For Immediate Release


TABLE OF CONTENTS

(1) 
Upcoming Activities 

(2) 
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s youth education programs 

(3) 
Our Mission and Support 

(4) 
Our Announcements and Opt-Out Options
 
 
(1) UPCOMING ACTIVITIES 
 
LOOKING AHEAD: Friday December 1, 2017
      December 1st is the deadline to purchase tickets for the December 14
“Millions for Tucson Raffle of a 2017 Ford Explorer Platinum, Two
First-Class Airline Tickets, and $5,000 Cash” by Tucson’s Jim Click
Automotive Team to benefit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center & other Tucson
charities. See full announcement for this event below. 
 
 
Tuesday October 3, 2017: Tucson
      “Early Agriculture in the Tucson Basin” free presentation by
archaeologist Dr. Jim Vint for Archaeology Southwest’s Archaeology Café at
Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd, Tucson*
      5:30 p.m. (Program begins at 6 p.m. in Theatre 3); free (food or
drinks may be ordered by guests)
      Archaeologist James Vint will open Tucson’s 2017-2018 Archaeology Café
season with an exploration of agriculture in the Tucson Basin 4,000 years
ago. At that time families were living in the Tucson area, irrigating and
growing corn along the rivers, hunting game in the foothills, and gathering
wild plant resources throughout the desert. Major archaeological excavations
along the Santa Cruz River in recent decades have greatly expanded our
understanding of life during this time period. Dr. Vint led several of these
projects, and will give an intimate look into the lives of these earliest
settlers of the Tucson basin. James M. Vint, Ph.D., is a Senior Project
Director with Desert Archaeology, Inc.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit  <http://www.archaeologycafe.org> www.archaeologycafe.org,
call 520-882-6946 ext. 23 or email  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
 
 
Wednesday October 4, 2017: Vail, AZ
      “Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona, Part 1: Paleoindian, Archaic,
Early Agricultural, and Early Ceramic Period Peoples” free presentation by
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's director, archaeologist Allen Dart, for
Arizona Senior Academy at Academy Village, 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Tucson
(actually Vail)* 
      3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Both sessions (October 4 and 11) free 
      Many different peoples have contributed to making Arizona such a
unique and fascinating cultural place. In this first of a two-session
series, archaeologist Allen Dart summarizes and interprets the archaeology
of Arizona’s earliest cultures: the Paleoindian big-game hunters, Archaic
period hunters and foragers, and the Early Agricultural and Early Ceramic
period peoples. Part 2 on October 11 will focus on the post-AD 500
archaeological and historical cultures.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event.
Reservations are suggested. For event details contact Kathie Van Brunt at
520-647-0980 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]; for information about the presentation
subject matter contact Allen Dart at 520-798-1201 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Wednesday October 4, 2017: Tucson
      “New Docent Class” forming at the Arizona State Museum, 1013 E.
University Blvd., Tucson*
      Times TBA 
      Interested in Native cultures of the Southwest? Want to learn more and
share your knowledge with others? Want to meet new people and give back to
the community? If you answered YES to these questions, then the ASM Docent
Program is for you! ASM docents interpret exhibits and help visitors
understand and appreciate the rich cultural diversity of the region.
Training includes lectures, guest speakers, small-group work, and practice
tours. Classes begin October 4. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Contact Heather
Ingram at  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] for more
info and to sign up.
 
 
Wednesday October 4, 2017: Phoenix
      “A Boot in the Door: Pioneer Women Archaeologists of Arizona” free
presentation by Dr. Nancy Parezo at Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological
Park, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities* 
      6:30 to 8 p.m. Free 
 
      The men who explored Arizona are legends in the history of the region
and of anthropology, but what about the women who accompanied them or
explored by themselves? Did you know that Matilda Coxe Stevenson was a
member of the first official government survey of Canyon de Chelly or that
Emma Mindeleff surveyed ruins in the Verde Valley while Theresa Russell
helped her husband locate Hohokam sites? Probably not, for none are listed
in “official” histories. Learn about the hidden pioneer archaeologists of
the 19th century and honor Arizona’s unsung heroines of science. Dr. Nancy
Parezo is a Professor of American Indian Studies and Anthropology at the
University of Arizona and an Associate Curator of Ethnology at the Arizona
State Museum. This program was made possible by Arizona Humanities. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information call 602-495-0901 or visit
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/arts-culture-history/pueblo-grande.
 
 
Friday October 6, 2017: Green Valley, AZ
      "Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona" adult education class with
archaeologist Allen Dart for OLLI-UA Green Valley members at Pima Community
College Room 203, 1250 W. Continental Rd., Green Valley, Arizona*
      3:30 to 5 p.m. Open to OLLI-UA Green Valley members only: $140
semiannual (July 15-December 20) membership fee or $180 full-year (July
15-June 30) fee allows one to take this and many other OLLI courses.
      One of many classes offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
(OLLI), this "Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona" adult education class
describes the many different peoples who have contributed to making Arizona
such a unique and fascinating cultural place. Archaeologist Allen Dart
summarizes and interprets the archaeology of Arizona from the earliest
Paleoindians through Archaic period hunters and foragers, the transition to
agriculture and village life, and the later prehistoric archaeological
cultures (Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon, Sinagua, Hohokam, Salado, and
Patayan). He also discusses connections between archaeology and history, and
between Arizona's Native Americans and people derived from the Old World. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. To
join Green Valley OLLI visit  <http://olli.arizona.edu/>
http://olli.arizona.edu/ to download a registration and payment form or to
pay and register online; for information about this course contact Dean Curd
at 303-378-6233 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Friday-Saturday October 6-7, 2017: Star Valley, AZ
      “Arizona Archaeological Council’s annual conference guided tourof
ongoing investigations at Goat Camp Ruin”; Friday conference at Moose Lodge
at 4211 AZ-260 in Star Valley and site tour Saturday near Payson, Arizona*
      Friday times TBA; Saturday tour starts at 9 a.m.; fees TBA
      The broad “Occupation of the Hinterlands” theme was selected for this
year's conference to encourage a diverse group of presenters. And what
self-respecting archaeology enthusiast can say no to pine trees, crisp fall
air, and a venue with a bar attached? Participants are encouraged to stay
the night; designated drivers will be available to transport people back to
their hotels if needed. On Saturday following Friday's conference,
archaeologist Scott Wood will lead a tour of ongoing investigations at Goat
Camp Ruin, a 25+ room pueblo near the northern end of Payson starting at 9
a.m. and likely lasting an hour. Directions, conference schedule, and
details regarding the tour coming soon.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit  <http://www.arizonaarchaeologicalcouncil.org>
arizonaarchaeologicalcouncil.org or email
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
 
 
Saturday October 7, 2017: Phoenix
      “Archaeology for Kids” simulated archaeological excavation opportunity
for children at Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park, 4619 E.
Washington St., Phoenix**
      9:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. $15
      Children ages 7 to 12 can explore the science of archaeology by doing
a simulated excavation. Learn how to identify artifacts and discover how
archaeologists use them to learn about past cultures. Portion of class is
outdoors. Participants must dress appropriately for weather. Bring hat,
bottled water, and sun screen.
      ** This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event,
however, Old Pueblo members can attend PGMA functions at PGMA‘s
member-discount rates, and vice-versa. Advance registration is required by
October 5. For more information contact Pueblo Grande Museum at 602-495-0901
or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/arts-culture-history/pueblo-grande.
 
 
Tuesday October 10, 2017: Tijeras, NM 
      “San Marcos Pueblo: Archaeology and History” presentation by
anthropologists Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher for Friends of
Tijeras Pueblo meeting at Sandia Ranger Station, Tijeras, New Mexico*
      6:30 p.m. $5 donation requested of nonmembers
      San Marcos Pueblo, located at the western edge of northern New
Mexico’s Galisteo Basin, was a large aggregated town that has been known to
the archaeological world since Nels Nelson’s preliminary fieldwork there in
the early 20th century. Beginning before and continuing through the Pueblo
Revolt of 1680, San Marcos was a vital community, a hub of Puebloan
economic, and political activity. San Marcoseños were known for their fine
glaze-painted ceramics that were traded both within the Basin and beyond.
The town was known to the Spanish: a mission with convento was established
there in the 1630s, as were metal assaying and smelting. The community’s
role in the Pueblo Revolt was not uniform, suggesting that factions may have
been present. In this lecture Ramenofsky and Schleher discuss some of their
results from a decade of archaeological and historical research at the
pueblo. Highlighted are evidence of stability and change in their settlement
strategy, the glaze paint ceramics that inform on the nature of potting
communities, and protohistoric native population change. Ramenofsky and
Schleher are co-editors of a new book from UNM Press, The Archaeology and
History of Pueblo San Marcos: Change and Stability. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact the Sandia Ranger District at 505-281-3304 or visit
<http://www.friendsoftijeraspueblo.org/>
http://www.friendsoftijeraspueblo.org/.
 
