For Immediate Release
Table of Contents
Why this Issue?
Some Online Resources
Upcoming Activities
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Mission and Support
Opt-Out Options
OK, SO WHY THIS ISSUE?
In this new era of social distancing brought on by the COVID-19
pandemic, more and more organizations are offering alternative archaeology,
history, and culture programs and activities through Zoom, Facebook, and
other online platforms. Old Pueblo Archaeology Center is receiving
announcements about some of these online events just a few days before they
are scheduled, so to keep our readers informed of as many of them as we can
we have decided to send two upcoming-activities email blasts each month for
the foreseeable future. Therefore, instead of continuing to send just one
email news release around the beginning of each month, we also will send a
second release around the middle of each month.
In this first of our mid-month email series, we also want to make it
clear that Old Pueblo Archaeology Center does not take the COVID-19 pandemic
lightly. We have closed our facilities to the public since mid-March, and my
family has been sheltering in place since then so as not to take any chances
on becoming ill or infecting others. If you have received Old Pueblo’s
upcoming-activities emails or listserve postings since April 1 you will have
noticed that Old Pueblo has cancelled or postponed all of our in-person
events from late March through mid-September.
The reason we still have in-person events scheduled for this fall is
because we hope maybe at least some of them can go forward if the pandemic
threat is reduced by the time the events are scheduled. Until we have better
knowledge about how the pandemic is progressing, we find it practical to
keep these events scheduled rather than cancelling all events several months
ahead of time only to find out later that maybe they could have proceeded if
we’d just waited a bit longer to decide.
We will continue to note in our monthly upcoming-activities postings
if we decide to cancel or postpone in-person events that already are
scheduled. Also Old Pueblo recently subscribed to Zoom teleconferencing
service and is prepared to switch as many of our non-tour events as needed
to on-line options, and to offer additional ones, in the foreseeable future.
SOME ONLINE RESOURCES
Check out some of these online resources about archaeology, history,
and cultures that you can indulge in at any time! Other online offerings
scheduled for specific days and times are listed by date below.
* Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s recent YouTube video
webinars include “Leaving Footprints in the Ancient Southwest: Visible
Indicators of Group Affiliation and Social Position in the Chaco and
Post-Chaco Eras" with Dr. Ben Bellorado; “The Archaeology of Food and Social
Transformation” with Dr. Sarah Oas; and more:
<https://www.crowcanyon.org/index.php/archaeology-webinars>
https://www.crowcanyon.org/index.php/archaeology-webinars.
* School for Advanced Research offers “The Interpretation of
Ancestral Pueblo Rock Art” with Severin Fowles:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vomcQR3Tpc8&feature=youtu.be>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vomcQR3Tpc8&feature=youtu.be; and “SAR Deep
Dive: Exploring the Chaco Canyon Region”: Visit <http://www.youtube.com>
www.youtube.com then search for SAR Deep Dive.
* Recent American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA) lectures
including “Buffalo Caves, Emergence, and Transformation” by Larry Loendorf
and Laurie White about petroglyphs, pictographs, and the archaeology of
Montana and Wyoming related to beliefs about emergence of buffalo from the
underground; and – coming soon - “Chemical Archaeology of Lower Pecos
Pictographs” by Dr. Karen Steelman about radiocarbon dating of pictographs
in dry rockshelters of the Lower Pecos canyonlands in southwestern Texas:
ARARA <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyf1PFsWIHY> Youtube channel.
Stay safe and enjoy the ones that appeal to you!
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Please note that for non-Old Pueblo Archaeology Center activities
listed below, the information may be out of date due to COVID-19 coronavirus
– Readers are advised to confirm details with the event organizers.
Wednesday July 15, 2020: Tucson
“Cienega Phase Pithouse Upgrade” free viewing at Mission Garden, 946
W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
Call 520-955-5200 for times. Free (donations requested)
Archaeologist Allen Denoyer and volunteers from Archaeology Southwest
will make improvements to the recreated Cienega phase pithouse in Mission
Garden’s Children's Garden. It will receive improvements to the inside and
better thatching on top to make it more waterproof. Visitors are welcome to
watch and ask questions. The pithouse is modeled after archaeological finds
from the Cienega phase, an archaeologically defined time period from about
800 BCE to 50 CE during the later part of the Early Agricultural period,
when people were hunter-gatherers part of the year but grew corn on the
Santa Cruz River floodplain in the summer. Remnants of many Cienega phase
houses were found in archaeological excavations in and near Mission Garden.
For information about the Cienega phase and photos of the Mission Garden
pithouse when it was under construction visit
<https://desert.com/early-agricultural-construction/#:~:text=The%20Cienega%2
0phase%20of%20the,growing%20maize%20in%20irrigated%20fields>
https://desert.com/early-agricultural-construction/#:~:text=The%20Cienega%20
phase%20of%20the,growing%20maize%20in%20irrigated%20fields.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <http://www.tucsonsbirthplace.org>
www.tucsonsbirthplace.org or call 520-955-5200.
