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Thursday June 15, 2023: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “A Photo Essay of the Apache Surrender” presentation by historian Bill Cavaliere, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
Using a comparison of old photographs with recent ones taken of the same places, Bill Cavaliere will discuss the Chiricahua Apaches and their early frontier photographers, with the emphasis on C. S. Fly, Ben Wittick, and A. Frank Randall. Cavaliere travelled far and wide to locate the scenes where the 1800s shots were taken. Some were very easy to find, such as the photographs taken at Fort Bowie, while others were more difficult, especially ones taken by Tombstone photographer C. S. Fly in Cañon de los Embudos in northern Sonora, Mexico, which entailed modern-day driving on rough four-wheel-drive roads through remote areas disputed by rival drug cartels. Bill’s obsession was finding the location of Fly’s famous “Council Photo” that depicts Geronimo and other hostile Apaches negotiating peace terms with General George Crook and his soldiers.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-FSKZAk5RIeSw_mIj9vc7Q> https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-FSKZAk5RIeSw_mIj9vc7Q. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
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Thursday June 15, 2023: Online
“Archaeological Explorations in the Western Colorado Desert” free online Living Room Lecture by archaeologist Michael Sampson, sponsored by San Diego Archaeological Center, Escondido, California*
6:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time. Free (donations requested)
Retired California State Parks archaeologist Michael Sampson will discuss results of archaeological studies in the western Colorado Desert of southern California over the past 100 years. The region represents the traditional lands of the Cahuilla, Kumeyaay (Ipai and Tipai), and Kwaaymii. Malcolm Rogers worked in the western Colorado Desert during the 1920s and 1930s and made important observations about pictographs, petroglyphs, geoglyphs, cleared circles, trails, house remains, and other cultural remains throughout the region. Sampson will summarize and discuss the major excavation projects in the study area from the 1950s through the 2000s, as well as the results of some site survey projects. The archaeological data from the study area reflect rich, long-held cultural practices that seem consistent with ethnographic accounts and indicate people with strong ties to these lands.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/TheSanDiegoArchaeologicalCnt/colorado-desert.html> https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/TheSanDiegoArchaeologicalCnt/colorado-desert.html.
Thursday June 15, July 20, August 17, or September 21, 2023: Tucson
“Walking the Wall of the Original Presidio” guided tour with Kathe Kubish meets at Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
8-10 am. $25 ($20 for Presidio Museum members).
Take a walk through downtown Tucson with tour guide Kathe Kubish and discover the extent of the original Presidio Wall. This tour shows attendees just how large the original Presidio San Agustín del Tucson actually was. Along the way, you’ll learn the interesting history of several buildings and hear stories of some of Tucson’s most prominent citizens. Highlights include Old Town Artisans, the Sam Hughes house, the historic Pima County Courthouse, and the location of the old Presidio San Agustín Cemetery. The tour is less than a mile.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register click on your preferred date link: <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=7438&qid=739028> June 15, 8-10 am or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=7439&qid=739028> July 20, 8-10 am or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=7440&qid=739028> August 17, 8-10 am or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=7441&qid=739028> September 21, 8-10 am; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Friday June 16, July 21, August 18, or September 15, 2023: Tucson*
“Santa Cruz River History Tour” sponsored by Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, starting and ending at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
8-10 am. $30 ($25 for Presidio Museum members) includes admission to Mission Gardens.
This two-mile walking tour led by Mauro Trejo focuses on our relationship with the Santa Cruz River, how it supported Tucson’s early residents, and the factors in the 19th and 20th century that affected its demise. The tour begins and ends at Tucson’s Mission Gardens and includes the sites of the former Spanish mission and the O’odham village that was the origin of modern Tucson. Attendees also visit Tucson’s tallest tree and the Garden of Gethsemane, a holy site of statues made by WWI veteran and artist Felix Lucero in the 1940s.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register click on your preferred date link: <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=6844&qid=718224> June 16, 8-10 am or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=6845&qid=718224> July 21, 8-10 am or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=6846&qid=718224> August 18, 8-10 am or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=6847&qid=718224> September 15, 8-10 am; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday June 17, 2023: Tucson
“Traditional O’odham Agriculture” free talks and demonstrations with Maegan Lopez and Sterling Johnson, sponsored by Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
9 am to noon. Donations appreciated.
June 17 will be a planting day in this event in which Maegan Lopez and Sterling Johnson give talk about and demonstration O’odham agriculture. They explain traditions associated with Native American crops like corn, beans, and squash, and how crops brought by Europeans were integrated into O’odham agriculture. These monthly events, in the O’odham Ramada adjacent to the O’odham Garden, are a collaboration between Mission Garden and the Ajo Center for Sustainable Agriculture.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://www.missiongarden.org/events/traditional-agriculture-june-2023> https://www.missiongarden.org/events/traditional-agriculture-june-2023 or call 520-955-5200.
Saturday June 17, 2023: Flagstaff, AZ
“Moore Medicinal Garden Tour” free at the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA), 3101 N. Fort Valley Rd., Flagstaff, Arizona*
10-11 am. Free.