 
Tuesday October 10, 2017: Phoenix
      “The Bouse Walk-In Well” free presentationby archaeologist Aaron
Wright, Ph.D., for Phoenix Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, monthly
meeting at Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix*
      7 p.m. Free
      In 1929 Frank Midvale, working for the Gila Pueblo Foundation,
recorded a "hollow mound" near the village of Bouse, Arizona, as the
westernmost Hohokam village. Visited shortly thereafter by San Diego Museum
archaeologist Malcolm Rogers and partially excavated in 1952 by Michael
Harner, this hollow mound was discovered to be a massive, Prehispanic
walk-in well dug entirely into bedrock. Rather than being a Hohokam site,
the well and surrounding habitation area are attributed to the Patayan
tradition and date to ca. AD 700-1250. Aaron will review the history of the
Bouse site and outline his ongoing research, including a paleohydrological
investigation of the well's operation and a refinement of the Patayan
ceramic chronology based on the well's stratified deposits. His research is
currently focused on the Hohokam and Patayan traditions across southwestern
Arizona and the cultural landscape of the lower Gila River where both
Patayan and Hohokam settlement sites are found.      * This is not an Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Nancy Unferth
at 602-371-1165 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Wednesday October 11, 2017: Vail, AZ
      “Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona, Part 2: Pueblo, Mogollon,
Sinagua, Hohokam, Salado, Patayan, and Sinagua Peoples” free presentation by
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's director, archaeologist Allen Dart, for
Arizona Senior Academy at Academy Village, 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Tucson
(actually Vail)* 
      3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Free 
      Many different peoples have contributed to making Arizona such a
unique and fascinating cultural place. In this second of two serial
presentations, archaeologist Allen Dart summarizes and interprets the
development of early village life in Arizona, discusses the archaeology of
the post-AD 500 Formative period cultures (Ancestral Puebloan, Mogollon,
Sinagua, Hohokam, Salado, Patayan, and Sinagua) and the connections between
archaeology and history, and summarizes the Native American, European,
Mexican, African, and Asian peoples who have formed our state’s more recent
history. You do not have to attend Part 1 (October 4) to attend the Part 2
session on October 11.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event.
Reservations are suggested. For event details contact Kathie Van Brunt at
520-647-0980 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]; for information about the presentation
subject matter contact Allen Dart at 520-798-1201 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Wednesday October 11, 2017: Cave Creek, AZ
      “The Western Range of the Red-on-Buff Culture, Redux” free
presentation by archaeologist Aaron Wright for Arizona Archaeological
Society, Desert Foothills Chapter, at Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal
Church, 6502 E. Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek, Arizona*
      7 to 8:30 p.m. Free 
      Prehistoric Southwestern Arizona is the interface between Patayan and
Hohokam material culture and settlement patterns. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No
reservations are needed. For details contact Mary Kearney at 623-687-0721 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Wednesday October 11, 2017: Queen Creek, AZ
      “The Explorations of George Bird Grinnell, The Father of Glacier
National Park” free presentation by Hugh Grinnell for Arizona Archaeological
Society, San Tan Chapter, at San Tan Historical Society Museum, 20425 S. Old
Ellsworth Road, Queen Creek, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
      7 to 8:30 p.m. Free 
      The great West that George Bird Grinnell first encountered in 1870 as
a 21-year old man was shortly to disappear before his eyes. Nobody was
quicker to sense the desecration or was more eloquent in crusading against
the poachers, the hidehunters, and the disengaged U.S. Congress than George
Bird Grinnell, the “Father of American Conservation.” Grinnell founded the
first Audubon Society, cofounded the Boone and Crockett Club with Teddy
Roosevelt, and led the effort to establish Glacier National Park. Audiences
will travel back in time to the 19th century, listening to Grinnell’s own
words as taken from his field journals, memoirs, personal correspondence,
and newspaper editorials. Arizona Humanities speaker Hugh Grinnell has
studied, written, and presented about the history of the great American
West. This program was made possible by Arizona Humanities.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No
reservations are needed. For details contact Marie Britton at 480-827-8070
or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Thursday October 12, 2017: Tempe, AZ
      “The Pericles Cup: New Archaeological Evidence for Athens' Most Famous
General?” free presentation by Matt Simonton in Discovery Hall Room 150,
Arizona State University, 250 E. Lemon St., Tempe, Arizona*
      6 p.m. Free 
      Discovered during a rescue excavation in 2014, an ancient Greek cup
incised with six names may shed light on the life and career of Pericles,
long considered the greatest politician and general of the Athenian
democracy. Matt Simonton, Assistant Professor at ASU’s New College of
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, will discuss the circumstances of the
cup’s finding, questions of forgery, and possible meanings behind the
curious incision of names. The cup, and the media frenzy around it invite
consideration of the impact of such “Holy Grails” on our conception of
ancient history and the people who made it. Dr. Simonton has published on
politics, memory, and material culture in ancient Greece.            * This
is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact
Almira Poudrier at  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Thursday October 12, 2017: Las Cruces, NM
      “Five Millennia of Prehistoric Settlement, Belief, and Ritual
Expression in the Jornada Mogollon Region” free presentation by
archaeologist Dr. Myles Miller for Human Systems Research’s 45th Anniversary
Lecture Series at University Terrace Good Samaritan Village’s Social Center
Auditorium, 3011 Buena Vida Circle, Las Cruces New Mexico*
      7-9 p.m. Free
      Over the past decade archaeological and iconographic studies have
revealed a rich record of prehistoric ritual and belief in the Jornada
region of west Texas and southern New Mexico. Evidence of ritual behavior
has been found in images inscribed or painted on rock art panels, in ritual
features in prehistoric pueblos, in the construction of shrines, in special
deposits placed in caves and mountains, and even large agave baking pits.
Studies of Archaic and Jornada-style rock art have provided insights into
complex and sophisticated beliefs. For much of the prehistoric sequence of
the past 5,000 years, we can now link broad patterns of prehistoric
settlement adaptations and social change to the iconography inscribed and
painted on rock faces, ceramics, and other items. Myles Miller has been
professionally involved with the prehistory of the Jornada Mogollon and
Trans-Pecos regions since returning to El Paso upon completion of graduate
school in 1983. He first became interested in the region during elementary
school while accompanying members of the El Paso Archaeological Society
during trips to prehistoric sites and rock art locations across southern New
Mexico and northern Chihuahua. For the past 33 years he has conducted
research throughout the region and has participated in numerous excavations
of prehistoric and historic Native American settlements in southern New
Mexico, west Texas, and southeastern Arizona. His current research interests
involve the study of long-term cultural trends through the analysis of
thousands of radiocarbon dates and the study of the relationships between
social organization, ritual, placemaking on the landscape, and ceramic and
rock art iconography in the Jornada region. He presently serves as a
Principal Investigator with Versar (formerly Geo-Marine, Inc.) and
supervises archeological consulting work for several agencies in New Mexico
and Texas. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Human Systems Research at 505-524-9456 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Friday October 13, 2017: Phoenix
      “Settling the Salt River Valley” free presentation in Water Works
series by archaeologist Dr. Todd Bostwick at Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E.
Washington St., Phoenix*
      12-1 p.m. Free
      Lecture on Prehistoric Hohokam irrigation by the Verde Valley
Archaeology Center’s Director of Archaeology
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Pueblo Grande Museum at 602-495-0901 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/arts-culture-history/pueblo-grande.
 
 
Saturday October 14, 2017: Phoenix
      “Petroglyph Discovery Hike” sponsored by Pueblo Grande Museum in Box
Canyon/Holbert Trail, South Mountain Park, Phoenix*
      9-10 a.m. $5 per person
      Bring the whole family for a short one-mile Hohokam petroglyph
discovery hike at South Mountain for an easy but also petroglyph-rich hiking
experience. An experienced Museum guide will lead participants on a quick
one-hour interpretive hike, perfect for all ages and busy schedules. Please
dress for the weather, wear appropriate hiking footwear, and bring water.
Difficulty: Moderate. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Space is
limited. Advance registration required by October 12. For more information
contact Pueblo Grande Museum at 602-495-0901 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/arts-culture-history/pueblo-grande.
 
 
Saturday October 14, 2017: Tucson
      “Living History Days: Way Finding” at Presidio San Agustín del Tucson
Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
      10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free with regular museum admission ($5 adults, $1 ages
6-14, free for children under 6 and Presidio Trust members)
      October’s theme of way finding will include an interactive story of
great explorations by Fathers Eusebio Kino, Francisco Garces, and Pedro Font
as well as the soldier Juan Bautista de Anza (the younger). Knowing how to
get from one place to another in an unmapped landscape was critical to
survival during the Spanish Colonial period. The fall of 1775 was a
particularly pivotal year for travelers in the Santa Cruz watershed then
called the Pimeria Alta. The transfer of troops from the presidio in Tubac
to the Tucson Presidio and the settlement of the Presidio in San Francisco
began that year. The location tools used by priests are still in use today:
maps, the telescope, the compass, astrolabe, and sextant/quadrant. Many
settlers on the move at that time also used naturally-occurring landmarks
and “dead reckoning.” With the explorers’ stories as a backdrop, volunteers
at the Presidio will engage visitors in reliving tales of daring using
Father Kino’s map of 1701, the explorers’ diary entries, and replicas of the
telescope, compass and astrolabe they carried. In addition to the way
finding activities, visitors will experience the day-to-day lives of
soldiers and their families who lived in the Presidio in the late 1700s.
Demonstrations of children’s games, weaving, and blacksmithing are held, and
fresh baked bread and handmade tortillas are available to sample. Soldiers
practice their drills and fire a four-pound bronze cannon, a replica of
cannons used at the Presidio in the late 1700s. Interactive opportunities
allow visitors to pump the bellows of the blacksmith’s forge, spin cotton
and learn how the soldiers fire their muskets. The Presidio Museum is a
reconstruction of the original Tucson Presidio built in 1775. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact April Bourie at 520-444-3687 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] 
 
