For Immediate Release
Table of Contents
Some Thank-Yous
Some Online Resources
Old Pueblo Activities Preview
Upcoming Activities
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Youth Education Programs
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Mission and Support
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SOME THANK-YOUS
This month we thank the following folks (in somewhat alphabetical order) who have joined or rejoined Old Pueblo Archaeology Center as members or who have made donations to support our general education programs since our previous first-of-the-month email blast: Michele & Frank Worthington, Richard & Patricia Wiedhopf, White Stallion Ranch, Robin Wakeland, Renee Tossell, Sharon Strachan, Jane Stone, Sharon Smith, Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers, William Schmitt, Ronni Robles, Daniel Robinett, Neba Reiter, Patagonia Museum, Brent Nebeker, Kyle Meredith, Mary Jo McMullen, Leana McGill, Melissa Loeschen, Aleta Lawrence, Judy Kilgore, Kathryn Karnowsky, Olga Harbour, Marilyn Guida, Linda Gricius, Grant County Archaeological Society, William Gillespie, David & Kimberly Gilles, Kathy Garrett, Butch Farabee, Debra Eazer, Nancy Daunton, Al Dart, Elizabeth Butler, Dorothy Brolin, Mary Ann Brazil, Carol Boquard, Donna Baremore, and Jeffrey Allen.
Thank you all so much!
SOME ON
RESOURCES (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.)
* Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s recording of Dr. Harry J. Winters’ July 20 Third Thursday Food for Thought presentation ’O’odham and Piipaash Place Names: Meanings, Origins and Histories is now posted on Old Pueblo’s Youtube channel along with videos of many of our other Third Thursday Food for Thought and Indigenous Interests webinar presentations: <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos.d> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos.
* Crow Canyon Archaeological Center: Recordings of several recent presentations including Obsidian Source Provenance in the North American Southwest: History, Methods, and Possibilities with M. Steven Shackley (July 13); Sustained Research: 40 years of Crow Canyon’s Ancestral Pueblo Community Center Archaeology with Donna Glowacki (July 20); Pueblo on the Plains: The Merchant Site of Southeastern New Mexico and New Insights into Plains-Pueblo Relationships during the 14th Century with archaeologists John Speth and Myles Miller (July 27): <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeiaCdm5v3cyVWL-n6qVBQ> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeiaCdm5v3cyVWL-n6qVBQ.
OLD PUEBLO ACTIVITIES PREVIEW
Thursday August 17: “Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “The 1541 O’odham Annihilation of Vázquez de Coronado’s Southern Arizona Townsite and Other New Coronado-Era Discoveries” presentation by archaeologist Deni J. Seymour
Sunday August 20: “Popol Vuh and the Hero Twins in Mesoamerica and the US Southwest” tour led by Mary Jo McMullen and Allen Dart at Tucson Museum of Art
Wednesdays September 6-December 6: “The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona” 12-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart
See green font listings below for details on these and other activities sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center.
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
The following listings include announcements about activities offered by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other organizations interested in archaeology, history and cultures. Time zones are specified only for online activities; each in-person activity listed is in the time zone of its location.
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.
Thursday August 3, 2023: Online
“What All of Us Can Learn from the Old Ones” free online presentation by archaeologist Scott G. Ortman, PhD, sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4-5 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
In this webinar, Dr. Scott Ortman will discuss two important movements in archaeology today. First is the recognition that archaeologists study the cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples, and second is the urge to make the results of archaeology helpful for the present and future. Dr. Ortman suggests that a productive way to integrate these two concerns is to treat the archaeological record as contemporary Indigenous people always have—as a source of knowledge for how to live now. He will provide examples from his experience to illustrate this point and suggest ways that Mesa Verde region archaeology could take advantage of this approach. Dr. Ortman is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder, a Research Affiliate of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more and register visit <https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/What-All-of-Us-Can-Learn-from-the-Old-Ones-with-Dr-Scott-Ortman> https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/What-All-of-Us-Can-Learn-from-the-Old-Ones-with-Dr-Scott-Ortman.
