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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Drops the Charges!
As of March 7, 2019, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument no longer charges an entrance fee to visit the Monument. After analyzing the costs and benefits of the recreational fee program, park leadership determined it is in the best interest of both Casa Grande Ruins National Monument and the public to eliminate the entrance fees at the Monument.
For a fun and educational experience please visit this highly significant Hohokam culture archaeological site! Located at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, 1100 Ruins Dr., Coolidge, Arizona.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <http://www.nps.gov/cagr> www.nps.gov/cagr or call 520-723-3172.
Saturday April 6, 2019: Tucson
“Arrowhead-making and Flintknapping Workshop” with flintknapper Sam Greenleaf at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson
9 a.m. to noon. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members; 50% off for persons who have taken this class previously)
Learn how to make arrowheads, spear points, and other flaked stone artifacts just like ancient peoples did. In this workshop, flintknapping expert Sam Greenleaf provides participants with hands-on experience and learning on how prehistoric people made and used projectile points and other tools created from obsidian and other stone. All materials and equipment are provided. The class is designed to help modern people understand how 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 April 4: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Saturday April 6, 2019: Tucson
“Culture Craft Saturday” at the Arizona State Museum (ASM), University of Arizona, 1013 E. University Blvd., Tucson*
10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free with museum admission.
Enjoy hands-on fun for the whole family! Teachers - Earn up to 3 professional development hours! In this exploration of Hopi history, culture, and art with the Hopi Tribe’s Ramson and Jessia Lomatewama you can listen to Ramson talk about katsina dolls and demonstrate how Hopi artisans carve them, make a basket "start" with Jessica, mix natural pigments and decorate a paper pot, create a woven butterfly, weave and a plant a corn cob, write a haiku inspired by ASM's collections, tour the “Life Along the River” exhibit with curator Chuck Adams, and see 70 katsina dolls and talk with exhibit curator Andrew Higgins.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Heather Ingram at 520-626-3989 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
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 is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* 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]
Tuesday April 9, 2019: Phoenix
“Subsistence, Ceramic Production, and Exchange at Farmstead Sites on the Queen Creek Bajada” presentation by archaeologist Andrea Gregory for the Arizona Archaeological Society Phoenix Chapter at the Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix*
7 p.m. snacks & refreshments, talk begins about 7:30. Free
Two Hohokam farmstead sites were excavated recently by Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) during a project sponsored by the Flood Control District of Maricopa County and assisted by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. The recovered evidence suggests outlying areas along the Queen Creek delta and bajada were occupied from the Pioneer period well into the Classic, with peak use during the Sedentary period. These small dry-farming sites maintained contact with middle Gila River communities throughout the Sedentary, and one of them also had small amounts of Tusayan white ware ceramics and Government Mountain obsidian from northern Arizona. The sites show increasing involvement with ceramic production and botanical resources from the Sedentary through the early Classic periods, supporting their importance in understanding the increasingly localized production identified during the Sedentary-to-Classic transition era. Presenter Andrea Gregory has 19 years experience in archaeology including 17 supervising research for ACS.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information call the Pueblo Grande Museum at 602-495-0901 or contact Ellie Large at 480-461-0563 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 is 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: Tumacácori, AZ
“Junior Ranger Day” at Tumacácori National Historical Park, 1891 E. Frontage Rd., Tumacacori, Arizona*
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. No entry fee this day only!
“If you’ve ever wondered how a historical park like Tumacácori could be kid-friendly, come to Junior Ranger Day,” says superintendent Bob Love “This park is all about family and the things that young people love like animals, games, and food.” Junior Rangers of all ages will be able to play, create, and learn from special activities on the mission grounds. Families can spend the morning with hands-on games, crafts, and programs while enjoying free admission all day. Encounter Pancho, the 6-foot-tall vermilion flycatcher known to inhabit Tumacácori’s most festive occasions. Go head-to-head with friends on a traditional O’odham pottery race. Cool off in the monsoon tunnel or with an authentic Tumacácori raspado. Create works of art in clay, mud, paint, and fabric. Cultivate wildflowers that attract butterflies and hummingbirds. Meet and feed real heritage livestock. More than 20 different games will be available for all ages, abilities, and interests. Each game, activity, or craft gets you closer to prizes such as pins, badges, stickers, and books. The first fifty Junior Rangers to arrive will go home with the grand prize, a limited-edition Junior Ranger Day T-shirt.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information call 520-377-5060 or visit the park website, at nps.gov/tuma.