 
Monday October 16, 2017: Tucson
      “The Myth of Tucson” free presentation by archaeologist Robert Vint
for Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) meeting at Banner
University Medical Center DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson*
      7:30-9 p.m. Free
      Every human place on the face of the earth – every village, town, or
city – has its myth, an origin story, a real or imagined reason (or reasons)
for being. And every place has its ghosts, its secrets and hidden past. What
we believe about our place in the world – where we are from, where we live,
and where we belong – is a mix of fact and fiction. This essay will consider
Tucson, a place with deep roots in pre-contact Native American culture,
followed upon by Spanish colonization and Anglo-American
consumer-capitalism. Is there a “real” Tucson? Or are there many Tucsons?
Whose origin story holds sway? In the dramatic post-World War II expansion
of the 1950s and 1960s, the image of Tucson as a western town, in the sense
of the “Wild West,” was held up to attract a burgeoning population of
immigrants from the eastern United States. The fascination with The West, as
fueled by movie Westerns and television shows, served to promote Tucson as a
destination for vacation or relocation in the broad societal pattern of
sun-belt migration, expressed architecturally in sprawling suburbs of “ranch
houses.” Tucson’s origins as a Native American, Spanish, and Mexican place
were overshadowed by the dominant Anglo society that was bent on supplanting
the material culture of earlier inhabitants with its own image.
Architecture, as the built expression of a society’s values and way of life,
became a battle ground, culminating in the destruction of more than half of
Tucson’s nineteenth century Mexican Barrio during “urban renewal.” And
that’s just the beginning … to be continued on October 16!
      * 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 John D. Hall at 520-205-2553 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Tuesday-Thursday October 17-19, 2017: Sonora, Mexico
(Registration deadline October 1st)
      “Kino Missions Tour” into Sonora, Mexico, with Fathers Greg Adolf and
John Arnold, and historian Dr. Michael Brescia, sponsored by Southwestern
Mission Research Center (SMRC), departing from Hotel Tucson City Center
InnSuites, 475 N. Granada Ave., Tucson*
      8 a.m. Tuesday-6 to 7 p.m. Thursday; $525 per person includes
transportation, lodging (double occupancy), and meals
      More than 300 years ago, a tireless Jesuit priest by the name of
Eusebio Francisco Kino made countless forays on horseback throughout much of
what is now the northern Mexican state of Sonora and Arizona. Father Kino
brought with him ideas and material culture – chiefly the Christian faith,
the Spanish language, cattle, and crops – that would change the region
deeply and forever. Join us in retracing the steps of Kino and the
missionaries who followed him. You’ll be guided by scholars and enthusiasts
who know and love the region and volunteer their time to share it with
others. Along the way you’ll stand in awe before the evocative church ruins
of Tumacácori and Átil, marvel at the mysteries of the spectral paintings on
the church walls at Pitiquito, delight in the exuberance of Magdalena, take
in the simple beauty of Oquitoa, and bask in the rosy glow on the setting
sun as it reflects off the twin towers of Caborca’s mission. You’ll take a
side trip into prehistory with a visit to the archaeological site of
Trincheras and its new museum. You’ll lunch al fresco near the river at
Tubutama, and in the shade of quince trees watered by the centuries-old
acequia just across from San Ignacio’s church. And at day’s end, you’ll
savor dinner and margaritas on the patio of our host motel. Best of all,
you’ll have many opportunities to meet the open and friendly people of
Sonora—whose traditions, language, and ethnicity combine the region’s Native
and Spanish cultures, representing the best of both worlds. This particular
tour has a pilgrimage theme with Mass celebrated each day at one of the
missions.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Passport is
required. Reservation and payment deadline October 1st. For more information
contact Monica Young at 520-621-6278 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
 
 
Thursday October 19, 2017: Phoenix
      “Behind the Scenes Tour” at Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological
Park, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix*
      10:00-10:45 a.m. $5 tour fee in addition to general admission ($10
adults, PGMA & Old Pueblo Archaeology Center members $5, children 12 & under
free when accompanied by an adult)**
      Join collections staff for a “behind the scenes” tour of Pueblo Grande
Museum. Take an intimate tour of the lab, storage, and archival areas not
normally open to the public. See how museums process, organize, and care for
their collections. Space is limited, register at front desk in Museum lobby.

      ** This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event,
however, Old Pueblo members can attend PGMA functions at PGMA‘s
member-discount rates, and vice-versa. For more information contact Pueblo
Grande Museum at 602-495-0901 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/arts-culture-history/pueblo-grande.
 
 
Thursday October 19, 2017: Tucson
      “San Xavier del Bac: Little-Known Lore from 1692 to Date” free Arizona
Pathfinders Brown Bag presentation by David Carter at Arizona History
Museum, 949 E. Second St. Tucson* 
            6 p.m. Free
            Ever wonder where San Xavier Mission's first church stands today
and why? Why today’s Tohono O'odham likely avoided smallpox? Or, how and why
Tumacácori's statues came to San Xavier? Discover possble answers to these
and related questions, and enjoy some of the earliest photographs of
Arizona’s iconic church to be presented by David Carter, creator and project
designer of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial on the University of Arizona
campus. In addition, David will share the details of his unique December
2013 discovery above a church window. A designer/builder for 28 years, David
worked on adobe residential rentals and historic renovation, primarily in
Tucson’s Barrio Libre. He edited the Southwestern Mission Research Center’s
recently revised and republished San Xavier del Bac: Portrait of a Desert
Church by Bernard L. Fontana, and has served as Secretary of Patronato San
Xavier (2007-2016), Sheriff of the Tucson Corral of Westerners, and Tucson
Festival Chair. This is a Brown Bag. Bring your own meal. Board Members will
provide coffee and dessert. Free Parking at the Arizona Historical Society
parking lot one block West of the AHS at the corner of Euclid and 2nd Street
(enter from 2nd Street and drive straight in.)
            * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information email  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Thursday October 19, 2017: Oro Valley, AZ
      Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring the presentation “Great Moments in Dendrochronology:
Important Achievements of Tree-Ring Science” by dendrochronologist Dr. Paul
R. Sheppard at El Molinito Mexican Restaurant, 10180 N. Oracle Rd., Oro
Valley, Arizona 
      6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s
menu) 
      As a scientific discipline, dendrochronology, otherwise known as
tree-ring science, is just over 100 years old. In that time, several
important scientific findings have been achieved that can be considered
"great moments" (a nod to Disneyland and Mr. Lincoln). It is useful to
review great achievements of science in their own right, as they usually
have interesting twists and turns along the way from start to the point of
being identified as important. Additionally, reviewing multiple great
moments allows for identifying shared characteristics between them that make
them great and therefore could serve as guidelines for current and future
research to strive to meet to also be considered notable, i.e., great. We'll
look into a couple great moments of dendrochronology of the past as well as
a current research project that might attain the level of being an important
achievement.
      Reservations are required:  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD PUEBLO THAT
YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the Fire Code
limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room.
Reservations must be requested before 5 p.m. on the Wednesday before the
program date. Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the
restaurant’s menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to
benefit Old Pueblo’s educational efforts. 
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Friday October 20, 2017: Phoenix
      “Settling the Salt River Valley” free presentation in Water Works
series by Leah Harrison at Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E. Washington St.,
Phoenix*
      12-1 p.m. Free
      Lecture on historic irrigation in Phoenix by Salt River Project
historian Leah Harrison.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Pueblo Grande Museum at 602-495-0901 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/arts-culture-history/pueblo-grande.
 
 
Friday October 20, 2017: Tucson
      “Master Artist Lecture Series: Jicarilla Apache Potter Shelden
Nuñez-Velarde” in the lobby of the Arizona State Museum, 1013 E. University
Blvd., Tucson*
      6-8 p.m. Free
      Shelden Nuñez-Velarde (Jicarilla Apache) is recognized for his
beautiful micaceous pottery. His work is in museum collections around the
country, including the Arizona State Museum. Shelden will talk about how his
work merges traditional forms with fine art creations. Reception follows
program. Buy directly from the artist. This is part of ASM's Honoring
Traditions, Bridging Generations Master Artist Series, funded by a grant
from the National Endowment for the Arts.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To be added to
the waiting list contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Saturday October 21, 2017: Payson, AZ
      “Goat Camp Ruin: The First Decade” free presentation by archaeologist
Scott Wood for Rim Country Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, at
Church of the Holy Nativity Fellowship Hall, 1414 N. Easy St., Payson*
      10 a.m. Free
      Mr. Wood, former Tonto National Forest archaeologist who also has
worked in association with the Town of Payson where he leads a team of
volunteers from AAS chapters, will lead this presentation and Rim Country
Chapter member Gene Sampson will present a short slide show on excavation
progress at Goat Camp. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Carolyn Walter at 928-474-4419.
 
 
Monday-Friday October 23-27, 2017: Verde Valley, AZ
      “Verde Valley Venture Tour” offered by Arizona Pathfinders departing
from the Arizona History Museum, 949 E. Second St. Tucson* 
      7:30 a.m. October 23- 5:30 p.m. October 27; $895 per person double
occupancy (add $220 for single supplement), includes deluxe coach
transportation, entrance fees, lodging, and all meals and gratuities except
one lunch
      Join Arizona Pathfinders for this five-day tour to points of interest
in the Verde Valley area including Montezuma Castle, Montezuma Well, and
Tuzigoot National Monuments, Verde Valley Archaeology Center Museum and
Visitor Center, Fort Verde State Historical Park, historic Old Town
Cottonwood, Clemenceau Heritage Museum, Copper Art Museum, Arcosanti, Out of
Africa Wildlife Park, Alcantara Vineyards and Winery, and a ride on the
Verde Canyon Rail Road.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information email  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] 
 
 
Friday October 27, 2017: Phoenix
      “Park of Four Waters Tour” at Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E. Washington
St., Phoenix*
      10-11 a.m. 5 in addition to general admission ($10 adults, PGMA & Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center members $5, children 12 & under free when
accompanied by an adult)**
      The Park of Four Waters tour will take you on a walk through
undeveloped, natural desert to the ruins of some of the ancient Hohokam
canal headworks along the Salt River that were constructed to support their
extensive agricultural system. The Hohokam lived in the Salt River area from
approximately AD 450-1450. They were an agricultural society, growing corn,
beans, squash and cotton. In order to support their extensive agricultural
system, they constructed miles of canals in order to direct water from the
Salt River to their fields. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Space is
limited, register at front desk in Museum lobby. For more information
contact Pueblo Grande Museum at 602-495-0901 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/arts-culture-history/pueblo-grande.
 
