For Immediate Release
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(1)
Some Thank-Yous
(2)
Upcoming Activities
(3)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Youth Education Programs
(4)
Our Mission and Support
(5)
Announcements and Opt-Out Options
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center 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. Please visit
www.oldpueblo.org/forms/donorfrm.php
<http://www.oldpueblo.org/forms/donorfrm.php> to make a contribution – Your
donations help us continue to provide hands-on education programs in
archaeology, history, and cultures for children and adults!
(1) SOME THANK YOUs
We are happy to acknowledge and thank the following folks who have
joined or rejoined us as members or have made donations to support our
general education programs from January 1 through August 5 of this year:
Gregory Adolf, Jeffrey Allen, Connie Allen-Bacon, Candace Alper, Roger Ames,
Cheryl Anderson, Carolee Asia, Peter Baum, Katherine Bertolucci, Richard
Bertrand, Denis Boon, MaryAnn Brazil, Dale Brenneman, Clark & Karen Bright,
Jim Britton, Arch & Laura Brown, Dr Steve Buck, Elizabeth Butler, Dr Judi
Cameron, Garry Cantley, Carolee Capp, William Carey, Julie Carpenter,
Dolores Carrión, David Carter, James Christopher, Cynthia Cobb, Deborah
Coogan, Bill & Carol Cox, Allen Dart, Carolyn Davis, Philip Davis, Leslie
Dearman, George Del Castillo, Jane Delaney, Don & Louise Doran, Cynthia B
Doster, David Doyel, Susanne Durling, Nancy Easter, David & Joan Eerkes,
Bill Enríquez, Ben Everitt, Joy Facio, James Farkas, Carol Farnsworth,
Gloria Fenner, Katharine A Ferguson, Paul & Suzanne Fish, Gary Forbes, Mary
Lou Fragomeni-Nuttall, Friends of Canoa Heritage Foundation, Veronica H
Frost, Kathleen Fullin, Michael & Karen Gallagher, Bruce Garrett, Sharon
Gartner, Patricia Gilman & Paul Minnis, Ginny Gisvold, Sharon Goecke, Larry
& Ina Gravitz, Tom & Nancy Green, David Greenwald, Suzanne Griset, Diana
Hadley, Michael Hard, Barbara Harrison, Gayle Hartmann, Loren & Jan Haury,
Steve Hayden, James F Hays, Richard Henry, William J Henry, William Hohmann,
Vance T & Diane Y Holliday, Gary Huckleberry, Ross Iwamoto & Marianne
Vivirito, Brantley Jackson, Meredith Jewitt, Mike & Kay Jones, Ruth B Jones,
Mitch Kagen, Valerie Kaplan, John Kay, Sarah Kennedy, Dennis Kitchen, Joyce
Krause, Paula Kulina & Ernie Garcia, Eddie Leon, Melissa Loeschen, Jean
Mabry & Tim Loftus, Jim Maluta, Barbara Marcel, Patrick McGowan, Linda &
Michael McNulty, Robert & Ann Meling, Patricia Michaud, Mark Michel, Brita
Miller & Bill Finkelstein, Sharon Miller, Patricia Monahan in memory of Jack
Monahan, Andrew M T & Barbara Moore, Irma J Moreno, Andre Muniz, Michael &
Nancy Nushawg, Marie O’Donnell, Glenn E Omundson, Donna Osborn, Retta Park,
John Pestle, Picture Rocks Redemptorist Renewal Center, Beach Pitzer, Bruce
Plenk, Stanley Ponczek, Terry & Sharon Poppleton, Gayle Povis, Janet Prinz,
Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary, Daniel J Pyevich, Tom Quijada, Therese
Qureshi, Hannelore & Tim Ralph, Shelley Rasmussen, Lynn Ratener, Helen Marie
Redbird-Smith, J. Jefferson Reid, Nancy Reid, Carroll Reitz, William &
Cassandra Ridlinghafer, Bill Risner, Ronni Robles, Barbara Roth, John & Anne
Rother, Karen Russo, John Sand, Gary & Margie Schaefer, Peter Schmidt &
Sherry Terrell, Marilyn Schrab, Jim & Mary Scott, Susan Semegen, Deni J
Seymour, Ronald Sharp, Robert & Helga Small, Harvey Smith, Ella Snyder, Amy
Sommer, Kelley Stampke, Peter Steere, Ron & Renell Stewart, Susan Strehle,
Christopher Sugnet, Jane Swicegood, Raydine Taber, Kathleen Tate, Sheri
Thompson, Wayne Thompson, Sandra & Lance Trask, Richard & Jane Ulmer, James
& Roberta Urban, Peggie Jo A Vincent, Paul Virgin, Vista del Rio Residents’
Association, Arthur Vokes, A. J. Vonarx, Jim Wagner, Robin Wakeland, James
Walker & Michael Palmer, White Stallion Ranch, Esther White, Richard &
Patricia Wiedhopf, Stephanie Whittlesey, Mary Wood, Aaron Wright, and Monica
Young!
Thank you all so much!