Saturdays August 5 & 19, 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.
Friday-Saturday August 4-5, 2023: Lincoln, NM
“New Mexico Archaeology Fair and Old Lincoln Days” free exhibits and activities hosted by New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs-NM Historic Preservation Division at the Lincoln Historic Site, 488 Calle la Placita, Lincoln, New Mexico*
10 am-4 pm each day. Free.
Activities and exhibits at this annual event will include learning how to throw a long dart using an atlatl, flintknapping, ground penetrating radar and magnetometers, animals in rock art, archaeological site effects, archaeology in the Tularosa Basin, and more.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information <https://www.nmhistoricpreservation.org/assets/files/archaeology-fair/2023/Archaeology%20Fair%202023%20-%20flyer.pdf> Download Flyer HERE.
Monday August 7, 2023: Santa Fe, NM
“Classic Mimbres Painted Pottery & Hunter-Gatherer Pictographs of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands” Southwest Seminars August Voices lecture by archaeologist Harry J. Shafer, PhD, at Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe*
6 pm. $20 at the door – or $75 to subscribe to the four August Monday lectures.
Archaeologist Harry Shafer, senior curator at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas, spent six decades in archaeological research on the Lowland Maya, Lower Pecos, and Mimbres regions, and directed excavations at the NAN Ranch Ruin Mimbres culture site for Texas A & M University. His books include Mimbres Archaeology at the NAN Ranch Ruin; Ancient Texans: Rock Art & Lifeways Along the Lower Pecos, (with Jim Zintgraff, photographer) Painters in Prehistory: Archaeology and Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands (editor).
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Southwest Seminars at 505-466-2775 or <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 August 10, 2023: Online
“Bedrock Ground Stone Features: Landscape, Social Identity, and Ritual Space on the High Plains of Colorado” free online presentation by archaeologist Elizabeth M. Lynch, PhD, sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
Research on ground stone tools, particularly ones used to process food resources, has moved closer to the foreground of archaeological research over the past two decades, partly due to the emergence of newer forms of scientific visualization such as 3D modeling and virtual reality, and breakthrough field recording and analysis methods. Recent research also has focused on analyses of tool use and environmental assessment from residue studies including pollen, phytoliths, and lipids. This webinar addresses the materiality and social aspects of a specific type of ground stone tool known as bedrock ground stone features that are found in the canyons of southeastern Colorado – a dynamic cultural landscape that witnessed interaction between Southwest, Plains, and Eastern precontact societies.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more and register visit <https://www.crowcanyon.org/programs/bedrock_ground_stone_features_landscape_social_identity_and_ritual_space_on_the_high_plains_of_colorado/> https://www.crowcanyon.org/programs/bedrock_ground_stone_features_landscape_social_identity_and_ritual_space_on_the_high_plains_of_colorado/.
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. On-site registration $75 ($65 student); 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/.
Fridays-Sundays August 11-September 3, 2023: Ruidoso, NM
“Volunteer-Assisted Archaeology” sponsored by Jornada Research Institute (JRI) at the Cornelius Locus in Ruidoso, New Mexico*
Times TBA. Free for JRI members.
Jornada Research Institute’s archaeological excavations at the Cornelius Locus have revealed a two-story pueblo-style structure made primarily of jacal – wattle and daub construction in which a lattice framework of small sticks and reeds plastered with the adobe mud was supported by wall posts – with the roofs of both stories made of horizontal beams covered by smaller wooden pieces (latillas), then a layer of reeds and finally a layer of clay/adobe to provide a solid surface. Ceramics collected from the site so far indicate it was occupied between about 1300 and 1425 CE. Evidently the ground-level rooms were used for storage, the upper story was residential, and the roof of the pueblo was a hub of activities including food processing and cooking, stone tool production, and perhaps butchering and bone tool production or use.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To join JRI and participate in this project contact David Greenwald at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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 here: <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]
Saturday August 12, 2023: Online
“The Distribution of Cultural Lac Scale Use (Tachardiela spp.) in the Arid Southwest” free online presentation by Marilen Pool, PhD, sponsored by the Amerind Museum, Dragoon, Arizona*
11 am Arizona/Mountain Standard Time. Free (donations requested).
