Mexico and the United States. This class critically explores evidence from the archaeological record of the Borderlands to document human migrations and interactions, and behavioral and technological adaptations to thrive in this dynamic environment for centuries. Topics include (1) Clovis to Cultigens, (2) Cultigens to the Classic Period, (3) Classic Period to Collapse, and (4) Collapse to Kino. Dr. Watson is ASM’s Associate Director and Associate Curator of Bioarchaeology.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/asm-master-class-clovis-kino> statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/asm-master-class-clovis-kino.
Sundays through Fridays September 12-17 or September 19-24, 2021: Glenwood Springs, CO
“Lookout Mountain Picnic Area” HistoriCorps and US Bureau of Land Management offer volunteer-assisted restoration project near Glenwood Springs, Colorado*
Arrive Sunday evening; daylight hours daily thereafter. No fees.
Lookout Mountain Picnic Area was constructed between 1934-1936 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Today, the area is in a state of disrepair, but HistoriCorps volunteers can turn that around. The CCC was a US Government, Depression-era poverty-relief program that put young men to work on public benefit projects, especially on public lands. Volunteers will work to help restore various structures in the picnic area including tables, fire pits, subsurface bear boxes, and an outhouse. Tent camping only on-site, dispersed camping is accessible for tents, campervans, and truck campers at campsite below the mountain top.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://historicorps.org/lookout-mtn-picnic-area-co-2021/> historicorps.org/lookout-mtn-picnic-area-co-2021/ or contact HistoriCorps at 720-287-0100 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday September 14, 2021: Online
“One Day Training Course on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act” offered online by Jornada Research Institute (JRI), Tularosa, New Mexico*
9 a.m. to afternoon. $80 ($70 for students and JRI members)
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) enacted in 1990 includes provisions that continue to reverberate through archaeology, physical anthropology, museology, cultural resources management, and the government-to-government relationship between American Indian tribes and the U.S. government. NAGPRA and the National Museum of the American Indian Act of 1989 laid the groundwork and processes for identification and repatriation of thousands of Native American human remains, funerary objects and items of cultural patrimony. Both acts were meant to redress the longstanding inequity in the treatment of Indigenous burials that began in the mid-19th century well into the 1970s and 1980s, and tribal objections to the housing of their ancestors in museums. Although the NAGPRA process has been carried out successfully over the years, there have been controversies over issues about “right of possession,” “exceptional scientific value,” “academic freedom,” and more broadly, who owns culture. This one-day training class will provide attendees with an understanding of the historical factors that led to the passage of NAGPRA, the provisions and stipulations involved in the NAGPRA process, and cases studies in human remains excavations and analysis, inadvertent discovery, consultation and criminal activity. The course can count toward credit for Historic Preservation Division permit renewals in New Mexico.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Registration forms and payment deadline July 16. For more information contact Jeffrey Hanson at 817-658-5544 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday September 14, 2021: Online
“Indigenous Interests” free Zoom online presentation “A Balance to Keep: Matriarch, Veteran, and Belonging to Traditional Tohono O'odham Lands South of the U.S. Border " by Ana Antone (Tohono O'odham), sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
Tohono O'odham Nation Elder Ana Antone was born and raised in a community called Ce:dagi Wahia (Paso Verde in Spanish, Green Wells in English) “on the Mexico side of the reservation.” She and her brothers and sisters went to elementary school in San Miguel Village on the U.S. side of the Tohono O’odham Lands. When she turned 17, she enlisted in the U.S. Marines and served during the Vietnam War. After discharge, she moved back to the Tohono O’odham Nation where she raised her two children and worked for the Tribal Education Program and the Tribal Health Department. In this presentation Ms. Antone will talk about her work that is dedicated to speaking for the rights of Tohono O’odham communities on Mexico’s side of the U.S.-Mexico boundary, through advocating for their U.S. citizenship and the rights that are afforded with recognition. She and her son, daughter and grandchildren continue to go back and forth, trying to do what they can to be in balance with their rights as Tohono O’odham, “People of the Desert.”
