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Some Online Resources
Upcoming Activities
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SOME ONLINE RESOURCES
Check out some of these online resources about archaeology, history,
and cultures that you can indulge in at any time! (Other upcoming online
offerings that are scheduled for specific days and times are listed
sequentially by date below under the UPCOMING ACTIVITIES heading.)
* Congratulations to Steve Lekson and Lynda Sánchez – As of July 17th
there have been 7,340 views of Steve’s March 2021 Mimbres In Context:
Hohokam, Chaco, Casas Grandes presentation and 2,038 views of Lynda’s
December 2021 Apache Warriors Tell Their Side to Eve Ball talk! You can
watch videos of these presentations and other “Third Thursday Food for
Thought” and “Indigenous Interests” presentations on the Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center Youtube channel:
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos>
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos.
* The video of the Amerind Museum July 9 Casas Grandes Clothing and
Identity presentation by archaeologist Christine VanPool is now online:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLimxEDc9vY>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLimxEDc9vY.
* The North Texas Archeological Society has posted the video of Tim
Roberts’ July 14 Hueco Tanks: A Natural and Cultural Oasis in the Chihuahuan
Desert of Far West Texas” presentation:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u_TI8yzNXY.>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u_TI8yzNXY.
You can view these in the comfort of your home or office!
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
These listings include announcements about activities offered by Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center and other organizations interested in archaeology,
history and cultures. For activities marked “This is not an Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center event” the information may be out of date – Readers are
advised to confirm dates, times, and details with the organizers of those
activities.
Time zones are specified in these listings only for online activities.
Each in-person activity listed is in the time zone of its location.
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>
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Eve-KCJ6SE6oENbtNXVRTQ.
Thursday July 21, 2022: Online
“Cultural Astronomy of the Ancestral Puebloan: Chaco, Hovenweep, Mesa
Verde and Wupatki” free online presentation by Professor Emeritus Bryan
Bates, sponsored by Four Corners Lecture Series, the Colorado Archaeological
Society’s Hisatsinom Chapter, and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center*
4 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
Bryan Bates retired as a science professor from Flagstaff, Arizona’s
Coconino Community College, where he taught biology, environmental science,
natural history, chemistry, and cultural astronomy, and obtained a NASA
“Space Grant” to create the curriculum and teach the first college-level
cultural astronomy course west of the Mississippi. Based on his primary and
literature research, he will share his experiences as a cultural astronomer
and weave together the evolution of how astronomical observations
contributed information that was used by the Ancestral People of the
Southwest’s Four Corners region. For Pueblo people, science and religion
melded to forecast changes in climate, hone their survival activities such
as hunting and gathering as well as agriculture, and engender tremendous
depth in traditional knowledge used within their societies.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more
and register visit
<https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Cultural-Astronomy-of-the-Ancest
ral-Puebloan-Chaco-Hovenweep-Mesa-Verde--Wupatki-w-Bryan-Bates>
https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Cultural-Astronomy-of-the-Ancestr
al-Puebloan-Chaco-Hovenweep-Mesa-Verde--Wupatki-w-Bryan-Bates.
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 <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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subject line.
Saturday July 23, 2022: Winslow, AZ
“Saviors and Saints on the Arizona Frontier” free presentation with
historian Jan Cleere, sponsored by Old Trails Museum – Winslow Historical
Society and Arizona Humanities at Winslow Arts Trust Museum, La Posada
Hotel, 333 E. 2nd St., Winslow, Arizona*
2-3:30 p.m. Free.
Health care in early Arizona was hardly reliable and frequently
nonexistent. Often, settlers were on their own when tragedy struck with
women taking on the responsibility for the well-being of their families. And
if women were considered incapable of earning the title “Doctor,” they could
certainly save souls. Meet a handful of women who influenced the history of
the territory through their medical expertise and their spiritual
leadership. Theresa Ferrin’s comprehensive understanding of healing herbs
earned her the title “Angel of Tucson.” Florence Yount is recognized as
Prescott’s first woman physician while Teresita Urrea was sometimes lionized
for her hands-on healing powers. Saint Katharine Drexel invested much of her
vast fortune in educating Navajo children. The Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet trudged across the blazing desert enduring untold hardships
before arriving safely in the territory to administer to the health and
well-being of the children of the desert. Award-winning author, historian,
and lecturer Jan Cleere writes extensively about the desert Southwest. D
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://azhumanities.org/event/saviors-and-saints-on-the-arizona-frontier-w
ith-jan-cleere-4/>
https://azhumanities.org/event/saviors-and-saints-on-the-arizona-frontier-wi
th-jan-cleere-4/ or contact Old Trails Museum at 928-289-5861.
Saturday July 23, 2022: Tucson
“Mansions of Main Avenue Walking Tour” starting at the Presidio San
Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
8-10 a.m. (9-11 a.m. on Oct. 23). $25 (Presidio Museum members $20).