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*
3-4 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 is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* 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]
Monday April 15, 2019: Tucson
“Living with the Canals: Water, Ecology, and Cultural Memory in the Sierra Madre Foothills” free presentation by Elizabeth Eklund for Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) meeting at Banner University Medical Center DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson*
7:30-9 p.m. Free
The storms dump monsoon rains on the Sierra Madre, water percolates down into the aquifer, draining along the rivers of Northwestern Mexico. One of the rivers, Río Sonora, has been used to irrigate cropland for millennia. Precise historical details remain unclear, but around the time of the Entrada (circa 1530’s), Cabeza de Vaca reported an area with “permeant houses and many stores of maize and frijoles” (2003[1542]:152). Continuity with this pre-Hispanic past has been supported by the research of geographer William Doolittle. That particular historical narrative is displayed in Banámichi’s Plaza Juarez / Plaza de la Piedra Histórica (Plaza of the Historic Rock), as a corn stalk and four Ópata-inspired figures representing four Río Sonora pueblos founded by Father Bartolome Casteñedos support a petroglyph that Doolittle interpreted as depicting the pre-Hispanic canals and fields in the floodplain below. This particular project focuses on the canals of Banámichi. Today’s canals can be dated to the 1930’s and 1940’s and are fed by a spring north of town, sometimes augmented by well water. The canal system, though, is older. The question I focus on is not the antiquity of the canals, but rather how this public display of the archaeological past shapes how the water managers define themselves. While archaeological research and ecological models present a degree of uncertainty about Río Sonora pre-Hispanic population density or scale of farming, these canals are part of usos and costumbres (traditional uses and customs) and modern managers see a clear connection to the past.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No reservations needed. For details visit <http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org> www.az-arch-and-hist.org or contact John D. Hall at 520-205-2553 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday April 16, 2019: Online
April 16 is the deadline for submitting nominations for the “Tucson‒Pima County Historical Commission Historic Preservation Awards” to be presented on May 25, 2019, in the auditorium at the historic Dunbar School, 325 W. Second St. Tucson*
The Tucson–Pima County Historical Commission makes awards in three categories to people and organizations that help to foster awareness and preservation of historic sites, structures, districts, and character in Tucson and Pima County. The Alene Dunlap Smith and Paul Smith Award is presented to those who have demonstrated a high level of dedication and long-term commitment toward historic preservation. The Historic Preservation Award is given for contributions to preservation that have had a significant impact at the community level. And the Heritage Award goes to persons or organizations who have volunteered time and effort on local history or preservation projects, undertaken rehabilitation of their own historic property, or successfully completed a National Register nomination of their own building.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To find the Call for Nominations and for more information visit <http://www.tucsonaz.gov/historic-preservation> www.tucsonaz.gov/historic-preservation.
Thursday April 18, 2019: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner featuring the presentation “Whiskey is for Drinking, Water is for Fighting Over: Spain’s Impact on Law and Natural Resources in the American West” 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 at your expense)
We tend to think that Spain’s historical influence in Arizona and the greater Southwest is confined to language and religion, but its impact on law and agrarian practices tells us the fascinating story of water and the rhythms of daily life. Despite the 164 years that have passed since Arizona and southwestern New Mexico entered the United States (and 170 years for other places like California and northern New Mexico), American Indians and the Hispanic descendants of the first Spanish conquistadors continue to call upon old Spanish law to defend their rights to natural resources. Dr. Brescia examines how the Spanish empire defined property and natural resources during the colonial period, the reasons why Spanish water rights are taken into consideration by the U.S. judicial system today, and the inevitable clash that has taken place between two legal systems -- American common law and Hispanic civil law – in the adjudication of water disputes in the Southwest.
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. on the Wednesday before the program date: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD PUEBLO WHETHER YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the Fire Code limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room. Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old Pueblo’s educational efforts.