The Moore Medicinal Garden is tucked behind a fence between the administration and anthropology buildings. This garden provides a space to learn about the uses of native plants found on the Colorado Plateau.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit contact MNA at 928-774-5211 ext 267 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday June 17, 2023: Santa Ana, CA, and video
“Two Spirit Artists Imagining Otherwise” presentation with Damien Paul Montaño (Yoeme/Tohono O'odham/Purepecha) at Norma Kershaw Auditorium, Bowers Museum, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana, California*
1:30-2:30 pm. Tickets $15 (Museum member $10); recorded online screening $10 (member $5).
This talk gives us a deeper insight into the artistic productions of various artists who identify as Queer Indigenous or Two Spirit Artists and their contributions to the world. The talk will cover a history of the term Two Spirit, and how American Indian and Indigenous artists have played a part in imagining futures. The speaker will discuss several images through a Queer Indigenous/Two Spirit Lens and their importance in assisting us in imagining otherwise. Online version will be emailed to ticketholders one week after the onsite event. Damien Paul Montaño is a lecturer in the Ethnic Studies Department, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://www.bowers.org/index.php/programs/event/3516-two-spirit-artists-imagining-otherwise-with-damien-paul-montano> https://www.bowers.org/index.php/programs/event/3516-two-spirit-artists-imagining-otherwise-with-damien-paul-montano.
Saturday June 17 or July 15 or August 26 or September 16, 2023: Tucson
“Barrio Viejo (Old Neighborhood)” walking tour sponsored by the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, starting at El Tiradito Wishing Shrine, 418 S. Main Ave., Tucson*
5:30-7 pm. $25 ($20 Presidio Museum members); Optional: $10 after-tour gathering at El Minuto Restaurant.
Experience the rich history of Tucson on the one-mile Barrio Viejo (“Old Neighborhood”) walking tour, which goes through the largest collection of historic Sonoran row houses in the United States. For over 100 years, Barrio Viejo was the heart of Tucson’s social, economic, and cultural life. On this 90-minute walking tour, your tour guide Mauro Trejo will discuss the history of the neighborhood, its architecture, and the individuals, businesses, and cultures that have met there. For an additional $10 participants have the option of joining MAURO for conversation, a Margarita or alternative, and a cheese crisp after the tour at the historic El Minuto Café.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register click on your preferred date link: <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=7446&qid=739028> June 17, 5:30-7 pm or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=7447&qid=739028> July 15, 5:30-7 pm or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=7448&qid=739028> August 26, 5:30-7 pm or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=7449&qid=739028> September 16, 5:30-7 pm; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Sunday June 18, 2023: Tempe, AZ
“Juneteenth Celebration 2023” free festivities at Arizona Heritage Center, 1300 N. College Ave., Tempe, Arizona*
12-5 pm. Free with a Free Admission Pass. Choose the Supporter Admission Pass option for $10 to support future programming of this kind.
Visitors are welcome to join in recognizing the impact of Black communities in Arizona with a Juneteenth Celebration. Community members will connect with each other and a variety of organizations representing historical societies, action groups, state resources, and the community at large. Guests are welcome to wander, discuss, and enjoy performances, activities, and food!
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For tickets visit <https://prod5.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=264605~5ac2ccc1-54af-4b64-ae9b-7b0df253cfe3&mc_cid=cbd14b9ca2&mc_eid=4d1b9498b2> https://prod5.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=264605~5ac2ccc1-54af-4b64-ae9b-7b0df253cfe3&mc_cid=cbd14b9ca2&mc_eid=4d1b9498b2.
Sunday-Friday June 18-23 or June 25-30, 2023: Near Grand Canyon, AZ
“Grandview Lookout Cabin, AZ” HistoriCorps and Kaibab National Forest offer volunteer-assisted rehabilitation and repair project at the Grandview Lookout Tower near the Grand Canyon, Arizona*
Arrive no earlier than 5 pm and no later than 7 pm on first day; daylight hours daily thereafter. No fees.
Located on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon approximately 2 hours north of Flagstaff, the cabin at the Grandview Lookout Tower serves as a popular recreational stop for folks embarking on the Arizona Trail (AZT) and is just 4 miles from the breathtaking Grandview Point, a spectacular place to see one the America’s most awe-inspiring natural wonders! Built in 1936, the cabin was constructed as p.m. residence for seasonal fire lookouts who manned the adjacent lookout tower. This project involves restoring and replacing exterior elements of the cabin, rehabilitating wood window sashes and screens, and more. Logistics: Tents, truck-campers, campervans, trailers and RVs will have access to the campground. There is an unlimited amount of dispersed camping around the compound. Showers not available. Dogs are allowed but must be leashed.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/kaibab/recarea/?recid=11695> https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/kaibab/recarea/?recid=11695. To register go to <https://www.tfaforms.com/forms/view/5059738/?tfa_dbWorkflowId=6462&tfa_dbWorkflowStep=0&tfa_dbWorkflowControl=c5cea4faacb6dca821d0e3607a3e9a35> https://www.tfaforms.com/forms/view/5059738/?tfa_dbWorkflowId=6462&tfa_dbWorkflowStep=0&tfa_dbWorkflowControl=c5cea4faacb6dca821d0e3607a3e9a35.