Take a stroll down historic downtown Tucson’s Main Avenue to view
homes and hear stories of the early “Old Pueblo” including Hiram Stevens
(who tried to kill his wife and then turned the gun on himself), Sam Hughes
(called by some the “Father of Tucson” but was involved in the Camp Grant
Massacre of Aravaipa Apaches), Annie Cheyney (whose newly restored 1905 home
was the talk of the town), Albert Steinfeld (department store magnate whose
son Harold was a top scorcher), Frank Hereford (attorney who represented
defendants in the Wham Robbery), and William Herring (at one time Wyatt
Earp’s lawyer).
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Spaces are
limited. For more information or to register click here:
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=3248&qid=523253>
Saturday, July 23.
Sunday-Friday 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/>
https://historicorps.org/manitou-lake-pavilion-co-2022/.
Monday July 25, 2022: Chandler, AZ
“Star Wounds: Meteorites from Ancient Native American Sites” free
presentation with Ken Zoll, sponsored by Arizona Humanities and Chandler
Public Library at the Basha Branch Library, 5990 S. Val Vista Dr., Chandler,
Arizona*
6:30-8 p.m. Free.
The occurrence of meteorites on archaeological sites in North America
has been known since the early 19th century. From the Hopewell culture in
the eastern United States to the Indians in the American Southwest and
northern Mexico, meteorites have been found on these ancient sites. Much
like meteorite hunters of today, ancient Native American cultures actively
engaged in meteorite collecting. Several meteorite fragments from Meteor
Crater near Flagstaff have been discovered at ancient dwellings in Central
Arizona. This talk will describe these meteorite locations, how they were
associated with Meteor Crater and how one of the meteorites, using
radiocarbon dating, established its location within a ruin and confirmed the
date of the ruin’s destruction. Ken Zoll is the Executive Director of the
Verde Valley Archaeology Center in Camp Verde, a Regional Coordinator with
Arizona State Parks and Trails’ Site Steward program, and volunteer docent
at cultural heritage sites in the Coconino National Forest.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://azhumanities.org/event/star-wounds-meteorites-from-ancient-native-a
merican-sites-with-ken-zoll-3/>
https://azhumanities.org/event/star-wounds-meteorites-from-ancient-native-am
erican-sites-with-ken-zoll-3/ or contact the Basha Branch Library at
480-782-2800.
Monday-Sunday July 25-31, 2022: Southern California
“Missions and Presidios of Southern California Tour” sponsored by
Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, Tucson*
8 a.m. Monday-5 p.m. Sunday. $2,200 ($2,000 Presidio Museum members)
double occupancy (add $200 for single)
Get to know the missions and presidios of southern California up close
and in person. Following El Camino Real, this trip visits the distinct
missions of the Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego areas plus two of
the four California presidios. This geographic panorama of history will
consider the perspectives of the Indigenous, religious, and military peoples
as well as provide the opportunity to compare and contrast the Spanish
colonial and Mexican eras of Arizona to California. On the return from San
Diego, the trip also will visit one of the often forgotten California
mission sites along the Colorado River where this land route strategy of
incorporating Alta California into New Spain came to a bloody end in the
Massacre at the Yuma Crossing in 1781.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/calendar/travel-new-mexicos-el-camino-real-de-la
-tierra-adentro-tour/>
https://tucsonpresidio.com/calendar/travel-new-mexicos-el-camino-real-de-la-
tierra-adentro-tour/ or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594
or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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.
Wednesday July 27, 2022: Sun City West, AZ
“Specters of the Past-Ghost Towns That Built Arizona” free
presentation with Jay Mark, sponsored by R. H. Johnson Library and Arizona
Humanities at R. H. Johnson Lecture Hall, 19803 R. H. Johnson Blvd., Sun
City West, Arizona*
2-3:30 p.m. Free.
In addition to an entertaining, visual display of the communities,
towns and settlements that contributed to the early growth of the state,
this presentation also focuses on respect for these diminishing historic
resources. Most of the photographs represent a comprehensive exploration of
Arizona ghost towns made by Mr. Mark in the 1960s and 1970s. This occurred
just prior to a major period of incursion and destruction by off-road and
all-terrain vehicles. Many sites are no longer extant or have been seriously
degraded since, over the last fifty of sixty years. This presentation
emphasizes the need to respect these valuable, but fragile and vulnerable
resources. Most are on public land with little or no protection afforded.
From Mr. Mark’s personal library of nearly one thousand photographs of
nearly three dozen ghost towns, the presentation features ghost towns from
the area in which it is made.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://azhumanities.org/event/specters-of-the-past-ghost-towns-that-built-
arizona-with-jay-mark-5/>
https://azhumanities.org/event/specters-of-the-past-ghost-towns-that-built-a
rizona-with-jay-mark-5/ or contact the library at 623-544-6130.