 
Friday-Sunday October 27-29, 2017: Socorro, NM
      “Advanced Metal Detecting for the Archaeologist” 13th AMDA Training,
classroom session at Bureau of Land Management Field Office, 901 South Hwy.
85, Socorro, New Mexico and fieldwork at Sevilleta Pueblo*
      Times TBA; $350 for all three days (24 credits)
      Advanced Metal Detecting for the Archaeologist (AMDA) presents its
thirteenth class offering in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management,
Socorro Field Office. AMDA is certified under the Register of Professional
Archaeologists’ continuing professional education program. The goal of the
class is to provide professional archaeologists with an understanding of
current best practices in metal detecting, and to provide the opportunity to
gain hands-on experience using a variety of metal detector makes and models.
The course is offered as 24 credits and includes 8 hours of classroom time
with 16 hours of fieldwork. The field sessions will be held at the site of
Sevilleta Pueblo, 25 miles north of Socorro on private land. Sevilleta
Pueblo was a Piro Indian community established during the 14th century along
the Camino Real (1598-1880+). The pueblo was abandoned in the late 17th
century due to chronic Apache attacks. Sample metal detection survey
indicates the presence of Spanish Colonial and Territorial periods artifacts
including (but not limited to) chain mail rings, fired and dropped lead
shot, clothing- and equestrian-related objects. Class size is limited to 25.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit  <http://amda.modernheritage.net/>
http://amda.modernheritage.net/ or contact Charles Haecker at 505-473-1326
or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Saturday October 28, 2017: Tucson and Marana, AZ
      “Tucson and Marana Yoeme (Yaqui Indian) Communities” Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center car-caravan cultural sites tour with Yoeme traditional
culture specialist Felipe S. Molina, starting at the Bwe'u Hu'upa (Big
Mesquite) site in the Santa Cruz River Park at 1317 W. Irvington Road,
Tucson (on south side of Irvington just west of the Santa Cruz River)
      8 a.m. to 1 p.m.; $25 ($20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and
Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
      Felipe S. Molina was taught the indigenous language, culture, and
history of the Yoemem (Yaqui Indians) by his maternal grandfather and
grandmother, his grandmother's cousin, and several elders from Tucson’s
original Pascua Village. A steady stream of Yoeme migrated into southern
Arizona to escape the Mexi­can government’s war on and deportations of the
Yoeme in the 1890s and early 1900s. By 1940 there were about 3,000 Yoeme in
Arizona, mostly living in the well-established villages of Libre (Barrio
Libre) and Pascua in Tucson, Yoem Pueblo and Wiilo Kampo in Marana, and
others near Eloy, Somerton, Phoenix, and Scottsdale. Mr. Molina will lead
this tour to places settled his­torically by Yoeme in the Tucson and Marana
areas including Bwe'u Hu'upa Village, the San Martin Church and plaza in the
39th Community (Barrio Libre), Pascua, Ili Hu'upa, Wiilo Kampo, and his home
community of Yoem Pueblo including its San Juan Church and plaza.
      Reservations and prepayment required by Wednesday October 25:
520-798-1201 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] 
      **** IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about
the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer for October 28 tour”
in your email subject line.
 
 
Wednesday November 1, 2017: Phoenix
      “Historic Textiles” free presentation at Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E
Washington St, Phoenix*
      6:30-8 p.m. Free
      Alston and Deborah Neal, owners of Territorial Indian Arts Gallery in
Scottsdale, Arizona, will discuss historic textiles as part of the nonprofit
Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary’s Navajo Rug Auction Week. They will bring
examples and after the lecture many will be available for closer
examination. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Pueblo Grande Museum at 602-495-0901 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/arts-culture-history/pueblo-grande.
 
 
Friday-Sunday November 3-5, 2017: Sonora, Mexico
(Registration deadline October 15)
      “Kino Missions Tour” into Sonora, Mexico, with ethnohistorian Dr. Dale
Brenneman, architect R. Brooks Jeffery, and landscape architect Wendy Lotze,
sponsored by Southwestern Mission Research Center (SMRC), departing from
Hotel Tucson City Center InnSuites, 475 N. Granada Ave., Tucson*
      8 a.m. Friday-6 to 7 p.m. Sunday; $525 per person includes
transportation, lodging (double occupancy), and meals
      More than 300 years ago, a tireless Jesuit priest by the name of
Eusebio Francisco Kino made countless forays on horseback throughout much of
what is now the northern Mexican state of Sonora and Arizona. Father Kino
brought with him ideas and material culture – chiefly the Christian faith,
the Spanish language, cattle, and crops – that would change the region
deeply and forever. Join us in retracing the steps of Kino and the
missionaries who followed him. You’ll be guided by scholars and enthusiasts
who know and love the region and volunteer their time to share it with
others. Along the way you’ll stand in awe before the evocative church ruins
of Tumacácori and Átil, marvel at the mysteries of the spectral paintings on
the church walls at Pitiquito, delight in the exuberance of Magdalena, take
in the simple beauty of Oquitoa, and bask in the rosy glow on the setting
sun as it reflects off the twin towers of Caborca’s mission. You’ll take a
side trip into prehistory with a visit to the archaeological site of
Trincheras and its new museum. You’ll lunch al fresco near the river at
Tubutama, and in the shade of quince trees watered by the centuries-old
acequia just across from San Ignacio’s church. And at day’s end, you’ll
savor dinner and margaritas on the patio of our host motel. Best of all,
you’ll have many opportunities to meet the open and friendly people of
Sonora—whose traditions, language, and ethnicity combine the region’s Native
and Spanish cultures, representing the best of both worlds.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Passport is
required. Reservation and payment deadline October 15. For more information
contact Monica Young at 520-621-6278 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
 
 
Saturday November 4, 2017: 
Ironwood Forest National Monument, AZ
      “Hike the Monument” including Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District
and other free hikes sponsored by Friends of Ironwood Forest, departing from
Marana Regional Airport, 11700 W. Avra Valley Rd. (5 miles west of the I-10
Avra Valley Road Exit 242), Marana, Arizona**
      7:30-8 a.m. registration; 8-8:30 a.m. briefings; 8:30-9 a.m. car pools
form and depart; hikes are anticipated to complete no later than 2 p.m. and
return to the airport by 3 p.m. Free
      The Friends of Ironwood Forest (FIF) invites you to come out and enjoy
its Hike the Monument (HTM) opportunity. There are a number of hikes and
activities planned to choose from that give you an opportunity to explore
and experience the wonders of the Ironwood Forest National Monument. This
event is conducted in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management,
Arizona Native Plant Society, University of Arizona faculty, and Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center. Hikes will include:
*         Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District – moderate terrain but
challenging hikes to see most of the petroglyphs up close
*         Nature hike – easy terrain / family oriented
*         Waterman Mountain Elephant Trees Botanical Hike – moderate / steep
*         Ragged Top Peak Adventure Hike – difficult / steep / loose footing
/ rock scrambling – For Experienced and Capable Hikers
*         Nature Photography – easy terrain
      The Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District educational hike will
focus on an outstanding petroglyphs site in the Monument but other
archaeological features also will be pointed out and discussed. The
petroglyphs are on a boulder-strewn hill so some boulder-scrambling is
required to view the glyphs up close. 
      The number of participants for all hikes except the Nature Hikes is
limited so sign up early. Dress in layers appropriate for the weather, wear
sturdy shoes, hat, and sunscreen, bring water, snacks, lunch, and your
camera. There are no restrooms or other facilities available on the hikes;
restrooms are available in the Marana Airport Operations building.  
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center sponsored event. To
sign up for your preferred hike or for directions, maps, or additional
information, go to  <http://www.ironwoodforest.org> ironwoodforest.org and
specify which hike you would like to sign up for, the number of people you
are bringing, and whether or not you have a high-clearance vehicle and are
willing to drive to the hike starting point. You will receive a confirmation
email letting you know if you are on the hike roster or on a wait list. To
join the FIF mailing list go to  <http://www.ironwoodforest.org>
www.ironwoodforest.org and submit your email address through the “Get
Connected” link.
 