Wednesday July 15, 2020: Online
“Of Warp and Weft: Fiber Arts in the Pueblo Southwest Past, Present,
and Future” with Louie Garcia, sponsored by New Mexico Museum of Indian Arts
& Culture (MIAC)*
6-7 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free
The MIAC’s Online Speaker Series brings together scholars who are
providing alternate perspectives on the lives ancestral people led in the
Southwest’s complex and challenging environment, through new looks at museum
collections, old data, or personal insights into the people behind the
ancestral sites. Louie Garcia (Tiwa/Piro Pueblo) is a traditional Pueblo
fiber artist. Over the years, Garcia has exhibited his work in various local
museums and has talked extensively on the topic of Pueblo weaving at
different venues. He is a part of the Cedar Mesa Perishables Project, a team
of archaeologists and Pueblo weavers documenting prehistoric perishable
collections in various museums and institutions across the United States.
Their aim is to compile a database accessible to all who may be interested
in learning more about the material culture of the ancient Pueblo Southwest.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To join go to
<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86927318253>
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86927318253.
Thursday July 16, 2020: Online
“Historic Influences in Contemporary Pueblo Pottery” free online
presentation by Charles King sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center*
4 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
Charles King, author and gallery owner, explores the historic
influences in contemporary Pueblo pottery. Ever wonder where artists get
their inspiration for their pottery? It is a revival of historic shapes,
designs, or clay colors. There are also often historic family traditions
that follow through generations. More than just photos, this “hands on”
event will examine, compare, and contrast pieces from the past with those of
the present.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more
and register visit
<https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Historic-Influences-in-Contempor
ary-Pueblo-Pottery-with-Charles-King>
https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Historic-Influences-in-Contempora
ry-Pueblo-Pottery-with-Charles-King.
Thursday July 16, 2020: Online
“Chaco, North of the San Juan” free Zoom presentation by archaeologist
Steve Lekson sponsored by Chimney Rock Interpretive Association*
7 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free
It is generally held that people of the ancient Chaco culture did not
move north of the San Juan River until 1075. At several key sites –
including Chimney Rock and Far View House – there are hints of earlier
Chacoan structures by 1020. Through the last quarter of the 11th century,
Chaco outliers north of the San Juan numbered over 75, including small
“great houses” at the future sites of Salmon and Aztec ruins. After 1090,
Salmon and Aztec became the main focus of development – some of the largest
construction projects in Chacoan history – as Aztec replaced Chaco Canyon as
the preeminent regional center. Aztec’s architectural icon was enigmatic
bi- and tri-walled structures; the new capital was planned around bi-, tri-
and quadri-walls. Similar “outlier” bi- and tri-wall structures soon
appeared across the countryside, presumably demarking Aztec’s region, less
than one-third the size of Chaco’s. North of the San Juan, bi- and
tri-walls extended as far west as Montezuma Creek in southeastern Utah –
encompassing Mesa Verde and most of the Great Sage Plain – and as far as
Ganado-Gallup. Aztec Ruins marks the easternmost, along with single example
at Chaco Canyon, built and then razed in what must have been an ideological
or political action. Bi- and tri-walls vanished, along with many other
iconic Chacoan forms, after 1300.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information or to register visit <http://www.chimneyrockco.org/lecture>
www.chimneyrockco.org/lecture.
Saturday July 18, 2020: Online
“Migration: A View from the Southwest" free Zoom lecture by
archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron sponsored by the Amerind Museum, Dragoon,
Arizona*
11 a.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free (donations encouraged)
The Southwest is full of ancient places – empty towns and villages.
Where did people go and why? Perhaps because of its remarkably preserved
sites, migration has been of long-standing interest to southwestern
archaeologists and others. This talk will explore the post-13th century
southwestern migrations and the variety of ways that migrants expressed
their identity in their new homes. Dr. Cameron will then move beyond the
Southwest to argue that movement was frequent for people living in ancient
small-scale societies and that to understand movement in these early times
we need new models of how and why people moved. Dr. Catherine Cameron is a
University of Colorado professor emerita of anthropology who has worked in
Chaco Canyon, northeastern Arizona, and southeastern Utah. This online
program is free, but space is limited.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register
visit <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RX2UIhjqTYiyXwS868UqTg>
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RX2UIhjqTYiyXwS868UqTg or
contact Amerind at 520-586-3666 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Monday July 20, 2020: Online
“Mimbres and Paquimé Relationships?” free Zoom online presentation by
Dr. Paul Minnis sponsored by the Arizona Archaeological and Historical
Society*
7-8:30 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
The Mimbres of southwestern New Mexico and Paquimé in northwestern
Chihuahua are adjacent to each other, with Mimbres ending around the time
Paquimé rises to prominence. Not surprisingly, some have suggested a close
relationship between the two with much of the Paquimé population being
displaced Mimbreños. Paul Minnis, perhaps the only archaeologist to have
worked extensively in both regions, discusses what he sees as the
relationships, considering how differences in the archaeology of the
American Southwest and northwestern Mexico affect archaeological
interpretations. Paul Minnis, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of anthropology
at the University of Oklahoma and a Visiting Scholar at the University of
Arizona School of Anthropology.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. To
register visit <https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79954472865>
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79954472865. For more information contact Erica
LeClaire at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Wednesday July 22, 2020: Online
“A Look at Classic Period Tewa Communities in the Velarde Area” with
Patrick Cruz, sponsored by New Mexico Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
(MIAC)*
6-7 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free
The MIAC’s Online Speaker Series brings together scholars who are
providing alternate perspectives on the lives ancestral people led in the
Southwest’s complex and challenging environment, through new looks at museum
collections, old data, or personal insights into the people behind the
ancestral sites. Patrick Cruz (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) is currently pursuing a
Ph.D. in Anthropology with an archaeology focus at the University of
Colorado at Boulder. His research interests have focused on Southwest
archaeology and more specifically the PIII Great Pueblo Migration (GPM) out
of the Four Corners, the post GPM period in the Northern Rio Grande, along
with investigating identity, Tewa language, village formation, Indigenous
archaeology, and phenomenology. He has 20 years of experience working in
both the archaeology and museum fields at Bandelier National Monument, New
Mexico History Museum, and the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis
College in Durango, Colorado.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To join go to
<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88545265547>
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88545265547.