(2) UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
LOOKING AHEAD: Saturday December 1, 2018
December 1st is the deadline to purchase tickets for the December 13
“Millions for Tucson Raffle of a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit SUV, 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.
Saturday August 18; Sunday August 19; & Monday August 20, 2018: Tucson
“Celebrations and Events Occurring throughout Downtown for Tucson’s
Birthday”* The Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, La Cocina
Restaurant, Los Descendientes del Presidio, and the Southern Arizona
Transportation Museum will all be holding celebration events to commemorate
Tucson’s 243rd birthday in August. These are not Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center events. Contact information for them is given below.
SATURDAY AUGUST 18, 6 p.m.: Los Descendientes del Presidio hosts a
Birthday Gala at the Tucson Convention Center. This event will include:
• Celebrations honoring Josefina Cardenas, Diana Hadley, Austin Nuñez,
and Steve Leal.
• Honorable Mentions for Alexandra Jimenez Soto, Roni Capin
Rivera-Ashford, and Silviana Wood.
• Honorary Co-Chairs Dr. Richard and Mrs. Diana Carmona.
• Silent auctions.
• Dance music by Hiram Perez.
• Tickets are $85 per person. For more information, see
www.descendientes.org/2018-gala.html
<http://www.descendientes.org/2018-gala.html> .
SUNDAY AUGUST 19, 12 p.m.: The Southern Arizona Transportation Museum,
414 N. Toole Ave., will host a free birthday party that includes:
• A proclamation read by Mayor Jonathan Rothschild.
• Performances by Mariachi Innovacion and the Southern Comfort Blue
Grass Band beginning at 11:30 a.m.
• Appearances by Las Doñas.
• Birthday cake.
• For information visit www.TucsonHistoricDepot.org
<http://www.TucsonHistoricDepot.org> .
MONDAY AUGUST 20, 4:15-8:30 p.m.: On this the City’s actual birthday,
Tucson’s official celebration will be hosted by the Tucson/Pima County
Historic Commission in the Presidio District. It will include a special
unveiling of the new Presidio Museum sign at 4:15 p.m. on Church Avenue and
Washington sponsored by Las Doñas, followed by these 5-8:30 p.m. happenings
starting at La Cocina Restaurant, 201 N. Court Ave.:
• HAPPY HOUR with no-host bar and taco bar.
• Live performances of Los Changitos Feos and Gertie and the TO Boyz.
• Supervisor Richard Elias will emcee the event, and Mayor Jonathan
Rothschild will also be in attendance.
• Free birthday cake made by La Cocina’s Pastry Chef Nick Carson.
• 7:30-8:30 p.m.: Historian Ken Scoville will provide a free one-hour tour
of the Presidio District.
* Reminder: This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For
more information see contacts listed above.
Saturday August 18, 2018: Phoenix
“Educator Open House” at Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park,
4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix*
10 a.m. to noon. Free with RSVP.
Teachers and homeschool educators are invited to the Pueblo Grande
Museum’s free Educator Open House to learn how history, Native cultures, and
art come together at Phoenix’s only preserved prehistoric site from the
Hohokam archaeological culture. Explore how PGM’s S.T.E.A.M. focused field
trips, outreaches, archaeology activities, and hands-on crafts can enhance
the classroom experience! As an added benefit, attendees will have the
opportunity to book their field trips for the school year, two weeks before
tour reservations open for the season. Light refreshments will be provided
courtesy of Einstein Bros Bagels, and the first 30 educators to RSVP will
receive a gift bag and coupon to the Museum Store thanks to Pueblo Grande
Museum Auxiliary support organization.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For additional
information or to register contact Pueblo Grande Museum at 602-495-0901 or
[log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday August 18, 2018: El Paso
“Origins of Cowboy Culture” free presentation by Rudy Avila sponsored
by El Paso Archaeological Society at El Paso Museum of Archaeology, 4301
Transmountain Road, El Paso*
2 p.m. Free
The cowboy practices we identify with western U.S. cowboy ranching and
farming are uniquely a North and South American way of life that did not
exist in Europe when the Americas were discovered. Rudy Avila, a volunteer
with Texas A & M Agri-Live Extension in El Paso, will present on the ecology
and history of the cowboy culture as we know it today. He will discuss the
linguistic origins and environmental timeline of ranching and demonstrate
the tools of the trade. During his talk he will show saddles, spurs, horse
tack, and other equipment used by cowboys in the Americas in the past, for
example, ropes made of horsehair, rawhide, and the Chihuahuan Desert’s
Lechuguilla plant to compare and contrast materials and techniques that
Native Americans and early Spanish folks used to make ropes and other tools.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Fernando Arias at 915-449-9075 or [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Friday-Monday August 31-September 3, 2018: Arizona’s White Mountains
“Q-Ranch Pueblo Prehistoric Pottery Replication Workshop” with
instructor Andy Ward at Q-Ranch outside of Young, Arizona*
$876 (shared room; add $260 for private room) includes all meals, four
nights lodging, shuttle to and from Phoenix, prehistoric pottery workshop,
and all materials
This intensive four-day pottery workshop over Labor Day weekend will
immerse you in the ancient world of the prehistoric Pueblo people who lived
in the mountains of central Arizona and the beautiful pottery that they made
here. Q-Ranch Pueblo was one of the largest and most important pueblos in
this region from about 1260 to 1380. Participants of this workshop will
explore how these people lived and worked, examine ruins and artifacts, dig
and process native clay, minerals and other raw materials, and make pottery
authentic to the ancient traditions. Shuttle is available from Phoenix Sky
Harbor Airport to and from Q-Ranch. Limited to 12 students
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
www.andywardpottery.com/category/traditional-southwest-pottery-classes/
<http://www.andywardpottery.com/category/traditional-southwest-pottery-class
es/> .