 
Tuesday November 7, 2017: Phoenix
      “Phoenix Archaeology under the Freeways” free presentation by
archaeologist Dr. Todd W. Bostwick for Archaeology Southwest’s Archaeology
Café at Changing Hands Bookstore, 300 W. Camelback Rd., Phoenix*
      5:30 p.m. Free (food or drinks may be ordered by guests)
      Learn more about what was found under Phoenix’s freeways. Over the
past decades, thanks to archaeological investigations in advance of new
freeway construction, much has been learned about Phoenix’s history and the
lives of the people who lived in the Valley in the past. Dr. Todd Bostwick,
who was involved in many of these investigations, will give Café-goers a
look under the freeways to learn more about what archaeologists uncovered
during those excavation projects. Todd Bostwick, Ph.D., is currently
Director of Archaeology with the Verde Valley Archaeology Center and Museum
in Camp Verde. He served for 21 years as the City Archaeologist for the City
of Phoenix.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit  <http://www.archaeologycafe.org> www.archaeologycafe.org,
call 520-882-6946 ext. 23 or email  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
 
 
Wednesday November 8, 2017: Cave Creek, AZ
      “Mimbres Archaeology: Beautiful Pottery, Ordinary Architecture, and
Scarlet Macaws” free presentation by archaeologist Patricia A. Gilman for
Arizona Archaeological Society-Desert Foothills Chapter’s monthly meeting at
Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church, 6502 E. Cave Creek Road, Cave
Creek, Arizona*
      7 to 8:30 p.m. Free 
      Some highlights of the ancient Mimbres culture of southwestern New
Mexico.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No
reservations are needed. For details contact Mary Kearney at 623-687-0721 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Wednesday November 8, 2017: Queen Creek, AZ
      “New Data on Historic Tempe” free presentation by Jared Smith for
Arizona Archaeological Society, San Tan Chapter, at San Tan Historical
Society Museum, 20425 S. Old Ellsworth Road, Queen Creek, Arizona*
      7 to 8:30 p.m. Free
      A free presentation by Jared Smith, Director of the Tempe Historical
Museum. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No
reservations are needed. For details contact Marie Britton at 480-827-8070
or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Friday-Saturday November 10-11, 2017: Albuquerque
      “Symposium on the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement” for the New
Mexico Archeological Council 2017 Fall Conference at the Hibben Center,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque*
      Friday 7:30-9 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $25 registration
      This event features a Friday evening presentation by Myles Miller on
the Merchant Site, and presentations Saturday (subject to change) including:
      “Overview of the Permian Basin PA” by Martin Stein
      “SHPO’s View of the PA” by Michelle Ensey
      “Mescalero Apache Viewpoint” by Holly Houghton
      “The Big Picture in Far Southeastern New Mexico: Large-scale and
Long-term Trends and Patterns” by Jim Railey
      “The Geologic and Archaeological Context for Lithic Resource
Acquisition in the Permian Basin of Southeastern New Mexico” by Monica L.
Murrell
      “Insights on 14th Century Plains-Pueblo Migration and Identity on the
Southern Plains of New Mexico: A View from the Merchant Site” by Myles
Miller
      “Burro Tanks” by Matt Bandy
      “Boot Hill Site, LA 32229, Investigations” by Marie E. Brown
      “Laguna Plata Site, LA 5148” by Kenneth L. Brown
      “Plant Utilization in Southeastern New Mexico – A Review of the
Botanical, Ethnographic, and Archaeological Evidence” by William T.
Whitehead
      “Archaeological Geology of the Permian Basin: What We have Learned in
16 Years of Research” by Steve Hall
      “A Digital Survey for Ring-Midden Features in Southeastern New Mexico
using Aerial Lidar Data” by Phillip O. Leckman
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Cherie K. Walth at 505-254-1115 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Saturday November 11, 2017: 
Ironwood Forest National Monument, AZ
      “Chukui Kawi/Cerro Prieto: Yoeme Sacred Mountain, Hohokam Trincheras,
and Petroglyphs” car-caravan cultural sites tour with Yoeme traditional
culture specialist Felipe S. Molina and archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored
by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, meeting at McDonald’s restaurant, 13934 N.
Sandario Rd., Marana, Arizona (accessible from Interstate 10 Exit 236
(Marana)
      8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; $40 donation per participant ($32 for Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) helps cover
tour expenses and supports education programs on archaeology and Yoeme
traditional culture
      Cerro Prieto (Spanish for ‘Dark Hill’), a volcanic peak that rises
about 900 feet above the surrounding plain in the Ironwood Forest National
Monument northwest of Tucson, is a sacred place known to the Yoeme (Yaqui
Indians) as Chukui Kawi (‘Black Mountain’). Situated in close proximity to
the Inscription Hill and Pan Quemado petroglyph sites, Cerro Prieto also s
one of the largest and most complex U.S. archaeological sites featuring
trincheras – massive rock-work terraces built on steep hillsides. The site’s
archaeological features were constructed and used by the Hohokam culture
during the Tanque Verde phase (AD 1150-1300) and include house foundations,
waffle gardens, check dams, trail systems, petroglyphs, rock walls, talus
pits, and a stone source used to produce agave knives, suggesting its use
for a variety of residential functions, ceremonies, and agriculture. During
this trip, Yoeme traditional culture specialist Felipe Molina will discuss
the significance of Chukui Kawi to the Yoeme, and archaeologist Al Dart will
lead us to some of the Cerro Prieto trincheras and the nearby Pan Quemado
and Inscription Hill petroglyphs. 
      Reservations and prepayment required by 5 p.m. Wednesday November 8:
520-798-1201 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] 
      **** IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about
the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer for November 11
tour” in your email subject line.
 
 
Saturday November 11, 2017: Tubac, AZ
      “Old Town Tubac Historic Adobe Building Tour” starting at El Presidito
working artists studios and Tubac School of Fine Art, 4 Calle Iglesia (at
Burruel Street), Tubac, Arizona*
      10 a.m. to 3 p.m. $40 (Tubac Historical Society members $35; children
with adult supervision and students with identification free). Tickets may
be purchased online at  <http://www.ths-tubac.org> ths-tubac.org; cash or
check only on the day of the tour. 
      The Santa Cruz- Tubac Valley has been inhabited for over 10,000 years.
A Spanish presidio (fortified town) was established there in 1752, and a
1776 map of Tubac executed by Joseph de Urrutia shows where buildings
existed then and now. Tubac buildings from the 1820s through Territorial
times to Arizona Statehood in 1912 were homes, schools, and stores
supporting early Santa Cruz Valley settlement and ranching, farming and
mining enterprises. Beginning in 1948, Tubac’s historic adobe buildings were
restored and remodeled for use as the homes, studios, and galleries of
artists and entrepreneurs creating “Modern Tubac” and the beginning of the
tradition of “Tubac: Where Art and History Meet.” Old Town Tubac is now a
Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact call 520-841-1404 or email  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
 
 
Saturday November 11, 2017: Tucson
      “Living History Days: Military Veterans” at Presidio San Agustín del
Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
      10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free with regular museum admission ($5 adults, $1 ages
6-14, free for children under 6 and Presidio Trust members)
      November’s theme is Military Veterans. In addition to the theme
activities, visitors will experience the day-to-day lives of soldiers and
their families who lived in the Presidio in the late 1700s. Demonstrations
of children’s games, weaving, and blacksmithing are held, and fresh baked
bread and handmade tortillas are available to sample. Soldiers practice
their drills and fire a four-pound bronze cannon, a replica of cannons used
at the Presidio in the late 1700s. Interactive opportunities allow visitors
to pump the bellows of the blacksmith’s forge, spin cotton and learn how the
soldiers fire their muskets. The Presidio Museum is a reconstruction of the
original Tucson Presidio built in 1775. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact April Bourie at 520-444-3687 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Thursday November 16, 2017: Tucson
      Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring “Who Are the Sobaípuri O’odham: The Sobaípuri Legacy at the
San Xavier/Wa:k Community” free presentation and video by Deni J. Seymour,
Tony Burrell, and David Tenario at U-Like Oriental Buffet Restaurant, 5101
N. Oracle Road (at River Road), Tucson; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities
      6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s
menu) 
      Over the last couple of decades much has been learned about the
Sobaípuri O'odham who inhabited southern Arizona’s Santa Cruz and San Pedro
valleys at the dawn of written history. However, their actual history
differs substantially in many ways from commonly held notions. The
archaeological and ethnohistoric research of the presenters provides new
perspectives on where and how the Sobaípuri lived, how long they occupied
the valleys of southern Arizona, their relationship to the ancient Hohokam,
and other topics. Special reference will be made to the Sobaípuri of San
Xavier del Bac (Wa:k), where descendant populations reside. Dr. Deni Seymour
is joined by her associates, Elder Tony Burrell and Cultural Specialist
David Tenario of Wa:k, in presenting their video entitled “Who Are the
Sobaípuri O’odham?” followed by interactive lectures and discussions.
Through these means they strive to promote understanding of the human
experience through the eyes of the Wa:k O’odham and their ancestors. Using
discussions and interviews with Wa:k O’odham community members, the video
and subsequent discussions highlight the issues of how public policy,
politics, and economic interest have influenced our understanding of the
Wa:k O’odham and how their heritage has been shaped and in some cases
erased. This program is sponsored by Arizona Humanities and Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center.
      Reservations are required:  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD PUEBLO THAT
YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the Fire Code
limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room.
Reservations must be requested before 5 p.m. on the Wednesday before the
program date. 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. This program was made possible by
Arizona Humanities.
      **** IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about
the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer for November 16” in
your email subject line.
 