Thursday July 23, 2020: Online
“Languages of the Landscape: The Cedar Mesa Perishables Project” video
sponsored by Four Corners Lecture Series, Southwest Colorado Canyons
Alliance, and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center*
4 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations requested)
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For description
or to register visit
<https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/FCLS-Cedar-Mesa-Perishables-Proj
ect>
https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/FCLS-Cedar-Mesa-Perishables-Proje
ct.
Tuesday July 28, 2020: Online
“Shaping the American Frontier: Women of the Santa Fe Trail” online
salon with Dr. Frances Levine sponsored by School for Advanced Research*
2-3 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged)
In this online presentation Dr. Frances Levine examines the
history of several women in particular from the Santa Fe Trail, including
María Rosa Villalpando Sale dit Lajoie and María de la Cruz Carmen Benavides
Robidoux, who along with others traveled between Missouri and Santa Fe
between 1828 and the 1880s. There, from the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail,
when the midcontinent was governed by French, Spanish, and Americans, women
contributed to the mixture of customs, traditions, and laws that defined the
expanding frontier. This online event is free and open to the public in
partnership with the Historic Santa Fe Foundation.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://sarweb.org/registration/online-salon-frances-levine/>
https://sarweb.org/registration/online-salon-frances-levine/ or contact
Lindsay Archuleta at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday July 28, 2020: Online
“An Archaeological Perspective on Hunting in New Mexico” Mesa Talk by
archaeologist Matthew J. Barbour sponsored by Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project
and Los Luceros Historic Site*
6-8 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged)
Hunting has always played a pivotal role in Native American
subsistence and culture. While much is made of the megafauna hunters of the
Paleoindian Period, later agriculturalists created their own specialized
hunting practices. This presentation explores the archaeology and history of
hunting in New Mexico from the arrival of hunters and gatherers to the
twenty-first century. Matthew J. Barbour has worked for the New Mexico
Department of Cultural Affairs since 2002.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To join visit
<https://www.facebook.com/events/272602470788056>
https://www.facebook.com/events/272602470788056.
Wednesday July 29, 2020: Online
“Breaking Down Cardboard Boxes: How Archaeology Can Erase Histories"
with Dr. Lewis Borck, sponsored by New Mexico Museum of Indian Arts &
Culture (MIAC)*
6-7 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free
The MIAC’s Online Speaker Series brings together scholars who are
providing alternate perspectives on the lives ancestral people led in the
Southwest’s complex and challenging environment, through new looks at museum
collections, old data, or personal insights into the people behind the
ancestral sites. Archaeologist Dr. Lewis Borck studies the material
histories of the past peoples in the American Southwest and the Caribbean.
He is particularly interested in how social movements and contentious
politics shaped religion and politics through time as well as how modern
politics and worldviews recreate the histories and ideas of the “West” in
the Indigenous past. For this talk, Dr. Borck will explore how
archaeologists and historians create history, how that can erase the history
of commoners, particularly of their politics and revolutions. He will use 15
years of research in the Gallina region of New Mexico, including a current
field school, as a case study to contextualize many of these ideas.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To join go to
<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84209568860>
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84209568860.
Thursday July 30, 2020, is the deadline to enter the University of
Arizona Humanities Seminars Program (HSP) raffle of one of its online
courses.
All HSP courses are now available online via Zoom, providing
opportunity for more potential learners, including individuals with work
commitments that preclude daytime classes and persons who live outside
Tucson, to enjoy the HSP classes for the first time. In these courses you
can enjoy learning from world-class tenured professors, stay intellectually
enriched while staying at home as you explore a wide range of fascinating
topics, share comments and questions with both the professor and your
classmates, take breaks when you want, take classes with your kids and
grandkids, attend or catch up with classes any time of day or night
convenient to you (classes are recorded for later viewing), and not worry
about class size limitations, sold-out courses, prohibitions on drinks or
snacks during class, or campus parking fees.
The HSP free-class raffle is only for those who are brand new to HSP.