Dr. Marilen Pool will discuss the examination of the lac scale insect in the arid Southwest and the distribution of its cultural use. Three species, Tachardiella fulgens, T. larreae, and T. pustulata are those most known to have been utilized for their lac by the Indigenous peoples of the region from as early as the Archaic period to the modern era. Lac was used as an adhesive, mastic, and coating for the fabrication of tools, weapons, musical instruments, kicking balls, ornaments, and amulets. It was also used for hermetic sealing of containers to protect foods and seeds from pests and as a repair material for mending pottery. Marilen Pool, PhD, is a Senior Project Conservator at the Arizona State Museum and Objects Conservator and owner of Sonoran Art Conservation Services in Tucson.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register or for more information visit <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5T0Lm1Q2T1ezYno6a19MsA#/registration> https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5T0Lm1Q2T1ezYno6a19MsA#/registration or contact Amerind at 520-586-3666 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday August 14, 2023: Santa Fe, NM
“What’s Truly at Stake in Bears Ears? 11,000 Years of History” Southwest Seminars August Voices lecture by historian Andrew Gulliford at Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe*
6 pm. $20.
Andrew Gulliford is a historian, photographer, and Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado; author of Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance; Sacred Objects and Sacred Places; and Preserving Tribal Traditions; award-winning author with long experience with the lands and people of Utah’s San Juan County.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Southwest Seminars at 505-466-2775 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday August 14, 2023: Online
“Insights into the History of the Americas as Revealed by Ancient DNA” with Dr. Nathan Nakatsuka sponsored by The Aztlander, Chicago*
7 pm Central Daylight Time. Free.
Ancient DNA has been an extraordinary tool to investigate population movements throughout the world. In this presentation Dr. Nakatsuka, postdoctoral fellow at New York University and the New York Genome Center, will discuss the basics of ancient DNA, statistical methods used for ancient DNA analysis, and results from several studies in the Americas using ancient DNA including some of the earliest population movements in Central and South America, and more regional studies of Patagonia, the Andes, Campeche, and California.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Go to <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85960996517> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85960996517 on the event date to join the session.
Wednesday August 16, 2023: Online
““Then, Now, and Forever: Zuni in the Grand Canyon” artist talk sponsored by the S’edav Va’aki Museum, Phoenix*
12-1:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
This second of The Zuni World Program Series Artist Talks features screening of the short film “Then, Now, and Forever: Zuni in the Grand Canyon,” followed by a discussion with Zuni artist, elder, and cultural advisor, Octavius Seowtewa.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register for this program (and the September 12 artist talk) visit <https://pueblogrande.org/events-registration/> https://pueblogrande.org/events-registration/.
Wednesday August 16, 2023: Online
“The Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest” free Zoom online presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart sponsored by the Grant County Archaeological Society, Silver City, New Mexico*
5:30-6:30 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free.
Before 1500 CE, Native American cultures took advantage of southern Arizona’s long growing season and tackled its challenge of limited precipitation by developing the earliest and most extensive irrigation works in all of North America. Agriculture was introduced to Arizona more than 4,000 years before present, and irrigation systems were developed there at least 3,500 years ago – several hundred years before irrigation was established in ancient Mexico. This presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart provides an overview of ancient irrigation systems in the southern Southwest and discusses irrigation’s implications for understanding social complexity.
* To request the Zoom link and passcode email Marilyn Gendron at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday 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=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]
Satrday 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.