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Wednesday-Sunday April 24-28, 2019: Flagstaff, AZ
“Land and Sky in the Cultural Sciences of the Greater Southwest” conference at Native American Cultural Center, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff*
Four days; registration options start at $80 to attend for 2 days; discounts for SCAAS members
This Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest conference is a unique opportunity for people to interact with Native American students, elders, educators and keepers of traditional knowledge. It includes presentations related to the Land and Sky theme, daily beverage service, morning and afternoon refreshments, lunch, an awards dinner with a distinguished speaker at the DoubleTree by Hilton Flagstaff, and a special tour of the Museum of Northern Arizona on Sunday April 28 for registered conference participants.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Registration is open through April 20. For more information visit <http://www.scaas.org/2019-Conference> scaas.org/2019-Conference or email <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Friday-Sunday April 26-28, 2019: Silver City, NM
“Mimbres and Beyond” meeting at the historic Murray Hotel, 200 W. Broadway St., Silver City, New Mexico*
Times TBA; registration $60+ depending on selected activities
“Mimbres and Beyond: Archaeology of Southwest New Mexico and Connections to the Wider Region” is the theme of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico's 2019 annual meeting, hosted by the Grant County Archaeological Society in Silver City.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://www.gcasnm.org> https://www.gcasnm.org or email Marianne Smith at [log in to unmask]
Friday April 26, 2019: Tularosa, NM
“Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest” free presentation by Tucson archaeologist Allen Dart sponsored by Jornada Research Institute in the historic Dry Goods Store, 308 Granada Street, Tularosa, New Mexico*
6:30-8 p.m. (doors open at 6), free
Preliterate cultures in the American Southwest took advantage of southern Arizona’s long growing season and tackled its challenge of limited precipitation by developing the most extensive irrigation works in all of North America. Agriculture was introduced into southern Arizona more than 4,000 years ago, and irrigation systems were developed here by at least 3,500 years before present – several hundred years before irrigation was established in ancient Mexico. This study session provides an overview of ancient Native American irrigation systems identified by archaeologists in the southern Southwest and discusses their implications for understanding social complexity. Parking and entry are through the rear of the Dry Goods store in large vacant lot between Granada St. and St. Francis Mission church.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Dave Greenwald at 575-430-8854 (preferably by texting) or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday April 27, 2019: El Paso
“Old-Time Religion? The Salado Phenomenon in the Greater Southwest” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at El Paso Museum of Archaeology, 4301 Transmountain Road, El Paso*
2-3 p.m. Free
When first recognized by archaeologists in the early twentieth century, a constellation of peculiar cultural traits in the southwestern United States, including polychrome (three-colored) pottery, above-ground housing often enclosed in walled compounds, and monumental architecture, was thought to be indicative of a distinct group of people: “the Salado.” As more and more research was done and the widespread distribution of Salado material culture because apparent, interpretations of what the Salado phenomenon represents was debated. In this presentation archaeologist Allen Dart will illustrate pottery and other cultural attributes of the so-called Salado culture, review some of the theories about the Salado, and discuss how Salado related to the Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon, Hohokam, and Casa Grandes cultures of the “Greater Southwest” (the U.S. Southwest and Mexico’s Northwest).