 
Saturday January 20, 2018: Las Cruces, NM
      “Droughts, Floods, and Freezes: The Role of Climate in the Human
History of the American Southwest” free presentation by archaeologist Dr.
Carla Van West for Human Systems Research’s 45th Anniversary Lecture Series
at University Terrace Good Samaritan Village’s Social Center Auditorium,
3011 Buena Vida Circle, Las Cruces New Mexico*
      7-9 p.m. Free
      The Earth’s climate has varied throughout its long human history.
Scientists have observed significant changes in global temperature since the
onset of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century that appear to
be linked to human activities including significant and potentially harmful
increases in the emission of greenhouse gases. The threat to existing
ecosystems and sustainable human settlement is very much in the news. But
what of those time periods prior to the eighteenth century when technology
was simpler and anthropogenic effects on local environments were less
pervasive? In this illustrated talk, I consider the societal effects of
natural climate variation in three extreme contexts—extended drought, high
magnitude floods, and unusual freezes—as they are presently understood by
archaeologists and historians in the U.S. Southwest. Dr. Van West examines
the role of climate in the abandonment of the Mesa Verde region by Ancestral
Pueblo groups in the thirteenth century, the displacement of Hohokam and
Sinagua populations in the fourteenth century, and the hardships suffered by
the historic Rio Grande pueblo communities of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. Through these examples, she describes the linkages among climate
variation, cumulative human impacts to local environments, population size,
resource demand, and sociopolitical organization, with a focus on their
continuing relevance. Dr. Carla Van West earned a PhD in anthropology from
Washington State University, a MA in anthropology from the University of
Arizona, and BA in anthropology from Elmira College in New York State. She
is an Adjunct Assistant Professor within the Department of Anthropology,
University of New Mexico. Dr. Van West is the Director of Research Programs
for the nonprofit SRI Foundation in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. She has more
than 40 years experience in the archaeology of the US Southwest and also has
engaged in fieldwork in Scotland, Cyprus, and Egypt. Her frequently cited
dissertation involved an innovative approach to linking Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) technology with paleoclimatic data for locations
in southwestern Colorado. Before joining the staff of the Foundation, Dr.
Van West was Senior Principal Investigator at Statistical Research, Inc. in
Tucson, Arizona and a Research Associate with Crow Canyon Archaeological
Center in Cortez, Colorado. Her current research interests include tree-ring
based reconstructions of past climate, pre-Columbian agricultural
strategies, and sustainable human settlement. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Human Systems Research at 505-524-9456 or
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Thursday November 16, 2017: Las Cruces, NM
      “White Mountain Apache Scouts Attack Victorio’s Band on the Palomas
River, May 24-25, 1880” free presentation by archaeologist Christopher D.
Adams for Human Systems Research’s 45th Anniversary Lecture Series at
University Terrace Good Samaritan Village’s Social Center Auditorium, 3011
Buena Vida Circle, Las Cruces New Mexico*
      7-9 p.m. Free
      The Black Range is located within the Gila National Forest and was
once the homeland of the Warm Springs Apaches, the eastern branch of the
Chiricahua Apaches. Victorio was leader of the Warm Springs Chiricahua
Apache and is often described as one of the greatest Apache military
strategists. The fight on the Palomas River took place between 60 Western
Apache Scouts, led by Chief of Scouts Henry K. Parker, and Victorio’s band
of Warm Springs Apaches. This was the only engagement where Victorio was
caught off guard and defeated in his own territory. This encounter was a
major turning point in the Victorio War of 1879-1880 and marked the
beginning of the end for Victorio.
The presentation will highlight the archaeological work that has taken place
on this important fight that pitted Apaches against Apaches. Today the
battle site is protected by the Gila National Forest and Turner Enterprises
Inc. Both the site and the area continue to hold significance to the
Mescalero, Chiricahua, San Carlos and White Mountain Apache Tribes.
Christopher Adams is the East Zone archaeologist, Black Range and Wilderness
Ranger Districts of the Gila National Forest. He has been with the Gila
National Forest Heritage Program for ten years and with the U.S. Forest
Service for 20 years as a professional archaeologist. Mr. Adams has been
working in archaeology for well over 30 years in both the private sector and
well as with the U.S. Forest Service. Mr. Adams received his B.A. from
Arizona State University. Mr. Adams has been using metal sensing technology
for over 40 years in North America and is considered to be one of the
leading experts in the Apache Indian War Period in the Southwestern U.S.A.
He has worked on battlefield projects in New Mexico, Arizona, Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado, Alaska, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and Virginia. 
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Human Systems Research at 505-524-9456 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Monday November 20, 2017: Tucson
      “Nomadic Tribes of the Rio Grande Valley” free presentation by Lindsay
Montgomery for Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) meeting
at Banner University Medical Center DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.,
Tucson*
      7:30-9 p.m. Free
      The way we evaluate the success and failure of a society is deeply
influenced by our political position as members of Western Civilization.
While this may seem like an obvious statement, the reality is that we as
Westerners often forget that our standing in the world today is not natural
and the questions we ask about that standing are not obvious. This type of
thinking has led to the growth of a very particular genre of scholarship;
what one might call “big picture history.” Many of these big picture
histories seek to explain how exactly it came to be that the West won and
the rest apparently lost. This talk will offer a critique of big picture
history using the Comanche as a case study. Drawing on archaeological and
historical evidence of the Comanche in New Mexico, Lindsay Montgomery will
present an alternative account of the 18th century Southwest. This account
shows that the Comanche were not only resisted Spanish colonialism but were
in control of a vast economic-political empire of their own. In presenting
this alternative history, this talk will argue that Europe’s victory over
underdeveloped and unsophisticated Natives was far from inevitable.
      * 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 John D. Hall at 520-205-2553 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
December 1st is the deadline to purchase tickets for the Thursday December
14, 2017: Tucson
      “Millions for Tucson Raffle of a 2017 Ford Explorer Platinum, Two
First-Class Airline Tickets, and $5,000 Cash” by Tucson’s Jim Click
Automotive Team to benefit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center & other Tucson
charities 
      Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give away a 2017 Ford Explorer
Platinum edition SUV in a raffle to raise millions of dollars for Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center and other southern Arizona nonprofit organizations. With
your contribution you could win this 2017 vehicle – or the second prize, two
first-class airline tickets to anywhere in the world; or the third prize of
$5,000 in cash! And 100% of your contribution will support Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center, which gets to keep all of the proceeds from our sales of
the tickets for this “Millions for Tucson” raffle.
      Tickets for the raffle are 5 for $100 or $25 each. Your donation to
purchase raffle tickets will help Old Pueblo Archaeology Center provide more
archaeology and culture education programs for children who would not be
able to afford our programs without your help. To be entered in the raffle
your contribution for tickets must be received (not postmarked) by Old
Pueblo by Friday December 1st so that we can turn the raffle tickets in to
the Jim Click Automotive Team’s coordinator by December 8. The drawing will
be held on December 14. 
      The rules of the raffle require that Old Pueblo account for all
tickets issued to us and that we return all unsold tickets; therefore,
payment in advance is required in order to obtain tickets from us. Tickets
may be purchased by check sent to our PO box address listed below, by
calling Allen Dart at 520-603-6181 to provide your Visa, MasterCard, or
Discover card payment authorization, or through the PayPal portal on Old
Pueblo’s  <http://www.oldpueblo.org> www.oldpueblo.org home page. Once you
have provided payment, Old Pueblo will enter your tickets into the drawings
for you and will 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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Saturday December 9, 2017: Gila Bend area, AZ
      TOUR FULL – WAITING LIST. Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Sears
Point, Painted Rock, and Gatlin: Patayan and Hohokam Petroglyphs and
Archaeology” tour guided by archaeologist Dr. Aaron M. Wright starting at
Interstate 8 Exit 78 (Spot Road) approximately 39 miles west of Gila Bend,
Arizona
      10 a.m. to 4:30 (or later if joining the group for dinner in Gila
Bend). A $45 donation per participant ($36 for members of Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center & Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary) helps cover Old
Pueblo’s tour expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology
and traditional cultures.
      Tour leader Aaron Wright, a Preservation Archaeologist with Tucson’s
Archaeology Southwest organization, has research interests in
paleoclimatology, indigenous Southwest ritualism and religion, and rock art.
He will lead us first to see the seemingly countless petroglyphs and
geoglyphs (intaglios; ground sculptures) on Sears Point, the northwestern
escarpment of the Sentinel Plain (a vast basaltic field dotted with low
shield volcanoes) located along the lower Gila River between Gila Bend and
Yuma, Arizona. Sears Point is renowned for its density of petroglyphs as
well as their unique style attributed to the Patayan culture tradition
(which is believed to be ancestral to contemporary Yuman- and
O'odham-speaking communities). The site is adorned with thousands of
petroglyphs, and several geoglyphs, and also is traversed by seemingly
endless ancient trails. We’ll also get to see remnants of the South Gila
Canal (a defunct irrigation venture from the 1880s) at and near Sears Point,
after which we’ll caravan to the Painted Rocks petroglyphs site northwest of
Gila Bend and the Gatlin Platform Mound site on the outskirts of Gila Bend,
touring until around 4:30. Tour participants interested in having dinner
together before returning home can reconvene at Sophia's Mexican Restaurant
in Gila Bend at 5 p.m.
      Reservations and prepayment required by Wednesday December 6:
520-798-1201 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] 
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Saturday, December 9, 2017: Dragoon, AZ
      “Night at the Amerind Museum 80th Anniversary Exhibit Opening” at the
Amerind Museum, 2100 N. Amerind Rd. Dragoon, Arizona*
      5-8 p.m. $80
      Come celebrate the Amerind Museum’s history, accomplishments, and new
museum exhibit on Paquimé (Casas Grandes, Mexico). This event is open to the
entire community. Immerse yourself in the ancient history and culture of the
Indigenous peoples of Chihuahua. The main museum, art gallery, and Fulton
Seminar House will come to life through music, hands on activities, guided
tours, speakers, and Fulton family history. Optional bus transportation will
be provided from Tucson.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Anna Schneider at  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or Kelly Holt at  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or call 520-586-3666.
 