(Those who enter the raffle will be added to the HSP mailing list and will
receive occasional updates about upcoming courses. HSP sends emails only
rarely and recipients can unsubscribe at any point.) HSP will draw a name on
July 31st and the winner will receive a free online course to use in the
coming academic year (Fall 2020 or Spring 2021).
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To enter the
raffle visit <https://hsp.arizona.edu/summer-course-raffle>
https://hsp.arizona.edu/summer-course-raffle. For more information about the
Humanities Seminars Program visit <https://hsp.arizona.edu/>
https://hsp.arizona.edu/, call 520-621-2492, or email
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday August 8, 2020: Tucson
“The Mask of Zorro Movie and Mexican Paper Craft hour” at Presidio San
Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
6:30-7:30 p.m. paper craft; 7:30-9 p.m. movie. Free (donations
appreciated).
Join the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum’s offering of the
movie classic The Mask of Zorro. The movie run time is one hour and 49
minutes. If you come early you can participate in a Mexican paper craft hour
prior to the showing of the movie. Preregistration is required to keep
attendance below 50; masks and social distancing also will be required.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information and to register visit
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info?id=181&reset=1>
https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info?id=181&reset=1.
Wednesday August 19, 2020: Silver City, NM or online
“Old-Time Religion? The Salado Phenomenon in the Greater Southwest”
free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Grant County
Archaeological Society either online via Zoom or at the Roundup Lodge
Community Center, 91 Aklin Hill Road (about a block south of San Lorenzo
Elementary School), Mimbres, New Mexico*
6 p.m. (if presentation is live) potluck and GCAS meeting. Talk begins
approximately 7:15 Mountain Daylight Time
When first recognized by archaeologists in the early twentieth
century, a constellation of peculiar cultural traits in the southwestern
United States, including polychrome (three-colored) pottery, above-ground
housing often enclosed in walled compounds, and monumental architecture, was
thought to be indicative of a distinct group of people: "the Salado." As
more and more research was done and the widespread distribution of Salado
material culture became apparent, interpretations of what the Salado
phenomenon represents was debated. In this presentation archaeologist Allen
Dart illustrates pottery and other cultural attributes of the so-called
Salado culture, reviews some of the theories about the Salado, and discusses
how Salado related to the Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon, Hohokam, and Casas
Grandes cultures of the "Greater Southwest" (the U.S. Southwest and Mexico's
Northwest).
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No
reservations are needed. For details visit <http://www.gcasnm.org>
www.gcasnm.org or contact Marianne Smith at 772-529-2627 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday August 25, 2020: Online
“The Best of the Best Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Recordings of 2019” Mesa
Talk by Candie Borduin sponsored by Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project and Los
Luceros Historic Site*
6-8 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged)
At the beginning of each year, 40 trained Mesa Prieta Petroglyph
Project recording volunteers are invited to participate in voting for the
“best of the best” of the previous year’s recording on Mesa Prieta. Candie
Borduin will present these recordings - the most spectacular, well made,
unique and well-documented selections of petroglyphs and other
archaeological features recorded in 2019. This is a rare opportunity to see
images on several parcels of private land that are not seen by the general
public!
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To join visit
<https://www.facebook.com/events/212651916549164>
https://www.facebook.com/events/212651916549164.
Friday-Monday September 4-7, 2020: Q-Ranch, AZ
“Summer Arizona Pottery Workshop” with instructor Andy Ward at Q Ranch
in the White Mountains near Young, Arizona*
Friday afternoon through Monday morning. Workshop fee $350; Q Ranch
food & lodging extra (make separate arrangements with Q Ranch); camping is
also available nearby
This intensive four-day pottery workshop will immerse you in the
ancient world of the ancient Pueblo people who lived in the mountains of
central Arizona and the beautiful pottery that they made here. Q Ranch
Pueblo was one of the largest and most important pueblos in this region from
about 1260 to 1380. Participants of this workshop will explore how these
people lived and worked, examining ruins and artifacts, digging and
processing native clay, minerals and other raw materials, and making pottery
authentic to the ancient traditions. Class Includes all materials, field
trip to dig clay, guided tours of pueblo ruins, a pottery-making toolkit to
keep, and 2020 Q Ranch workshop t-shirt. Limited to 12 students.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information or to register visit
<https://ancientpottery.how/summer-arizona-pottery-workshop/>
https://ancientpottery.how/summer-arizona-pottery-workshop/.
Wednesday September 9, 2020: Cave Creek, AZ
"The Salado Phenomenon in the U.S. Southwest" free presentation by
archaeologist Allen Dart for Desert Foothills Chapter, Arizona
Archaeological Society meeting at Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal
Church, 6502 E. Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek, Arizona, cosponsored by Arizona
Humanities*
7:30-9 p.m. Free
In the early 20th century, archaeologists in the southwestern U.S.
viewed a constellation of distinctive cultural traits – multicolored
pottery, houses arranged in walled compounds, and monumental architecture –
as evidence of a cultural group they termed “Salado.” Subsequent discoveries
cause us to question what the Salado traits really represent. In this
presentation archaeologist Allen Dart illustrates some of the so-called
Salado culture attributes, reviews theories about Salado origins, and
discusses how Salado relates to the Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon, Hohokam, and
Casa Grandes cultures of the U.S. Southwest and Mexico’s Northwest. This
program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Mary Kearney at 623-687-0721 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesdays September 16-December 16, 2020: Tucson and online
“Archaeology of the Southwest” 12-session class with archaeologist
Allen Dart at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson,
and online via Zoom teleconference
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. each Wednesday evening September 16 through December
16 except skip October 21 and November 25. $95 donation ($80 for Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum members), not
counting cost of the recommended text or of optional Arizona Archaeological
Society membership. No discount for Zoom participation. Minimum enrollment
8, maximum 20.