Saturday September 1, 2018: Dragoon, AZ
“Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World” free documentary film
showing at the Amerind Museum, 2100 N. Amerind Rd. Dragoon, Arizona*
4-8:30 p.m. Free
Amerind welcomes The Loft Cinema Film Fest on the Road for a free
evening showing of this classic Native American-topic docmentary film.
Please note while the movie is not rated, it contains some profanity. To be
sure you will have a seat, please bring your own cozy chair from home. Event
schedule:
4-8:30 p.m. Buy dinner from the Wicked Burgers food truck
4-5:30 p.m. Free museum admission
5:30 p.m. Musical performance by The Ohitika Souls
6 p.m. Presentation by Angelo Joaquin Jr. (Tohono O’odham)
7 p.m. Free outdoor viewing of the film
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Amerind at 520-586-3666 or [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Friday September 14, 2018; Dragoon, AZ
“Flute and Storytelling Performance by Randy Kemp” at the Amerind
Museum, 2100 N. Amerind Rd. Dragoon, Arizona*
2-3 p.m. $10 per person ticket price (does not include general museum
admission) Join in welcoming Randy Kemp for his first performance at
the Amerind Museum. Kemp is a Native American artist and musician. A tribal
member of the Choctaw/ Muscogee-Creek and Euchee nations of Oklahoma, he is
a storyteller and flute player, sharing contemporary stories of Native
American life, themes, and views.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To purchase your
ticket online visit http://bit.ly/KempFlute. For more information contact
Amerind at 520-586-3666 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
.
Thursday September 20, 2018: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring the presentation “Frida's Roots: Understanding the Course
of Mexican History through Frida Kahlo and Her Artwork” by Dr. Michael M.
Brescia 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 one of several artists to emerge from the violence and chaos of the
Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, Frida Kahlo's lived experiences fashioned a
remarkable artistic talent that promoted across international borders
mexicanidad, or the spirit of a Mexican cultural identity. Despite living in
the professional shadows of her famous husband, the muralist Diego Rivera,
Frida added deeply personal elements to her artwork that simultaneously
reflected and contributed to historical understandings of Mexican culture.
In a richly illustrated PowerPoint presentation, Arizona State Museum
historian Dr. Michael Brescia will examine Frida Kahlo's life and show just
how intimately her artwork reveals the sweep of the Mexican historical
experience, from Pre-Columbian times to the mid-twentieth century.
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. on the
Wednesday before the program date: [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD
PUEBLO WHETHER YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because
the Fire Code limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting
room. Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s
menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old
Pueblo’s educational efforts.
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Saturday September 22, 2018: Tucson-Marana, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Autumn Equinox Tour of Los Morteros
and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites” with archaeologist Allen
Dart departing from near Silverbell Road & Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana,
Arizona
8 a.m. to noon. $25 donation ($20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
The 2018 autumnal equinox occurs on September 22 at 6:54 p.m. Mountain
Standard Time (Sept. 23 at 1:54 a.m. GMT). To celebrate this celestial
event, 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 A.D. 650 and 1450. LIMITED TO 32 PEOPLE.
Reservations and donation prepayment required by 5 p.m. Thursday
September 20: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
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Tuesday-Saturday September 25-29, 2018: Sacramento Mountains area, NM
Tour of the Sacramento Mountain Area in New Mexico” sponsored by
Arizona Pathfinders departing from Arizona Historical Society Museum, 949 E.
Second St., Tucson*
Meets at 7 a.m. Tuesday. $959 per person double occupancy (single
supplement add $270) covers all fees, gratuities, and meals except one
lunch; $200 deposit required
This tour includes visits to (alphabetically) Billy the Kid National
Byway Interpretive Center, Cloudcroft for shopping along historic Burro St.,
Dolan House, Fort. Stanton (established 1855), Heart of the Desert Pistachio
Farm, Hubbard Museum of the American West, Hurd La Rinconada Gallery,
Lincoln State Museum, Mescalero Apache Reservation, Mesilla, New Mexico
Museum of Space History and New Horizons Dome Theater, Roswell Museum and
Art Center, Roswell UFO Museum, Sacramento Mountain Museum, Smokey Bear
Historical Park, and White Sands Missile Range Museum.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit www.azpathfinders.org <http://www.azpathfinders.org> or
email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Thursdays October 4, 11, & 25, & November 1, 2018: Tucson
“Making (Historical) Sense of Mexico” ASM Master Class taught by
historian Dr. Michael M. Brescia in the University of Arizona’s Old Main,
Silver and Sage Room, 1200 E. University Blvd., Tucson*
9:30 to 11:30 a.m. each Thursday; $200 ASM members ($80 tax
deductible), $250 nonmembers ($130 tax deductible); gift portion supports
Dr. Brescia’s research.
