For Immediate Release
Table of Contents
Some Online Resources
Upcoming Activities
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Mission and Support
Opt-Out Options
SOME ONLINE RESOURCES
Check out some of these online resources about archaeology, history,
and cultures that you can indulge in at any time! (Upcoming online offerings
scheduled for specific days and times are listed sequentially by date below
these online listings.) Click on the blue-lettered words to visit websites
or to send emails.
* The Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, offers video recordings
of the presentations New Knowledge from Old Sites: The Hopi at Homol'ovi by
archaeologist Dr. E. Charles Adams at
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ZGX3CxzJc&t=44s>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ZGX3CxzJc&t=44s; and Oaxaca Stories in
Cloth by photographer and author Eric Mindling at
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNi7JY3pbSs>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNi7JY3pbSs.
* Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and author Craig Childs have created
Return to House of Rain “Craiginars” for which Part 1 can be watched at
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4E72FTRKcs&t=2s>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4E72FTRKcs&t=2s . You can watch Part 2 and
all past Crow Canyon webinars at <http://www.crowcanyon.org/youtube>
www.crowcanyon.org/youtube.
* The City of Phoenix’s Pueblo Grande Museum has produced a Virtual Ancient
Technology Day video in which guest speakers share culture, history and
technology demonstrations or show-and-tell segments on such things as
projectile point production, stone jewelry manufacturing, friction fire
starting, the importance of parrots to the first peoples, adobe brick
construction, and agave roasts:
<https://pueblogrande.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1cb0b1eaae7ad31a171
b9bfe2&id=8fbba50b89&e=f1c07e93da> Click Here to Watch Video.
Stay safe and participate in the ones that appeal to you!
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Listings below that are preceded by CANCELLED, POSTPONED, or
RESCHEDULED notes are included because they were listed in Old Pueblo’s
previous upcoming-activities emails but have since been cancelled or
postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center has closed our facilities to the public
since mid-March to help slow the spread of COVID-19 and already has
cancelled or postponed most of our in-person events since late March. We
plan to hold in-person events starting this fall, hoping they can go forward
if the pandemic threat is reduced by the time they are scheduled. Until we
have better knowledge about how the pandemic is progressing, we are keeping
these events scheduled rather than cancelling them in case they can proceed.
We will continue to note in our monthly upcoming-activities emails if
we decide to cancel or postpone already-scheduled in-person events, and are
prepared to switch as many of our non-tour events as needed to Zoom online
events and to offer additional online activities in the future.
For any activity listed below that is marked “This is not an Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center event” the information may be out of date due to
COVID-19 coronavirus concerns – Readers are advised to confirm details with
the event organizers.
Tuesday March 16, 2021: Tucson
“Early People” History in the Field Youth Program
at Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
10 a.m.-noon. $5 per person.
A two-hour program ideal for third and fourth grade students but
youth of all ages will enjoy the programs and are welcome to register.
Participants will travel back in time to 400 CE to experience the daily life
of the Hohokam. Visit an excavated Early Agricultural period pit house and
engage in activities, including using an atlatl or early drill, and making a
utilitarian basket or pot. One adult chaperone required per every four
children.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=227>
https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=227.
Tuesday March 16, 2021: Online
“The Navajo Long Walk (1863 through 1868): Through the Eyes of Navajo
Women” free online presentation by Dr. Evangeline Parsons Yazzie (Diné),
sponsored by the Arizona State Museum (ASM), University of Arizona, Tucson*
4-5 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
The Navajo people of old were forced to leave their homes and walk
over 450 miles to Fort Sumner in eastern New Mexico where they were
imprisoned on a small reservation. For four long years the Navajo people
faced hunger, loneliness, disorientation, illnesses, severe environmental
conditions, and hopelessness. Navajo women were forced to become warriors.
It was the nurturing role, words and actions of women that spared the lives
of the ones who survived. Before their release from prisoner of war status
in 1968, it was the demands of the women that led the Navajo people back to
their original lands in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico.
The Long Walk has been collected in historical literature by non-Navajo
authors. Absent from the literature is the Navajo perspective. The audience
will hear the Navajo female elders’ version of the Long Walk in this
presentation. Evangeline Parsons Yazzie is Professor Emerita of Navajo at
Northern Arizona University.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. This is
the second in a three-part series in honor of Women’s History Month made
possible through a partnership with Arizona Humanities. Register for one and
you register for all:
<https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/program/womens-history-month-three-p
art-series>
https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/program/womens-history-month-three-pa
rt-series.
Wednesday March 17, 2021: Online
“Tangible History: Some Southern Arizona Archaeological and Historic
Sites” free online presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart sponsored by
Arizona Senior Academy, Tucson*
2:30-3:30 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Archaeological and historic sites provide tangible evidence of a
region’s past and of how cultures have changed through time. There are
thousands of such sites in southern Arizona that most other people know
nothing about. In this presentation, archaeologist Al Dart provides an
overview of southern Arizona archaeology and cultures, and shares
information about many of these sites, including ones open for public
visitation.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To request
access to the Zoom link email <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Wednesday March 17, 2021: Online
“The Use of LiDAR in Archaeology” free online presentation with
archaeologist Christopher Euler, sponsored by Grant County Archaeological
Society (GCAS), Silver City, New Mexico*
6:45 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free. Christopher Euler, South Zone
Archaeologist for the Gila National Forest, will discuss how archaeologists
are using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) remote-sensing technology.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Email Kyle
Meredith at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] to request the Zoom
link. Priority given to GCAS members.
Wednesdays March 17, 24, & 31, and April 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2021: Online
“The 4 Directions Projections: Sharing Traditional and Contemporary
Indigenous Knowledge to Nurture People, Revere Places, and Promote Purpose”
free Zoom series sponsored by Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA),
Santa Fe*
7:30-8:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free.
Each episode features a guest presenter sharing her or his traditional
knowledge perspective and projects. Register for any or all episodes through
the blue-font links below.