Thursday July 28, 2022: Online
“Dismantling a Legacy of Misrepresentation: Critiquing the Past in
Order to Improve the Present: Coverage of American Indian Issues and
Identity” free online presentation by Melissa Greene-Blye, PhD, sponsored by
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
Too often, journalists fail to offer authentic representations of
Native individuals and issues in the news. This presentation will highlight
the ways news media, past and present, have contributed to a legacy of
misrepresentation of Native peoples, with the goal of highlighting ways to
improve that coverage in the future. It is a legacy that has limited the
ability of Native individuals to tell their own stories and exercise
self-determination in the way they are represented in the press as well as
in the historical record. It will ask us to reconsider and redefine what we
think we know about what it means to be American Indian, by asking us to
reevaluate the history we know and the stories we tell ourselves about the
people and events that led us to where we are today. Melissa Greene-Blye,
Ph.D., is an enrolled citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. Her research
examines journalistic representations and negotiations of American Indian
identity past and present.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more
and register visit
<https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Dismantling-a-Legacy-of-Misrepre
sentation-Critiquing-the-Past-in-Order-to-Improve-the-Present>
https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Dismantling-a-Legacy-of-Misrepres
entation-Critiquing-the-Past-in-Order-to-Improve-the-Present.
Sunday July 31, 2022: Santa Fe, NM
“Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” traveling exhibition
opening at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe*
Hours 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. daily. Admission $9 ($5 for NM residents), 16
and younger free.
Organized by the School for Advanced Research and the Vilcek
Foundation, this new traveling exhibition debuts at the Museum of Indian
Arts and Culture before traveling nationally. Featuring over 100 historical
and contemporary works in clay, it is a rare exhibition curated by the
Native American communities it represents. The project gives authority and
voice to the Pueblo Pottery Collective, a group of over 60 individual
members of 21 Tribal communities who selected and wrote about artistically
or culturally distinctive pots from two significant Pueblo pottery
collections: the Indian Arts Research Center of the School for Advanced
Research (SAR) in Santa Fe and the Vilcek Foundation of New York. The
exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the creation of SAR’s Indian
Arts Research Center’s pottery collection in 1922 and marks SAR’s 13-year
efforts to bridge the cultural needs and knowledge of Native communities
with its public education mission. “Grounded in Clay” shifts traditional
exhibition curation models, combining individual voices from Native
communities where pots have been made and used for millennia into a uniquely
Indigenous group narrative to illuminate the complexities of Pueblo history
and contemporary life through the curators’ lived experiences, redefining
concepts of Native art, history, and beauty from within, confronting
academically imposed narratives about Native life, and challenging
stereotypes about Native peoples.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact SAR at 505-954-7200 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Tuesday August 9, 2022: Sierra Vista, AZ
“Arizona & Beyond: Set in Stone but not in Meaning” free presentation
by archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by the Henry F. Hauser Museum at the
Sierra Vista Public Library, 2600 E. Tacoma St., Sierra Vista, Arizona*
1-2 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 Elizabeth Wrozek at 520-439-2304 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Thursday-Sunday August 11-14, 2022: Rowe Mesa, NM
“2022 Pecos Archaeological Conference” on Rowe Mesa near Pecos, New
Mexico*
Times TBA. Registration $55 standard, $40 student; dinner & other
amenities extra.
Directions from Santa Fe: Take I-25 Northbound (east) 29.0 miles to
Exit 307 (Rowe), then 4.6 miles on NM-34 and Forest Road 124H.
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 may camp or lodge in nearby communities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <http://www.pecosconference.org/>
www.pecosconference.org/.
Saturday August 13, 2022: Tucson
“Turquoise Trail Guided Walking Tour” starting at the Presidio San
Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
8-10 a.m. $25 (Presidio Museum members $20).
The Presidio Museum’s knowledgeable docents lead this walking tour of
the 2½-mile Turquoise Trail painted with a turquoise line through the heart
of downtown Tucson, the “Old Pueblo.” Learn about Tucson’s fascinating
history and see some architectural gems. The trail passes many of the Old
Pueblo’s historic buildings, parks, sculptures and shrines, and tour guides
share stories that make Tucson’s history special.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Spaces are
limited. For more information or to register click here:
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=4159&qid=546324> August
13.
Thursday August 18, 2022: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring
“The Full Story of Pueblo Grande (or at Least a Few Chapters)” presentation
by City of Phoenix Archaeologist Laurene Montero, 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
Pueblo Grande is one of the last remaining precontact Hohokam villages
with an intact platform mound – or va’aki – in Arizona’s lower Salt River
valley. Its importance to descendant Tribal communities is recognized today,
and Pueblo Grande continues to yield a wealth of information regarding the
past and its connection to the present. Excavation projects in almost 80
percent of this village have unearthed many archaeological features,
providing information for compiling a new research database. The continued
challenge to preserve, research, and interpret pieces of this important
place in the face of a changing urban landscape has required creativity,
collaboration, and devotion on the part of a diverse group of volunteers and
professionals. This Third Thursday presentation will combine a brief history
of the archaeology of Pueblo Grande, its role in the surrounding irrigation
community archaeologists call Canal System 2, and its value as a resource
for continued preservation archaeology.