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Indigenous Interests” free Zoom webinar series, hosted by Old Pueblo Board of Directors members Martina Dawley (Hualapai-Diné) and Maegan Lopez (Tohono O’odham) and made possible by a grant from Arizona Humanities, provides Native American presenters with a forum for discussing issues important to Indigenous peoples today.
To register for the program go to <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_un0AQ7scTO2G4ogLvk5AHQ> https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_un0AQ7scTO2G4ogLvk5AHQ. 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 September 16, 2021: Online
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online dinnertime program featuring “The People behind the Petroglyphs: The Cultural Landscape of the Lower Gila River” presentation by anthropologist Dr. Aaron M. Wright
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
The lower Gila River in southwestern Arizona is renowned for the sheer abundance and uniqueness of the petroglyphs adorning the cliffs and buttes lining it. Places such as the Painted Rock Petroglyph Site and Sears Point, and a growing campaign to establish a national monument or conservation area attest to the richness, value, and significance of this cultural landscape. Lesser known, though, are the Indigenous communities responsible for populating the landscape with such a stunning array of images. Hohokam and Patayan cultural traditions are often mentioned, but the relationship between them and each’s role in constructing the cultural landscape we see today has long puzzled researchers. Based on his four years of directing intensive archaeological survey, and analyzing over 30,000 petroglyphs in the lower Gila Valley, Aaron Wright will highlight some of what this work has revealed. He will pay particular attention to relating the region’s petroglyphs to their nearby archaeological habitation sites in an effort to better understand the people behind it all. Dr. Wright is a Preservation Anthropologist with Archaeology Southwest, Tucson.
To register go to <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bJEZgWMbTlydBwV_lCeXqQ> https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bJEZgWMbTlydBwV_lCeXqQ. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. For each Old Pueblo Zoom presentation, we let the presenter decide whether he or she wants for the program to be recorded and made available online. No recording decision has yet been made for this program.
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Saturday & Sunday September 18 & 19, 2021: Near Winslow, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Encore Homol’ovi and Rock Art Ranch Pueblos and Petroglyphs Tour” with archaeologist Rich Lange starting at Homolovi State Park Visitor Center (northeast of Winslow – take I-40 Exit 257 and drive 1.5 miles north on Hwy. 87)
1 p.m. Saturday to 1 p.m. or later Sunday; $95 donation per person ($76 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum members) includes all site entry fees and Old Pueblo’s expenses but no transportation, lodging, or meals.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s June 2021 car-caravan educational tour with archaeologist Rich Lange filled up early, so Rich has agreed to lead this “encore tour” to sites where archaeologists conducted excavations during the Arizona State Museum’s Homol’ovi Research Program from 1983 to 2016. This will be an opportunity to visit three of the largest ancestral Hopi pueblos and an Early Agricultural-to-Great Pueblo period site in Homolovi State Park just outside of Winslow plus spectacular petroglyph panels near Winslow and at Rock Art Ranch south of Holbrook, Arizona. Sites to be visited include the Ancestral Pueblo village sites of Homolovi I (1280-1400 CE), Homolovi II (1360-1400), and Homolovi IV (1260-1280); a Basketmaker II (Early Agricultural) to Pueblo II/III stage (500-850 and 1150-1225) village site; Brandy’s Pueblo (1225-1254); a replica Navajo farmstead site; and petroglyphs dating between 8000 BCE and the mid-1200s on the Rock Art Ranch in Chevelon Canyon south of Holbrook and at a rock art site near Winslow. Participants provide their own lodging, meals, and transportation. It may be necessary for participants to wear face masks and practice physical distancing if COVID-19 pandemic is not yet under control by the tour dates.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m. Friday September 10, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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September 19-24, September 26-October 1, or October 3-8, 2021: Near Gateway, CO
“Calamity Camp, CO” HistoriCorps and US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) offer volunteer-assisted restoration and stabilization project at near Gateway, Colorado*
Arrive between 5 and 7 p.m. firstday; daylight hours daily thereafter. No fees.
