RESERVATION DEADLINES FOR
OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER EVENTS
5 P.M. WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 19 IS THE RESERVATION DEADLINE for Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Thursday September 20 “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” event featuring the presentation “Frida's Roots: Understanding the
Course of Mexican History through Frida Kahlo and Her Artwork” by historian
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
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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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5 P.M. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20 IS THE RESERVATION DEADLINE for Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Saturday September 22 “Autumn 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. $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
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SOME OTHER UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
WITH OR WITHOUT RESERVATION DEADLINES
Sundays October 7, 14, 21, & 28, and November 4, 2018: Tucson
CLASS FILLED - WAITING LIST "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:
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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
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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.
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. on the
Wednesday before the program date: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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WHETHER YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the
Fire Code limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room.
Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s menu.
There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old
Pueblo’s educational efforts.
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Saturday 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”) is a volcanic peak that
rises about 900 feet above the surrounding plain in the Ironwood Forest
National Monument northwest of Tucson. It is a sacred place known to the
Yoeme (Yaqui Indians) as Chukui Kawi (“Black Mountain”) and 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.
Inscription Hill contains one of the densest petroglyph groupings in
southern Arizona, encompassing at least 1,225 individual glyphs plus
bedrock metates, trincheras, trail segments, and talus pits. 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 Inscription Hill
petroglyphs.
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Saturday November 10, 2018: Ironwood Forest National Monument
Friends of Ironwood Forest Hike the Monument event including hike to
some of the Cocoraque Butte petroglyphs. Details coming.
Allen Dart, RPA 12244, 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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