Presentations began on February 17. The following ones are still
coming up:
March 17: Restoration of Acoma Pueblo Food Systems with Aaron Lowden
(Acoma Pueblo):
<https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=6>
https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=6
March 24: Pueblo Food Experience with Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara
Pueblo):
<https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=7>
https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=7
March 31: Health Sovereignty Addressing Food, Herbalism, Counsel with
Tokunboh Obasi (Taino Tribe of the White Lands):
<https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=8>
https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=8
April 7: Columbia Plateau Traditional Foods with Leanne Campbell
(Coeur d’Alene/Colville/Nez Perce):
<https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=9>
https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=9
April 14: 4 Bridges Permaculture with Lorraine Kahneratokwas Gray
(Mohawk, Kahnawake):
<https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=10>
https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=10
April 21: Cedar as an Art Form with Toni Jo Gobin (Salish):
<https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=11>
https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=11
April 28: Modern connections of Indigenous Women Farming Methods with
Towana Yepa (Jemez Pueblo/Annishinabe):
<https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=12>
https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/cart/show?fw1pk=12
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/course/details/course_id/4C
464012D0DAE38DACA1B90B41699445/loc/45385A34F141D34889B30DAD16F95BE0/term/D99
6C3EAC5051CB79ED8953FB9D768C8>
https://iaia.empower-xl.com/community/index.cfm/course/details/course_id/4C4
64012D0DAE38DACA1B90B41699445/loc/45385A34F141D34889B30DAD16F95BE0/term/D996
C3EAC5051CB79ED8953FB9D768C8. Registrants may be asked to provide date of
birth and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers; for
questions about this policy contact Jonathan Breaker at
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday March 18, 2021: Online
“A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth and Sky”
free online presentation with Dr. Henrietta Mann sponsored by Indigenous
Education Institute, Friday Harbor, Washington*
12 noon Pacific Daylight Time. Free.
Dr. Henrietta Mann (Tsetsehestoestse [Cheyenne]), Professor Emerita,
Montana State University, and founding President of the Cheyenne and Arapaho
Tribal College, presents this 6th webinar in the Indigenous Education
Institute’s “A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives of Earth and Sky”
series. In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine named Dr. Mann as one of the ten
leading professors in the nation.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6016137535157/WN_pu1xsX8tTVOWvNIic
_a66g>
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6016137535157/WN_pu1xsX8tTVOWvNIic_
a66g.
Thursday March 18, 2021: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online dinnertime
program featuring
“Mimbres in Context: Hohokam, Chaco, Casas Grandes” free Zoom online
presentation by archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, sponsored by Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center, Tucson
7 to 8:30 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. Free.
The ancient Mimbres people of southwestern New Mexico were
interesting not only for their famous pottery, but also as “players” in the
larger history of the ancient Southwest. We consider Mimbres history in
context of its times: Hohokam up to about 1000 CE; Chaco from 1000 to 1150;
and the run-up to Paquimé/Casas Grandes from 1150 to 1250. Mimbres began as
pithouse villages making red-on-brown pottery (much like Hohokam
red-on-buff) and developing Hohokam-inspired canal irrigation systems in the
Chihuahua Desert. Around 1000 Hohokam waned as Chaco waxed – the “Pueblo II
Expansion” of old textbooks. Emil Haury, long ago, identified 1000 as
approximately the time Mimbres was transformed into stone pueblos making
black-on-white pottery; he insisted that Mimbres (a subset of the larger
Mogollon region) essentially ceased being Mogollon and became much more
Anasazi-like. Mimbres flourished while Chaco flourished, from 1000 to
shortly before 1150. Political shifts after 1125 at Chaco were reflected at
the same time by mass depopulation and social change in the Mimbres river
valleys. Post-Mimbres people moved south into the desert, and formed new
communities in mud-walled-pueblo villages (some of considerable size) with
little or no locally produced painted pottery. Those post-Mimbres societies
almost certainly contributed substantially to the base population for
Paquimé, the Casas Grandes regional center from 1300 to 1450.
To register for the Zoom meeting go to
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SX6CKc5dTxGpCHJEuhfc2g>
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SX6CKc5dTxGpCHJEuhfc2g. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. For each Old Pueblo Zoom presentation,
we let the presenter decide whether he or she wants for the program to be
recorded and made available online. No recording decision has yet been made
for this program.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos
about the above-listed activity send an email to
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] with “Send March 18 Lekson
flyer” in your email subject line.
Friday March 29, 2021: Online
“The Ballad of Arizona” free online presentation with Jay Craváth and
Dan Shilling, sponsored by Arizona Humanities, Phoenix, and Pinal County
Historical Society Museum, Florence, Arizona*
2 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Originally conceived to celebrate Arizona’s Centennial in 2012, “The
Ballad of Arizona” has been updated to provide a more complete survey of
important, but often little-known, chapters of Arizona’s unique history. A
blend of music, video, and lecture, “The Ballad of Arizona” is similar to “A
Prairie Home Companion” but with an Arizona twist. The dozen vignettes
featured in the presentation include the Buffalo Soldiers, dude ranch
history, the Code Talkers, forester Aldo Leopold, Japanese-American
Internment, famous cattle drives, the assassination of reporter Don Bolles,
and more stories that explore Arizona’s unique cultural and natural
diversity. Jay Craváth is joined by Dan Shilling for this entertaining
two-person presentation that combines song and story.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oPz4rmEPQKmJqSEx1ADOkQ>
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oPz4rmEPQKmJqSEx1ADOkQ.
TOUR FILLED – WAITING LIST Saturday March 20, 2021: 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. $30 donation ($24 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum members) helps cover Old Pueblo’s tour
expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and
traditional cultures.
The 2021 spring equinox occurs on March 20 at 2:37 a.m. Mountain
Standard Time (9:37 a.m. GMT). To celebrate the vernal equinox,
archaeologist Allen Dart (Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s executive
director) leads this tour to Los Morteros, an ancient village site that
includes a Hohokam ballcourt and bedrock mortars, and to Picture Rocks,
where ancient petroglyphs include a solstice and equinox calendar marker,
dancing human-like figures, whimsical animals, and other rock symbols made
by Hohokam Indians between 800 and 1100 CE. An equinox calendar petroglyph
at the site exhibits a specific interaction with a ray of sunlight on the
morning of each equinox regardless of the hour and minute of the actual
celestial equinox, so participants in this tour will see that sunlight
interaction with the calendar glyph unless clouds block the sunlight.
All participants are asked to wear face masks and to practice physical
distancing during the tour to avoid spreading COVID-19 virus.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Thursday March 18, whichever is earlier: 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 send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] with “Send March 20 tour flyer” in your email subject
line.