Calamity Camp outside Gateway, Colorado, was home to mining families who lived a harsh and dangerous life from 1916-1980 to mine valuable vanadium, uranium, and radium critical to the World War I and II and Cold War efforts. Today, the site is on the National Register, and Calamity Mesa remains a stunning outdoor recreational area. In 2007 the BLM partnered with the Museum of Western Colorado and the Gateway Canyons Resort to stabilize and protect some of the camp’s buildings and structures. In 2011 the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For this year’s project the scope of work includes construct internal framing to redirect roof load from sandstone walls; restack, stabilize, and repoint sandstone wall and chimney stones; repair and replace roof sheathing and reroof buildings; and construct skeleton roof framing system for cabin interpretion. Tent camping only on or near the jobsite; medium- or high-clearance vehicles required.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register go to <https://historicorps.org/calamity-camp-co-2021/> historicorps.org/calamity-camp-co-2021/.
September 19-24, September 26-October 1, October 3-8, or October 24-29, 2021: Near Sedona, AZ
“Crescent Moon Ranch, AZ” HistoriCorps Coconino National Forest offer volunteer-assisted restoration and stabilization project near Sedona, Arizona*
Arrive between 6 and 8 p.m. firstday; daylight hours daily thereafter. No fees.
Nestled at the base of awe-inspiring Cathedral Rock just outside of Sedona, Crescent Moon Ranch was established in the late 1800s by cattleman John Lee, who’d come over from Prescott, Arizona. The land was historically inhabited by the Sinagua, Hohokam, Pueblo, Apache, and Yavapai. Since the ranch's establishment, it changed hands and uses many times. More than 30 cultural resources remain there, representing the story of decades of continuously-adapting use. Scope of work includes roofing, siding, stone foundations, and stabilization on multiple buildings. Volunteers will camp onsite near Crescent Moon Ranch. Tents, truck campers, and campervans can access this site, no RVs/trailers.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register go to <https://historicorps.org/crescent-moon-az-2021/> historicorps.org/crescent-moon-az-2021/.
Sundays through Fridays September 19-24, September 26-October 1, October 3-8, or October 10-15, 2021: McNary, AZ area
“Los Burros Barn” HistoriCorps and the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest offer volunteer-assisted restoration project near McNary, Arizona*
Arrive Sunday evening; daylight hours daily thereafter. No fees.
National Register-listed Los Burros Barn is located at the edge of a breathtaking conifer-ringed meadow. The barn was part of the US Forest Service’s Los Burros Ranger Station, constructed in 1910 to house the fire guard for the Lake Mountain lookout station and serve as a temporary base camp for fire-fighting crews. After the lookout tower was constructed, Los Burros Ranger Station was repurposed to house Forest Service timber sale administrators and rangers. As the timber industry slowed, many miles of timber-railroad grades throughout the area were repurposed to provide outings to Los Burros vicinity for locals and tourists. Today, there is a campground near the barn along with wonderful hiking opportunities including the 13.8-mile Los Burros Trail. On this project, volunteers guided by HistoriCorps staff will do the critical stabilization work necessary to keep this historic building from falling down. Camping area is accessible for tents, campervans, truck campers and trailers up to 22 feet in length.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://historicorps.org/los-burros-barn-az-2021/> historicorps.org/los-burros-barn-az-2021/ or contact HistoriCorps at 720-287-0100 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Mondays September 20-December 13, 2021: Online
“The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona” 12-session adult education class online via Zoom, taught by archaeologist Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. each Monday evening September 20-December 13, 2021 (except skip October 25); $99 donation ($80 for members of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society [AAS], and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum [FOPGM]) does not include costs of recommended text (The Hohokam Millennium by Paul R. Fish and Suzanne K. Fish, editors) and does not include cost of 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 p.m. Thursday September 16, 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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Monday September 20, 2021: Online
“Early Formal Ceremonial Complexes and Olmec-Maya Interaction” free Zoom online presentation by Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan, sponsored by Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS), Tucson*
7-8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