Monday June 19, 2023: Online
“Between Casas Grandes and Salado: The Establishment of an Indigenous Borderland in the Late Prehispanic American Southwest/Mexican Northwest” free online presentation by archaeologist Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers sponsored by Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS), Tucson*
7-8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
While archaeologists continue to investigate processes of culture contact and frontier construction in hunter-gatherer and small agricultural societies using models originally created for or applied to ancient states and modern geopolitical discourse, historians have recently begun investigating Indigenous borderlands. In this talk, Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers discusses his investigation into several spatially restricted culture areas along the US-Mexico border, including what archaeologists widely perceive to be a northern extension of the Casas Grandes culture, one of the most sociopolitically complex entities in the ancient American Southwest/Mexican Northwest. In so doing, he challenges prevailing interpretations of southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, northeastern Sonora, and northwestern Chihuahua, advocates the need for a more nuanced understanding of Indigenous power and transformation in a lesser-studied portion of the American Southwest/Mexican Northwest, and provide insight into the potential for collections-based research to greatly improve historically under-evaluated portions of the Southwest/Northwest. Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers is a PhD Candidate in the University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology, President of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, Research Associate with the Jornada Research Institute, and Crew Chief for Aspen CRM Solutions.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For details visit <http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org> www.az-arch-and-hist.org or contact Fran Maiuri at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday-Friday June 19-23, 2023: Tucson
“Living History & Re-enactment Camp” at Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
8:30 am-2:30 pm. $290 (Presidio Museum members $265).
Camp participants ages 7-14 will experience how people in the Presidio lived through a series of hands-on activities. They will also learn about local history through role play, theatrical re-enactment, and fictional dramatization of historical events. The Presidio Museum is the ideal setting for young imaginations to bring Tucson’s unique history alive. With access to a wide array of period structures, backdrops, costumes, and props, young participants will truly feel they are living history by blacksmithing/tinsmithing, doing the chores of a Spanish soldier, experiencing foods that are native to the Sonoran Desert, making adobe bricks, playing traditional games, learning hands-on local agricultural practices, and play-acting and creating short skits based on historical characters and events using period costumes and sets.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register visit <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=466> https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=466 or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesday June 21, 2023: Online
“Catching up with the Hearthstone Project” free online presentation by archaeologist Audrey Lindsay, MA, sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, Comstock, Texas*
12-1 pm Central Daylight Time. Free.
Shumla Senior Preservation Archaeologist Audrey Lindsay will provide an update on the Hearthstone Project, an interdisciplinary and collaborative effort with Texas State University to reveal mysteries of when and how the rock paintings in the lower Pecos Valley were produced and what they were meant to communicate. Ms. Lindsay will briefly review this collaborative project’s overarching goals and research questions, share details about the current status of its fieldwork and labwork, and describe its next steps going forward.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <https://shumla.org/lunchandlearnjune21/> https://shumla.org/lunchandlearnjune21/. For more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesday June 21, 2023: Prescott, AZ
“Looking for George McJunkin” free presentation by archaeologist Brian W. Kenny for Yavapai Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society meeting in the Pueblo Room at the Museum of Indigenous Peoples, 147 N. Arizona Ave., Prescott, Arizona*
6:30 pm. Free.
George McJunkin gained a measure of fame as the discoverer of the late Pleistocene Bison antiquus bone locality in Folsom, New Mexico, that is now known as the Folsom type site. An African American former slave cum trail cowboy and ranch foreman, he was an avid reader of science and all-around good guy. Or so the normative tale is told . . . . Fast forward to 2022-2023, about a century after McJunkin's passing, two short seasons of archaeological field reconnaissance surveys revealed that the place-based oral history of the Folsom community can vary in the telling but the basics appear consistent with the historical archaeological remains observed during the surveys. In this presentation, lead archaeological surveyor Brian Kenny will present digital photos from the area and the survey to discuss the capacity-building opportunities he and “Team McJunkin” are working on to tell George McJunkin's story from an archaeologist's perspective.
(Also see Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s September 21 “Third Thursday Food for Thought” online program announcement.)
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Jeff Martin at 928-925-9223 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesday June 21, August 23, or September 27, 2023: Tucson
“Fort Lowell Neighborhood Walking Tour” sponsored by the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum starting at Fort Lowell Park, 2900 N. Craycroft Rd., Tucson*
Times vary, see links below. $25 ($20 for Presidio Museum members).
Historian and preservationist Ken Scoville explains how physical features, cultural layers, and political decisions have shaped not just the story of the district but the development of Arizona as well, from Apache wars to development wars. Discover why the Fort Lowell area and the State of Arizona are the places they are today.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register click on your preferred date link: <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=6860&qid=718224> June 21, 8-10 am or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=6861&qid=718224> August 23, 8-10 am or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=6862&qid=718224> September 27, 8:30-10:30 am; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday June 22, 2023: Online
“What is Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Why Does it Matter?” free online presentation by James Rattling Leaf, Sr., sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 PM Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
What approach should archaeologists have when initiating conversations with Indigenous peoples? How can archaeologists engage and collaborate with them in our conservation work? What are effective ways to integrate Indigenous knowledge in archaeologists’ efforts to advance management, adaptation. and mitigation of the impacts of climate change? This webinar will focus on understanding what is Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), how it is gathered, why it is important, and how to meaningfully use TEK in programs. It also will discuss some of the best practices to connect and collaborate with Tribal nations, colleges and universities, and communities to consider how TEK helps assess and address the impacts of climate change.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more and register visit
<https://www.crowcanyon.org/programs/what_is_indigenous_traditional_ecological_knowledge_and_why_does_it_matter/> https://www.crowcanyon.org/programs/what_is_indigenous_traditional_ecological_knowledge_and_why_does_it_matter/.