Thursday August 17, 2023: Online
“Gardens in the Sand: Historic Early Landscapes in the Southwest” free online presentation by Baker Morrow sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
Over the thousands of high-altitude settlements created in the Southwest from about 850-1540 CE, landscape and garden forms often became as stylized as the building patterns and features of their towns, creating a subtle type of recognizable Pueblo landscape architecture that was widespread in the region. Ancient Pueblo cultivation practices focused on the development of a network of small “pocket” gardens around a Pueblo settlement, laid out on hillsides, valley floors, and the crests of hills. Many of these constructs were set in pinyon-juniper woodlands, taking advantage of sparse but carefully used rain and snowfall, which was channeled to insure the success of the garden system. We can still study them today, perhaps learning in the process a very good way to live and thrive in one of North America’s most demanding environments.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more and register visit <https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Gardens-in-the-Sand-Historic-Early-Landscapes-in-the-Southwest-with-Baker-Morrow> https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Gardens-in-the-Sand-Historic-Early-Landscapes-in-the-Southwest-with-Baker-Morrow.
Thursday August 17, 2023: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program featuring “The 1541 O’odham Annihilation of Vázquez de Coronado’s Southern Arizona Townsite and Other New Coronado-Era Discoveries” 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.
The Arizona Coronado Project continues to astound as expedition sites are found in improbable valleys, as evidence reveals encounters with unexpected Native groups, artifacts are uncovered in Arizona that are unknown from other Coronado sites, and excavated archaeological features demonstrate the beginnings of a permanent European settlement. There is also clear evidence of the battle, described in documents, that annihilated the region's first Spanish townsite and contributed to the termination of the 1539-1542 Coronado expedition as a whole. Dr. Deni Seymour is an award-winning author of seven books and over 110 articles. In addition to her previous discoveries of the site where Apache Chief Juh ambushed US Army Lt. Cushing the 1871 and several important Spanish colonial period sites, recently she has identified five archaeological sites of the Coronado expedition on four stream drainages.
At Dr. Seymour’s request, Old Pueblo will not post or distribute a recording of this presentation.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wwC9iKfWROOXPQM6e-OWYg> https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wwC9iKfWROOXPQM6e-OWYg. For more information contact Old Pueblo at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or 520-798-1201.
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Friday 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=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]
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)f 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]
Saturday August 19, 2023: Tucson
“Open House in Honor of Tucson’s Founding Day” at the Arizona History Museum, 949 E. 2nd St., Tucson*
10 am-3 pm. Free.
Celebrate Tucson’s Founding Day with free admission to the Arizona History Museum! Get out of the summer heat and enjoy walking through our cool museum. Afterwards, you can spend the evening at the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum to continue the celebration, see below.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information visit <https://arizonahistoricalsociety.org/events/arizona-history-museum-open-house/> https://arizonahistoricalsociety.org/events/arizona-history-museum-open-house/ or contact the museum at 520-628-5774.
Saturday August 19, 2023: Tucson
“Celebration of All Things S-cuk Son/Tucson” free activities presented by Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission and the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, at the Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
6:15-9:15 pm. Free.
This annual tradition is held on the anniversary of the day Tucson was founded in 1775. This year its celebration of Tucson’s rich culture and heritage includes the Desert Sky Winds Waila Band, Mariachis, the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center Lion Dancers, Presidio Garrison Drills, and several other community organizations.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information on this and other Presidio Museum activities visit <https://tucsonpresidio.com/calendar/celebration-of-all-things-s-cuk-son-tucson/> https://tucsonpresidio.com/calendar/celebration-of-all-things-s-cuk-son-tucson/ or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 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 at Tucson Museum of Art (TMA), 140 N. Main Ave., Tucson
1 to 3:30 pm. $20 donation ($16 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation 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. Tour is limited to 20 people.
And TMA has added a new show of ancestral Hopi pottery in one of the other galleries that participants can visit on their own after the tour!