Archaeology of the Southwest is an introductory course that provides a
basic overview of the United States Southwest’s ancestral cultures. Its
twelve evening class sessions will cover cultural sequences, dating systems,
subsistence strategies, development of urbanization, abandonments of
different areas at different times, and the general characteristics of major
cultural groups that have lived in the Southwest over the past 13,000-plus
years. Besides offering an up-to-date synthesis of southwestern cultures for
anyone interested in the archaeology of the Southwest, the class is the
equivalent of the Prehistory of the Southwest course developed by the
Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS) and so can be used as prerequisite for
all other courses offered in the AAS Certification/Education Program.
Instructor Allen Dart is a registered professional archaeologist and
executive director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Friday September 11, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] to register or for more
information.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the
above-listed activity send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] with “Send archaeology class flyer” in your email subject
line.
Thursday September 17, 2020: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring "Camp Rucker: Apache Wars Outpost in the Chiricahua
Mountains" free presentation by archaeologist Bill Gillespie at U-Like
Oriental Buffet Asian Cuisine, 5101 N. Oracle Rd., Tucson
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s
menu at your expense)
In the summer of 1878, the US Army established a small outpost called
Camp Supply in the Chiricahua Mountains, in the heart of the Chiricahua
Apache homeland. The initial purpose of the post was to serve as base of
operations and supply depot for companies of Indian Scouts. That function
was cut short when the two young officers leading Indian Scout companies
both drowned during a summer storm in the canyon. The camp was renamed Camp
John A. Rucker in honor of one of them. Although officially in use for less
than three years, the Army continued to make occasional use of the camp for
nearly 20 more years, most notably in its final campaign against Geronimo in
the summer of 1886. Ranchers who lived at Camp Rucker in the decades that
followed were an interesting lot, some of whom wrote about life at Rucker in
the 1880s through 1930s. As an archaeologist for the Coronado National
Forest for 25 years, guest speaker Bill Gillespie and his Forest Service
colleague Mary Farrell conducted volunteer projects at Camp Rucker and
successfully nominated the Rucker Canyon Archaeological District to the
National Register of Historic Places.
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. on the
Wednesday before the program date: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD PUEBLO
WHETHER YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the
Fire Code limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room.
Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s menu.
There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old
Pueblo’s educational efforts.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the
above-listed activity send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] with “Send Camp Rucker Third Thursday flyer” in your
email subject line.
Monday September 21, 2020: Tucson
“Food for Thought: The Deep History of Your Dinner” free presentation
by Dr. Karen R. Adams for Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society
(AAHS) meeting in University of Arizona’s Environmental & Natural Resources
Bldg. 2 ground-floor auditorium, 1064 E. Lowell St., (Park in U of A 6th St.
garage for $1/hr.)*
7-8:30 p.m. Free
Human efforts at plant domestication began over 10,000 years ago in
the Fertile Crescent and elsewhere. People on most of the world’s continents
domesticated a wide range of above-ground and below-ground plant parts,
ranging from the stalk a leaf sits on (celery, rhubarb) to the corn, wheat,
oats, rice, and barley grass grains that now feed the world. Plant
domestication is a process that can continue as long as humans are
interested in favored wild plants. This presentation illustrates that any
single meal you sit down to eat today encompasses this world-wide long-term
relationship between humans and the plants they tamed.
* 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
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Tuesday September 22, 2020: 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 2020 autumn equinox occurs on September 22 at 6:30 a.m. Mountain
Standard Time (1:30 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 and
bedrock mortars, and to Picture Rocks, where ancient petroglyphs include a
solstice and equinox calendar marker, dancing human-like figures, whimsical
animals, and other rock symbols made by Hohokam Indians between 650 and 1450
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.