Thursday June 22, 2023: Phoenix
“Sending Their Ancestors Home” exhibit opening at S'edav Va'aki Museum, 4619 E Washington St., Phoenix*
May-September summer hours 9 am-4:45 pm Tuesday-Saturday, closed Sunday-Monday. Adults $4.80, 55 & over $4, ages 6-17 $2.40, under 6 free.
Join S’edav Va’aki for this unique event that explores the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 33 years later and still striving for healing. The exhibit will be on display from June 22, 2023-May 31, 2024.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For details contact Adam Waltz at 602-495-0901 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday June 24, 2023: Tucson
“Fourth Saturday Archaeology Day at Mission Garden” free activities at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
8-11 am. Free ($5/person suggested donation to Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace).
On Mission Garden’s interactive Archaeology Day, representatives of Archaeology Southwest, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, and Palacios Rock Art are in Mission Garden's Youth Garden demonstrating ancient technologies and lifeways. Kids of all ages can join ASW’s ancient technologies expert Allen Denoyer to try out fascinating ancient technologies, which may include etching designs into seashells, painting with natural pigments, or throwing spears with atlatls. Old Pueblo will offer opportunities for kids to make their own pinch pots, stone pendants, cordage, and petroglyphs, and local rock art expert John Palacios will demonstrate how he makes fantastic rock art reproductions to promote the conservation of petroglyph and pictograph sites.
For more information click here: Learn more or contact Sara Anderson at 520-882-6946 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday June 24, 2023: Mesa, AZ
“LGBT+: A History in Arizona” free presentation with Marshall Shore at Mesa Public Library-Downtown, 64 E. 1st St., Mesa, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
2-3 pm. Free.
Arizona’s history of the LGBT+ community begins long before Arizona was a state with the Native American belief of two-spirits, continuing on through to the seismic shift of Civil Union/ Marriage Equality. There are some surprises along the way as we talk about artists and Arizona connections to Warhol, Keith Haring, and those muscle magazines by George Quaintance. Where was the Trans Flag created and where is it now? There is also the little known story of a 1906 Russian gender pioneer named Nicolai De Raylan. The latest acknowledgment for presenter Marshall Shore, Arizona’s Hip Historian, is an Emmy nomination for sharing Arizona history. His passion is uncovering the weird, the wonderful, and the obscure treasures from our past: semi-forgotten people, places, and events that have made us who we are today.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://azhumanities.org/event/lgbt-a-history-in-arizona-with-marshall-shore-3/> https://azhumanities.org/event/lgbt-a-history-in-arizona-with-marshall-shore-3/ or call the library at 480-644-3100.
Saturday June 24, 2023: Tucson
“Día de San Juan” celebration sponsored by Menlo Park Neighborhood Association at Mission Garden, 946 W. Mission Lane, Tucson*
6-10 pm (doors open at 5:30). $5 per person suggested donation.
San Juan Day, June 24, celebrates the birthday of John the Baptist. In Tucson it is a day to celebrate the coming of the summer rains. It is believed that on that day in 1540 the explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado prayed for rain on the banks of the Santa Cruz River, and it indeed rained. Traditional blessings will start the fiesta, then there will be aguas frescas inside the garden and food trucks outside, mariachis and a DJ for dancing, and information tables.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <http://www.tucsonsbirthplace.org> www.tucsonsbirthplace.org or call 520-955-5200.
Saturdays June 24, July 8 & 22, August 5 & 19, and September 2 & 16, 2023: Near St. Johns, AZ
“Ranger-led Hikes on the Petroglyph Trail” sponsored by Arizona State Parks at Lyman Lake State Park, 11 US-180, St. Johns, Arizona.
5 pm each Saturday. $10 per vehicle unless you are a registered camper at the park.
Ranger-led hikes on the Petroglyph Trail in cool Lyman Lake State Park are scheduled every other Saturday this summer through September 16. Enjoy beautiful views, rich history, amazing trails, and great information from Arizona State Parks rangers! Meet at the trailhead and bring cameras, water, and comfortable hiking shoes.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://azstateparks.com/lyman-lake/events/hike-the-trail-at-lyman-lake%20or%20call%20928-337-4441> https://azstateparks.com/lyman-lake/events/hike-the-trail-at-lyman-lake or call 928-337-4441.
Tuesday June 27, 2023: San Tan Valley, AZ
“From “Chief” to Code Talker: Four Profiles of the Navajo Code Talkers” free presentation by Laura Tohe, PhD, at San Tan Library-Bronze Room, 31505 N. Schnepf Rd., San Tan Valley, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
5:30-7 pm. Free.
During WWII a group of young Navajo men enlisted in the Marines without knowing that they would be called on to develop a secret code against the Japanese military. This select group of Code Talkers devised a Navajo language code that was accurate, quick, never broken, and saved many American lives. This talk profiles four Code Talkers who reflect on their lives growing up on the Navajo Nation homeland before and after the war, including my father. They returned home without fanfare to continued poverty and lack of economic opportunity, yet persevered and overcame obstacles that helped change the Navajo Nation and their communities. They tell their stories with poignancy that reflect their resiliency and self-determination. Arizona State University Professor Emerita Laura Tohe is Diné, the current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate, and daughter of a Navajo Code Talker.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://azhumanities.org/event/from-chief-to-code-talker-four-profiles-of-the-navajo-code-talkers-with-laura-tohe-4/> https://azhumanities.org/event/from-chief-to-code-talker-four-profiles-of-the-navajo-code-talkers-with-laura-tohe-4/ or contact the library at 520-866-8035 .
