For Immediate Release
Some Archaeology, History, and Cultures
Activities Coming Up Soon
Daily July 11-25, 2022: Alto, TX
“Rebuilding Koo Hoot Kiwat (Caddo Grass House)” volunteer opportunity
sponsored by Friends of Caddo Mounds, members of the Caddo Nation, and local
community volunteers at Caddo Mounds State Historic Site, 1649 State Highway
21 West, Alto, Texas*
This project’s sponsors have been busy gathering building materials
including switch grass, pine poles, and willow branches,to construct a new
grass house at Caddo Mounds State Historic Site. Early in July, four Caddo
trainees will travel to the site to learn a wide range of traditional
building techniques. They, in turn, will pass this traditional knowledge on
to Caddo volunteers traveling from Oklahoma, Louisiana and Dallas, Texas, to
help kick off the rebuild. Other volunteers are encouraged to join this
effort from July 11-25 to thatch the house with grass, build interior
furnishings, supports and benches, work in the adjoining Snake Woman’s
Garden, and keep volunteers fed and (importantly) watered. Grass house
“crew” T-shirts will be available for sale, along with water bottles. (Get a
free sticker for your water bottle for every phase of the build you
participate in!). Even if you can’t join the July build, donations and
sponsors are welcome. This important project has been supported by the Nau
Foundation, the Summerlee Foundation, TC Energy, the Texas Historical
Commission, and many generous individuals.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact the Friends group at [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Indigenous Interests” free online
presentation that originally was slated for July 12 has been rescheduled to
Tuesday July 26. Registration is now open for Old Pueblo’s July Zoom
programs– please see below.
Wednesday July 13, 2022: Online
“Saving Texas's Oldest ‘Books’” free online presentation by
archaeologist Jessica Hamlin sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research &
Education Center, Comstock, Texas*
12-1 p.m. Central Daylight Time. Free.
Whether you’re new to Shumla or a longtime friend, this Lunch & Learn
will give an overview of who they are and how they are working to save
Texas’s oldest “books.” Invite your friends to settle in for this fun and
quick Zoom overview of the rock art of the Lower Pecos, the work Shumla does
to preserve it, and their most recent project: The Hearthstone Project.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <https://shumla.org/lunchandlearn/> https://shumla.org/lunchandlearn/.
For more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Thursday July 14, 2022: Online
“A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives of Earth, Water and Sky”
free online presentation featuring Rena Priest (Lummi) sponsored by
Indigenous Education Institute (IEI), Friday Harbor, Washington*
12 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Free.
Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest (Lummi Nation) gives this
12th webinar presentation in IEI’s “A Sense of Place” series.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LKk-US_7RU6TZ6G3IDrd8w.
Thursday July 14, 2022: Fort Worth, TX & Online
“Hueco Tanks: A Natural and Cultural Oasis in the Chihuahuan Desert of
Far West Texas” free presentation by archaeologist Tim Roberts sponsored by
the North Texas Archeological Society (NTAS), online and in-person in
Research & Education Building Room 114, University of North Texas Health
Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, Texas*
7 p.m. Central Daylight Time. Free.
Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site east of El Paso is centered
on four massive hills more than 400 feet above the surrounding desert floor.
Numerous eroded basins and cracks within these rocks collect and hold water,
some for months, following rainstorms, creating a natural oasis in an
otherwise arid landscape. The availability of water, as well as shelter and
the resources for tool making, food processing, cooking, and other day to
day activities, has drawn people to Hueco Tanks for nearly 11,000 years and
has resulted in an unbroken archeological record of human occupation that
represents every known cultural-historical period in the region from Early
Paleoindian to Historic. The many caves and crevices within its rock
outcrops were used for creation of rock imagery that some modern people
believe was intended to communicate with deities and/or deceased ancestors,
beginning more than 3,200 years ago. By about 650 CE Hueco Tanks was
becoming established as a focal point in the spiritual landscape of the
Jornada Mogollon and an early site in the development of the katsina belief
system that still guides Hopi and Puebloan societies today. As such, Hueco
Tanks is considered one of the most important repositories of religious,
cosmological, and ideological symbols and iconography in the American
Southwest. In this presentation Tim Roberts, Cultural Resources Coordinator
in Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Region 1, will provide an
introduction to Hueco Tanks and its role as a natural and cultural oasis in
far West Texas.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To request Zoom
link or more information send email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Sundays-Fridays July 17-22 or July 24-29, 2022: Northwest of Colorado
Springs, CO
“Manitou Lake Pavilion, CO 2022” HistoriCorps and Pike-San Isabel
National Forest offer volunteer-assisted rehabilitation and repair project
about 40 minutes northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado*
Arrive between 5 and 7 p.m. Sunday; daylight hours daily thereafter.
No fees
Manitou Lake and its surroundings in the Pike-San Isabel National
Forest are popular locations for picnics, hiking, cycling, and photo-taking.