To register go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ynVTuQ14QLSOnrcrosWEYw>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ynVTuQ14QLSOnrcrosWEYw. 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 <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] with “Send August Third Thursday flyer” in your email
subject line.
Saturday August 20, 2022: Tucson
“Barrio Viejo Walking Tour” starting at El Tiradito Shrine, 420 S.
Main Ave., Tucson*
5:30-7 p.m. $25 ($20 Presidio Museum members).
Experience the rich history of Tucson’s Barrio Viejo (the “old
neighborhood”) by taking this one-mile walking tour with Presidio Museum
docent and board member Mauro Trejo. For over 100 years, Barrio Viejo was
the heart of Tucson’s social, economic, and cultural life. This 90-minute
tour winds through the largest collection of Sonoran row houses in the US,
in Tucson’s oldest neighborhood. Your guide will discuss the history of the
neighborhood, its architecture, and the individuals, businesses, and
cultures that met there. For an additional $10 and 30 minutes participants
can join the tour guide after the tour at the historic El Minuto Café for
conversation, a margarita (or alternative) and a cheese crisp.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information or to register click here:
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=4155&qid=546324> August
20.
August 20, 2022: Florence, TX
“Guided Tours of the Gault Site” offered by the Gault School of
Archaeological Research through the Bell County Museum (Belton, Texas) at
the Gault archaeological site, 3433 FM 2843, Florence, Texas*
9 a.m.-noon. $10 (ages 10 and under free).
The Gault School of Archaeological Research (Austin, Texas) offers
guided tours of the Gault archaeological site in partnership with the Bell
County Museum and the Williamson Museum. Gault, about 40 miles north of
Austin, Texas, has produced evidence of almost continuous human occupation
starting at least 16,000 years ago, making it one of the earliest reliably
dated sites in North and South America. For decades most archaeologists
believed that the Clovis Paleoindian people, who made distinctive projectile
points and other stone artifacts, were the first to arrive in the Americas
about 13,500 years ago and that they quickly spread throughout the Americas.
Gault and other earlier sites have refuted the “Clovis First” idea. The
Gault site contains pre-Clovis strata with evidence of human occupation and
has produced evidence that Clovis people were full-range hunter-gatherers
rather than just hunters of mammoths and other big-game animals. Gault’s
upper geological layers have Archaic (9,000 to 1200 years before present)
and late precontact (1200 to 500 BP) archaeological material. Gault also was
a source of high-quality Edwards Plateau chert, which was used for making
flaked stone tools that have been found as far away as northern Colorado.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information and reservations on the August tour contact the Bell County
Museum at 254-933-5243. For information about the Gault site visit
<https://www.gaultschool.org/> https://www.gaultschool.org/.
Tuesday & Wednesday August 23 & 24, 2022: Albuquerque
“The National Historic Preservation Act” training offered by Jornada
Research Institute (JRI, Tularosa, NM) at US Bureau of Reclamation
Albuquerque Area Office, 555 Broadway Blvd NE, Albuquerque*
9 a.m. each day. $175 ($160 for JRI members, $150 students)
The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) requires federal
agencies to assess potential effects of their undertakings on properties
that are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places
(NRHP), write agreement documents, and consult with American Indian Tribes
and Native Hawaiian Organizations as well as other stakeholders such as
irrigation and conservation districts. JRI’s two-day training course on the
NHPA is designed to provide a foundation to learn about, understand, and
assist with implementing requirements of the NHPA. The course is designed
for anyone who at some time may be part of the compliance and review process
for undertakings covered under the NHPA and for understanding how it relates
to other laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). This
training will be useful not only to federal employees and cultural resource
management (CRM) professionals but also to individuals and organizations
engaged in economic development projects that involve federal funding,
permits, or leases, all of which initiate the NRHP historic properties
evaluation process).
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Jeffery Hanson at 817-658-5544 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday August 29, 2022: Online
“Mesoamerican Influences on Southwest Rock Art” free online
presentation with archaeologist Michael Ruggeri sponsored by The Aztlander
online magazine*
7 p.m. Central Daylight Time. Free.
Mesoamerican influence began to filter into the American Southwest as
early as 300 CE and continued to play a role in the cultures of that area
right up to the Conquest. Mesoamerican architectural concepts, religious
concepts, iconography, and world views found their way into the Southwest by
way of long distance trade in scarlet macaws, cacao, copper bells, pyrite,
shell trumpets, and ornaments from Mesoamerica. These trade items were
accompanied by major religious themes and beliefs that included major
Mesoamerican deities such as Tlaloc the rain god, the plumed serpent
Quetzalcoatl, the Venus symbolism connected to warfare and duality, the Hero
twins. These major religious themes found their expression in the Southwest
in pottery, in religious ritual, and in rock art. Mike Ruggeri will provide
an illustrated tour showing the influence of these Mesoamerican deities and
religious concepts in the rock art of the Southwest, which stretches across
a vast area through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Four Corners region
of the Southwest.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84881706136>
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84881706136.