The origins of Maya civilization and its relation with Olmec civilization have long been debated. To examine this question, archaeologists Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan have been conducting archaeological investigations at Ceibal, Guatemala, and in the Middle Usumacinta region in southeastern Mexico. In Mexico, they identified the site of Aguada Fénix, with a rectangular artificial plateau measuring 1,400 m in length and dating to 1,050-750 BC. This is the largest and oldest monumental construction in the Maya area. This find encouraged them to expand their study of similar formal ceremonial complexes by analyzing LiDAR data. By examining low-resolution LiDAR obtained by the Mexican government, they covered an area of 85,000 km2, including the Olmec region and the western Maya lowlands. The identifications of many complexes, most of which were not known to archaeologists before their research, transform our understanding of the emergence of Mesoamerican civilizations. Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan are professors in the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No reservations needed. For details visit <http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org> www.az-arch-and-hist.org or contact Erica LeClaire at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesday September 22, 2021: 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 a.m. to noon. $30 donation ($24 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum members) helps cover Old Pueblo’s tour expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
The 2021 autumn equinox occurs on September 22 at 12:21 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (7:21 p.m. GMT). To celebrate the equinox 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.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m. Monday September 20, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Saturday September 25, 2021: Gallup NM
“Native American Arts Auction” sponsored by Friends of Hubbell National Historic Site, at Gallup Community Service Center, 410 Bataan Veterans St., Gallup, New Mexico*
Preview 9 a.m.; auction 12-5 p.m. No entry fee.
This is an opportunity to collect one of the world’s classic art forms. Approximately 400 vintage and contemporary Navajo weavings, katsina dolls, jewelry, baskets, and silversmith works will be available.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://friendsofhubbell.org/event/fall-friends-of-hubbell-native-american-arts-auction/> friendsofhubbell.org/event/fall-friends-of-hubbell-native-american-arts-auction/.
Tuesday October 5, 2021: Online
“Ancestral Pueblo Turkey Penning in Perspective” free Archaeology Café online lecture by Cyler Conrad sponsored by Archaeology Southwest (ASW), Tucson*
6 to 7 p.m. Free.
Cyler Conrad (Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of New Mexico) will discuss “Ancestral Pueblo Turkey Penning in Perspective.” Cyler will explore how archaeologists have identified and contextualized turkey pens in the Ancestral Pueblo archaeological record, what that means for understanding turkey management, and how conceptualizing turkey penning allows us to better understand the processes of turkey domestication and long-term human-turkey relationships.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FhkLFUaMTcGabltbJVI4Wg> https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FhkLFUaMTcGabltbJVI4Wg.
Thursday October 7, 2021: Online
“Archaeology's Deep Time Perspective on Environment and Social Sustainability” online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart via Zoom for University of Arizona’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)*
3-4:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. OLLI Greater Tucson (NW, SE) and Green Valley membership fee of $150 for Monsoon/Fall Semester (7/1/2021 to 12/31/2021) classes or $200 for full year (July-June) allows one to take this and many other OLLI courses.
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 pre-Hispanic 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 ancient 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 is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. To join OLLI, download a registration and payment form, or pay and register online visit <http://olli.arizona.edu/> http://olli.arizona.edu/. For more information about OLLI call 520-626-9039.
Saturday October 16, 2021: Tucson
“Arrowhead-making and Flintknapping Workshop” with flintknapper Sam Greenleaf at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson
9 a.m. to noon. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and 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 p.m. Thursday October 14, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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October 18, 2021: Online
“Eastern Pueblo Immigrants on the Middle Gila River” free Zoom online presentation by archaeologist Chris Loendorf sponsored by Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS), Tucson*
7-8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Description coming.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No reservations needed. For details visit <http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org> www.az-arch-and-hist.org or contact Erica LeClaire at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday October 21, 2021: Online
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “Telling Their Story through Clay: Potters and Identity during the Pueblo Glaze Ware Period (1275-1680 CE) in New Mexico” presentation by archaeologist Suzanne Eckert, Ph. D.