The Manitou Lake Pavilion, constructed in the 1930s by the Civilian
Conservation Corps and/or the Works Progress Administration, needs loving
care from volunteers willing to help repair and replace sill and wall logs,
log railings, and chinking and daubing between the log courses, install a
composite shingle roof, repair mortar in the foundation, chimneys, and
flagstone patio and stairs, and remove graffiti. Volunteers can camp onsite
in tents, campervans, truck campers, or RVs up to 25 feet long. (There are
no hookups.) Historicorps provides all meals, tools, and training;
volunteers are responsible for their own transportation to the site,
personal camping equipment, work gloves, work clothes, and sturdy boots.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information or to register go to
https://historicorps.org/manitou-lake-pavilion-co-2022/.
Monday July 18, 2022: Online
“Lived Lives: Individuals in Mimbres Pithouse and Pueblo Communities”
free online presentation by archaeologist Barbara J. Roth, PhD, sponsored by
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS), Tucson*
7-8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
We often view the occupants of archaeological villages as households
or groups, seeing them as a collective rather than as individuals who lived,
worked, played, and interacted within a community. Archaeologists’ recent
work at several pithouse and pueblo sites in the Mimbres Mogollon region of
southwestern New Mexico has documented the presence of individuals who
enhance our understanding of daily life in these communities. In this
presentation, Dr. Barbara Roth will use data from excavations at two
pithouse sites, La Gila Encantada and Harris, and the pueblo site of Elk
Ridge to highlight individuals who lived at these sites. She will discuss
the information she and her colleagues used to determine their presence and
how thinking about individuals in the past can help us further explore the
dynamics of communities in the past. Dr. Roth is a Professor in the
Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. To
register go to
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Eve-KCJ6SE6oENbtNXVRTQ.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER’S JULY ONLINE
PRESENTATIONS!
Thursday July 21, 2022: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring
“Ecological Knowledge and Practices of Traditional Indigenous and Spanish
Agriculturists” presentation by Gary P. Nabhan, PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). Free.
For decades, we have been told that southwestern agriculture evolved
from a blending of precontact Indigenous crops and technologies diffused
from Mesoamerica, blended in historic times with Spanish-derived crops and
practices brought in by Jesuit missionaries like Kino or Franciscans like
Garces. The truth is much more complex, interesting and fun! There were many
food crops domesticated by Indigenous cultures in the region we now call
Arid America in addition to those diffused from Mesoamerica. While corn,
some beans, and squash did come north into what’s now the US from
Mesoamerica beginning over 4,000 years ago, quite a few others underwent
much of their domestication in Arid America. And historically, most of the
crop varieties and livestock breeds brought into Mexico came from the
Canaries, and ultimately from North Africa and the Middle East, not Europe.
Padre Kino was not the founder of Spanish agriculture in southern Arizona
and northern Sonora, for crops like Sonoran bread wheat and watermelons had
arrived prior to his entry, as did Churro sheep and Criollo cattle. Water
harvesting and other desert-adapted agricultural techniques still used today
are a blend of Indigenous, Canarian, and Arab/Phoenician influences.
Ethnobotanist and agricultural ecologist Dr. Gary Nabhan, a MacArthur
Fellow, will share some of his insights about many of the Arid American
domesticated species during this month’s Third Thursday Food for Thought
presentation.
To register go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ruxu_i6vRo2lZMKfykrlUA>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ruxu_i6vRo2lZMKfykrlUA. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201. For each Old Pueblo Zoom presentation,
we let the presenter decide whether he or she wants for the program to be
recorded and made available online. No recording decision has yet been made
for this program.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the
above-listed activity send an email to [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with “Send July Third Thursday flyer” in your
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Tuesday July 26, 2022: Online (RESCHEDULED FROM JULY 12)
“Indigenous Interests” free Zoom online program featuring “Braiding
Knowledges: The Journey of an Indigenous Archaeologist in Academia” free
online presentation by anthropologist Ora Marek-Martinez (Diné), PhD,
sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). Free.
Ora Marek-Martinez, PhD, has been an archaeologist in the Southwest
for over 20 years, working with, by, and for her People – the Navajo Nation.
She was the first Navajo female Tribal Historic Preservation Officer to
serve the Navajo Nation and also was one of the first five Navajo Tribal
Members with a doctoral degree in Anthropology. The knowledge, approaches,
and protocols that Dr. Marek-Martinez learned from her Navajo People have
provided her with her own unique approach to Indigenizing archaeology –
which led to the co-creation with the Navajo Nation of Nihookaa Diné Bilá
Ashdlái'I archaeology, or an archaeology of the Five Finger Earth Surface
People. In this talk, Dr. Marek-Martinez will discuss her journey to
braiding knowledges as an archaeologist and as a Diné Asdzaa, or Navajo
Woman, in hopes of creating a future that the Navajo People envision based
on and guided by their own understandings and stories of the past.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Indigenous Interests” free Zoom
webinar series provides Native American presenters with a forum for
discussing issues important to Indigenous peoples today. The series is
hosted by Martina Dawley (Hualapai-Diné), Anabel Galindo (Yaqui), and Maegan
Lopez (Tohono O’odham), all of whom are members of Old Pueblo’s board of
directors.
To register for the program go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wn7PTGxBQSaQ1PLWfoOLnA>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wn7PTGxBQSaQ1PLWfoOLnA. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about the
above-listed activity send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] with “Send July 26 Indigenous Interests flyer” in your
email subject line.
Have a nice week!
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director (Volunteer)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
520-798-1201
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<http://www.oldpueblo.org/> www.oldpueblo.org
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