Saturday March 20, 2021: Tucson
“Hands-on Archaeology” free demonstration by archaeologist Allen
Denoyer sponsored by Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace at Mission Garden, 946
W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
9 a.m.-1 p.m.. Free ($5 per person suggested donation)
Archaeology Southwest’s Preservation Archaeologist Allen Denoyer gives
a flintknapping demonstration to show how stone spearpoints and arrowheads
are made.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <http://www.tucsonsbirthplace.org>
www.tucsonsbirthplace.org or call 520-955-5200.
Saturday March 20, 2021: Tumacácori, AZ
“Calabazas and Guevavi Missions Tour” starting at Tumacácori National
Historical Park, 1891 E. Frontage Rd., Tumacácori, Arizona*
9 a.m.-1 p.m. $15 per vehicle.
Calabazas and Guevavi were some of the earliest Spanish colonial
period missions established in southern Arizona. In this tour, visitors
caravan in their own vehicles, beginning at the Tumacácori National
Historical Park visitor center. Participants must have high clearance
vehicles for rough, rocky terrain. The tour is not wheelchair accessible and
has been planned to allow for small group size with outdoor physical
distancing as recommended by the CDC.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Reservations are
required. To register go to <http://www.recreation.gov> www.recreation.gov.
For more information visit <http://www.nps.gov/tuma> nps.gov/tuma or call
520-377-5060.
Saturday March 20, 2021: Dragoon, AZ
“Tour Amerind’s Historic Fulton House” at the Amerind Museum, 2100 N.
Amerind Rd. Dragoon, Arizona*
10:30 a.m., 12 p.m., and 2 p.m. Included with Amerind membership or
museum admission ($12 adults; $10 college students w/ID & ages 10-17 & 62+;
under 10 free)
The Fulton House was the original home of Amerind’s founders William
Shirley Fulton and Rose Hayden Fulton. The Spanish Colonial Revival-style
home was designed by Merritt Starkweather and built circa 1930. William
Shirley and Rose occupied their home while ranching, raising quarter horses,
and establishing the Amerind Foundation, until their deaths in 1964 and
1968, respectively. All the original architectural and historic features
have been carefully preserved to create an elegant, charming setting that
complements Amerind’s world class museum. The Fulton House is normally
closed to the public but is open to up to 10 people at a time on this tour
led by the Fultons’ great-grandson Willie Adams, who will share stories and
historic family photos, and provide guests with details about his family’s
majestic home.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Advance
reservationsand adherence to Amerind’s current health and safety protocols
are required. To reserve your space call Amerind at 520-586-3666.
Saturday March 20, 2021: Tubac, AZ
“The Apache Force on the Spanish Frontier” Shaw D. Kinsley Lecture
Series presentation by Jack Lasseter on the picnic grounds at Tubac Presidio
State Historic Park, 1 Burruel Street, Tubac, Arizona*
2-3 p.m. $15.
This is the fascinating story of the Chiricahua Apache and their
effect upon Spanish settlement here on the Northern Frontier (Pimaria Alta).
You will hear about their culture that made them such a force, about the
Spanish response of “Establecimientos de Paz”, about Manso Apaches, and the
environment in which Cochise was raised, all before the coming of the
Americans. Snacks will be served. Bring your own chair – the lecture will be
outdoors in the park’s large picnic area.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Please email or
call for reservations: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask], 520-398-2252.
March 23, 2021: Online
“Yucca Weaving Demonstration” by Christopher Lewis (Zuni), hosted by
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, and Arizona Humanities, Phoenix*
2 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
This live-stream event will showcase Zuni weaver Christopher Lewis as
he demonstrates the making of yucca pot rests and discusses the cultural
connection to his craft. Lewis often works with natural mediums, such as
yucca, and seeks to revitalize traditional techniques found in the Zuni
culture. He has participated in many shows across the Southwest including
the Museum of Northern Arizona's annual Zuni Festival of Arts and Culture.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <https://www.facebook.com/events/1356628628036060/>
https://www.facebook.com/events/1356628628036060/.
Tuesday March 23, 2021: Online
“China Mary: History and Legend” free online presentation by Dr. Li
Yang, sponsored by the Arizona State Museum (ASM), University of Arizona,
Tucson*
4-5 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
A 1960 episode of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, the first Western
television series, immortalized China Mary as a strong, powerful and
ruthless Asian female figure in American popular imagination. The legend of
her as an infamous Dragon Lady who ruled Tombstone’s Chinatown with an iron
fist cannot be substantiated by historical research. Yang’s presentation
will debunk the myth of China Mary and tell the real story of her as well as
other Chinese who lived in Tombstone, Arizona, during the Exclusion period.
Li Yang is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. This is the
third in a three-part series in honor of Women’s History Month made possible
through a partnership with Arizona Humanities. Register for one and you
register for all:
<https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/program/womens-history-month-three-p
art-series>
https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/program/womens-history-month-three-pa
rt-series.
March 23, 2021, 4-6 pm
“Archaeology” History in the Field Youth Program at Presidio San
Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
4-6 p.m. $5 per person.
A two-hour program ideal for third and fourth grade students but
youth of all ages will enjoy the programs and are welcome to register. This
workshop starts start with a visit to the Museum’s excavated Early
Agricultural period pit house. Participants will then identify and learn
about specific artifacts found in recent archaeological excavations of
downtown Tucson. Field mapping supplies will be provided for participants to
document what they have found and figure out what was going on in that area.
One adult chaperone required per every four children.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <https://tucsonpresidio.com/history-in-the-field-youth-programs/>
https://tucsonpresidio.com/history-in-the-field-youth-programs/.
Wednesday March 24, 2021: Online
“From ‘Chief’ to Code Talker: Four Profiles of the Navajo Code
Talkers” free online presentation by Laure Tohe sponsored by Arizona Senior
Academy, Tucson; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
2:30-3:30 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
During WWII a group of young Navajo men enlisted in the Marines
without knowing that they would be called on to develop a secret code
against the Japanese military. This select group of Code Talkers devised a
Navajo language code that was accurate, quick, never broken, and saved many
American lives. This talk profiles 4 Code Talkers who reflect on their lives
growing up on the Navajo Nation homeland, their military service as Code
Talkers, and the personal and spiritual costs of war that many struggled
with after the war. They returned home without fanfare to continued poverty
and lack of economic opportunity, yet persevered and overcame obstacles that
helped change the Navajo Nation and their communities. Their stories are
told with poignancy that reflect their resiliency and self-determination.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vWpjx022R3eaXaZ0ir6eMw>
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vWpjx022R3eaXaZ0ir6eMw.
