For Immediate Release
Some Archaeology, History, and Cultures
Activities Coming Up Soon
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-am
erican-sites-with-ken-zoll-3/ or contact the Basha Branch Library at
480-782-2800.
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
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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-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-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 [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Have a nice week!
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director (Volunteer)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
520-798-1201
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www.oldpueblo.org <http://www.oldpueblo.org>
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