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
Glaze-painted pottery in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico is the only pre-European glaze technology in the Americas. Ancestral Pueblo potters began to make glaze paints in the late 13th century and continued to make them until the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. After the Revolt, the knowledge of glaze-paint manufacture was lost. Archaeologically, the study of Pueblo glaze-painted pottery has informed on migration, identity, exchange, ritual practice, the spread of technology, and the effects of colonialism. In this presentation, Dr. Eckert will discuss how archaeologists think glaze paint was made and why potters haven’t been able to reproduce it, how potters integrated glaze-painted pottery into identity and ritual, and how Spanish Colonialism affected the production of glaze-paint and its ultimate demise.
To register go to <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hKRfal5jScC9tslcXaOEdw> https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hKRfal5jScC9tslcXaOEdw. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. For each Old Pueblo Zoom presentation, we let the presenter decide whether he or she wants for the program to be recorded and made available online. No recording decision has yet been made for this program.
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Tuesday November 2, 2021: Online
“Turkeys in the Mimbres Valley” free Archaeology Café online lecture by archaeologist Sean Dolan sponsored by Archaeology Southwest (ASW), Tucson*
6 to 7 p.m. Free.
Sean Dolan (N3B Los Alamos) will discuss Turkeys in New Mexico’s Mimbres Valley using pottery iconography, ancient mtDNA analysis, and stable carbon and nitrogen bone isotope analysis. He also will explore how people in the Mimbres Valley interacted with turkeys.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <http://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/turkeys-in-the-mimbres-valley/> www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/turkeys-in-the-mimbres-valley/.
Thursday November 4, 2021: Online
“The Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest” online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart via Zoom for University of Arizona’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)*
3-4:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. OLLI Greater Tucson (NW, SE) and Green Valley membership fee of $150 for Monsoon/Fall Semester (7/1/2021 to 12/31/2021) classes or $200 for full year (July-June) allows one to take this and many other OLLI courses.
Before 1500 CE, Native American cultures took advantage of the long growing season in the southern Arizona desert, and tackled the 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 in our state at least 3,500 years ago - several hundred years before the earliest-known irrigation works were established in ancient Mexico. In this presentation, archaeologist Allen Dart provides an overview of ancient canal systems in the Southwest and discusses irrigation's implications for understanding social complexity.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. To join OLLI, download a registration and payment form, or pay and register online visit <http://olli.arizona.edu/> http://olli.arizona.edu/. For more information about OLLI call 520-626-9039.
Tuesday November 9, 2021: Online
“Indigenous Interests” free Zoom online presentation “Indigenous Views on Ancestors, Archaeology, and Interaction with Archaeologists” by Jefford Francisco (Tohono O'odham), sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
Description coming.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Indigenous Interests” free Zoom webinar series, hosted by Old Pueblo Board of Directors members Martina Dawley (Hualapai-Diné) and Maegan Lopez (Tohono O’odham) and made possible by a grant from Arizona Humanities, provides Native American presenters with a forum for discussing issues important to Indigenous peoples today.
For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
Thursday November 18, 2021: Online
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “Horses in Rock Art” presentation by archaeologist Larry Loendorf
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Pictographs and petroglyphs of horses have been made since those animals were reintroduced to North America by the Spanish in the 1500s. After horses were in use by northern Plains Indians, they drew hundreds of scenes that include horses and their riders, often in war-related activities. Archaeologists have studied enough of these scenes to be able to recognize Crow horses, Blackfoot horses, Comanche horses, and those of other peoples. Depictions of horses also are found on rocks on the southern Plains and across the Colorado Plateau, but not in large numbers. There are places, however, where they are common. For example, there are hundreds of horse depictions at sites in Canyon del Muerto, Arizona. Archaeological research on one spectacular panel there by Robert Mark, Stephen Jett, and Sacred Sites Research, combined with information gleaned from studying other rock art horses in the Intermountain West, is the topic of this presentation by archaeologist Lawrence (Larry) Loendorf, PhD.