 
Wednesday December 13, 2017: Queen Creek, AZ
      “Massacre on the Gila: An Account of the Last Major Battle between
American Indians with Reflections on the Origin of War” free presentation by
Steve Hoza for Arizona Archaeological Society, San Tan Chapter, at San Tan
Historical Society Museum, 20425 S. Old Ellsworth Road, Queen Creek,
Arizona*
      7 to 8:30 p.m. Free
      Huhugam Ki Museum Archivist Steve Hoza will discuss what is perhaps
the most important battle that the O’Odham (Pima) and Piipaash (Maricopa)
ever fought. The Battle of Maricopa Wells, fought in 1857 between Pima and
Maricopa warriors on one side and Yuma, Mohave, Apache, and Yavapai warriors
on the other, is the subject of the book Massacre on the Gila: An Account of
the Last Major Battle Between American Indians With Reflections on the
Origin of War, by Clifton B. Kroeber and Bernard L. Fontana. Steve will
share his recent research and new insights about this event. Come find out
the who, what, where, and why of this little-known conflict. 
            * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event.
No reservations are needed. For details contact Marie Britton at
480-827-8070 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Thursday December 21, 2017: Tucson
      Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
event featuring Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Tour, Dinner, and “Celebrating the
Solstice: Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces” presentation
by archaeologist Allen Dart in the Dining Hall and Petroglyph Auditorium of
the Picture Rocks Redemptorist Renewal Center (PRRNC), 7101 W. Picture Rocks
Road, Tucson 
      Petroglyphs tour at 5:30, dinner at 6, presentation 7:15-8:30 p.m.
Dinner $15 per person, tour and presentation free
      Native Americans in the Southwest developed sophisticated skills in
astronomy and predicting the seasons, centuries before Old World peoples
first entered the region. In this presentation archaeologist Allen Dart
discusses the petroglyphs at Picture Rocks, the architecture of the "Great
House" at Arizona's Casa Grande Ruins, and other archaeological evidence of
ancient southwestern astronomy and calendrical reckoning; and interprets how
these discoveries may have related to ancient Native American rituals.
      Before dinner archaeologist Allen Dart will lead a free tour to the
Picture Rocks petroglyphs. 
      For this one-time event the dinner fee is $15 per person payable to
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center by check or credit/debit card no later than 5
p.m. Tuesday December 19, so that Old Pueblo can tell the PRRNC on December
20 how many people will attend. Donations will be requested during the event
to benefit Old Pueblo’s educational efforts. Call Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201
no later than 5 p.m. December 19 to make reservations and pay for dinner.
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Wednesday January 3, 2018: Phoenix
      “Ancient Southwestern Native American Pottery” free presentation by
archaeologist Allen Dart for the Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary at Pueblo
Grande Museum, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix; cosponsored by Arizona
Humanities*
      6:30 to 8 p.m. Free 
      In this presentation Mr. Dart shows and discusses Native American
ceramic styles that characterized specific peoples and eras in the U.S.
Southwest prior to about 1450, and talks about how archaeologists use
pottery for dating archaeological sites and interpreting ancient lifeways.
He discusses the importance of context in archaeology, how the things people
make change in style over time, and how different styles are useful for
identifying different cultures and for dating archaeological sites. His many
illustrations include examples of ancient pottery types made throughout the
American Southwest from about 2000 to 500 years ago. This program was made
possible by Arizona Humanities.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No
reservations are needed. For details contact the Pueblo Grande Museum in
Phoenix at 602-495-0901 or Don Appel at  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]; for information about the presentation subject matter
contact Allen Dart at 520-798-1201 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
 
 
Saturday January 6, 2018: Tohono O'odham Reservation, AZ
      “Baboquivari Peak Sacred Cave and Petroglyphs” car-caravan educational
tour with Old Pueblo Archaeology Center executive director Allen Dart
departing from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson (or meet
tour in Baboqui­vari Campground) to sites in and near Topawa on Tohono
O'odham Indian Reservation, Arizona
      Starts at 7 a.m. in Tucson at Pima Community Col­lege Community
Campus, 401 N. Bonita Ave.; or meet tour at 8:30 a.m. in Baboqui­vari
Campground east of Topawa on the reservation; ends around 4 p.m. at Picture
Rock on the reservation; estimated return time to Tucson 5:30 p.m. Fee $45
($36 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary
members; no charge for members or employees of the Tohono O’odham Nation) 
      This educational adventure into Native American culture travels to the
Tohono O'odham (Papago) Indian Reservation to visit the historic Baboquivari
Camp, a Tohono O'odham traditional sacred cave, and the Picture Rock
petroglyphs archaeological site. We will car-caravan from Tucson to Topawa,
Arizona, then drive 12 miles east toward Baboquivari Peak (the legendary
home of the Tohono O'odham Creator deity I’itoi) to Baboquivari Camp, a
historic Civilian Conservation Corps headquarters camp site in the oak
woodland just below Baboquivari Peak. From there, trip participants who are
able can go on a two-mile-roundtrip, 1,100-foot-elevation-difference hike
(classified as very difficult) up a trail leading halfway up the peak to
visit a cave site traditionally believed to be one of the homes of the deity
I’itoi. After returning from the hike we will visit Picture Rock, a small
butte that contains petroglyphs and pictographs, bedrock mortars, and
ancient artifacts. Modern Tohono O’odham offerings may be present in some of
the visited locations. Artifact collecting is not permitted, and photos are
not allowed in the cave but are OK outside of it. Campers must bring their
own food and water, as there are no convenience stores or fast food nearby.
      Reservations and prepayment required by Wednesday January 3:
520-798-1201 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] 
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Wednesday January 10, 2018: Cave Creek, AZ
      “Ancient Southwestern Native American Pottery” free presentation by
archaeologist Allen Dart for Arizona Archaeological Society-Desert Foothills
Chapter’s monthly meeting at Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church,
6502 E. Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek, Arizona, cosponsored by Arizona
Humanities*
      7 to 8:30 p.m. Free 
      In this presentation Mr. Dart shows and discusses Native American
ceramic styles that characterized specific peoples and eras in the U.S.
Southwest prior to about 1450, and talks about how archaeologists use
pottery for dating archaeological sites and interpreting ancient lifeways.
He discusses the importance of context in archaeology, how the things people
make change in style over time, and how different styles are useful for
identifying different cultures and for dating archaeological sites. His many
illustrations include examples of ancient pottery types made throughout the
American Southwest from about 2000 to 500 years ago. This program was made
possible by Arizona Humanities.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No
reservations are needed. For details contact Mary Kearney at 623-687-0721 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Thursday January 18, 2018: Tucson
            Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” dinner featuring “The Ancient Hohokam Ballgame of Arizona” free
presentation by archaeologist Dr. Todd Bostwick at U-Like Oriental Buffet
Restaurant, 5101 N. Oracle Rd., Tucson; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities 
      6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s
menu) 
      The ancient Hohokam culture of Arizona constructed at least 200 ball
courts more than 800 years ago. These oval depressions were likely used to
play a ball game that originated in southern Mexico, where the game was
played with a rubber ball and had a very important role in reenacting the
creation of humans in this world. This presentation will describe the
recorded Hohokam ball courts located within Hohokam villages scattered
throughout Arizona, summarize what archaeologists propose they were used
for, and discuss how these public structures may relate to what is known
about the Mexican rubber ball games, which are still played today. This
program was made possible by Arizona Humanities.
      Reservations are required:  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD PUEBLO THAT
YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the Fire Code
limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room.
Reservations must be requested before 5 p.m. on the Wednesday before the
program date. 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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Tuesday January 23, 2018: Apache Junction, AZ
      “Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free
presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at the Apache Junction Public
Library, 1177 N. Idaho Road, Apache Junction, Arizona; cosponsored by
Arizona Humanities*
      2:30-3:30 p.m. Free
      Ancient Indian pic­tographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols
carved or pecked on rocks) are claimed by some to be forms of writing for
which mean­ings are known. But are such claims sup­por­ted by archaeology or
by Na­­tive Americans themselves? Mr. Dart illustrates southwestern
petroglyphs and pictographs, and discusses how even the same rock art symbol
may be interpreted differently from popular, scientific, and modern Native
American perspectives. This program was made possible by Arizona Humanities.
            * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Tracie Curtis at 480-474-8563 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]; for information about the
activity subject matter contact Allen Dart at 520-798-1201 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
 
Tuesdays January 30-April 3, 2018: Tucson
      “Prehistory of the Southwest: The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona”
adult-education class (first of 10 weekly class sessions) taught by
archaeologist Allen Dart at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th
Street, Tucson
      6:30 to 8:30 p.m. each Tuesday evening January 30 through April 3; fee
of $95 ($80 for members of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona
Archaeological Society, or Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary) does not include
the cost of Arizona Archaeological Society membership or AAS Certification
Program registration1 or cost of recommended text: The Hohokam Millennium by
Paul R. Fish and Suzanne K. Fish, editors; available from Old Pueblo for
$24.95 (Old Pueblo & PGMA members $19.96)
      Archaeologist Allen Dart teaches this class in ten 2-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 trade.
Students seeking the AAS Certification are expected to prepare a BRIEF
research report to be presented orally or in written form. Minimum
enrollment 8, maximum 20. 
      Reservations and payment required by 5 p.m. Friday January 26:
520-798-1201 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
 