The headlines scream that Mexico in the new millennium has become a
lawless state riddled with political corruption, drug violence, and extreme
inequality, which push its citizens to seek economic security across the
international border in the United States. In this four-part series Dr.
Michael M. Brescia, University of Arizona Curator of Ethnohistory and
Affiliated Professor of History and Law, will take you beyond the media
headlines and political soundbites and introduce you to our southern
neighbor by examining the manner in which history, geography, and culture
have shaped modern Mexico since its independence from Spain in 1821. You
will learn about the tumultuous nineteenth century when Mexico experienced
four foreign invasions and routine civil discord, the violent upheaval of
the world’s first social revolution in the twentieth century, and the
challenges and opportunities associated with sharing a nearly 2,000-mile
border with the so-called Colossus of the North, the United States.
Registration includes campus parking, class materials, coffee and light
snacks.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Friday October 5, 2018: Green Valley, AZ*
“Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians” ” adult
education class with archaeologist Allen Dart for OLLI-UA Green Valley
members at location TBA, Green Valley, Arizona*
3:30 to 5 p.m. Open to OLLI-UA Green Valley members only: $140
semiannual (Sept. 24-Nov. 16) membership fee or $180 full-year (July 15-June
30) fee allows one to take this and many other OLLI courses.
The Hohokam Native American culture flourished in southern Arizona
from the sixth through fifteenth centuries. Hohokam artifacts, architecture,
and other material culture provide archaeologists with clues for identifying
where the Hohokam lived, for interpreting how they adapted to the Sonoran
Desert for centuries, and explaining why the Hohokam culture mysteriously
disappeared. In this presentation archaeologist Allen Dart illustrates the
material culture of the Hohokam and presents possible interpretations about
their relationships to the natural world, their time reckoning, religious
practices, beliefs, and deities, and possible reasons for the eventual
demise of their way of life. The presentation includes abundant
illustrations of Hohokam artifacts, rock art, and other cultural features.
One of many classes offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
(OLLI), this “Modern and Historical O’odham Culture” adult education class
covers how the “Four Southern Tribes” of Arizona share a close relationship
with one another and trace their ancestry to people who inhabited
south-central Arizona and part of northern Mexico through geographical,
archaeological, linguistic, oral tradition, and historical evidence. These
modern tribes refer to themselves as "O'odham" ('the people') in their
native language and historically have been called the Papago and Pima
Indians. They occupy several southern Arizona Indian reservations but many
of their members live and work in communities beyond the reservation
boundaries, in Arizona and elsewhere. This class provides a brief
introduction to the historical and modern O'odham cultures, their roots in
the ancient Paleoindian, Archaic, and Hohokam cultures identified by
archaeologists, and their prominent place in the modern 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]
Saturday October 6, 2018: Marana, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Marana Hohokam Platform Mound
Archaeological Community Tour” guided by archaeologists Paul and Suzanne
Fish departing from Circle K convenience store, 13961 N. Sandario Rd.,
Marana, Arizona
8:30 a.m. to noon. $30 donation ($24 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
University of Arizona archaeologists Dr. Paul R. Fish and Dr. Suzanne
K. Fish lead this tour to selected archaeological sites in one of southern
Arizona’s largest ancient Hohokam communities. Our visit will include the
Marana Platform Mound site (which was surrounded by 40+ residential
compounds), a sampling of agricultural field locations including specialized
ones for agave cultivation, and a secondary compound center on the
upper-basin slope of the Tortolita Mountains. The Marana Mound site is one
of the very few Hohokam Early Classic period (AD 1150-1300) villages that
has wholly escaped the destruction resulting from modern agriculture and
urbanization and where adobe-wall remnants can be clearly identified on the
surface. We also will visit the location where a segment of the nearly
seven-mile-long Marana Mound site canal was identified from surface and
excavated remains before that area was included in a modern housing
development. These site visits will provide a basis for understanding the
social and economic processes during the Early Classic period, when
processes of Hohokam centralization and population aggregation greatly
accelerated.
Tour is limited to 20 people including guides. Reservations and
donation prepayment required by 5 p.m. Thursday October 4. 520-798-1201 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Sundays October 7, 14, 21, & 28, and November 4, 2018: Tucson
"Basic Traditional Pottery Making Workshop" with Andy Ward at Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson
2 to 5 p.m. each Sunday; $95 donation ($80 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) covers all materials,
instruction time, and facilities
A series of five pottery-making class sessions will be offered by
artist Andy Ward on Sunday afternoons October 7 through November 4, 2018.