To register go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8GG8qpgjRPOeqJ1pvge1hQ> us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8GG8qpgjRPOeqJ1pvge1hQ. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. For each Old Pueblo Zoom presentation, we let the presenter decide whether he or she wants for the program to be recorded and made available online. No recording decision has yet been made for this program.
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TOUR FILLED – WAITING LIST Saturday December 4, 2021: Canoa Ranch, AZ
“Archaeology and History of Canoa Ranch” presentation and tours event at Historic Canoa Ranch, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley, Arizona (accessible from I-19 Canoa Road Exit 56)
8 a.m. to noon. $30 donation ($24 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum members) helps cover Old Pueblo’s tour expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
This event begins with a PowerPoint presentation by Old Pueblo’s director Allen Dart titled “Before There Was a Canoa” about Canoa-area archaeology and history. The presentation is followed by three 1-hour tours to be provided by Pima County Natural Resources, Parks & Recreation volunteers: 1) “Anza Tour at Historic Canoa Ranch,” 2) “Tour of Historic Canoa Ranch,” and 3) “The Gardens of Canoa.” The presentation and each tour will be limited to 24 registrants and will not be open to other Canoa Ranch visitors. Participants are encouraged to bring a sack lunch to enjoy after the program at Canoa Ranch’s Mesquite Grove, or to have lunch in one of the many nearby Green Valley restaurants.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m. Wednesday December 1st, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Tuesday December 7, 2021: Online or by mail
Tuesday December 7 is the deadline to get your tickets from Old Pueblo Archaeology Center for “The Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle” of a 2021 Ford Bronco Sport Badlands Edition, two first-class round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the world, and $5,000 cash that will benefit Old Pueblo and other southern Arizona charities!
5 p.m. December 7 is the deadline to purchase tickets from Old Pueblo. $25 for each single ticket or five tickets for $100.
On December 17th Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give away a 2021 Ford Bronco Sport Badlands Edition in a raffle to raise millions of dollars for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other southern Arizona nonprofit organizations. With your contribution you could win this fantastic 2021 vehicle – or the second prize of two first-class round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the world or the third prize of $5,000 in cash! And 100% of your contribution will support Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, which gets to keep all of the proceeds from our sales of the tickets for “The Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle”!
Watch an awesome video that the Jim Click Automotive Team put together about the raffle and some very cool features of the Ford 2021 Bronco Sport Badlands Edition <https://sable.secureserver.net/c/279242?id=54293.414.1.a34f9b53cdc96a02b6c0694474c855c7> at this link.
Your donation to purchase raffle tickets will help Old Pueblo Archaeology Center provide more archaeology and culture education programs for children who would not be able to afford our programs without your help. The drawing will be held on December 17. Winner consents to be photographed and for his or her name and likeness to be used by the Jim Click Automotive Team and/or the Russell Public Communications firm for publicity and advertising purposes.
Old Pueblo’s raffle rules: To be entered in the raffle your request for tickets and your donation for them must be received by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center no later than 5 p.m. Tuesday December 7th so we can turn the tickets in to the Jim Click Automotive Team’s coordinator by December 10th. Old Pueblo must account for all tickets issued to us and must return all unsold tickets; therefore, 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 for your tickets, 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.