Thursday June 29, 2023: Online
“From Hope Chests to Museums: How Women Saved the West” free online presentation with Renea Dauntes sponsored by the Friends of the Texas Historical Commission, Austin*
6-7 pm Central Daylight Time. Free.
From hope chests to museums and everything in-between, women played a crucial role in saving the West. This unique presentation focuses on how women were originators, caretakers, and stewards whose efforts helped retain important parts of history. The myriad ways knowledge was transferred from generation to generation were all subject to the guiding hands of dedicated women. Renea Dauntes grew up disinterested in the Texas Panhandle region’s history but has come to revel in the tales forged by pioneers.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <https://fthc.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/fthc/eventRegistration.jsp?event=6037&> https://fthc.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/fthc/eventRegistration.jsp?event=6037&.
Saturdays July 1 and July 8 , 2023: Phoenix
“Summertime Storytelling & Craft Saturday” at S’edav Va’aki Museum, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix*
10 am to noon. $5/child includes Museum admission for the child on the day of the event. Regular admission for accompanying adults.
S’edav Va’aki (formerly Pueblo Grande) Museum invites families to enjoy children’s storytelling and hands-on crafts this summer. This activity has something for everyone! The authors each present their books in their own special way, followed by a fun story-related craft, and snacks. Perfect for pre-kindergarten through fourth grade children. Parents can register kids online using Activenet or check-in at the front desk to participate. All children must be accompanied by an adult. (There is no program fee for adults. Museum admission fees apply.) The programs include:
July 1: The Mohave Book for Little Ones by Dr. Jay Craváth. Discover how the world began for the Mohave People and how they lived along the Colorado River. Dr. Jay Craváth is a writer, composer, and scholar in the field of music, Southwest history and Indigenous studies. His goal is to share his passion for the arts and humanities with all who will listen. Activenet code #47010.
July 8: The Seed and the Giant Saguaro by Jennifer Ward. Join us for a virtual visit with an interactive read-aloud. Learn about how the plants and animals of the Sonoran Desert inspire this author’s work. Jennifer Ward is the author of more than 25 award-winning nonfiction and fiction books for children and adults. A former educator, she strives to bring science and nature concepts to life through her writing in a fun and engaging way. Activenet code #47009.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For details contact S’edav Va’aki Museum at 602-495-0901 or <http://www.pueblogrande.com> www.pueblogrande.com.
Wednesday-Friday July 5-7, 2023: Santa Fe
“Women of the Lost Territory” three-day summer course at School for Advanced Research (SAR), 660 Garcia St., Santa Fe, New Mexico*
9:30 am-noon with optional afternoon excursions. $500 includes classes, lunch, and SAR one-year membership.
Professors Flannery Burke and Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez teach three days of learning and discussions on the historic SAR campus in Santa Fe. They will illuminate the legacies of New Mexican women, past and present, and teach about the unique experiences of women of the Lost Territory, and the sacred lands of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information and to register go to <https://sarweb.org/lost-territory-23/?bblinkid=269797764&bbemailid=47728441&bbejrid=-1587730669> https://sarweb.org/lost-territory-23/?bblinkid=269797764&bbemailid=47728441&bbejrid=-1587730669.
Sunday July 9 or Saturday August 12, 2023: Tucson
“Mansions of Main Avenue Walking Tour” sponsored by Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, starting at Café a la C’art, 150 N. Main Ave., Tucson*
8-10 am. $25 ($20 for Presidio Museum members).
Take a stroll down Main Avenue with Presidio Museum tour guide Alan Kruse to view the homes and hear the stories of the movers and shakers of early Tucson who lived in them, including Hiram and Petra Stevens (a prominent merchant couple whose domestic life was less than perfect), Sam Hughes (called by some the “father of Tucson”; involved in the notorious Camp Grant Massacre of Apaches), Annie Cheyney (whose newly restored 1905 home is the talk of the town), Albert Steinfeld (department store magnate), Frank Hereford (attorney who represented the Wham Robbery defendants) and William Herring (Wyatt Earp’s one-time lawyer). The tour is ¼-mile long; free on-street parking is available.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register click on your preferred date link: <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=6856&qid=718224> Sunday, July 9, 8-10 am or <https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=6857&qid=718224> Saturday, August 12, 8-10 am; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday July 13, 2023: Online
“Obsidian Source Provenance in the North American Southwest: History, Methods, and Possibilities” free online presentation by archaeologist M. Steven Shackley, PhD, sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 pm Mountain Daylight Time (MDT). Free (donations encouraged).
For over 35 years, the Southwest Archaeological Obsidian Project has focused on locating, mapping, and chemically characterizing artifact-quality obsidian sources in the greater North American Southwest from about four known sources in the mid-1980s to over 55 sources and source groups in 2021. This research has analyzed hundreds of thousands of obsidian artifacts not only from the North American Southwest but Mesoamerica, South America, eastern North America, Eurasia, and the Great Rift Valley of Africa. This lecture will touch upon the history of obsidian provenance research in the Southwest, field and instrumental methods used in understand source provenance, and some historical and current research projects. Dr. Shackley also plans to prognosticate, perhaps tongue in check, about the future of this research.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more and register visit <https://www.crowcanyon.org/programs/obsidian_source_provenance_in_the_north_american_southwest_history_methods_and_possibilities/> https://www.crowcanyon.org/programs/obsidian_source_provenance_in_the_north_american_southwest_history_methods_and_possibilities/.