The course introduces some history of southwestern Ancestral and Modern
Pueblo, Mogollon, and Hohokam pottery-making; demonstrates initial steps in
forming, shaping and smoothing bowls, jars, and other forms of hand-built
pottery using traditional hand-building techniques, gourd scrapers, mineral
paints, and yucca brushes instead of modern potters' wheels and paints; and
includes pottery firing. The class is designed to help modern people
understand how prehistoric Native Americans made and used pottery, and is
not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale.
Session 1: History of pottery in southeastern Arizona and begin
forming pottery with coil and scrape method. Session 2: Finish forming and
begin scraping, smoothing, and polishing. Session 3: Slip and polish the
pots. Session 4: Paint designs on pots. Session 5: Open-air pottery firing.
Reservations and donation prepayment required by October 3:
520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
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Thursday-Saturday October 11-13, 2018: Las Cruces, NM
“20th Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference” at University Museum
(Kent Hall) and Corbett Center Auditorium, New Mexico State University
(NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico*
5-7 p.m. Thursday, 8-5 Friday & Saturday; registration $45 before
September 26, $55 later
This biennial southwestern conference features presentations that
relate to the prehistoric, protohistoric, and historical archaeology of the
Mogollon region in the broadest sense including Mimbres, Jornada Mogollon,
northern Chihuahua, and the Mogollon Rim areas. A reception will be held
Thursday from 5-7 p.m. at NMSU’s University Museum (Kent Hall, 1280 E.
University Ave.) and all conference sessions will be held in the NMSU
Corbett Center Student Union Auditorium (2895 S. Locust St.) Friday and
Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit www.lonjul.net/mog2018/ <http://www.lonjul.net/mog2018/>
or contact Lonnie Ludeman at 575-522-1691 or [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Friday & Saturday October 12 & 13, 2018: Tucson
“AAHS Fall Used Book Sale” in the lobby of the Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, 1013 E University Blvd., Tucson*
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday; no fee to browse
This year’s Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society fall book
sale to benefit the Arizona State Library features a large number of books
donated by the estate of archaeologist Lex Lindsay plus many others focused
on anthropology with emphasis on the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico.
Prices are very reasonable, many a dollar or two, and books include all
genres will an emphasize on archaeology and anthropology.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/ or contact Katherine
Cerino at 520-907-0884 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday October 13, 2018: Tucson
“Arrowhead-making and Flintknapping Workshop” with flintknapper Sam
Greenleaf at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson (in
Tucson Unified School District's Ajo Service Center, just west of La Cholla
Blvd., ½-mile north of John F. Kennedy Park)
9 a.m. to noon. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) includes all materials and
equipment.
Learn how to make arrowheads, spear points, and other flaked stone
artifacts just like ancient peoples did. In this workshop, flintknapping
expert Sam Greenleaf provides participants with hands-on experience and
learning on how prehistoric people made and used projectile points and other
tools created from obsidian and other stone. The class is designed to help
modern people understand how prehistoric Native Americans made traditional
crafts, and is not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale.
Minimum enrollment 6, maximum 8.
Reservations and donation prepayment required by 5 p.m. Thursday
October 11: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
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Thursday October 18, 2018: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring the presentation “In Search of the First Americans across
the Greater Southwest” by archaeologist Dr. Vance T. Holliday at U-Like
Oriental Buffet Restaurant, 5101 N. Oracle Road, Tucson
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free; enjoy buffet-style dinner at your own expense
The First Americans – the so-called “Paleoindians” – were the earliest
hunters and gatherers to settle in the southwestern U.S. and northwestern
Mexico. They lived at a time when the climate was substantially different
than today – generally cooler and wetter – and when large mammals of the
Pleistocene epoch such as mammoth, mastodon, horse, camel, dire wolf, big
cats, and bears were still around. Clovis type projectile points made by the
earliest known Paleoindian groups in the region some 13,500-13,000 years
before present (BP) have been found with the remains of mammoth and other
extinct megafauna. Paleoindian sites of the Folsom culture that succeeded
Clovis ca. 13,000-12,000 years BP are rare in southern Arizona and Sonora
but more common on the Colorado Plateau of northern Arizona and northwestern
New Mexico, in the Great Plains, and they are locally quite dense along the
greater Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico and southern Colorado. By Folsom
time most of the Pleistocene megafauna were extinct except for Bison
antiquus, and Folsom people apparently became expert hunters of those
now-extinct bison. Even younger Paleoindian sites of the 12,500-11,000 years
BP era also are known from the Rio Grande region but they seem to be fewer
than Folsom. By those late Paleoindian times the climate was significantly
warmer and drier than during the Clovis or Folsom periods and human adaptive
behavior was likely shifting toward more sedentary “Archaic” lifestyles with
increased focus on plant gathering and use of local resources.