Wednesday March 24, 2021: Online
“Mescal Agave Use in Arizona: Food, Fiber, and Vessel” free online
presentation by Carrie Calisay Cannon, sponsored by Mohave Community
College-Lake Havasu Library and Arizona Humanities*
5:30 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
The agave plant was used by Native peoples for numerous utilitarian
items. Mescal served as a valuable food source still being harvested and
prepared to this day by many Indigenous groups. For millennia people have
pit roasted the heart of the plant yielding a nutritious food staple rich in
calcium and zinc. This talk includes the life history of mescal, and the
multitude of Tribal uses of this intriguing plant and their long
relationship with this plant from centuries ago to the modern era.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Aihxq3VdRamdbq6XS_UBGQ>
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Aihxq3VdRamdbq6XS_UBGQ.
Wednesday March 24, 2021: Online
“The New Verde Valley Archaeology Center” free presentation by Ken
Zoll for Desert Foothills Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, Cave
Creek, Arizona* 7 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
With the reality of the COVID shutdown, and the possibility of future
pandemic shutdowns, the Verde Valley Archaeology Center (VVAC) has signed a
Letter of Intent to purchase an existing 11,000 sq ft building in Camp Verde
rather than pursue new construction at this time. The new facility will more
than double the museum space and triple the repository space, and will bring
VVAC the environmental advantages of a newer building than the current
60-year old space can provide. VVAC Executive Director Ken Zoll will
describe the new facility and planned new exhibits, and will also talk about
some of the great archaeological sites around the Verde Valley area such as
V Bar V, Tuzigoot, and Montezuma Well.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Priority given
to DFC/AAS members. For link and more information contact Mary Kearney at
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday March 25, 2021: Online
“Decorated Walls and Tree-Ring Dates South of the Bears Ears” free
online presentation by archaeologist Dr. Ben Bellorado, sponsored by Crow
Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
Dr. Bellorado presents the results of the Cedar Mesa Building Murals
project, a 2013–2017 study of decorated buildings at Ancestral Pueblo
cliff-dwellings in southeastern Utah that were occupied in the Pueblo III
period (1150-1300 CE). The project focused on documenting the distribution
and variability of building murals in the area and to date the contexts in
which these rare features occur using dendrochronological (tree-ring dating)
techniques, and conducting base-line documentation of at-risk
cliff-dwellings and other cultural resources before they are further
impacted by increased visitation, vandalization, and looting. The results
indicate murals were used to express important aspects of social identities
related to community, political, and religious identities on local scales in
the early 1200s. After 1240, however, changes in mural styles reflect
broader developments in the political and ritual systems of the larger
region as the large-scale depopulation of the region began.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more
and register visit
<https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Decorated-Walls-and-Tree-Ring-Da
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Tuesday March 30, Thursday April 1, Tuesday April 6 and Wednesday April 7,
2021: Online
“The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon” four-session online course sponsored
by School for Advanced Research (SAR), Santa Fe*
2 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time each session. $250 (SAR member $200) or
$50 for recorded sessions only.
Archaeological interpretations of Chaco seem to veer back and forth
between “mysterious” and “no big deal.” According to Steve Lekson it was
neither. Chaco is not difficult to understand in the context of 11th century
Native North America: Not mysterious. And Chaco played a pivotal role in the
history of the US Southwest and northwest Mexico: A big deal. This course
surveys the development of archaeological views of Chaco through the 20th
and 21st centuries and how it got to mysterious/no big deal; looks at what
Chaco (most likely) was, in the context of Native America in the 10th-12th
centuries; follows the region’s history, in which Chaco was a climactic
event, from the 6th century through the 16th century; and finally suggests
what Chaco, properly understood, might offer to history and science, and its
apparently problematic place in Native heritage. Stephen H. Lekson, former
Curator of Archaeology at the Museum of Natural History, University of
Colorado, Boulder, directed more than 20 archaeological projects throughout
the Southwest, focused about half of his 50-year career on Chaco, and has
written a dozen books, chapters in many edited volumes, and articles in
journals and magazines.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to
<https://sarweb.org/education/classes/?bblinkid=248058084&bbemailid=28567913
&bbejrid=1844040658>
https://sarweb.org/education/classes/?bblinkid=248058084&bbemailid=28567913&
bbejrid=1844040658.
CANCELLED – MAY BE RESCHEDULED TO DECEMBER 2021 Saturday April 3, 2021:
Canoa Ranch, AZ
“Archaeology and History of Canoa Ranch” presentation and tours at
Historic Canoa Ranch, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley, Arizona
For more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday April 6, 2021: Online
“Stories from the Archive, Stories from the (Irrigated) Field: Natural
Resources and the Legacies of Old Spanish Law in the American West” free
online presentation by ethnohistorian Michael M. Brescia, Ph.D., sponsored
by the Arizona State Museum (ASM), University of Arizona, Tucson*
4 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Michael Brescia will explain the difficult historical and legal issues
involved in certain disputes over natural resources throughout the American
West, while interspersing stories from his archival and field research that
highlight the intimate connections between individuals, their communities,
and the enduring impact of Spanish colonialism and U.S. expansionism on
North America. Dr. Brescia is Curator of Ethnohistory at the Arizona State
Museum and Affiliated Professor of History and Law at the University of
Arizona. This is the first in a three-part series entitled Biographies in
Land and Water.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/event/program/biographies-land-water>
https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/event/program/biographies-land-water.
Tuesday April 6, 2021: Online
“Archaeology Café Online: Just What Is cyberSW? The Potential of
Massive Databases for Future Preservation Archaeology Research” free lecture
by Joshua Watts presented by Archaeology Southwest through Zoom.