Sunday September 20, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
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Saturday October 3, 2020: Chiricahua Mountains, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Historic Camp Rucker: Apache Wars
Outpost Tour” with archaeologist Bill Gillespie meets on west side of
Houghton Road just south of Interstate-10 Exit 275, Tucson
8 a.m.-4 p.m. This is a fundraising tour – Each registrant is asked to
make a donation to help cover Old Pueblo’s tour expenses and support its
education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
Well off the beaten path in the southern part of the Chiricahua
Mountains is the site of Camp Rucker, a small military post established by
the U.S. Army in 1878. The location selected in Whitewater (later Rucker)
Canyon was one the ancient Mogollon people had picked centuries before. The
Army post was small, never garrisoned by more than a single company, and
officially lasted only a couple of years. For most of that time soldiers and
officers lived in tents but in 1880 soldiers started building a small number
of stone and adobe structures, some of which are still standing. High
clearance vehicles are recommended. Participants provide their own
transportation, lunches, and water. Bill Gillespie, who was a Coronado
National Forest archaeologist for 25 years, and his Forest Service colleague
Mary Farrell conducted volunteer projects at Camp Rucker and successfully
nominated the Rucker Canyon Archaeological District to the National Register
of Historic Places.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Wednesday September 30, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
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Also see the September 17 "Third Thursday Food for Thought"
announcement above. IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color
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Saturday October 10, 2020: Canoa Ranch, AZ
"Archaeology and History of Canoa Ranch" presentation and tours 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 a 1-hour “Anza Tour
at Historic Canoa Ranch” and a “Tour of Historic Canoa Ranch” to be provided
by Pima County Natural Resources, Parks & Recreation volunteers, then the
morning’s program will conclude with a “Behind the Scenes Restoration Tour”
by Pima County architectural preservationist Simon Herbert. The presentation
and each tour will be limited to 32 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 September 30, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
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Thursday October 15, 2020: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring “Revisiting Santa Cruz de Terrenate Presidio” free
presentation with archaeologist Dr. Deni J. Seymour at Karichimaka Mexican
Restaurant, 5252 S. Mission Rd., Tucson
In 1775-1776, the government of New Spain created a series of frontier
presidios along its northern frontier. Three of these are in Arizona.
Archaeologist Deni Seymour, Ph.D. conducted a multiyear field research
program at what remains of Santa Cruz de Terrenate, located along the San
Pedro River near Sierra Vista. This is the best preserved of all the Spanish
period presidios in the American Southwest. Join Dr. Seymour for a
discussion of the history of this adobe fortress, information about recent
archaeological and ethnohistoric investigations, and revisions to
interpretations of work carried out by archaeologist Charles Di Peso almost
70 years ago. New findings include 240-year-old footprints, information
relevant to the location of the Sobaípuri sites of Quíburi and Santa Cruz,
and insights into hygiene, population, and status.
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. on the
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WHETHER YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the
Fire Code limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room.
Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s menu.
There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old
Pueblo’s educational efforts.
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Saturday October 17, 2020: Fairbank, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s "Santa Cruz de Terrenate and
Pitaitutgam Archaeological Sites” tour with archaeologist Dr. Deni J.
Seymour starting at the Chevron station at AZ-90/AZ-82 intersection in
Whetstone, Arizona
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. $50 donation ($40 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.
Santa Cruz de Terrenate is the best-preserved example of three
presidios (forts) established by the eighteenth-century Spanish colonial
government in what is now southern Arizona, to provide military protection
to the missions, settlers, and Christianized Native Americans of New Spain.
The presidio housed soldiers, civilians, Ópata scouts, O’odham laborers, and
domestic servants of a variety of origins from December 1775 until it was
abandoned in March 1780. Pitaitutgam is the site of a large Sobaípuri
O'odham village that was occupied off and on for centuries. The first-ever
Sobaípuri archaeological site identified and excavated (during the 1950s),
it was the place Father Kino called Santa Cruz del Pitaitutgam. Our tour
guide Dr. Deni Seymour recently carried out new excavations at both of these
sites, clarifying new ideas about the Sobaípuri O'odham, their village
layouts, length of occupation in the San Pedro Valley, and many other issues
of current interest.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Wednesday October 14, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
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Monday October 19, 2020: Tucson
“Technologies of Capturing Color: Paint Practice and its Analysis in
the U.S. Southwest” free presentation by archaeologist Kelsey Hanson for
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) meeting in University
of Arizona’s Environmental & Natural Resources Bldg. 2 ground-floor
auditorium, 1064 E. Lowell St. (Park in U of A 6th St. garage for $1/hr.)*
7-8:30 p.m. Free
The American Southwest is brilliantly colored. However, naturally
occurring colors are not easily imparted into the material world. The
ability to capture color from the natural world through paint requires deep
cultural knowledge of geologic sources, processing requirements, and
application techniques that remain severely understudied. The production of
paint is a sequence of combining colorants and binders—the recipes for which
are remarkably diverse. In this lecture, archaeologist Kelsey Hanson will
contextualize paint practice as a technology for which the diversity of
paint recipes and processing techniques can be investigated. She will then
discuss the initial stages of a multiyear project to analyze the diversity
of paint recipes manifest in prepared paint cakes in the Arizona State
Museum’s collections and implications for studies of craft specialization
and identity in multimedia paint practices in the U.S. Southwest.
* 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
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Friday-Saturday October 23-24, 2020: Tucson
“21st Biennial Mogollon Conference” at Student Union Memorial Center,
1303 E. University Blvd., University of Arizona, Tucson*
9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. each day depending on number of presentations.
Advance registration $35 students, $50 others.