Saturday September 3, 2022: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Halo Shelter and the Devils River” with archaeologist
Katie Wilson sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center
(Shumla) starting at Shumla, 28 Langtry St., Comstock, Texas*
8 a.m.-6 p.m. $160.
Halo Shelter sits within a small tributary of Dead Man’s Creek on a
private ranch in Val Verde County. Halo boasts one of the best-preserved
Pecos River Style pictograph panels in the region. The site gets its name
from a unique motif of rayed lines extending from an arch over the top of
several figures’ heads. The Devils River is one of the last wild rivers in
Texas and a haven for adventurers. Access to this spring-fed river is
extremely limited and is one of the reasons why this river has remained one
of Texas’ most protected treasures.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <http://www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For
more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Sunday September 4, 2022: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Painted Shelter and Shumla HQ” with archaeologist
Katie Wilson sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center
(Shumla), starting at Shumla, 28 Langtry St., Comstock, Texas*
8 a.m.-1 p.m. $80.
Painted Shelter is located in an unnamed tributary canyon of the Rio
Grande on private property. Shumla will access this site with permission
from the landowner. A spring-fed stream runs in front of the rock art panel
and creates several long pools through the site. Major flash flood events
have washed out most of the archaeological deposits, but there is a remnant
burned rock midden and lithic scatter on the bedrock benches in front of the
shelter. Painted Shelter is home to the best-preserved examples of the Red
Monochrome style rock art, as well as remnant Pecos River Style murals.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go
to <http://www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/> www.shumla.org/shumlatreks/. For
more information contact Shumla at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Friday September 9, 2022: Flagstaff
“AAC Fall Conference” sponsored by the Arizona Archaeological Council
at Northern Arizona University’s du Bois South Union, 306 E. Pine Knoll Dr.,
Flagstaff*
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Registration fee TBD.
The theme of this year’s AAC fall conference is “Best Practices and
Ethical Approaches to Arizona’s Archaeology.” Archaeologists have long
focused on developing better approaches to the methodology and interpretive
frameworks of their discipline, and Arizona archaeologists have strived to
be at the forefront of such advances. This year’s conference will focus on
ethical approaches to archaeology and the protection and preservation of
cultural resources in a multiperspective and inclusive space, including
addressing issues of sexual harassment, racial and social injustice, and
gender equality as well as confronting archaeology’s colonial legacy as a
discipline. The conference will conclude with a panel discussion “Managing
the Future: Training, Opportunities, and Directions in Arizona Archaeology.”
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Jim Watson at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturday & Sunday September 10 & 11, 2022:
Near Winslow & Holbrook, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Homol’ovi and Rock Art Ranch Pueblos
and Petroglyphs Tour” with archaeologist Rich Lange starting at Homolovi
State Park Visitor Center northeast of Winslow (from I-40 Exit 257 it’s 1.5
miles north on AZ-87)
1 p.m. Saturday to 1 p.m. or later Sunday; $99 donation per person
($80 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum
members) includes all site entry fees and Old Pueblo’s expenses but no
transportation, lodging, or meals.
Archaeologists Rich Lange and Al Dart lead this car-caravan
educational tour to sites where archaeologists conducted excavations during
the Arizona State Museum’s 1983-2016 Homol’ovi Research Program, and to the
Rock Art Ranch petroglyphs in Chevelon Canyon. The tour will visit three of
the largest Ancestral Hopi pueblos and an Early Agricultural-to-Great Pueblo
period site in Homolovi State Park just outside Winslow, plus spectacular
petroglyph panels near Winslow and at Rock Art Ranch south of Holbrook,
Arizona. Sites to be visited on Saturday include the Homolovi I (1280-1400
CE), Homolovi II (1360-1400), and Homolovi IV (1260-1280) pueblos, a
Basketmaker II (Early Agricultural period, 500-850) to Pueblo II/III
(1150-1225) village site, and a petroglyphs site north of Winslow. On Sunday
we’ll head to the Rock Art Ranch south of Holbrook to visit Brandy’s Pueblo
(1225-1254) and a replica Navajo farmstead site before hiking down into
Chevelon Canyon to see petroglyphs dating between 8000 BCE and the
mid-1200s. Participants provide their own lodging, meals, and
transportation.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Friday September 2nd, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
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Sunday-Friday September 11-16, 2022: Near Nederland, CO
“Hessie Cabin, CO 2022” HistoriCorps and Arapaho-Roosevelt National
Forest offer volunteer-assisted rehabilitation and repair project near
Nederland, Colorado*
Arrive Sunday evening; daylight hours daily thereafter. No fees.