6-7 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
The 14th season of Archaeology Café celebrates and shares Archaeology
Southwest’s current Preservation Archaeology projects with you. Join them on
April 6 as Josh Watts shares insights and examples of the incredible
potential of the newly released cyberSW platform.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to
<https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/just-what-is-cybersw-the-potenti
al-of-massive-databases-for-future-preservation-archaeology-research/>
https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/just-what-is-cybersw-the-potentia
l-of-massive-databases-for-future-preservation-archaeology-research/. For
more information contact Kate Fitzpatrick at 520-882-6946 x26 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Wednesday April 7, 2021: Online
“Prehistoric and Historic Obsidian Utilization at Pueblo Grande and in
the Southern Southwest” free recorded video presentation by archaeologist
Dr. Chris Loendorf, sponsored by the nonprofit Friends of Pueblo Grande
Museum (FOPGM), Phoenix*
6:30 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
This presentation summarizes the results of an analysis of obsidian
artifacts collected from the Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
starting in the early 1900s. Nondestructive Energy Dispersive X-Ray
Florescence (EDXRF) analysis was used to identify the source locations of
over 100 obsidian artifacts from the site, resulting in identification of
eight obsidian varieties from sources as far as 434 km away. Obsidian
utilization studies show that pre- and post-Contact Phoenix Basin
populations focused on three obsidian sources – the Sauceda, Vulture, and
Superior ones – that are comparatively close to the basin. However, obsidian
use varied substantially across space and time, and proximity of sources
alone does not explain exploitation patterns. Obsidian was primarily used to
make weapons for warfare, which appears to have affected patterns of
exchange, and instead of being freely traded it appears obsidian was largely
transferred among closely allied peoples.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To request the
link email Lary Martin at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Friday April 9, 2021: Online
How about something a bit beyond the U.S. Southwest? “Ritualized
Stone and Public Art on Easter Island: Highlights and Insights of Recent
Excavations in the Statue Quarry” free online presentation by Jo Anne Van
Tilburg, sponsored by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of
California, Los Angeles*
11 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Free (donations requested).
An international, multidisciplinary team directed by Jo Anne Van
Tilburg conducted a major archaeological survey of monolithic sculpture on
Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Beginning in 2002, the team mapped the inner basin
of Rano Raraku, the island's famed statue quarry. This was followed in 2010
by excavations of four statues in the inner basin. This presentation
summarizes highlights of the excavations and their resulting insights into
the past. It examines the role of sanctity as expressed in ritualized stone
and describes the interactive forces key to the actualization of community
expressed as megalithic public art. Jo Anne Van Tilburg is Director of the
Easter Island Statue Project, Rock Art Archive, UCLA Cotsen Institute.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register
visit
<https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAscO-trTIqHNT6ilWT5h3Na7gwrLyZq-tz>
https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAscO-trTIqHNT6ilWT5h3Na7gwrLyZq-tz.
Wednesdays April 14 and May 12, 2021 presentations; tastings the Thursday
after each presentation: Online
“Agave Renaissance” free online presentations and tasting
sponsored by the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, Tucson*
All presentations and tastings start at 6 p.m. Mountain Standard
Time. Free.
Agave has been a mainstay of culture in the Americas for millenia:
food, drink, tool, spirit, utilitarian, sacred. Adaptations to aridity
represented by both agave and people hold critical insights into how to live
in the desert. This lecture series looks closely at these adaptations and
the reciprocal relationship between this desert plant and people. Through
presentations, roundtable discussions, tastings, and art the Desert
Laboratory will collectively reconnect to the importance of agave, how this
relationship in threatened by climate change and our actions, and how a
resilient future is embedded in the heart of a plant. Presentations began on
January 20. Those still scheduled include:
April 14: “A Symbiosis Imperiled” with David Suro-Piñera, Francesca
Claverie, and Valeria Cañedo
May 12: “Agave Is the Future” with Alex White Mazzarella and Juan
Olmeda
* These are not Old Pueblo Archaeology Center events. Separate
registrations are required for each presentation and tasting. For
information visit <https://tumamoc.arizona.edu/agave_series>
https://tumamoc.arizona.edu/agave_series or contact the Desert Laboratory at
520-621-6945 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Thursday April 15, 2021: Online
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” free
Zoom online program featuring “A History of Arizona State Museum Research
around Homol’ovi and at the Ancestral Hopi Village of Homol’ovi II”
presentation by archaeologist Richard C. Lange
7 to 8:30 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time Free.
Rich Lange, who served as Associate Director of the Arizona State
Museum, University of Arizona (ASM) Homol’ovi Research Program for over
three decades, will review the history of that program and the
Winslow/Homol’ovi area. He will focus on the seven late ancestral-Hopi
Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster villages that were founded in a roughly
140-year span between 1260 and 1400 CE. Much of these villages’ population
probably came originally from the Hopi Mesas area and returned there when
the Homol’ovi villages were no longer occupied on a regular basis. Rich will
examine the unique role of Homol’ovi II, the largest and latest of the
Cluster’s villages where excavations occurred in 1983-84 and from 1991-1995,
and discuss how it was founded, when, and by whom.
To register go to
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7XYH9D18QJaGbAYTkF-Zbg>
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7XYH9D18QJaGbAYTkF-Zbg. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. For each Old Pueblo Zoom presentation,
we let the presenter decide whether he or she wants for the program to be
recorded and made available online. No recording decision has yet been made
for this program.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the
above-listed activity send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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subject line.
Monday April 19, 2021: Online
“Sharing an Ear of Corn: An Archaeologist’s Perspective on the Role of
Food in Community Collaborations” free Zoom online presentation by
archaeologist Lisa Young sponsored by Arizona Archaeological and Historical
Society (AAHS), Tucson*
7-8:30 p.m. Free
Collaborative consultations, especially with descendent communities,
have become an important and vibrant component of archaeological projects.
Engagement with community members commonly occurs during the fieldwork and
analysis components of a project. What happens when the project is
completed? How can archaeologists maintain connections with their community
partners, especially in contexts where substantial distances separate them?
In this talk, Lisa Young shares her perspective on the importance of food in
nourishing collaborations that began over 15 years ago at the Homolovi State
Park near Winslow, Arizona. A conversation about the importance of sharing
an ear of roasted corn kindled these long-term relationships and led to her
deeper understanding of the connections between corn, heritage, and
ancestors for the Hopi community as well as Anishinaabe communities in the
Great Lakes region.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. To
register go to <https://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/event/lisa-young-tba/>
https://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/event/lisa-young-tba/. For more information
contact Erica LeClaire at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Tuesday April 20, 2021: Online
“The Gila: River of History” free online presentation by Gregory
McNamee sponsored by the Arizona State Museum (ASM), University of Arizona,
Tucson*
4 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Six hundred miles long from its source in the mountains of
southwestern New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River above
Yuma, the Gila River has been an important avenue for the movement of birds,
animals, plants, and peoples across the desert for millennia. Gregory
McNamee is a writer, editor, photographer, publisher, research fellow at the
University of Arizona’s Southwest Center and lecturer in the University’s
Eller School of Management. This is the second in a three-part series
entitled Biographies in Land and Water.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/event/program/biographies-land-water>
https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/event/program/biographies-land-water.