Monday July 17, 2023: Online
“The Fremont Cultural Tradition at the Northern Edge of the Greater Southwest” free Zoom presentation by archaeologist Michael T. Searcy, sponsored by Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS), Tucson*
7-8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
New excavations and other recent research have contributed to a much better understanding of what has been identified as the Fremont cultural tradition. This lecture reviews some of these new studies and reports the most recent discoveries at a current excavation at the Hinckley Mounds. This site is located on the eastern edge of Utah Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake in Utah, and the ancient ruins are only part of one of the largest Fremont villages occupied during the Late Fremont Period (900-1300 CE). Michael Searcy is an associate professor of anthropology and archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at Brigham Young University.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. To register for online presentation go to <https://bit.ly/2023JulySearcyREG> https://bit.ly/2023JulySearcyREG.
Thursday July 20, 2023: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “’O’odham Place Names: Meanings, Origins and Histories” presentation by Harry J. Winters, Jr., PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
When he was 14 or 15 years old, Harry Winters, Jr., came across John D. Mitchell’s 1953 book Lost Mines and Buried Treasures along the Old Frontier. Mitchell’s tales inspired him to become a geological engineer in the mining industry, partly because of his interest in mathematics, physics, geology and engineering, but also because mining geology (which he calls “modern prospecting”) offered the opportunity to roam the deserts and mountains. He began prospecting and camping in the Arizona desert, and in 1956 he and his friend Ted McIntyre drove into the Tohono O'odham Nation lands (then known as the Papago Indian Reservation). Eventually their 1947 Plymouth got stuck in a narrow wash and an ’O’odham man came over to see what had happened. That fellow, Enos Miguel, didn’t speak English and the boys didn’t speak ’O’odham, but Enos could see what was needed so walked over to his house, brought out a shovel and some boards, and soon Harry and Ted were on their way. Enos was Harry’s first of many O'odham friends made over the next six-plus decades. Combining those friendships with his interest in geology and Native place names, Harry learned the ’O’odham language, spoke with lots of ’O’odham about their knowledge of the landscape, and eventually authored the 1,002-page (not counting the 56 pages in the table of contents and other front matter) tome ’O'odham Place Names: Meanings, Origins and Histories, Arizona and Sonora, Second Edition (2020, SRI Press, Tucson). In this month’s Third Thursday Food for Thought presentation, Dr. Harry Winters, Jr., recounts some of his travels and shares some of his deep knowledge of the ’O’odham landscape lore on both sides of the modern US-Mexico border.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e0QYkHObRfCvES3XfFiESg> https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e0QYkHObRfCvES3XfFiESg. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
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Saturday July 22, 2023: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Archaeology, Paleontology, and Environmental Sciences Laboratories Tour” meets in the courtyard at Mercado San Agustín, 100 S. Avenida del Convento, Tucson
8 am to 12:30 pm. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of S'edav Va'aki Museum members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
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 (LTRR), both administered by The University of Arizona (UA). The Tumamoc Desert Laboratory 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. The Tree-Ring Lab also has a venerable record of research in archaeology, astronomy, and environmental sciences, created in 1937 by the founder of dendrochronology as a science: UA Professor of Astronomy Andrew Ellicott Douglass. Tour presenters and guides will include archaeologists Paul and Suzanne Fish, the Tumamoc Lab’s Robert Villa and Lynne Schepartz, and LTRR docent Donna MacEachern. The drive from the Mercado San Agustín meeting place to the Tumamoc Lab is limited to five vehicles so carpooling is required and no more than 20 people can attend. After returning to the Mercado, all participants can take their own vehicles in a caravan to the LTRR.
Donation prepayments are required 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Wednesday July 19, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Saturday July 29, 2023: Greer, AZ
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart in Butterfly Lodge Museum’s Applewhite Pavilion, 4 Co Rd 1126, Greer, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
1-2:30 pm. 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 call 928-735-7514 between 10 am & 3 pm Thursdays-Saturdays; or email <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesdays August 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2023: Tucson and online
“The History of the World Written in Tree-Rings” class with dendroarchaeologist Charlotte Pearson, PhD, sponsored by University of Arizona Humanities Seminars Program (HSP) at University of Arizona Poetry Center (Rubel Room), 1508 E. Helen St., Tucson, and online*
10 am-12 pm each Tuesday. $135.
This course will focus on the scientific field of dendrochronology, or tree-ring science, and what it can tell us about the past, present and future. It will explore the fascinating history of how the science was developed by a pioneering astronomer interested in solar cycles, how it works, how it has fed into other disciplines such as radiocarbon dating, art history and climatology, and how its applications have led to transformative discoveries about the past. Study of tree-rings can tell us about the rise and fall of civilizations, climate change, migration, trade, settlement history and natural hazards. The course will also offer a personalized guided tour of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and Tree-Ring Archive. No textbook is required. Charlotte Pearson, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, is a dendroarchaeologist trained in environmental archaeology, geoarchaeology and archaeological science.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://hsp.arizona.edu/course/summer-2023/history-world-written-tree-rings> https://hsp.arizona.edu/course/summer-2023/history-world-written-tree-rings or contact the HSP at 520-621-2492 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday-Sunday August 10-13, 2023: Near Flagstaff, AZ
“2023 Pecos Archaeological Conference” at the Coconino Hotshot Camp on the Coconino National Forest, 10 miles northwest of Flagstaff, Arizona.*
See times below. Online preregistration $70 ($60 student); prices increase after June 25; dinner & other amenities extra. Sunday is field trips day.