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Jeff Romney at 915-755-4332 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday & Wednesday April 30 & May 1, 2019: Albuquerque
“Looting and Vandalism” training course sponsored by Jornada Research Institute (JRI) and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) at USBR Albuquerque Area Office, 555 Broadway Blvd. NE #100, Albuquerque*
Times TBA; $175 registration
The Jornada Research Institute offers this two-day training course on the looting and vandalism of archaeological sites. The course will combine classroom presentations along with a field exercise. Participants will learn to recognize profiles of looters, signs of looting, and how to conduct a field damage assessment. They will also receive instruction on the major provisions and applications of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act and other applicable antiquities laws. The course counts toward the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division’s required continuing education credits for training.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Jeffery Hanson at 817-658-5544 of <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesday May 15, 2019: Vail, AZ
“Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona” free presentation by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's director, archaeologist Allen Dart, for Arizona Senior Academy at Academy Village, 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Tucson (actually Vail)*
2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Free
Many different peoples have contributed to making Arizona such a unique and fascinating cultural place. In this program Mr . Dart summarizes and interprets the archaeology of Arizona, from the earliest Paleoindians through Archaic period hunters and foragers, the transition to true village life, and the later prehistoric archaeological cultures (Puebloan, Mogollon, Sinagua, Hohokam, Salado, and Patayan). He also discusses connections between archaeology and history, and provides an overview of the Native American, European, Mexican, African, and Asian peoples who have contributed to the Southwest’s recent history.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For details or to make reservations please visit <http://www.arizonasenioracademy.org> www.arizonasenioracademy.org or contact Tremia Cox at 520-647-0980 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Friday-Sunday May 17-19, 2019: Tularosa, NM
“2019 Tularosa Basin Conference” and tours based in the Tularosa Community Center, 1050 Bookout Road, Tularosa, New Mexico*
The Tularosa Basin Conference focuses on a broad array of topics including (but not limited to) archaeology, history, ethnohistory, Native American studies, geology, geomorphology, biology, botany, paleontology, rock art studies, and other appropriate subjects. This year’s conference anticipates papers in all or most of these categories, focusing on the Tularosa Basin and its immediate adjacent environs but also including topics from adjacent areas that show links to the Tularosa Basin. Tours will be conducted on May 19.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact visit <http://jornadaresearchinstitute.com/2019-tularosa-basin-conference/> http://jornadaresearchinstitute.com/2019-tularosa-basin-conference/.
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*
2-3 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 is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Ruthie Hewitt at 928-777-1509 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday May 20, 2019: Tucson
“Mendoza’s Aim: To Complete the Columbian Project” free presentation by Richard and Shirley Flint for Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) meeting at Banner University Medical Center DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson*
7:30-9 p.m. Free
Description coming.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No reservations needed. For details visit <http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org> www.az-arch-and-hist.org or contact John D. Hall at 520-205-2553 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday May 30, 2019: Vail, AZ
“Ancient Native American Pottery of Southern Arizona” free presentation by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's director, archaeologist Allen Dart, for Arizona Senior Academy at Academy Village, 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Tucson (actually Vail)*
2:30 to 3:30 Free
Mr. Dart shows digital images of Native American ceramic styles that characterized specific eras in Arizona prehistory and history, and discusses how archaeologists use pottery for dating archaeological sites and interpreting ancient lifeways. He discusses the importance of context in archaeology, how things people make change in style over time, and how different styles are useful for identifying different cultures and for dating pottery. He also shows illustrations of the pottery styles that were made in southern Arizona by the ancient Early Ceramic and Hohokam cultures, and historically by Piman (Tohono O’odham and Akimel O’odham), Yuman (including Mohave and Maricopa), and Apachean peoples from as early as 800 B.C. into the early twentieth century.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For details or to make reservations please visit <http://www.arizonasenioracademy.org> www.arizonasenioracademy.org or contact Tremia Cox at 520-647-0980 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday July 15, 2019: Springerville, AZ
“Ancient Southwestern Native American Pottery” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Little Colorado River Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, at Springerville Heritage Center, 418 E. Main St., Springerville, cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
7-8 p.m. Free
In this presentation Mr. Dart shows and discusses Native American ceramic styles that characterized specific peoples and eras in the U.S. Southwest prior to about 1450, and talks about how archaeologists use pottery for dating archaeological sites and interpreting ancient lifeways. He discusses the importance of context in archaeology, how the things people make change in style over time, and how different styles are useful for identifying different cultures and for dating archaeological sites. His many illustrations include examples of ancient pottery types made throughout the American Southwest from about 2000 to 500 years ago. This program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Beverly Dishong-Smith at 520-730-1871 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday July 20, 2019: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Archaeology, Paleontology, and Environmental Sciences Laboratories Tour” starting in the courtyard at Mercado San Agustin, 100 S. Avenida del Convento, Tucson
8 a.m. to noon: $25 donation ($20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
This Old Pueblo Archaeology Center summer tour visits two TOO-COOL environmental-science laboratories in Tucson – the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, both administered by The University of Arizona (UA). In the first tour segment, Dr. Ben Wilder will lead us through the Tumamoc Desert Laboratory, which began its existence in 1903 as the Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory established by the Carnegie Institution of Washington and is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1940 the Carnegie Institution sold it to the US Forest Service for $1, and in 1956 the UA bought it from the U.S. government, promising in the deed to use it solely for research and education. During its 115 years of existence the Tumamoc Hill and Desert Laboratory staff have been on the cutting edge in the fields of paleontology and desert ecology.
The UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) also has a venerable record of research in archaeology, astronomy, and environmental sciences. Created in 1937 by UA Professor of Astronomy Andrew Ellicott Douglass, founder of the science of dendrochronology, the LTRR has helped establish many other dendrochronology and tree-ring science labs around the world and remains a foremost facility in environmental research, teaching, and outreach, as we will see as docent Randall Smith leads us through the tree-ring laboratory.
The first tour segment to Tumamoc Hill is limited to six vehicles so carpooling is required and no more than 24 people (in addition to Old Pueblo’s tour coordinator Allen Dart) can register depending on whether we can designate six 4-passenger vehicles for carpooling from Mercado San Agustin to the Desert Lab. Then after we leave there we will return to the Mercado so carpoolers can get back into their own vehicles, and we will caravan from the Mercado to the LTRR for the second tour segment. Reservations and donation prepayments are required by 5 p.m. Wednesday July 17: 520-798-1201 or
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Wednesday August 28, 2019: Overgaard, AZ
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Agave House Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, at U.S. Forest Service-Black Mesa Ranger District office, 2748 Arizona State Route 260, Overgaard, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
6:30-8 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 is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Nancy MacArthur at 623-640-0226 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday September 19, 2019: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner featuring the presentation “The Manila Galleon and the Opening of the Trans-Pacific West” by Father Greg Adolf at a Tucson-area restaurant to be announced
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free
In this presentation, local historian Father Greg Adolf will introduce the Spanish Empire’s Manila Galleons – the first and perhaps most enduring cultural bridge of the trans-Pacific region. The first of the Galleons crossed the Pacific in 1565, and the last in 1815. During the two and a half centuries between, the galleons made the long and lonely voyage between Manila in the Philippines and Acapulco in Mexico. The Manila Galleons forever changed the material culture of the Spanish Americas. To the Californias and the Spanish settlements of Arizona’s and Sonora’s Pimería Alta, they furnished the motive and drive to explore and populate the long California coastline. The Manila Galleon trade impacted every level of Spanish American culture.
Reservations must be requested AND CONFIRMED before 5 p.m. on the Wednesday before the program date: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD PUEBLO WHETHER YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the Fire Code limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room. Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s menu. There is no entry fee but donations will be requested to benefit Old Pueblo’s educational efforts.
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Monday September 23, 2019: 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 2019 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. Saturday September 21: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Tuesday October 1, 2019: Clarkdale, AZ
“Ancient Southwestern Native American Pottery” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Clarkdale Historical Society at Yavapai College’s Verde Campus Room M137, 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, Arizona; 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 is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Isabel Erickson at 970-203-4340 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Friday-Sunday October 11-13, 2019: El Paso
“21st Biennial Jornada Mogollon Archaeology Conference” at El Paso Museum of Archaeology, 4301 Transmountain Road, El Paso*
Times and registration fees TBA
Archaeologists working in the Jornada Branch of the Mogollon culture area of the American Southwest present their recent research during this conference.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Jeff Romney at 915-755-4332 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday October 17, 2019: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner featuring “University Indian Ruin: A Classic Period Center in the Eastern Tucson Basin” free presentation by Professors Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish at a Tucson-area restaurant to be announced
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free
University Indian Ruin, one of the most prominent Hohokam platform-mound community centers between A.D. 1200 and 1450, is located in Tucson’s Indian Ridge Estates neighborhood about seven miles from downtown Tucson. In 1930, an archaeology student donated a 13-acre portion of this archaeological site to the University of Arizona’s Department of Archaeology for student training. Eminent archaeologists Byron Cummings, Emil Haury, and Julian Hayden conducted extensive excavations there throughout the 1930s, however, only Hayden’s 1957 investigations in the vicinity of the platform mound have been comprehensively reported. The University of Arizona School of Anthropology Archaeological Field School resumed fieldwork at the site in 2010, conducting controlled surface artifact collections over the 13-acre archaeological preserve and excavating some of the site’s residential architecture. In our April 26 program, guest speakers Paul and Suzanne Fish will discuss the recent investigations, and their insights into the changing regional interaction of the Hohokam Classic period evidenced by the site’s differential acquisition of polychrome pottery and other resources from far away, including obsidian from distant quarries, exotic cherts, and pottery of Zuni and Sonoran origin.