Monday April 26, 2021: Online
“History of Land and Water in San Xavier” free online presentation by
Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan (Tohono O'odham) sponsored by the Arizona State
Museum (ASM), University of Arizona, Tucson*
4 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan is a resident of the Tohono O’odham Nation’s
San Xavier District, a fulltime instructor in Tohono O'odham Community
College’s Tohono O'odham Studies Program, and a Ph.D. Candidate in American
Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. As part of her dissertation
research she is using oral histories and other data to tell the story of the
Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act of 1982. This is the third in a
three-part series entitled Biographies in Land and Water.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/event/program/biographies-land-water>
https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/event/program/biographies-land-water.
RESCHEDULED FROM MARCH 11 Thursday April 29, 2021: Online
“Beyond Maize, Beans, and Squash: Identifying the Source and Nature of
Mesoamerican Influence on US Southwest/Northwest Mexican Dynamics after the
Origin of Agriculture” free online presentation by archaeologist Dr. Michael
Mathiowetz sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
Assessments oF the nature, degree, and source of Mesoamerican
influence on social dynamics of pre-Hispanic societies of northern Mexico
and the US Southwest has waxed and waned over the past century. Scholars
agree that key domesticated agricultural crops, such as maize from
Mesoamerica, served to transform the economic and social lifeways of people
in the Southwest, with some considering crops alone to be the most
significant southern contribution. However, there remains an ongoing debate
about how political, religious, economic, and social dynamics of
Mesoamerican complex societies impacted and intersected with southwestern
social changes, particularly after 900 CE. Was there synchronicity in these
connections? Which specific societies in Mesoamerica were involved and why?
In this talk, Dr. Mathiowetz aims to reorient and sharpen the focus of this
debate by identifying a key geographical locale in Mesoamerica that had an
outsized role in shaping historical processes of change among various
cultures in the US Southwest and northern Mexico.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register
visit
<https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Beyond-Maize-Beans-and-Squash-wi
th-Dr-Michael-Mathiowetz>
https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Beyond-Maize-Beans-and-Squash-wit
h-Dr-Michael-Mathiowetz.
Fridays April 23, & May 21, 2021: Online
“Conservation Conversations” free Zoom online series sponsored by
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles*
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Pacific time on each date shown. Free (donations
requested).
Presentations began on October 30. The following ones are still coming
up:
April 23: Authorship and Ownership, a Conversation between Glenn
Wharton and Andrea Geyer:
<https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkcumurDssG9Z0Zh9i_8r3i88aM609jrh7>
https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkcumurDssG9Z0Zh9i_8r3i88aM609jrh7.
May 21: Comparing Conservation between Countries with Tessa de
Alarcon, Grace Jan, and AlMoatz-Bellah Elshahawi:
<https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpcu-trzkuHdS63SWaWcEr516q7HgDwpdp>
https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpcu-trzkuHdS63SWaWcEr516q7HgDwpdp.
* These are not Old Pueblo Archaeology Center events. For more
information about the talks email <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] For more information about the UCLA/Getty
conservation programs visit <http://www.conservation.ucla.edu>
www.conservation.ucla.edu.
Sunday-Friday May 2-7, 2021: Mormon Lake Guard Station, AZ
“Mormon Lake Guard Station, AZ (Phase III)” HistoriCorps and Coconino
National Forest volunteer-assisted rehabilitation project near Flagstaff,
Arizona*
5 p.m. Sunday-noon Friday. No fees.
The Coconino National Forest has invited volunteers to come back for a
third year to continue rehabilitating this historic guard station.
Constructed as early as 1908, the building served for decades as both a
ranger station and modest residence for rangers and their families. Over its
lifetime, the building has served as home to hundreds of wildland
firefighters and forest service employees. It is hoped the repair and
preservation work on the building will eventually lead to its inclusion into
the ‘Rooms with a View’ Arizona Cabin Rental Program, which offers historic
buildings to the public for rent. Logistics: Camping onsite; tents and small
RVs/trailers can access the site; hookups are not available and the ground
may not be perfectly level. Scope of Work: Primarily foundation work, floor
restoration, and window installation. Project sponsors provide all meals,
tools, training, and equipment. Volunteers are required to follow
HistoriCorps’ COVID-19 protocols.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://historicorps.org/mormon-lake-guard-station-az-2021/>
https://historicorps.org/mormon-lake-guard-station-az-2021/ or contact
HistoriCorps at 720-287-0100 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Tuesday May 4, 2021: Online
“Archaeology Café Online: Was Sells Red Pottery a Marker of Tohono
O’odham Identity in Late Precontact Times? Archaeological and Ethnographic
Perspectives” free lecture by Bill Doelle and Samuel Fayuant presented by
Archaeology Southwest through Zoom.
6-7 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
The 14th season of Archaeology Café celebrates and shares Archaeology
Southwest’s current Preservation Archaeology projects with you. Join them on
May 4 as Bill Doelle and Samuel Fayuant share their process of discovery,
their current thinking, and some of their unresolved questions around a
distinctive redware pottery called Sells Red.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to
<https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/was-sells-red-pottery-a-marker-o
f-tohono-oodham-identity-in-late-precontact-times-archaeological-and-ethnogr
aphic-perspectives/>
https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/was-sells-red-pottery-a-marker-of
-tohono-oodham-identity-in-late-precontact-times-archaeological-and-ethnogra
phic-perspectives/. For more information contact Kate Fitzpatrick at
520-882-6946 x26 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturday May 8, 2021: Camp Verde & Clarkdale, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s "Southern Sinagua Sites Tour --
Montezuma Castle, Montezuma Well, and Tuzigoot" meets at Montezuma Castle
National Monument (MOCA), 2800 Montezuma Castle Rd, Camp Verde, Arizona
9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $50 donation ($40 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum members) helps cover Old Pueblo’s tour
expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and
traditional cultures; donation does not include $10/person MOCA entrance
fee.