Since 1927, when archaeologist Alfred Vincent Kidder first inspired and organized the original Pecos Conference, professional and avocational archaeologists have gathered under open skies somewhere in the southwestern United States or northwestern Mexico during August for the nearly yearly Pecos Conference. They set up a large tent for shade and spend three or more days together discussing recent research, problems of the field, and the challenges of the profession, and present and critique each others’ ideas before committing them to publication. In recent years, Native Americans, avocational archaeologists, the general public, and media organizations have come to play an increasingly important role, serving as participants and as audience, to celebrate archaeological research and to mark cultural continuity. Attendees can tent and RV camp at the conference site at no additional fee (no dispersed camping is allowed in the forest this summer) or lodge in nearby communities.
Thursday 5:30-7 pm reception at Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N. Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff.
Friday & Saturday 8:30 am-5 pm presentations, posters, silent auction, vendor tents, and affinity group meetups. Friday features a star party around dusk. Saturday includes 11 am business meeting; 5:30 pm happy hour with beer from Mother Road Brewing Co.; 6:30 pm dinner served by Salsa Brava's fajita buffet (purchase dinner tickets in advance; & 8 pm band music by Andy See and His Swinging Jamboree.
Sunday, August 13: field trips.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <http://www.pecosconference.org/> www.pecosconference.org/.
Thursday August 17, 2023: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “New Discoveries of Coronado-era Archaeological Sites in Southern Arizona” presentation by archaeologist Deni J. Seymour, PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
Description coming.
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Saturdays August 19 & 26 & September 2 & 9, 2023: Tucson
“Gender in Archaeology” Master Class taught by Suzanne L. Eckert, PhD, sponsored by the Arizona State Museum (ASM) in Environmental & Natural Resources (ENR) Bldg. 2, Room N595, University of Arizona, Tucson*
10 am-12 pm on each date. $180 (ASM members $150). Amount paid over $100 is a tax-deductible gift to support Dr. Eckert's research projects. Credit card payments incur a 3% fee.
The archaeological record is extraordinarily rich and varied, yet for most of its history as a field of study archaeology has failed to recognize gender as a viable research topic. This four-part Master Class presents an introduction to archaeological research on women and gender since the 1960s. It will explore the ways in which a consciousness of gender can offer a more in-depth understanding of the archaeological record and how the study of gender challenges traditional archaeological culture histories as well as how it impacts modern thought. Limited to 20 participants. Dr. Suzanne L. Eckert is the Head of Collections at ASM and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Sunday August 20, 2023: Tucson
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Popol Vuh and the Hero Twins in Mesoamerica and the US Southwest” tour led by Mary Jo McMullen and Allen Dart in three Indigenous American art galleries at the Tucson Museum of Art (TMA), 140 N. Main Ave., Tucson
1 to 2:30 pm. $20 donation ($16 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of S'edav Va’aki Museum members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
Sidestepping Tucson’s August heat, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s comfortable indoor tour this month will be at the Tucson Museum of Art downtown, led by TMA docent (and Old Pueblo member) Mary Jo McMullen. The new “Popol Vuh and the Maya Art of Storytelling” exhibit in TMA’s Kasser Wing focuses on art and lore related to the Popol Vuh, a narrative of the K’iche Maya about the origins of the world and heroic twin brothers who descended to the underworld to conquer Death. Archaeologist Allen Dart will comment on precontact images in the US Southwest that may depict elements of the Hero Twins story, and will assist Mary Jo in answering questions about the Popol Vuh exhibit and two others included in the tour: “Art of the Ancient Americas” and “Enduring Legacies: The James T. Bialac Indigenous Art Collection.” We encourage participants to visit TMA’s other galleries and gift shop after the tour since the donation to Old Pueblo provides entry fee to all of the Museum’s galleries.
Donation prepayments are required 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Thursday August 17, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Wednesdays September 6-December 6, 2023
(skipping October 25 and November 22): Online
“The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona” 12-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
6:30 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time through Nov. 1st) each Wednesday. $99 donation ($80 for members of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society [AAS], and Friends of S’edav Va’aki Museum); donation does not include costs of recommended text (The Hohokam Millennium by Paul R. Fish and Suzanne K. Fish, editors) or of the optional AAS membership or AAS Certification Program enrollment.
Registered Professional Archaeologist Allen Dart teaches this class in 12 two-hour sessions to explore the archaeology of the ancient Hohokam culture of the American Southwest. The class covers Hohokam origins, subsistence and settlement systems, social and organizational systems, material culture including ceramics, other artifacts, and architecture, interaction within and beyond the Hohokam culture's regional boundaries, and ideas on religion and exchange. Students seeking the AAS Certification are expected to prepare a brief research report to be presented orally or in written or video format. Minimum enrollment 10 people. The class meets the requirements of the Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS) Training, Certification and Education (TCE) program's “Advanced Southwest Archaeology – The Hohokam of Southern Arizona” class. The AAS basic “Archaeology of the Southwest” class is recommended as a prerequisite but this is negotiable with the instructor. For information on the AAS and its Certification program visit <http://www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603> www.azarchsoc.org/page-807603.