The small gold-mining camp town of Hessie grew up between 1895 and
1905, supported about 80 residents, and had several stores, a schoolhouse, a
boarding house, a sawmill, and residences at its peak. Kennewick Cabin is
one of the few standing residential structures left there from Boulder
County’s mining history. It is an excellent example of the type of cabin
that Front Range miners lived and worked in during the 19th century.
Volunteers will help rebuild the cabin’s interior floor system, perform
interior and exterior wood chinking and lime mortar daubing, interior
painting, rehabilitate windows and door, install wood burning stove and
stovepipe through metal roof, and perform miscellaneous carpentry repairs.
Tents, truck campers, campervans, and RVs/trailers can access this campsite
but there are no hookups and RV spacing may be tight. Potable water and
restrooms will be available. High clearance vehicles are recommended. No
dogs. Historicorps provides all meals, tools, and training; volunteers are
responsible for their own transit to the site as well as personal camping
equipment, work gloves, work clothes, and sturdy boots (no sneakers/light
hikers).
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information or to register go to <https://historicorps.org/hessie-co-2022/>
https://historicorps.org/hessie-co-2022/.
Sundays-Fridays September 11-16, September 18-23, September 25-30, or
October 2-7, 2022: Near Aspen, CO
“Hunter Creek Shop, CO 2022” HistoriCorps and Hunter Creek Historical
Foundation offer volunteer-assisted rehabilitation and repair project just
outside Aspen, Colorado*
Arrive between 5 and 7 p.m. Sunday; daylight hours daily thereafter.
No fees.
Lack of public funding has allowed structures on this 60-acre site at
8,000 ft elevation to deteriorate to a state of near oblivion. HistoriCorps
volunteers will excavate sill timbers, pour concrete footers and infill with
local field stones, perform a frame repair and replacement to sill timbers,
wall studs, and roof system, replace the corrugated metal roof, execute
wooden siding repair and replacement, apply exterior weathering solutions to
siding and metal roofing, and more. Historicorps provides all meals, tools,
and training. Volunteers are responsible for their own transit to the site
as well as personal camping equipment, work gloves, work clothes, and sturdy
boots (no sneakers/light hikers). Tent camping is recommended. There is
limited road access to the project site for truck campers and campervans. No
dogs.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information or to register go to
<https://historicorps.org/hunter-creek-shop-co-2022/>
https://historicorps.org/hunter-creek-shop-co-2022/.
Mondays September 12-November 28, 2022
(except skip October 24): Online
“An Overview of Mississippian Archaeology of the Eastern US”
12-session online adult education class with archaeologist Jay Franklin,
PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ
85717-0577
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time through October) each Monday. $99 donation ($80 for members of
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum); donation
does not include costs of recommended text (Mound Sites of the Ancient
South: A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms by Eric E. Bowne [2013]).
This course provides a broad overview of the Mississippian Period that
developed and flourished along the Lower and Central Mississippi Valley and
elsewhere in what is now the eastern US from about 900 to 1600 CE. We will
discuss environmental conditions within which Mississippian cultures
developed and basic characteristics of these cultures. We will survey
important sites used to characterize the Mississippian. The Mississippian
art and ceremonial complex will be highlighted, including discussion of cave
art. We will discuss the transition from Mississippian lifeways to those of
the early historic period. Finally, we will draw some comparisons between
Mississippian and Hohokam/Salado archaeology. Jay Franklin retired as a
Professor of Anthropology from East Tennessee State University in 2019 and
now is Director of Cultural Resources and a Principal Investigator for
EcoPlan Associates, Inc. in Tucson.
Reservations and prepayment are due 10 days after reservation request
or by 5 p.m. Friday September 2nd, whichever is earlier. To register or for
more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or
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Tuesday September 13, 2022: Online
“Indigenous Interests” free Zoom online program featuring
“****”presentation by ****guest speaker, 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.
Description coming.
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_I6V1sk2PTEukauXCO3Dv4Q>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I6V1sk2PTEukauXCO3Dv4Q. For more
information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
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Wednesday September 14, 2022: Online
“Indigenous Forms of Resistance and Revolt in Colonial Mexico”
one-session online adult education class with ethnohistorian Michael M.
Brescia, PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577,
Tucson AZ 85717-0577
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). $35 donation ($28 for members of Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum)
This two-hour minicourse taught by Arizona State Museum historian Dr.
Michael Brescia provides a sweeping conceptual framework for understanding
Indigenous resistance under Spanish colonialism. Invoking an all-powerful
deity to effect radical changes in the social and political order has deep
roots in the Indigenous experience under Spanish rule. Efforts to restore or
revitalize cultural identity and promote economic security cut across
Mexico’s geography and reveal the extent to which religious understandings
of material well-being intersected and conflicted with established political
power, economic systems, and accepted social norms. Arizona State Museum
historian Michael Brescia identifies case studies from Mexico’s colonial
period (1521-1810) to illustrate how Indigenous communities filtered their
lived experiences through a religious and material framework in an effort to
make sense of the challenges and burdens of Spanish colonialism, and how
some of them revolted against colonial rule.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Wednesday September 7, 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 15, 2022: Online
(An Encore from March 17)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” free
Zoom online program featuring “The Sinagua: Fact or Fiction?” presentation
by archaeologist Peter J. Pilles, Jr.