This Old Pueblo Archaeology Center car-caravan educational tour will
visit three of the best-preserved and most spectacular Southern Sinagua
culture archaeological sites in north-central Arizona’s Middle Verde River
valley. National Park Service archaeologists Matthew Guebard and Lucas Hoedl
will lead us to sites in Montezuma Castle National Monument, including
Montezuma Well and sites surrounding it, and to the Tuzigoot Pueblo site
near Clarkdale. Participants need to wear sturdy walking shoes and bring
their own picnic lunches, are responsible for their own transportation, and
will need to pay their own $10/person Montezuma Castle entrance fee unless
they have an annual or senior pass. (Montezuma Castle fee also covers
Tuzigoot; Montezuma Well is free.)
Limited to 20 registrants. Donations are due 10 days after reservation
request or by 5 p.m. Wednesday May 5, whichever is earlier: 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 send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] with “Send Southern Sinagua flyer” in your email subject
line.
5 weekdays May 10, 12, 14, 17, and 19, 2021: Online
“Animals and Human Society in World History” online Master Class
taught by Martin Welker, Ph.D., and Michael M. Brescia, Ph.D., sponsored by
the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona (ASM), Tucson*
9:30-11 a.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time on each date. $150 (ASM
members $100). Credit card payments incur a 3% fee.
Animals and humans have lived together for millennia, at times
competing for food, water, and territory, but also sustaining one another.
Environments and ecologies unique to each region of the world have shaped
the interaction between human and animal communities, and a series of
complex relationships have evolved over time that reveal an uneasy symbiosis
between the nutritional, economic, and cultural needs of humans and the
multiple features of the animal kingdom. In this class ASM zooarchaeologist
Martin Welker will examine the archaeological and ecological record of human
and animal co-evolution and interaction to demonstrate how human and animal
communities have impacted and shaped one another; and ASM ethnohistorian
Michael Brescia will explore how the intersection of political economy,
technologies, and culture – starting in the sixteenth century and rapidly
accelerating in the early nineteenth – radically transformed the
animal-human continuum in an increasingly globalized world seeking material
progress at every turn.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information and to register go to
<https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/program/asm-master-class-animals-hum
an-world-history>
https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/program/asm-master-class-animals-huma
n-world-history.
Tuesday May 11, 2021: Online
COMING ON MAY 11th: Arizona Humanities has provided Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center with a grant to support Old Pueblo’s new “Indigenous
Interests” free Zoom online presentation series. Starting on May 11, these
Zoom webinars will feature Old Pueblo Board of Directors members Martina
Dawley (Hualapai-Diné) and Maegan Lopez (Tohono O'odham) hosting Native
American presenters discussing issues important to Indigenous peoples today.
Watch for details and Zoom links in Old Pueblo’s next several
upcoming-activities email blasts!
Thursday May 13, 2021: Online
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday (on the Second
Thursday!) Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “Wartime
Resisters of Conscience at the Catalina Federal Honor Camp on Mt. Lemmon”
presentation by Dr. Cherstin Lyon
7 to 8:30 p.m. Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
The Catalina Federal Honor Camp located on the Catalina Highway from
Tucson up to Mt. Lemmon housed prisoners who were largely responsible for
building the highway. These prisoners were a part of a prison reform
movement and the good roads movement in American history during the 1930s.
During World War II, a different set of individuals were sentenced to work
at the Catalina prison. These were resisters of conscience. Prominent among
them were Gordon Hirabayashi, other Japanese Americans who came to call
themselves the “Tucsonians,” Hopi, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. This
presentation will explain why these individuals became resisters of
conscience, and how their prison experiences shaped their understanding of
their own wartime citizenship. Cherstin Lyon, Professor of History and
Director of the Honors College at Southern Oregon University, is the author
of Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil
Disobedience, and Historical Memory and several other books and articles on
Japanese Americans, public history, and citizenship.
This month only, Old Pueblo’s monthly program will be on the Second
Thursday instead of the Third Thursday of the month. To register go to
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eCJnNTJ_QHWvmLE2Yn5a8w>
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eCJnNTJ_QHWvmLE2Yn5a8w. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. For each Old Pueblo Zoom presentation,
we let the presenter decide whether he or she wants for the program to be
recorded and made available online. No recording decision has yet been made
for this program.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the
above-listed activity send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] with “Send May 13 Second Thursday flyer” in your email
subject line.
Sundays-Fridays May 30-June 4 and/or June 6-11, 2021: Palace Station, AZ
“Palace Station, AZ (Phase II)” HistoriCorps and Prescott National
Forest volunteer-assisted historic preservation project near Prescott,
Arizona*
5 p.m. Sunday-noon Friday. No fees.
By 1878, Palace Station was a thriving stagecoach stop, but by the
early 1900s, the nearby mines dried up, rail roads were being built in the
area, and fewer and fewer stagecoaches visited. In 1913 the stagecoach
services business was sold, but the station remained in use by other owners,
including ranchers. In 1963 the U.S. Forest Service acquired Palace Station.
At more than 140 years of age, the structure is one of the earliest examples
of pioneer cabins in the region. Our partners on the Prescott National
Forest have invited HistoriCorps volunteers to do the hands-on work
necessary to preserve the cabin, so it can be opened as an overnight rental
for the public. It seems that the station’s past, as a bunkhouse and rest
stop, has defined its future. Help us keep history alive in the Bradshaw
Mountains this spring. Logistics: High-clearance vehicle required to access
this site. Tent camping and truck camper or similar only. Scope of Work:
Rehabilitating floors, walls, siding, logs, and windows. Volunteers are
required to follow HistoriCorps’ COVID-19 protocols.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <https://historicorps.org/palace-station-az-2021/>
https://historicorps.org/palace-station-az-2021/ or contact HistoriCorps at
720-287-0100 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesdays June 2-August 18, 2021: Online
“Archaeology of the Southwest” 12-session class with archaeologist
Allen Dart, online via Zoom, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO
Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. each Wednesday evening June 2 through August 18. $95
donation ($80 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of Pueblo Grande
Museum members), not counting cost of the recommended text or of optional
Arizona Archaeological Society membership. Minimum enrollment 8 people.
Archaeology of the Southwest is an introductory course that provides a
basic overview of the U.S. Southwest’s ancestral cultures. Its twelve
evening class sessions will cover cultural sequences, dating systems,
subsistence strategies, development of urbanization, abandonments of
different areas at different times, and the general characteristics of major
cultural groups that have lived in the Southwest over the past 13,000-plus
years. Besides offering an up-to-date synthesis of southwestern cultures for
anyone interested in the archaeology of the Southwest, the class is the
equivalent of the Prehistory of the Southwest course developed by the
Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS) and so can be used as prerequisite for
all other courses offered in the AAS Certification/Education Program.