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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Sunday-Friday August 20-25 or August 27-September 1, 2023: Southwestern Utah
“Cedar Breaks Cabin, UT 2023” HistoriCorps and National Park Service offer volunteer-assisted rehabilitation and repair conservation project at Point Supreme Viewpoint in Cedar Breaks National Monument*
Volunteers arrive at campsite between 5 and 7 pm on first day and work daylight hours daily thereafter. No fees.
Cedar Breaks National Monument, established in 1933 roughly 74 miles northeast of St. George, Utah, features stunning scenery, grand geology, refreshing summers, and cultural connection to the region’s Indigenous Paiute people. The Monument’s iconic Point Supreme Overlook that is the site of this Historicorps project hosts several cabins constructed between 1936 and 1937 by members of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). HistoriCorps is set to restore the original Visitor’s Center that was retired from duty in 2020 and repurposed for a human history exhibit installed in 2021. In 1983 the cabin was added the National Register of Historic Places. HistoriCorps field staff and volunteers will apply the traditional skills necessary to restore the Cedar Breaks Cabin including log repairs and replacement, exterior wood repairs and staining, and stone chimney repairs. Tent, truck-camper, or campervan camping in a campground is required. Showers are not available and dogs are not allowed.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information or to register go to <https://historicorps.org/cedar-breaks-cabin-ut-2023/> https://historicorps.org/cedar-breaks-cabin-ut-2023/.
Monday August 21, 2023: Santa Fe, NM
“Who Are We and Why Does it Matter? Or ‘When Are Indians Going to Be the ‘Good Guys’ in the Movies?’” Southwest Seminars August Voices lecture by Mateo Romero (Cochiti Pueblo) and “The Usual Native Suspects” at Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe*
6 pm. $20.
Mateo Romero (Cochiti Pueblo) was recommended to Southwest Seminars by Dr. Suzan Shown Harjo, Founding Trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, and recipient of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. This event features native artists, friends, newsmakers, and influencers sharing whatever they wish!
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Southwest Seminars at 505-466-2775 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Monday August 21, 2023: Online
“A Sensory Approach to Exotica, Ritual Practice, and Cosmology at Chaco Canyon” with Robert Weiner, PhD, sponsored by The Aztlander, Chicago*
7 pm Central Daylight Time. Free.
Chaco Canyon (850-1200 CE) in northwestern New Mexico has been the focus of a century’s worth of archaeological research, but fundamental questions remain about the site’s status as the center of the ancient Four Corners world. The construction of monumental Great Houses and roads in Chaco Canyon and across a region the size of Ohio provide clear evidence that Chaco held a magnetic allure for the people of the Four Corners region. But why was Chaco so compelling? In this talk, Robert Weiner suggests that a compelling religious movement focused on water, astronomy, powerful landforms, and exotic Mesoamerican goods is the key to understanding Chaco’s monumental fervor and regional influence across the US Southwest. He will outline evidence for some components of a Chacoan religious movement in the form of artifacts (including imported Mesoamerican exotica), landscapes, and the cultural knowledge of descendant Pueblo and Diné people, with special attention given to the sensory impact of objects and places in driving larger histories of change in the precolonial U.S. Southwest.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Go to <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85230136439> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85230136439 on the event date to join the session.
Tuesday & Wednesday , August 22 & 23, 2023: Albuquerque
“National Historic Preservation Act/Section 106 Training” sponsored by Jornada Research Institute (JRI) at Bureau of Reclamation Office, 555 Broadway Blvd. NE, Albuquerque*
9 am-5 pm each day. $185 ($175 JRI members, $165 students)
The Jornada Research Institute offers its annual two-day training class on the National Historic Preservation Act/Section 106 and related legislation. The course will cover the historic context and background of historic preservation legislation, major provisions of NHPA including Sections 101, 106 and Section 110, working through the “106 process,” National Register of Historic Places criteria and eligibility, traditional cultural properties, stakeholder roles, and potential areas of conflict. Designed for cultural resource management professionals, it also is useful for others interested in archaeological and historic preservation, and it meets the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division’s continuing education credits requirements.