1 Class meets the requirements of the Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS)
Certification Program’s “Advanced Prehistory of the Southwest: Hohokam”
class. The AAS basic “Prehistory 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/certification.htm>
www.azarchsoc.org/certification.htm).
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Saturday February 10, 2018: Tohono O'odham Nation, AZ
      Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Ventana Cave, Rock Art & Tohono
O'odham Children’s Shrine” car-caravan educational tour with archaeologist
Allen Dart departing from Tucson at the Park & Ride parking lot at I-10 and
Ruthrauff Rd. (northeast corner of the I-10 westbound Frontage Road at Exit
252) or at 7 a.m. on the east (front) side of the McDonalds Restaurant at
3160 N. Toltec Rd. in Eloy (accessible from I-10 Exit 203)
      6 a.m. (Tucson departure) or 7 a.m. (Eloy departure) to 4 p.m. Fee $45
($36 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary
members; no charge for members or employees of the Tohono O’odham Nation) 
      Old Pueblo Archaeology Center offers this early-morning car-caravan
tour to visit the Ventana Cave National Historic Landmark site and a Native
American sacred site on the Tohono O’odham Nation. The Arizona State
Museum’s 1940s excavations in Ventana Cave, led by archaeologists Emil W.
Haury and Julian Hayden, found evidence for human occupation extending from
historic times back to around 10,000 years ago. The cave, which actually is
a very large rockshelter, also contains pictographs, petroglyphs, and other
archaeological features used by Native Americans for thousands of years.
After visiting the cave we will stop at a Native American petroglyphs site
and the “Children’s Shrine,” a Tohono O'odham sacred site where legend says
Tohono O'odham children were offered to the waters to stop a great flood
that threatened to engulf the world. Tour leaves Tucson at 6 a.m. to ensure
the pictographs can be seen in the best morning light. Fees will benefit the
Tohono O’odham Hickiwan District’s efforts to develop a
caretaker-interpretive center at Ventana Cave, and the nonprofit Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center’s education programs. 
      Reservations and prepayment required by Wednesday February 7:
520-798-1201 or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] 
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Thursday February 15, 2018: Tucson
      Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring “Cochise and Bascom, How the Apache Wars Began” free
presentation by historian Doug Hocking at El Molinito Mexican Restaurant,
10180 N. Oracle Rd., Oro Valley, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities 
      6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s
menu)
      In 1861, Lieutenant George Bascom confronted Chiricahua Apache leader
Cochise demanding the return of the abducted boy, Felix Ward (aka Mickey
Free). The epic 14-day affair, 70 soldiers surrounded by 500 Apaches rescued
by the timely intervention of the cavalry, ended in blood with hostages
slain on both sides. Congress recognized Dr. Bernard Irwin, who rode with 12
men to relieve the beleaguered soldiers, with the first Medal of Honor.
Historians have come to credit Bascom with starting a war. This talk
explores the circumstances that led to the confrontation and how blame came
to rest on the lieutenant. Speaker Doug Hocking is an independent scholar
who has completed advanced studies in American history, ethnology, and
historical archaeology. In 2015, he won the Philip A. Danielson Award for
Best Presentation. Doug, who served in Military Intelligence and retired as
an armored cavalry officer, grew up among the Jicarilla Apache and paisanos
of the Rio Arriba. Doug writes both fiction and history. His work has
appeared in True West, Wild West, Buckskin Bulletin, Roundup Magazine, and
the Journal of Arizona History. Doug on the board of the Arizona Historical
Society, Cochise County Historical Society, the Oregon-California Trails
Association, and Westerners International. This program was made possible by
Arizona Humanities.
      Reservations are required:  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD PUEBLO THAT
YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the Fire Code
limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room.
Reservations must be requested before 5 p.m. on the Wednesday before the
program date. Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the
restaurant’s menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to
benefit Old Pueblo’s educational efforts. 
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the above-listed activity please reply with “Send flyer for February 15” in
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Thursday February 22, 2018: Las Cruces, NM
      “A New Kind of Frontier: Hispanic Homesteaders in Eastern New Mexico”
free presentation by archaeologist Dr. Kelly L. Jenks for Human Systems
Research’s 45th Anniversary Lecture Series at University Terrace Good
Samaritan Village’s Social Center Auditorium, 3011 Buena Vida Circle, Las
Cruces New Mexico*
      7-9 p.m. Free
      The rural community of Los Ojitos in Guadalupe County, New Mexico was
settled in the late 1860s by the first generation of Hispanic homesteaders.
Many of these founding families came from Spanish-and Mexican-era land grant
communities where grantees shared the rights to common lands and the
responsibility to build and maintain irrigation ditches and other public
structures. In claiming homesteads in New Mexico’s Middle Pecos Valley,
these families were forced to adapt some of their traditional practices to
meet the requirements of a new physical environment and new American land
tenure laws. Recent archaeological and historical research at this site has
focused on understanding this transition, tracking these families from their
arrival in the 1860s to their eventual departure in the mid-twentieth
century. This presentation introduces the site of Los Ojitos and reflects on
this research, considering the evidence of and reasons for shifts in
agricultural and domestic practices. Dr. Kelly Jenks is an assistant
professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University specializing in
historical archaeology. Her research focuses on culture change,
commerce/trade, and the construction of social identities in the American
Southwest and Southern Plains. Her most recent research projects relating to
these topics have been at the Spanish land grant community of San Miguel del
Vado, the Hispano homestead site of Los Ojitos, and the San Diego paraje
(campsite) on the Camino Real.
      * This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Human Systems Research at 505-524-9456 or
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Thursday March 15, 2018: Tucson
      Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring the presentation “El Camino del Diablo” by Charles R.
“Butch” Farabee at a Tucson-area restaurant to be announced.
      6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s
menu) 
      **** Description coming.
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[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD PUEBLO THAT
YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the Fire Code
limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room.
Reservations must be requested before 5 p.m. on the Wednesday before the
program date. 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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Tuesday March 20, 2018: Tucson-Marana, AZ
      Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Spring Equinox Tour of Los Morteros
and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites” with archaeologist Allen
Dart departing from near Silverbell Road and Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana,
Arizona
      8 a.m. to noon. $20 ($16 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
      To celebrate the vernal equinox and the annual Arizona Archaeology and
Heritage Awareness Month, 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 AD 650 and 1450.
      Reservations and prepayment required by Monday March 19. 520-798-1201
or  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] 
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(2) OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER’S YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS
 
      Reservations are taken continually for school classes and other
children’s groups take advantage of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s OPEN3
simulated archaeological excavation, OPENOUT archaeology outreach
presentations, and archaeological site-touring children’s education
programs.


The OPEN3 Simulated Archaeological Excavation Education Program
 
      The Old Pueblo Educational Neighborhood (OPEN) program allows students
and adults to learn what archaeology is all about by excavation in “OPEN3,”
a full-scale model of an archaeological site.  OPEN3 is a simulated
excavation site that archaeologists have constructed to resemble a southern
Arizona Hohokam Indian ruin. It has full-size replicas of prehistoric
pithouses and outdoor features that the Hohokam used for cooking, storage,
and other (sometimes surprising) purposes. Students participating in the
program get to learn and practice techniques used to excavate real
archaeological sites. They are also exposed to scientific interpretation of
how ancient people constructed their houses, what they looked like, ate, and
believed in, and how they created beauty in their lives.
 
OPENOUT Archaeology Outreach Presentations
 
      Old Pueblo’s OPEN­OUT (Old Pueblo Educational Neighborhood Outreach)
program offers 45-60 minute presenta­tions by pro­fes­sional archaeologists.
Each presentation shows kids how some aspects of everyday life have changed
while others have stayed the same.
      The “Ancient People of Arizona” presentation gives children an
overview of how the Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi), Mogollon, and Hohokam
peoples lived.
      The “Lifestyle of the Hohokam” program shows children how the ancient
Hohokam lived.
      The “Ancient People of Arizona” and “Lifestyle of the Hohokam”
presentations both include real and replica artifacts, plus abundant
illustrations to help children experience how prehistoric Native Americans
of our area lived and to appreciate the arts they created. 
      “What is an Archaeologist?” is a program designed to give children an
idea of what archaeologists do, how they do it, and how they learn about
people through their work. This presentation includes examples of the tools
archaeologists work with, real and replica artifacts, and activities to help
children experience how archaeologists interpret the past.
      The hands-on materials and fun lesson plans in our OPENOUT programs
bring archaeology and the past alive for children and are a per­fect prelude
for the OPEN3 simulated archaeological excavation program.
 
Tours for Youth
 
      Old Pueblo Archaeology Center offers guided tours to real
archaeological sites for classrooms and other organized children’s groups.
Heritage sites that can be visited in this program include a choice of the
Picture Rocks petroglyphs site (visited by the school group shown in the
accompanying photo), Los Morteros Hohokam Village, or Vista del Rio Hohokam
Village. Each youth tour is a guided visit that does not include
archaeological excavation; participants are not allowed to collect
artifacts.
 
       For details and pricing of our children’s education programs please
visit our
http://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/
web page.
 
 
(3) OUR MISSION AND SUPPORT
 
      Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's mission is to educate children and
adults to understand and appreciate archaeology and other cultures, to
foster the preservation of archaeological and historical sites, and to
develop a lifelong concern for the importance of nonrenewable resources and
traditional cultures.
      If you are a member of Old Pueblo, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! If your
membership has lapsed, we would be grateful if you would rejoin us so that
you can again receive membership benefits. Old Pueblo members receive
substantial discounts on most of our tours and other activities for which
both Old Pueblo and the Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary charge fees. You can
renew your membership by going to this Old Pueblo Archaeology Center web
page:  <http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/>
http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/
            If you then scroll down to the bottom of that page, you can
simply follow the instructions for using our secure online membership form
or our printable Enrollment/Subscription form.
            Donations by check can be made payable to “OPAC” and mailed to
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577. You can
also donate using a major credit or debit card by clicking on “Donation
Form” at Old Pueblo’s secure donations web page:
<http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/donations/>
http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/donations/
            All of us at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center appreciate your
support! I hope you enjoy reading this and future issues of the Old Pueblo
Archaeology bulletin!
 
 
Regards,
 
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director (Volunteer)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
       (520) 798-1201 office, (520) 798-1966 fax
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        Disclosure: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's Executive Director Allen
Dart volunteers his time to Old Pueblo. Mr. Dart works full-time as a
cultural resources specialist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service in Arizona. Views expressed in communications from Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center do not necessarily represent views of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture or of the United States.
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