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room. Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s
menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old
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Friday October 19, 2018: Tucson
“Recent Research in Commodities Exchange in Arizona Archaeology” is
the theme of the Arizona Archaeological Council’s annual conference at the
Arizona History Museum, 949 E. Second St., Tucson*
Time & registration fees TBA
A diverse group of presenters address recent archaeological research
in production and exchange of commodities among populations of Arizona and
neighboring regions. Presentations will consider the full range of
commodities including crafts, raw materials, agricultural products, and
meat, and will address the context of production (e.g., households,
villages, and quarries), the context of exchange (markets, atrading
partners, and interhousehold reciprocity) and the role of exchange in
maintenance of networks, social identity, and adaptive systems. This year’s
conference also features an afternoon panel discussion building on an
earlier one at the June 2018 Arizona Historic Preservation Conference and
that will focus on ways that the current political climate affects the
practice of archaeology.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit arizonaarchaeologicalcouncil.org/
<http://arizonaarchaeologicalcouncil.org/> .
Saturday & Sunday October 20-21, 2018: Payson, AZ
“Arizona Archaeological Society State Meeting” at Mazatzal Hotel &
Casino, Highway 87 Mile Marker 251, Payson, Arizona*
Saturday 9:30-10:30 a.m. business meeting followed by field trips both
days. $40 per person
In addition to AAS business this annual gathering offers lots of
opportunities to learn more about Arizona’s vast prehistoric heritage, plus
great food and just plain fun. After the Saturday morning general membership
meeting the Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning field trips are planned to
include Goat Camp archaeological excavations, led by archaeologist Scott
Wood: Stabilization work has been done on rooms 1 and 15 of this ancient
pueblo and none of the room excavations have been backfilled yet so you can
see a village emerging. Some of the artifacts that have been uncovered will
be on display in the Mazatzal meeting room. Risser Ruin, led by Jim Britton:
Jim was involved in the excavation and stabilization of this pueblo and has
an interesting story about the collapsed wall. Also check out the Rim
Country Museum tour to see Risser Ruin displays and artifacts, including a
copper bell. Petroglyphs Seldom Seen led by Bob & Del Wright: Goes to a
group of petroglyphs in an out-of-the-way area rarely visited by anyone,
even hunters. 1.5 miles round trip in open range, 400 ft. elevation change,
about 3 hours. Flowing Springs: Includes a one-of-a-kind petroglyph called
13 Turtles. This is a fairly short trip. Onyx Creek or the Way Cool site: A
hike along a scenic creek to an open area with a pictograph and petroglyphs,
large bedrock metates, and a boulder with 25 or more cupules. Rim
Country Museum: Small town museums are gems! Payson’s museum will delight
and surprise you! See Zane Gray’s cabin, Risser Ruin artifacts, and exhibits
detailing Payson’s history and memorable citizens. Located on lovely Green
Valley Lake with a great walking path. Cannon Ball and Highway 247
petroglyphs sites, led by Bob & Del Wright: Cannon Ball includes three sets
of recently found rock art along a fairly easy trail, approx. 30 minutes.
Hwy 247 petroglyphs are scattered on ground boulders on a high mesa. Total
1-way distance is about ½ mile. Maximum 5 cars. Anderson Pass (Jaws & Turkey
Track site): Rock art near Lake Mary between Payson and Flagstaff, led by Ed
Spicer. Cline Terrace Platform Mound Ruin led by archaeologist Scott Wood:
The Cline Terrace site (A.D. 1280-1400) includes is one of the most
thoroughly documented Hohokam-style platform mounds, in the Tonto Basin near
Roosevelt Lake. Saturday evening dinner, awards, and presentation: Keynote
speaker Jane Kolber presents “Rock Art of the World.”
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Glenda Simmons at 928-684-3251 or
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Saturday October 27, 2018: Ironwood Forest National Monument, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “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, 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. 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 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.
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Friday November 2, 2018: Tucson
“Coming to America: Human Migration and Genome Diversity During the
Last Ice Age” free presentation by Professor Dennis H. O'Rourke sponsored by
the Arizona State Museum (ASM) in Center for English as a Second Language
(CESL) Room 102, 1100 James E. Rogers Way, Tucson*
7-9 p.m. Free
Human dispersal into the Western Hemisphere has been the subject of
scientific inquiry and controversy for more than 500 years. The historical
view of “waves of migration” from an unspecified Asian locale is now being
replaced. Much of the research underlying the newer conceptions of North
American origins has been made possible by extensive consultations,
partnerships, and collaborations with indigenous communities, tribal
governments, and village corporations. In this program, anthropological
geneticist Dennis O'Rourke, Foundation Distinguished Professor at the
University of Kansas, discusses his collaborative research in the Arctic and
four key issues: 1) when the indigenous American genome became distinct from
ancestral populations, 2) the duration of isolation in Beringia, 3) the
timing and routes of early dispersals into the hemisphere, and 4) the
identification of additional areas in northern North America that also may
have contributed to the dispersals of populations into the Americas.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or
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Thursday November 15, 2018: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring the presentation “The Peaceful Enemies: Tucson’s Apaches de
Paz, 1786-1873” by historian Jim Turner 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)
Apaches de Paz, the ‘Peaceful Enemies’ (Apachu means “enemy” in Zuni),
were also known as Manso Apaches. When they immigrated from the Great Plains
the Athapaskan-speaking Apache retained their hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
That included raiding, which led to violence and retaliatory attacks. But in
1786 New Spain’s Viceroy Bernardo de Galvez called for a plan that involved
forming peace camps for the Apaches. If they agreed to settle in camps near
the presidios the Apaches would receive allotments of beef, blankets, and
guns. The Spanish army also provided the Mansos with horses and used them as
auxiliary troops against other Apaches who were still raiding. The Galvez
plan was successful for several decades, and by 1871 there were still more
than a hundred Apaches de Paz living near Tucson and others who had
intermarried with the Tohono O’odham and lived near San Xavier Mission.