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Saturday November 2, 2019: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “University Indian Ruin Archaeology Education Tour” with Professors Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish meets at 7053 E Tanque Verde Rd., Tucson
10 a.m. to noon. $25 donation ($20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
This tour will visit the preserved portion of the University Indian Ruin, which was one of the most prominent Hohokam platform-mound community centers between A.D. 1200 and 1450. Located in northeastern Tucson, University Indian Ruin became a location for training students in the University of Arizona’s Department of Archaeology and was extensively excavated in the 1930s under eminent archaeologists Byron Cummings, Emil Haury, and Julian Hayden. The University of Arizona School of Anthropology Archaeological Field School resumed fieldwork at the site in 2010, conducting controlled surface artifact collections over the 13-acre archaeological preserve and excavating some of the site’s residential architecture. The Fishes, who directed the 2010 excavations, will lead this tour and share their insights into the site’s importance for understanding the Hohokam Classic period, a time of substantial culture change in southern Arizona. Carpooling may be required. Bring drinking water and wear comfortable walking shoes.
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Saturday November 16, 2019: Southeastern Arizona
“Upper San Pedro Valley Paleoindian Archaeological Sites Tour” with Professor Vance T. Holliday departing from the Arizona Highway 90 turnoff to Kartchner Caverns State Park in Benson, Arizona
9 a.m. starting at Kartchner Caverns turnoff to as late as 5 p.m. ending somewhere in the San Pedro Valley; $45 donation ($36 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
University of Arizona Professor of Anthropology Vance T. Holliday, Ph.D., an expert on the earliest humans in the Americas, leads this Old Pueblo Archaeology Center tour to the Murray Springs Clovis-culture-and-mammoth site in southeastern Arizona’s San Pedro River valley. Other sites to be visited TENTATIVELY include the Lehner mammoth-kill site and the historic Fairbank Townsite and Naco Cavalry Barracks. (The Highway 90 turnoff to Kartchner Caverns State Park is 8.9 miles south of Interstate 10 Exit 302; the Park address is 2980 S. AZ-90, Benson, AZ. This tour will not visit Kartchner Caverns.)
Reservations and prepayment required by 5 p.m. Wednesday November 13. 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Thursday November 21, 2019: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner featuring “Excavations at the Creekside Village Archaeological Site near Tularosa, New Mexico” presentation by archaeologist David Greenwald at a Tucson-area restaurant to be announced
6 to 8:30 p.m. Free
Description coming.
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Monday December 2nd is the deadline to purchase tickets for . . .
“The Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle of a 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit, Two First-Class Round-Trip Airline Tickets to Anywhere in the World, and $5,000 Cash” that will benefit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other Tucson charities!
For the second year in a row, Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give away a new 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 2019 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”! Tickets for the raffle are 5 for $100 or $25 each. Your donation to purchase raffle tickets will help Old Pueblo Archaeology Center provide more archaeology and culture education programs for children who would not be able to afford our programs without your help. The drawing will be held on December 13.
Raffle rules: To be entered in the raffle your contribution and tickets must be received (not postmarked) by Old Pueblo by Monday December 2nd so we can turn the tickets in to the Jim Click Automotive Team’s coordinator by December 6. Old Pueblo must account for all tickets issued to us and must return all unsold tickets; therefore, advance payment for tickets is required. Tickets may be purchased by check payable to Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and mailed to PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717; by calling 520-603-6181 to provide your Visa, MasterCard, or Discover card payment authorization, or through the PayPal Donation on Old Pueblo’s <http://www.oldpueblo.org> www.oldpueblo.org home page. Once payment is received, Old Pueblo will enter your tickets into the drawing and will mail you the correspondingly numbered ticket stubs with a letter acknowledging your contribution. Winner consents to be photographed and for his or her name and likeness to be used by the Jim Click Automotive Team and/or the Russell Public Communications firm for publicity and advertising purposes.