This biennial conference features presentations related to archaeology
of the Mogollon Rim in Arizona, the Mimbres and eastern Mimbres regions of
New Mexico, and interactions within and among those areas and with Ancestral
Pueblo, Hohokam, western Plains, and northern Mexico cultures. There will be
a reception with refreshments on the evening of October 22 and a conference
dinner hosted by Archaeology Southwest on the evening of October 23. (No
additional cost to attend reception or dinner.)
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <http://www.Mogollon2020.com> www.Mogollon2020.com; for
direct conference inquiries contact Mike Diehl at
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]; for payment inquiries Karen
Schollmeyer at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Saturday October 24, 2020: 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 pre-Contact Native Americans made traditional crafts and is
not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale. Limited to six
registrants.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Thursday October 22, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
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Thursday November 5, 2020: Paradise Valley, AZ
"The Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest" free presentation at
Cosanti Foundation, 6433 E. Doubletree Ranch Rd., Paradise Valley, AZ*
7-8:30 p.m. 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 in our
state 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.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <https://cosanti.com/pages/speakers>
https://cosanti.com/pages/speakers or contact Norm Pratt at 928-632-6234 or
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Fridays November 6-December 11, 2020: Tucson
“ASM Master Class: Culture and Identity” with Dr. Suzanne L. Eckert
sponsored by the Arizona State Museum (ASM) in Silver and Sage Room, Old
Main, University of Arizona, 1200 E. University Blvd., Tucson*
9:30 to 11:30 a.m. $275 ($225 for ASM members). Light refreshments and
campus parking included.
Identity plays an important role in modern cultures, societies,
politics, and economies. In fact, identity has been a powerful instrument
for constructing and reflecting culture since the beginning of humanity. Who
we are, how we identify with our own social groups, our attitudes to other
cultures, are all interconnected with the values placed upon us by ourselves
and others. This Master Class uses archaeological examples from across time
and space to investigate identity: its complex nature and performance, the
politics and economics surrounding identity, how individuals hold multiple
contradictory identities, how societies use identity to enforce cultural
norms, and how individuals use it to rebel against societal norms.
Archaeologist Dr. Suzanne L. Eckert is Head of Collections at ASM and
Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or
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Thursday November 19, 2020: Oro Valley, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring “People and Politics behind the Construction of the
Catalina Highway to Mount Lemmon” free presentation by archaeologist Bill
Gillespie at El Molinito Mexican Restaurant, 10180 N. Oracle Rd., Oro
Valley, Arizona
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s
menu at your expense)
In October 1948 the Tucson Chamber of Commerce sponsored a ceremony to
dedicate the nearly complete Hitchcock Highway, named to commemorate Frank
H. Hitchcock, the man whose astute lobbying efforts made the construction of
the new highway a reality. After 15 years of intensive work by men from
Federal Prison Camp No. 10, the 25-mile long highway was nearly completed.
As many years as the project took, spanning much of the Great Depression and
World War II, it was preceded by decades of earlier, unsuccessful efforts to
build a road to connect Tucson with the cool high elevations of Mount
Lemmon. At various times citizen groups, county supervisors, the U.S. Forest
Service, and federal and state highway agencies strove to find ways to get
the road built before 1933 when Hitchcock succeeded in negotiating a
successful solution. Guest speaker Bill Gillespie did archaeological
fieldwork at Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, and in Jordan before moving to
southern Arizona in the mid-1980s to work as an archaeologist for the
Coronado National Forest for 25 years.
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. on the
Wednesday before the program date: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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WHETHER YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the
Fire Code limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room.
Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s menu.
There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old
Pueblo’s educational efforts.
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Saturday November 21, 2020: Catalina Highway, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s "Catalina Highway Prison Camp at the
Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Area Tour" with archaeologist Bill Gillespie
meets at Safeway store parking lot, 9125 E. Tanque Verde Rd. (at Catalina
Highway intersection), Tucson
9 a.m.-1 p.m. This is a fundraising tour – Each registrant is asked to
make a donation to help cover Old Pueblo’s tour expenses and support its
education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
One of the unique archaeological sites in the Santa Catalina Mountains
is the location of a federal prison camp occupied in the mid-20th century.
The facility was established for one specific purpose: to provide labor for
the construction of the Catalina or Hitchcock Highway connecting Tucson to
Mount Lemmon. Although the project started in 1933, it wasn’t until 1939,
when road construction had reached the 7-mile mark, that prisoners were
moved from their temporary camp at the base of the mountain to the permanent
camp adjacent to Soldier Creek and the highway. The use of the appealing
location by the Hohokam at a much earlier time is marked by petroglyphs,
grinding features and artifacts. In 1999, the U.S. Forest Service named the
site the Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Area in honor of the
Japanese-American civil rights leader who had been imprisoned there during
World War II. Participants provide their own transportation and water, and
may bring their own lunches to picnic at the camp after the tour. Our guide
Bill Gillespie did archaeological fieldwork at Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, and
in Jordan before moving to southern Arizona in the mid-1980s to work as an
archaeologist for the Coronado National Forest for 25 years.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Wednesday November 18, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
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5 p.m. Wednesday December 2, 2020, is the deadline to purchase tickets
from Old Pueblo Archaeology Center for “The Jim Click Millions for Tucson
Raffle” of a 2020 Ford F-150 Platinum pickup truck, 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!