Instructor Allen Dart is a registered professional archaeologist and
executive director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Friday May 28, whichever is earlier. To register of for more information
contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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TOUR FILLED -- WAITING LIST Saturday & Sunday June 5 & 6, 2021: Near
Winslow, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Homol’ovi and Rock Art Ranch Pueblos
and Petroglyphs Tour” with archaeologist Rich Lange starting at Homolovi
State Park Visitor Center (northeast of Winslow – take I-40 Exit 257 and
drive 1.5 miles north on Hwy. 87)
1 p.m. Saturday to 1 p.m. or later Sunday; $95 donation per person
($76 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum
members) includes all site entry fees and Old Pueblo’s expenses but no
transportation, lodging, or meals.
Archaeologist Rich Lange will lead this car-caravan educational tour
to sites where archaeologists conducted excavations during the Arizona State
Museum’s Homol’ovi Research Program from 1983 to 2016 and for which analyses
and publications are still in progress. This will be an opportunity to visit
three of the largest ancestral Hopi pueblos and an Early
Agricultural-to-Great Pueblo period site in Homolovi State Park just outside
of Winslow plus spectacular petroglyph panels near Winslow and at Rock Art
Ranch south of Holbrook, Arizona. Sites to be visited include the Ancestral
Pueblo village sites of Homolovi I (AD 1280-1400), Homolovi II (1360-1400),
and Homolovi IV (1260-1280); a Basketmaker II (Early Agricultural) to Pueblo
II/III stage (AD 500-850 and 1150-1225) village site; Brandy’s Pueblo (AD
1225-1254); a replica Navajo farmstead site; and petroglyphs dating between
8000 BCE and the mid-1200s on the Rock Art Ranch in Chevelon Canyon south of
Holbrook and at a rock art site near Winslow. Participants provide their own
lodging, meals, and transportation. It may be necessary for participants to
wear face masks and practice physical distancing if COVID-19 pandemic is not
yet under control by the tour dates.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Friday May 28, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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above-listed activity send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Tuesday December 7, 2021: Online
Tuesday December 7 is the deadline to get your tickets from Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center for “The Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle” of a 2021
Ford Bronco Sport Badlands Edition, two first-class round-trip airline
tickets to anywhere in the world, and $5,000 cash that will benefit Old
Pueblo and other southern Arizona charities!
5 p.m. December 7 is the deadline to purchase tickets from Old Pueblo.
$25 for each single ticket or five tickets for $100.
On December 17th Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give away a
2021 Ford Bronco Sport Badlands Edition in a raffle to raise millions of
dollars for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other southern Arizona
nonprofit organizations. With your contribution you could win this fantastic
2021 vehicle – or the second prize of two first-class round-trip airline
tickets to anywhere in the world or the third prize of $5,000 in cash! And
100% of your contribution will support Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, which
gets to keep all of the proceeds from our sales of the tickets for “The Jim
Click Millions for Tucson Raffle”!
Watch an awesome video that the Jim Click Automotive Team put together
about the raffle and some very cool features of the Ford 2021 Bronco Sport
Badlands Edition
<https://sable.secureserver.net/c/279242?id=54293.414.1.a34f9b53cdc96a02b6c0
694474c855c7> at this link.
Your donation to purchase raffle tickets will help Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center provide more archaeology and culture education programs
for children who would not be able to afford our programs without your help.
The drawing will be held on December 17. Winner consents to be photographed
and for his or her name and likeness to be used by the Jim Click Automotive
Team and/or the Russell Public Communications firm for publicity and
advertising purposes.
Old Pueblo’s raffle rules: To be entered in the raffle your request
for tickets and your donation for them must be received by Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center no later than 5 p.m. Tuesday December 7th so we can turn
the tickets in to the Jim Click Automotive Team’s coordinator by December
10th. Old Pueblo must account for all tickets issued to us and must return
all unsold tickets; therefore, advance payment for tickets is required.
Tickets may be purchased through the PayPal “Donation” button on Old
Pueblo’s <http://www.oldpueblo.org> www.oldpueblo.org home page or by
calling 520-603-6181 to provide your Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American
Express card payment authorization. Once payment is received for your
tickets, Old Pueblo will enter your name and contact information on your
ticket(s), enter your ticket(s) into the drawing, and mail you the
correspondingly numbered ticket stubs with a letter acknowledging your
contribution.
For tickets or more information about Old Pueblo’s involvement in the
raffle contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] For more information about The Jim Click Automotive
Team’s Millions for Tucson Raffle itself visit
<http://www.millionsfortucson.org> www.millionsfortucson.org.
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fundraiser send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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OUR MISSION AND SUPPORT
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's mission is to educate children and
adults to understand and appreciate archaeology and other cultures, to
foster the preservation of archaeological and historical sites, and to
develop a lifelong concern for the importance of nonrenewable resources and
traditional cultures.
Old Pueblo is recognized as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization
under the U.S. tax code, so donations and membership fees are tax-deductible
up to amounts specified by law.
Do you like getting our announcements about upcoming activities? Or
would you like to help us continue to provide hands-on education programs in
archaeology, history, and cultures for children and adults? THEN PLEASE:
Visit <http://www.oldpueblo.org/forms/donorfrm.php>
www.oldpueblo.org/forms/donorfrm.php to make a contribution, or see below
for information on how you can support Old Pueblo as a member!
Payment Options for Donations and Memberships
To start or renew an Old Pueblo membership online you can visit our
www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/
<http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/> web page, scroll down to
the bottom of that page, and follow the instructions for using our secure
online membership form or our printable Enrollment/Subscription form.
To make a donation using PayPal, please go to the www.oldpueblo.org
<http://www.oldpueblo.org> home page, scroll down to the “Donate” section,
click on the “Donate” button above the PayPal logo, and follow the prompts.
To make a credit card or debit card payment without going online you
can call Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201, tell the person who answers you’d like
to make a credit card donation or payment, and provide your card
authorization. We advise that you do not provide credit card or debit card
numbers to us in an email. Old Pueblo accepts Visa, MasterCard, and Discover
card payments.
All of us at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center appreciate your support!
I hope you enjoy reading this and future issues of Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center’s upcoming-activities announcements!
Warmest regards,
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director (Volunteer)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
520-798-1201
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