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Saturday December 7, 2019: Gila Bend area, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Sears Point, Painted Rock, and Gatlin: Patayan and Hohokam Petroglyphs and Archaeology” tour guided by archaeologist Dr. Aaron M. Wright starting at Interstate 8 Exit 78 (Spot Road) approximately 39 miles west of Gila Bend, Arizona
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (or later if joining the group for dinner in Gila Bend). A $45 donation per participant ($36 for members of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center & Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary) helps cover Old Pueblo’s tour expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
Archaeologist Dr. Aaron Wright leads this tour to see thousands of petroglyphs and one of the largest Hohokam village sites in southwestern Arizona. Aaron, a Preservation Archaeologist with Tucson’s Archaeology Southwest organization, has research interests in paleoclimatology, indigenous Southwest ritualism and religion, and rock art and has been a leader in the effort to establish a Great Bend of the Gila National Monument. The first place we’ll visit is Sears Point, the northwestern escarpment of the Sentinel Plain – a vast basaltic field dotted with low shield volcanoes located along the lower Gila River between Gila Bend and Yuma, Arizona. Sears Point is renowned for its density of petroglyphs as well as their unique style attributed to the Patayan culture tradition (believed to be ancestral to contemporary Yuman- and O'odham-speaking communities). The site is adorned with thousands of petroglyphs and seemingly endless ancient trails. Next, we’ll caravan to the Painted Rocks petroglyphs site northwest of Gila Bend, and finally will visit the Gatlin Platform Mound village site in Gila Bend. Tour participants interested in having dinner together before returning home can reconvene at Sophia's Mexican Restaurant in Gila Bend after the tour.
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Thursday December 19, 2019: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner featuring a presentation titled “Feminist Theory and an Engendered Archaeology: Where We’ve Been and Where We Are Going” by archaeologist Suzanne Eckert, Ph.D., in the Dining Hall and Petroglyph Auditorium of the Picture Rocks Redemptorist Renewal Center (PRRNC), 7101 W. Picture Rocks Road, Tucson
Dinner starts at 6 p.m., presentation around 7-8:30 p.m.; dinner is $16 per person, presentation is free
Feminist archaeology attempts to interpret past societies partly from a perspective of gender in tandem with other factors such as sexuality, ethnicity, or class. Where has feminist theory and engendered archaeology gotten us? Archaeologist Dr. Suzanne Eckert, who taught engendering archaeology for 10 years at Texas A & M University before becoming the Head of Collections at the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, will share what she sees as some of the problems with feminist archaeology as well as some of its very good attributes that ultimately have had a positive influence on the discipline of archaeology.
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Saturday January 4, 2020: Dragoon Mountains, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center‘s “Dragoon Springs Stage Station-Cochise/Howard Treaty Sites" tour guided by archaeologist Dr. Deni J. Seymour and historian Norman Wisner, departing from south side of Interstate-10 Exit 312 (Sybil Road) 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.
This tour to the historic Dragoon Springs Stage Station and Cochise-Howard Treaty Site archaeological sites in the foothills of southern Arizona’s Dragoon Mountains will be led by archaeologist Dr. Deni Seymour, whose lifelong research has focused largely on the Protohistoric and Historic period Native American and Spanish cultures of the United States’ “southern Southwest,” and Norman Wisner, a historian who is especially knowledgeable about the Dragoon Springs site. Dragoon Springs, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, served the “Jackass Mail” and Butterfield Overland mail companies during the 1850s and 1860s, and was the site of altercations in which construction workers and soldiers of both the Confederate and Union armies were killed, allegedly by Apaches. Debate surrounding the burials will be incorporated into the discussion. A second site, the Cochise-Howard Treaty location, is where Brigadier General Oliver Otis Howard met with the Apache leader Cochise in October 1872 to negotiate the surrender and relocation of Cochise’s Chokonen Apache band. The place of that meeting, which culminated in a peace treaty between Cochise’s band and the U.S. government, has been published by Dr. Seymour based on photographs of unique boulder formations, written historical descriptions of the landscape, and archaeological evidence that she will discuss during our visit. Detailed historical accounts and archaeological investigations enrich our understanding of the location.
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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.
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 clicking on the “Membership” image here or going to this Old Pueblo Archaeology Center web page: <http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/> http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/. If you then scroll down to the bottom of the page you can simply follow the instructions for using our secure online membership form or our printable Enrollment/Subscription form.
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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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