7 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time). Free.
“Sinagua” is the name first coined in 1939 to refer to the
pre-European people who inhabited the Flagstaff region of north-central
Arizona. But what, exactly, does this mean? Does Sinagua refer to a
geographic area, a specific kind of pottery, an actual grouping of people,
or is it something else? These are difficult questions this presentation
will attempt to explore. The Sinagua archaeological area of Arizona has been
considered a cultural “frontier,” characterized as a blend of other
cultures, yet unique enough to warrant its own cultural designation.
However, over the years, this uniqueness dissolved as old interpretations
were no longer satisfactorily explaining what archaeologists were finding.
By the 1960s, new areas of study and new explanatory models were developed.
However, these paradigm shifts have failed to satisfactorily answer the
questions posed by past interpretations. These shifts beg the major
questions: Who were the Sinagua, how do they fit into the “Big Picture” of
Southwest prehistory, and what happened to the culture? In order to bring
closure to these questions, archaeologists need to explain how past
questions have been . . . not exactly the wrong questions, but they need to
be re-fitted and examined under a different lens, focused by degrees of
scale. This presentation will attempt to illustrate these different
approaches, as well as to demonstrate that the concept of “Sinagua” is both
fact AND fiction.
Archaeologist Peter Pilles has studied the Southwest’s Sinagua
archaeological culture for decades. In this presentation (rescheduled from
March 17 when he was unable to share his PowerPoint file) he will give an
overview of Sinagua and how it related to the surrounding, contemporary
Hohokam, Mogollon, Ancestral Pueblo, and Patayan cultures.
To register go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hLUS_B7-R_exp0XxQAKrBw>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hLUS_B7-R_exp0XxQAKrBw. 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.
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Wednesdays September 21-December 14, 2022 (except skip October 26): 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 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time through Nov. 5th) each Wednesday. $99 donation ($80 for
members of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society
[AAS], and Friends of Pueblo Grande 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 p.m. Friday September 16, whichever is earlier. To register or for
more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or
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Thursday September 22, 2022: 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 a.m. to noon. $35 donation ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum members) helps cover Old Pueblo’s tour
expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and
traditional cultures.
The 2022 autumn equinox occurs on September 22 at 6:04 p.m.
Arizona/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time; Sept. 23,
1:04 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time). To celebrate the equinox 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 p.m.
Monday September 19, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
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Tuesdays October 4 and 18, 2022: Online
“Understanding Indigenous Mexico through the Maya and Aztec Codices”
two-session online adult education class with ethnohistorian Michael M.
Brescia, PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577,
Tucson AZ 85717-0577
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific
Daylight Time) each Tuesday. $50 donation ($40 for members of Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum)
Mesoamerican codices are documents created by Maya, Aztec, and other
Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America before and after the
Spanish conquest. The codex tradition provided Indigenous peoples with a
voice amid the dramatic changes that were taking place all around them. In
this Old Pueblo course, Arizona State Museum ethnohistorian Dr. Michael
Brescia examines the manuscript culture of ancient Mexico and what the
codices reveal about the political, economic, social, and cultural rhythms
of daily life for the Maya and Aztec societies of Mesoamerica. He will tease
out multiple dimensions of pre-Columbian Maya society as manifested in
codices such as the Dresden Codex and the Grolier Codex, the latter having
only been authenticated by scholars in 2018. He will discuss links between
the Maya codices and scholarly efforts to crack the so-called Maya code (a
hieroglyphic writing system), and the changes and continuities in Aztec
(Mexica) society that are revealed in several codices and writings produced
just before and right after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec confederation
in 1521.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Tuesday September 27, whichever is earlier. To register or for more
information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or
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Saturday October 8, 2022: 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 Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum 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 pre-European Contact 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 Native Americans made traditional crafts and is not intended
to train students how to make artwork for sale. Limited to six registrants.
All participants are asked to wear face masks and to practice physical
distancing during the workshop to avoid spreading COVID-19 virus.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Thursday October 6, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
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Sunday October 16, 2022: Payson, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Central Arizona Tradition
Archaeological Sites Tour” guided by archaeologist J. Scott Wood starting at
Goat Camp Ruin in Payson, Arizona
12-4 p.m. $40 donation ($32 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and
Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum members) includes Old Pueblo’s expenses and
access to sites but no transportation, lodging, or meals.