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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Mondays January 10-March 28, 2022: Online
“The Mogollon Culture of the US Southwest” 12-session adult education class online via Zoom, taught by archaeologist Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. each Monday evening January 10-March 28, 2022. $99 donation ($80 for members of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society [AAS], and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum [FOPGM]) does not include costs of recommended text or cost of 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 Mogollon culture of the American Southwest. The class covers the history of Mogollon archaeology, Mogollon origins, the complex subregional Mogollon “branches,” chronology of habitation, subsistence and settlement patterns through time, artifacts, rock art, religious and social organization, depopulation and movement, and descendant peoples. 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 – Mogollon” course. Students seeking AAS Certification are expected to prepare a brief research report to be presented orally or in written or video format. 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 p.m. Thursday January 6, 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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OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER’S YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Old Pueblo’s education programs for children are on hiatus for the summer, but we are taking reservations for them for this fall. You can find information about them at the links listed below.
The OPEN3 Simulated Archaeological Excavation Education Program
The Old Pueblo Educational Neighborhood (OPEN) program allows students and adults to learn what archaeology is all about by excavation in “OPEN3,” a full-scale model of an archaeological site. OPEN3 is a simulated excavation site that archaeologists have constructed to resemble a southern Arizona Hohokam Indian ruin. It has full-size replicas of pre-Spanish Contact pithouses and outdoor features that the Hohokam used for cooking, storage, and other (sometimes surprising) purposes.
Students taking the OPEN3 field trip get to learn and practice techniques used to excavate real archaeological sites. They are also exposed to scientific interpretation of how ancient people constructed their houses, what they looked like, ate, and believed in, and how they created beauty in their lives.
For details on OPEN3 field trips visit https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/open3-simulated-excavation-classrooms/.
OPENOUT Archaeology Outreach Presentations
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center now offers each of the following programs via Zoom.
Old Pueblo’s OPENOUT (Old Pueblo Educational Neighborhood Outreach) program offers 45-60 minute presentations by professional archaeologists. Each presentation shows kids how some aspects of everyday life have changed while others have stayed the same.
The hands-on materials and fun lesson plans in our OPENOUT programs bring archaeology and the past alive for children and are a perfect prelude for the OPEN3 simulated archaeological excavation program.
The “Ancient People of Arizona” presentation gives children an overview of how the Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi), Mogollon, and Hohokam peoples lived. For details visit https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/classroom-outreach-ancient-people-arizona/.
The “Lifestyle of the Hohokam” program shows children how the ancient Hohokam lived. For details visit https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/classroom-outreach-lifesyle-hohokam/.
The “Ancient People of Arizona” and “Lifestyle of the Hohokam” presentations both include real and replica artifacts, plus abundant illustrations to help children experience how pre-Contact Native Americans of our area lived and to appreciate the arts they created.
“What is an Archaeologist?” is a program designed to give children an idea of what archaeologists do, how they do it, and how they learn about people through their work. This presentation includes examples of the tools archaeologists work with, real and replica artifacts, and activities to help children experience how archaeologists interpret the past. For details visit https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/classroom-outreach-archaeologist/.
Tours for Youth
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center offers guided tours to real archaeological sites for classrooms and other organized children’s groups. Heritage sites that can be visited in this program include a choice of the Picture Rocks petroglyphs site (visited by the school group shown in the accompanying photo), Los Morteros Hohokam Village, or Vista del Rio Hohokam Village. Each youth tour is a guided visit that does not include archaeological excavation; participants are not allowed to collect artifacts. For details visit https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/site-tours-classrooms/.
OUR MISSION AND SUPPORT
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's mission is to educate children and adults to understand and appreciate archaeology and other cultures, to foster the preservation of archaeological and historical sites, and to develop a lifelong concern for the importance of nonrenewable resources and traditional cultures.
If you are a member of Old Pueblo, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! If your membership has lapsed, we would be grateful if you would rejoin us so that you can again receive membership benefits. Old Pueblo members receive substantial discounts on most of our tours and other activities for which both Old Pueblo and the Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum organization fees.
Payment Options for Donations and Memberships
To start or renew an Old Pueblo membership online you can visit our www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/ <http://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 www.oldpueblo.org <http://www.oldpueblo.org> home page, scroll down to the “Donate” section, click on the “Donate” button above the PayPal logo, and follow the prompts.
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
520-798-1201
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