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room. Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s
menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old
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Saturday November 17, 2018: Phoenix
“Ancient Southwestern Native American Pottery” free presentation by
archaeologist Allen Dart at Phoenix Juniper Library, 1825 W. Union Hills
Rd., Phoenix; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
2-3:30 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 event. For more
information contact Daisy Chard at 602-534-3719 or [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday December 1, 2018: Dragoon Mountains, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center‘s “Dragoon Springs Stage
Station-Cochise/Howard Treaty Sites" tour guided by archaeologist Dr. Deni
J. Seymour, departing from south side of Interstate-10 at Sybil Road
(Milepost 312) about 9 miles east of Benson, Arizona
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (start & end times at I-10/Sybil Rd.; add your time
to travel to there & back home). A $45 donation per participant ($36 for Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center & Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) helps
cover Old Pueblo’s tour expenses and supports its education programs about
archaeology and traditional cultures. **** Description coming.
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December 1st is the deadline to purchase tickets for the Thursday December
13, 201 8 “Millions for Tucson” Raffle of a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit,
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 2018 Jeep Grand
Cherokee Summit 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 2018 vehicle – or the second prize of
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! 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 representing public relations agency
(Russell Public Communications) for publicity and advertising purposes.
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 7. The drawing will
be held on December 13.
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 www.oldpueblo.org <http://www.oldpueblo.org> home page. Once you
have provided payment, Old Pueblo will enter your ticket(s) into the drawing
and will mail you the correspondingly numbered ticket stub(s) 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 [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> . For more information about the Jim Click
Automotive Team’s Millions for Tucson raffle itself visit
www.millionsfortucson.org <http://www.millionsfortucson.org> .
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Thursday December 20, 2018: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought”
dinner featuring the presentation “Father Kino’s Missions in Sonora and
Arizona” by Father Greg Adolf in the Dining Hall and Petroglyph Auditorium
of the Picture Rocks Redemptorist Renewal Center (PRRNC), 7101 W. Picture
Rocks Road, Tucson
Petroglyphs tour starts at 5:00 p.m., dinner at 6, presentation
7:15-8:30 p.m. Dinner $16 per person, tour and presentation free.
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s
menu) **** Description coming.
Before dinner archaeologist Allen Dart will lead a free tour to the
Picture Rocks petroglyphs.
For this one-time event the dinner fee is $16 per person payable to
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center by check or credit/debit card no later than 5
p.m. Tuesday December 18, so that Old Pueblo can tell the PRRNC on December
19 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 18 to make reservations and pay for dinner.
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Thursdays January 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2019: Tucson
“The Dawn of Agriculture in the Desert West” ASM Master Class taught
by Dr. James T. Watson in the University of Arizona’s Old Main, Silver and
Sage Room, 1200 E. University Blvd., Tucson*
9:30 to 11:30 a.m. each Thursday; $200 ASM members ($80 tax
deductible), $250 nonmembers
The dawn of agriculture was the singular event in human history that
led our species down the short, winding path to civilization. Despite all
the advantages that agriculture has provided, it has also caused countless
challenges to human health, permanently altered our environments, and
changed the way that humans interact. In this four-part series, you will
journey back four thousand years in time with Dr. Watson to explore the
arrival of maize agriculture in the Desert West and its consequences. You
will learn about the ancient roots of farming in the region, what changes
ensued, and why Tucson was the first city in the United States to be
recognized as a UNESCO World City of Gastronomy. Light refreshments and
campus parking included.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information or to register. contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or
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Thursday January 10, 2019: Prescott Valley, AZ
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free
presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at Prescott Valley Public Library,
7401 E Civic Circle, Prescott Valley, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona
Humanities*
6-7 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 Librarian Michele Hjorting at 928-759-6196 or
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Friday-Saturday January 11-12, 2019: Phoenix
“Southern Southwest Archaeological Conference” at Pueblo Grande Museum
and Archaeological Park, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix*
Times TBA. Fee information pending SSWAC is a new conference aimed
at highlighting current archaeological research in the United States’
southern Southwest and Mexico’s Northwest. Sponsors aim to hold this
conference every other year, each time in a different location around the
region, to allow participants to explore the history of various localities
through site visits and other activities while also showcasing new and
innovative research from throughout the region. Alongside sharing research,
goals for the conference include building community and facilitating
collaboration among those interested in the archaeology of the region. The
SSWAC region of interest encompasses a broad region that often receives less
attention than it merits.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit https://sswac.org/sswac/ or email [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Tuesdays January 15-March 19, 2019: Tucson
“Prehistory of the Southwest” class with archaeologist Allen Dart at
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson (at Tucson
Unified School District's Ajo Service Center, just west of La Cholla Blvd.,
½-mile north of John F. Kennedy Park)
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. each Tuesday evening January 15, 22 & 29, February
5, 12, 19 & 26, and March 5, 12 & 19, 2019. $95 donation ($80 for Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members), not counting
cost of the recommended text or of optional Arizona Archaeological Society
membership. Minimum enrollment 8, maximum 20.