On December 11th Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give away a
2020 Ford F-150 Platinum Pickup Truck 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 2020
pickup – 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”! Tickets for the raffle are 5 for $100 or $25
each. Your donation to purchase raffle tickets will help Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center provide more archaeology and culture education programs
for children who would not be able to afford our programs without your help.
The drawing will be held on December 11.
Raffle rules: To be entered in the raffle your contribution and
tickets must be received (not postmarked) by Old Pueblo by 5 p.m. Wednesday
December 2nd so we can turn the tickets in to the Jim Click Automotive
Team’s coordinator by December 4th. 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 by check payable to Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center and mailed to PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717;
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, or Discover card payment
authorization. Once payment is received for your tickets, Old Pueblo will
enter them into the drawing and will mail you the correspondingly numbered
ticket stubs with a letter acknowledging your contribution. 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.
Deadline for ticket purchases from Old Pueblo is 5 p.m. Wednesday
December 2nd. For tickets or more information about Old Pueblo’s involvement
in the raffle contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or
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The Jim Click Automotive Team’s Millions for Tucson Raffle itself visit
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Thursday December 10, 2020: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursday (on the Second
Thursday) Food for Thought" dinner featuring "Paint It Here, but Never
There: Landscapes of Reverent Avoidance in the Chiricahua Mountains” free
presentation by archaeologist Kelsey E. Hanson in the Dining Hall and
Petroglyph Auditorium of the Picture Rocks Redemptorist Renewal Center, 7101
W. Picture Rocks Road, Tucson
Dinner starts at 6 p.m., presentation around 7-8:30 p.m.; dinner is
$16 per person, presentation is free.
Southeastern Arizona is located on the fringes of several named
cultural traditions – the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Casas Grandes, and then was
later occupied by the Apache. This borderlands region has received only
sporadic scholarly attention. In 2018, Kelsey E. Hanson and Jonathan Patt
conducted a systematic survey of caves in the eastern Chiricahua Mountains,
at the heart of this cultural overlap. Their survey produced data on several
new pictograph sites, representing at least three different named pictograph
traditions. Interestingly, their spatial distributions demonstrate that
different pictograph traditions rarely overlap in space but seem to occupy
starkly different physiographic settings. In this talk, archaeologist Kelsey
Hanson will illustrate these spatial patterns and propose an interpretation
she tentatively refers to as reverent avoidance of those who have come
before. The results of her study have important implications for
understanding identity and territoriality through time and space in this
borderlands region. This month only, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s usual
"Third Thursday Food for Thought" dinner program will be held on the Second
Thursday of the month – December 10 – due to a schedule conflict on the
Third Thursday (December 17).
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. Tuesday
December 8; dinner payments are due 10 days after reservation request or by
5 p.m. December 8, whichever is earlier: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD PUEBLO
WHETHER YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the
Fire Code limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room.
Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s menu.
There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old
Pueblo’s educational efforts.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the
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Saturday December 12, 2020: Guadalupe, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Journey to the Fiesta of Guadalupe in
the Town of Guadalupe, Arizona” guided by Felipe S. Molina, meeting at
Burger King Restaurant in Groves Power Center, 1220 W. Elliot Rd., Tempe,
Arizona, just east of I-10 Exit 157
(A Tucson caravan will depart for Tempe at 9:30 a.m. from the Sam’s
Furniture Outlet parking lot at 2020 W. Prince Rd., just east of I-10 Exit
254.) 11 a.m. starting at the Tempe Burger King till 4 p.m. or later
depending on how late participants with vehicles wish to stay. $50 donation
($40 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; donation does not
include meals or lodging.
The Fiesta of Guadalupe, celebrated by members of the Pascua Yaqui
Tribe in Arizona (and a national holiday in Mexico), is always on December
12th. It marks an appearance of the Virgin Mary to a young indigenous man in
Mexico on December 12, 1531. Old Pueblo Archaeology Center offers this
special outing with Yoeme (Yaqui Indian) traditional culture specialist
Felipe S. Molina to attend the Town of Guadalupe’s December 12 fiesta
honoring its namesake. Participants in this Old Pueblo event may either ride
in a car caravan from Tucson to the Town of Guadalupe, or to meet at a
Burger King in Tempe just south of Guadalupe. At the Burger King, Felipe
will give an orientation before we all drive in a caravan to a parking area
in the Town, then walk to see the fiesta procession enter Guadalupe plaza.
Following the procession we will split our group into two or more subgroups
that will each watch the activities from different vantage points, then in
the afternoon our group will reassemble to compare what everyone has seen
from the various observation points, and Felipe will provide further
interpretation of some of the things going on at the fiesta. People can
either bring their lunches or buy food from vendors in the plaza. The tour
officially ends after the regrouping and interpretation discussion but
participants may choose to stay and watch the evening festivities or to go
home (not necessarily in a caravan) after the group discussion.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Wednesday December 9, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
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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
www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/
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the bottom of that page, and follow the instructions for using our secure
online membership form or our printable Enrollment/Subscription form.
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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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