Reservations and prepayment are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Friday September 1st, whichever is earlier. To register or for more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Thursday September 21, 2023: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “The Historical George McJunkin Reimagined through His Archaeological Sites” presentation by applied anthropologist and archaeologist Brian W. Kenny, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Free.
George McJunkin, who is widely known today as the original discoverer of a fossil bone deposit exposed after a devastating 1908 flood in Wild Horse Arroyo near Folsom, New Mexico, died in Folsom in January 1922. The “Folsom site” he discovered turned out to be where archaeologists in 1927 first confirmed the antiquity of humans in the Americas based on direct association of in-situ stone tools and Pleistocene bison bones. The Folsom site has been examined in popular and academic works, but among professional archaeologists there are generalized and continuing disputes regarding the type and extent of credit and recognition McJunkin should receive for our early historical understanding of the Folsom site. McJunkin was born a slave in Texas, was emancipated, and left home as a young man to become a cowboy in west Texas. He learned his trade from Mexican vaqueros and was known for superior cowboy skills and some wild adventures as he worked in the big cattle outfits that moved stock up from Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado to the transcontinental Overland Route. After the Colorado and Southern Railroad was completed in 1888 he settled near Folsom, patented a homestead, built a house in town, and worked for local ranchers. He was well respected by the local community and became a ranch foreman and leader of Black and Mexican cowboys working for New Mexican ranchers. During his time there, McJunkin built a number of ranch facilities, many of which are now obsolete, abandoned, or reused in alternate ways. These sites, their contents, and the nature of their construction, use, and abandonment hold the key to investigating McJunkin from alternate perspectives. From 2021-2023, a century after McJunkin’s passing, Brian Kenny and colleagues initiated archival, ethnographic, and archaeological research in the Folsom community. In Old Pueblo’s September Third Thursday presentation, Kenny will tell how the members of “Team McJunkin” have visited and documented known McJunkin sites using basic methodologies of community ethnography, archival research, landscape scale characterization, and archaeological survey, and how team members are currently reviewing their field results and preparing for journal publication.
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Saturday September 23, 2023: Tucson-Marana, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Autumn Equinox Tour to Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Sites” with archaeologist Allen Dart departing from near Silverbell Road and Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana, Arizona
8 am to noon. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of S'edav Va'aki Museum members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
The 2023 autumn equinox occurs on September 23 at 12:50 am Arizona/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time; Sept. 23, 6:50 am Greenwich Mean Time). To celebrate the equinox day (but not the exact time!) and explore ancient people's recognition of equinoxes and other calendrical events, 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, bedrock mortars, and other archaeological features; and to Picture Rocks, where ancient petroglyphs include a solstice and equinox calendar marker, dancing human-like figures, whimsical animals, and other rock symbols made by Hohokam Indians between 800 and 1100 CE. An equinox calendar petroglyph at Picture Rocks exhibits a specific interaction with a ray of sunlight on the morning of each equinox regardless of the hour and minute of the actual celestial equinox, so participants in this tour will see that sunlight interaction with the calendar glyph unless clouds block the sunlight.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm Thursday September 21, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Saturday October 7, 2023: Tucson & Marana, AZ
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 am to 1 pm. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of S’edav Va’aki Museum members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
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 late 19th and early 20th centuries. 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.
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Wednesday December 6, 2023: Online or by mail
You could win a 2023 Ford Bronco Raptor valued at $76,580, or two first-class round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the world, or $5,000 cash in “The Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle” on December 14! Ticket sales benefit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other southern Arizona charities so get your tickets from Old Pueblo before 5 pm Wednesday December 6!
Cost: $25 per ticket.
On Thursday December 14, Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give away a 2023 Ford Bronco Raptor Edition SUV in a raffle to raise $2,500,000 for southern Arizona nonprofit organizations including Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. With your contribution you could win this fantastic 2023 vehicle (List Price $76,580) – or two first-class round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the world, or $5,000 in cash! And 100% of what you contribute to Old Pueblo for tickets will go directly to Old Pueblo’s education programs because Old Pueblo gets to keep all of the proceeds from our ticket sales!
Old Pueblo’s raffle rules: To be entered in the raffle Old Pueblo Archaeology Center must receive your request for tickets and your donation for them no later than 5 pm Wednesday December 6th so we can turn in all of our sold tickets to the raffle manager the next day. Old Pueblo must account for all tickets issued to us and must return all unsold tickets, so advance payment for tickets is required. Tickets may be purchased through the PayPal “Donation” button on Old Pueblo’s <http://www.oldpueblo.org> www.oldpueblo.org home page or by calling 520-603-6181 to provide your Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express card payment authorization. Once payment is received, Old Pueblo will enter your name and contact information on your ticket(s), enter your ticket(s) into the drawing, and mail you the correspondingly numbered ticket stubs with a letter acknowledging your contribution.
Winners consent to be photographed and for their names and likenesses 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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All of us at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center appreciate your support! I hope you enjoy reading this and future issues of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s upcoming-activities announcements!
Warmest regards,
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director (Volunteer)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
520-798-1201
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