* 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]
Wednesday 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=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 August 24, 2023: Online
"Duck Pots in Brooklyn: Rediscovering the Hunters Point Chacoan Community” free online presentation by archaeologist Kelley Hays-Gilpin, PhD, sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Free (donations encouraged).
Ravenous collectors stripped antiquities from Ancestral Pueblo communities at the turn of the 20th century. They shipped boxcar loads of artifacts to museums in the eastern United States and overseas. Generations of archaeologists wrote off these “legacy collections” as devoid of interest, but today we are rediscovering their value. The Brooklyn Museum of Art’s collection of pottery from the “Chacoan outlier” community of Hunters Point, located near Window Rock, Arizona, largely untouched for over a century, comprises over 140 whole vessels. The collection contains a surprising variety of vessel forms, including bird-shaped pitchers and represents a wide range of potters’ skills from beginners to master potters. Kelley Hays-Gilpin and colleagues reunite scattered archival information about the Hunters Point Great House community with their study of ceramic data to reconstruct the community’s timeline, network relationships, and distinctive features, and offer insights into the western frontier of the Chaco world.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn more and register visit <https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Duck-Pots-in-Brooklyn-Rediscovering-the-Hunters-Point-Chacoan-Community-with-Dr-Kelley-Hays-Gilpin> https://4454pp.blackbaudhosting.com/4454pp/Duck-Pots-in-Brooklyn-Rediscovering-the-Hunters-Point-Chacoan-Community-with-Dr-Kelley-Hays-Gilpin..
Saturday 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=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]
Monday August 28, 2023: Santa Fe, NM
“Bears Ears: In the Sacred Land Between” Southwest Seminars August Voices lecture by Carleton Bowekaty (Pueblo of Zuni) at Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe*
6 pm. $20.
Carleton Bowekaty is Former Lt. Governor of the Pueblo of Zuni, a member of the Sun and Child of Tobacco clans and of the Big Ember Medicine Society and Corn Kiva. He is Policy Director for the Bears Ears Partnership that actively engages Tribal nations in connections to their sacred landscapes and protection efforts. former Co-Chair of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, Pueblo of Zuni representative to the Chaco Heritage Tribal Association, and U.S. Army Veteran (Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal).
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Southwest Seminars at 505-466-2775 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesday August 30, 2023
Launch of “Discovering Community in the Borderlands Augmented Reality Sites” free exhibit opening, a collaboration of the University of Arizona’s Arizona State Museum, Center for Digital Humanities, and Poetry Center at the U of A Main Library’s CATalyst Studio, 1510 E. University Blvd., Tucson*
4-6 pm. Free.
Celebrate this special community partnership and experience seven stories of Tucson history and culture through augmented reality (AR). Discover objects, historic photographs, dance, music, and poetry, and meet culture specialists and tradition bearers. Enjoy related writing activities with the UA Poetry Center. Hear a discussion with the team that created the AR experiences, which include virtual photo galleries, 360-degree videos of dance and music, holograms, 3D virtual objects, poetry, and more. Refreshments will be served.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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 S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation); 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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Friday September 8, 2023: Florence, AZ
“The History and Mystery of the Gila River” free Five C's of Arizona Speaker Series presentation by Chris Reid sponsored by the Pinal County Historical Society and Viney Jones Community Library, at the Library, 778 N. Main St., Florence, Arizona*
10 am. Free.