“Prehistory of the Southwest” is an introductory course in the study
of the American Southwest, developed by the Arizona Archaeological Society
to provide a basic overview of this region's archaeology and cultures. Ten
weekly 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 prehistory
for anyone interested in the archaeology of the Southwest, the class can be
used as prerequisite for all other courses offered to members of the Arizona
Archaeological Society (AAS) enrolled in or interested in enrolling in the
AAS Certification Program. Instructor Allen Dart is a registered
professional archaeologist employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
and is volunteer executive director of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center.
Reservations and prepayment required, registration deadline Friday
January 11. 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
to register or for more information.
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Saturday February 2, 2019: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Tucson and Marana Yoeme (Yaqui
Indian) Communities” car-caravan cultural sites tour with Yoeme traditional
culture specialist Felipe S. Molina starting in the Santa Cruz River Park
ramada at 1317 W. Irvington Road, Tucson (on south side of Irvington just
west of the Santa Cruz River)
8 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 (Barrio Loco) in Tucson, Yoem Pueblo and Wiilo Kampo in
Marana, and others near Eloy, Somerton, Phoenix, and Scottsdale. Mr. Molina
will lead this tour to places settled historically by Yoeme in the Tucson
and Marana areas including Bwe'u Hu'upa (Big Mesquite) Village, the San
Martin Church and plaza in the 39th Street Community (Barrio Libre), Pascua,
Ili Hu'upa, Wiilo Kampo, and his home community of Yoem Pueblo including its
San Juan Church and plaza.
Reservations and prepayment required by Wednesday January 30:
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Saturday March 2, 2019: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Vista del Rio Archaeological Site”
free tour guided by archaeologist Allen Dart cosponsored by Vista del Rio
Residents' Association, at the Vista del Rio Cultural Resource Park, 7575 E.
Desert Arbors St. (at Dos Hombres Road), Tucson
9-10 a.m. Free (reservations required)
In celebration of Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month,
archaeologist Allen Dart (Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's executive
director) leads this tour to Vista del Rio, an ancient village of the
Hohokam archaeological culture that inhabited southern Arizona between AD
650 and 1450.
Reservations required by 5 p.m. Thursday February 28. 520-798-1201 or
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Monday March 4, 2018: Tucson
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock” free
presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at Himmel Park Library, 1035 N
Treat Ave., Tucson; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
6-7 p.m. Free
Please see Thursday January 10, 2019: Prescott Valley, AZ listing for
presentation description.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Kelly Urman at 520.594.5305 or
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Friday March 15, 2019: Wickenburg, AZ
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock” free
presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at Desert Caballeros Western
Museum, 21 N. Frontier St., Wickenburg, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona
Humanities*
11 a.m. to noon. Free
Please see Thursday January 10, 2019: Prescott Valley, AZ listing for
presentation description.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Natalie Olson at 928-684-2272 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday April 9, 2019: Lake Havasu City, AZ
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free
presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Lake Havasu Museum of History
at ASU Colleges at Lake Havasu’s Daytona Hall (gymnasium), 100 University
Way, Lake Havasu City, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
5:30-6:30 p.m. reception, 7-8:30 p.m. presentation. Free
Please see Thursday January 10, 2019: Prescott Valley, AZ listing for
presentation description.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For campus map
visit <http://www.asu.edu/map/pdf/asu_map_lakehavasu_current.pdf>
www.asu.edu/map/pdf/asu_map_lakehavasu_current.pdf. For more information
contact Becky Maxedon at 928-854-4938 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask],
Thursday April 11, 2019: Prescott Valley, AZ
“Ancient Southwestern Native American Pottery” free presentation by
archaeologist Allen Dart at Prescott Valley Public Library, 7401 E Civic
Circle, Prescott Valley, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
6-7 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 event. For more
information contact Librarian Michele Hjorting at 928-759-6196 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday April 13, 2019: Glendale, AZ
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free
presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at Agave Library, 23550 N. 36th
Ave. Glendale, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
2-3 p.m. Free
Please see Thursday January 10, 2019: Prescott Valley, AZ listing for
presentation description.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Deborah Dwyer at 602-256-3387 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Sunday May 19, 2019: Prescott, AZ
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free
presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at Prescott Public Library, 215 E.
Goodwin Street, Prescott, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
Please see Thursday January 10, 2019: Prescott Valley, AZ listing for
presentation description.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Ruthie Hewitt at 928-777-1509 or
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(3) 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.
(4) 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 start or renew your membership by visiting Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center’s www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/
<http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/> web page.
To make a donation using PayPal, please visit Old Pueblo’s
www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/donations/
<http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/donations/> page.
Donations by check can be made payable to “OPAC” and mailed to Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577.
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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