Scott Wood leads Old Pueblo’s car-caravan tour to archaeological sites
of the Central Arizona Tradition (CAT). What is that? It’s a name that
archaeologists Peter Pilles and Scott Wood gave to a cultural lifeway that
developed around 300 CE in central Arizona just north of the Salt River
valley. The CAT was characterized by small wickiup-like pithouses, some
larger bean-shaped houses, and plain brown paddle-and-anvil-made pottery,
without any locally made decorated ceramics. The CAT lasted until about 500
CE when people in most parts of the area began to be assimilated into the
Hohokam, Mogollon-Pueblo, and Sinagua cultures that developed all around
central Arizona. Scott will show us two CAT archaeological sites: Goat Camp
Ruin, where he has been leading excavations since 2008, and Shoofly Village,
where Arizona State University conducted excavations in the mid-1980s.
Payson offers numerous restaurant and lodging options. Participants provide
their own lodging, meals, and transportation. Directions to the meeting
place will be provided to persons who have made reservations.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Monday October 13, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
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above-listed activity send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Friday & Saturday November 18 & 19, 2022: Central Arizona
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Salado, Whatever that Means” tour
with archaeologists Rich Lange and Al Dart starting in northwest corner of
Walmart parking lot at 1695 N. Arizona Blvd., Coolidge, Arizona
9 a.m. Friday to 1 p.m. or later Saturday. $99 donation per person
($80 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Friends of Pueblo Grande Museum
members) includes all site entry fees and Old Pueblo’s expenses but no
transportation, lodging, or meals.
Archaeologists Rich Lange and Al Dart lead this car-caravan
educational tour to central Arizona archaeological sites representing the
“Salado phenomenon.” What does “Salado” mean? Was Salado a distinct
precontact-era culture like the Ancestral Pueblo, Hohokam, Mogollon, and
Patayan cultures (all of which were at least partly contemporary with
Salado)? If not, then what was Salado exactly? During this tour, Rich and Al
will discuss these ideas during visits to the Casa Grande Ruins in Coolidge
and Besh Ba Gowah Pueblo and Gila Pueblo on Friday, and Tonto National
Monument’s Lower Cliff Dwelling and the Schoolhouse Point Platform Mound
archaeological site near Roosevelt Lake on Saturday. On the drive from
Coolidge to Globe, participants will see spectacular central Arizona
mountains and scenery including Queen Creek Canyon, Devil's Canyon, and the
fabled Apache Leap. There are several restaurant options in Globe for Friday
lunch and dinner and Saturday breakfast. Participants provide their own
lodging, meals, and transportation.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 p.m.
Friday November 11, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
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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 Salado tour flyer” in your email subject line.
Monday December 5, 2022: Online or by mail
Monday December 5 at 5 p.m. is the deadline to get your tickets from
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center for “The Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle”
of a 2022 Ford Maverick Lariat Hybrid Pickup Truck, two first-class
round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the world, and $5,000 cash. Ticket
sales will benefit Old Pueblo and other southern Arizona charities!
Cost: Five tickets for $100 or $25 for each single ticket.
On Thursday December 15 Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give
away a 2022 Ford Maverick Lariat Hybrid Pickup Truck 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
fantastic 2022 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”!
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 15. 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.
Old Pueblo’s raffle rules: To be entered in the raffle your request
for tickets and your donation for them must be received by Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center no later than 5 p.m. Monday December 5th so we can turn
in all of our sold tickets to the Jim Click Automotive Team’s coordinator
later that week. 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 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 for your
tickets, 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.
For tickets or more information about Old Pueblo’s involvement in the
raffle contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] For more information about The Jim Click Automotive
Team’s Millions for Tucson Raffle itself visit
<http://www.millionsfortucson.org> www.millionsfortucson.org. To see a
33-second video that the Jim Click Automotive Team has put together about
the Ford 2022 Maverick Pickup you can visit
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EMAIL YOU A FLYER with color photos about this
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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.
Old Pueblo is recognized as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization
under the U.S. tax code, so donations and membership fees are tax-deductible
up to amounts specified by law.
Do you like getting our announcements about upcoming activities? Or
would you like to help us continue to provide hands-on education programs in
archaeology, history, and cultures for children and adults? THEN PLEASE:
Visit <http://www.oldpueblo.org/forms/donorfrm.php>
www.oldpueblo.org/forms/donorfrm.php to make a contribution, or see below
for information on how you can support Old Pueblo as a member!
Payment Options for Donations and Memberships
To start or renew an Old Pueblo membership online you can visit our
www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/
<http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/membership/> web page, scroll down to
the bottom of that page, and follow the instructions for using our secure
online membership form or our printable Enrollment/Subscription form.
To make a donation using PayPal, please go to the www.oldpueblo.org
<http://www.oldpueblo.org> home page, scroll down to the “Donate” section,
click on the “Donate” button above the PayPal logo, and follow the prompts.
To make a credit card or debit card payment without going online you
can call Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201, tell the person who answers you’d like
to make a credit card donation or payment, and provide your card
authorization. We advise that you do not provide credit card or debit card
numbers to us in an email. Old Pueblo accepts Visa, MasterCard, Discover,
and American Express card payments.
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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