Many people know about Arizona’s most famous river, the Colorado, but the often-forgotten Gila River also has a rich and somewhat hidden history. Starting in central New Mexico, the Gila makes its journey through eastern and most of southern Arizona before joining the Colorado. Personal memoirs, field journals, and anecdotes of the missionaries, explorers, adventurers, and pioneers who followed or settled it, will bring the human side of the Gila to life. This program shows how the Gila River provided life-giving water for agriculture, transportation, recreation, and inspiration for generations of people.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information contact the Pinal County Historical Museum at 520-868-4382 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Friday & Saturday September 8 & 9, 2023: Near Winslow & Holbrook, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Homol’ovi and Rock Art Ranch Pueblos and Petroglyphs Tour” starting at Homolovi State Park Visitor Center northeast of Winslow (from I-40 Exit 257 it’s 1.5 miles north on AZ-87)
12 pm Friday to 1 pm or later Saturday. $109 donation per person ($87 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures; 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 Friday 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 Saturday 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 pm Friday September 1st, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Saturdays September 9, 23, & 30, and October 7, 2023: Tucson
“Presidio San Agustín del Tucson and Fort Lowell Museums Docent Training Course” somewhere near the Presidio Museum, Tucson*
9 am to 1 pm each Saturday. New docents $75 (includes one-year membership to the museums), other history buffs $100, committed students $25.
The lifeblood of downtown Tucson’s Presidio Museum and the soon-to-be-opened Fort Lowell Museum are volunteers and docents who provide most of the museums’ programming and tours. Persons who are excited about Tucson’s history and want to learn more and share with visitors are invited to register for the Presidio Museum’s docent training course that will cover topics including:
• The early people of the Tucson Basin
• History, geography and people of the Spanish Presidio
• Basic Spanish military history and uniforms
• The Mexican Republic
• Introduction to interpretive kits
• How to know your audience
• Geography of the Presidio neighborhood, the Santa Cruz River, and Sentinel Peak (A Mountain)
• The history of Fort Lowell
Participants who take the course to become docents are expected to fill out an application and commitment form and are expected to volunteer one weekday a week or one weekend each month. History buffs who are not interested in volunteering after the class may attend if there is availability.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information go to <https://tucsonpresidio.com/volunteering/> https://tucsonpresidio.com/volunteering/ or contact the Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday September 12, 2023: Phoenix and online
“The Zuni Mapping Project” free in-person and online presentation by Curtis Quam (Zuni) and archaeologist Matt Peeples at the S’edav Va’aki Museum, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix*
6-7:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
In this final artist talk in The Zuni World Program Series, Curtis Quam, Director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center, and Matt Peeples, Associate Professor with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University will discuss the Zuni Mapping Project and modern methods of recording the land. This program is given in partnership with the Arizona Archaeological Society.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register for the online event go to <https://pueblogrande.org/events-registration/> https://pueblogrande.org/events-registration/.
Wednesday September 13, 2023: Vail, AZ
“The Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart sponsored by Arizona Senior Academy at Academy Village Auditorium, 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Tucson*
2:30-3:30 pm. Free.
Before 1500 CE, Native American cultures took advantage of southern Arizona’s long growing season and tackled its challenge of limited precipitation by developing the earliest and most extensive irrigation works in all of North America. Agriculture was introduced to Arizona more than 4,000 years before present, and irrigation systems were developed there at least 3,500 years ago – several hundred years before irrigation was established in ancient Mexico. This presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart provides an overview of ancient irrigation systems in the southern Southwest and discusses irrigation’s implications for understanding social complexity.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information call 520-647-0980 or email <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday September 16, 2023: Campe Verde, AZ
“Archaeology Events for Students and Recent Graduates” at the Verde Valley Archaeology Center and Museum, 460 W. Finnie Flats Rd., Camp Verde, Arizona*
9 am-4 pm. Free.
The Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) and the Verde Valley Archaeology Center are cosponsoring archaeological skills development events for students and recent graduates including a ceramic identification workshop, grantwriting training, a discussion with the AAC Board-of-Directors on student mentorship, and a field trip to the V-Bar-V Ranch Heritage Site. The AAC offers a limited number of free hotel rooms on Friday night for students and recent graduates who need to travel over 75 miles to Camp Verde. Travel assistance requests will be considered and filled as they are received.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more information email contact <[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0SwzVEeWTdGHvp1Qyh_Wsg> https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0SwzVEeWTdGHvp1Qyh_Wsg. 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 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 S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation 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 September 30, 2023: Online
“Caretakers of the Land: History of Land and Water in the San Xavier Community” free online presentation by Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan, PhD (Tohono O'odham) sponsored by the Amerind Museum, Dragoon, Arizona*
11 am. Free (donations requested)
San Xavier del Bac is known as the White Dove of the Desert, but not many know the rich history surrounding the community called Wa:k (where the water goes in). Long before our urban centers and city lights lit up the dark desert skies, the Tohono O’odham were cultivating and shaping the land with abundant agriculture – from squash and beans to corn and cotton. For generations they passed down the rich knowledge and culture grown from their connection to the desert. Dr. Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan, Tohono O’odham Studies Program faculty member at Tohono O’odham Community College, will share her knowledge about the history and culture of her people, the Wa:k O’odham.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To register go to <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X6JRjywAS8aY1fpPt9--hw#/registration> https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X6JRjywAS8aY1fpPt9--hw#/registration. For more information visit <http://www.amerind.org/events> www.amerind.org/events or contact Amerind at 520-586-3666 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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 S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation 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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Friday & Saturday November 17 & 18, 2023: 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 am Friday to 1 pm or later Saturday. $109 donation per person ($90 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures; 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 by 5 pm Tuesday November 14: 520-798-1201 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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Wednesday December 6, 2023: Online or by mail
Wednesday December 6 at 5 pm is the deadline for getting tickets from Old Pueblo Archaeology Center for the 2023 Jim Click “Millions for Tucson Raffle,” for which the prizes are a 2023 Ford Bronco Raptor valued at $76,580, two first-class round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the world, and $5,000 cash. Ticket sales benefit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other southern Arizona charities, so get your tickets from Old Pueblo before we sell all the ones that have been allotted to us!
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 slick but rugged 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.
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.
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Old Pueblo Classes Coming In 2024:
Wednesdays January 3-April 3, 2024: “Archaeology of the Southwest” 14-session online adult education class
Wednesdays May 8-August 7, 2024: “The Mogollon Culture of the US Southwest” 14-session online adult education class
OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER’S YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center is now taking reservations for the 2023-2024 school year’s youth education programs. You can find information about them at the links listed below.
* OPEN3 Simulated Archaeological Excavation Education Program: https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/open3-simulated-excavation-classrooms/.
* OPENOUT Archaeology Outreach Presentations “Ancient People of Arizona,” “Lifestyle of the Hohokam,” and “What is an Archaeologist?”: https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/.
* Tours for Youth: https://www.oldpueblo.org/programs/educational-programs/childrens-programs/site-tours-classrooms/.
OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER’S MISSION AND SUPPORT
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's mission is to educate children and adults to understand and appreciate archaeology and other cultures, to foster the preservation of archaeological and historical sites, and to develop a lifelong concern for the importance of nonrenewable resources and traditional cultures.
If you are a member of Old Pueblo, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! If your membership has lapsed, we would be grateful if you would rejoin us so you can again receive membership benefits. Old Pueblo members receive substantial discounts on most of our tours and other activities for which donations or fees are required.
Payment Options for Donations and Memberships
For payment by mail please make check or money order payable to Old Pueblo Archaeology Center or simply OPAC, and include a printed explanation of what your payment is for. If it’s for or includes a membership fee, you can print the Enrollment/Subscription form from Old Pueblo’s www.oldpueblo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Old-Pueblo-Membership-Subscription-Application-Form-20181215.doc <https://www.oldpueblo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Old-Pueblo-Membership-Subscription-Application-Form-20181215.doc> web page and complete the appropriate information on that form. Mail payment and information sheet to Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717. (Mail sent to Old Pueblo’s street address gets returned to senders because there is no mailbox at our street address.)
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, and Discover 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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