For Immediate Release
Hello!
This is Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s semimonthly
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southwestern archaeology, history, and cultures activities offered by Old
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Table of Contents
Some Online Resources
Upcoming Activities
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Mission and Support
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SOME ONLINE RESOURCES
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center has posted recordings of many of
our Third Thursday Food for Thought and Indigenous Interests webinar
presentations on our Youtube channel:
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos>
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos.
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Center event” the information may be out of date – Readers are advised to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.
Continuing through May 26, 2024: Dragoon, AZ
“We Loved It! Friends of Western Art Favorites” new exhibit at
the Amerind Museum, 2100 N. Amerind Rd., Dragoon, Arizona*
Museum hours Tuesday-Sunday 10 am-4 pm (Art Gallery closed
daily from 12-1 pm), closed Mondays and major holidays. Admission $12
adults; $10 college students w/ID & ages 10-17 & 62+; under 10 free.
In 1981 a group of Tucsonans who shared an excitement about
the depth and diversity of the Art of the American West formed Friends of
Western Art (FWA), a nonprofit organization. In the years since its
inception, FWA has sponsored a legacy of artists and events that has
enriched and informed members and the general public about the significance
of Western Art. In this joint-venture exhibition between the Amerind Museum
and FWA, several members of the Friends have shared favorite works from
their private collections for all to enjoy.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. 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] To learn more about FWA and their programs visit
<https://friendsofwesternart.org/> https://friendsofwesternart.org/.
Thursday January 18, 2024: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program
featuring the presentation “The Perils of Dyhydrogen Monoxide – Challenging
Hembrillo Canyon 1880 Myths of the Apache Wars” by historian Robert N. Watt,
PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ
85717
7 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time. Free.
This month’s Third Thursday presenter Dr. Robert N. Watt,
University of Birmingham, UK, completed his trilogy on the Victorio Campaign
of 1877-1881 in 2019 after almost 20 years of research. His presentation
will challenge several myths concerning the two engagements between the US
Army Ninth Cavalry and Apaches led by Victorio in southern New Mexico’s
Hembrillo Canyon and Basin between April 5 and 7, 1880. Historic records
tell of the drinking of tainted water and overnight siege of Captain Henry
Carroll’s two Ninth Cavalry companies in Hembrillo Basin on April 6-7, 1880,
and include Lt. John Conline’s detailed report of a skirmish between Company
A, Ninth Cavalry, and Victorio’s warriors on April 5 of that year.
Archaeologist Karl Laumbach’s archaeological and archive research has shown
that these accounts are inaccurate. Historian Robert Watt’s archive research
supports Laumbach’s conclusions and challenges additional myths that the US
Army knew the location of Victorio’s camp and that the operation to trap
Victorio was undermined by Captain Carroll attacking too early.
Following up on Laumbach’s work, Bob Watt has found that the
US Army’s letters and telegrams sent and received prior to this operation
also tell a very different story than that which was entered into the
official record after the event. He has published articles on this conflict
in Small Wars and Insurgencies (2002), The New Mexico Historical Review
(2011 and 2022), War in History (two articles in 2011), The Southwestern
Historical Quarterly (2015), and in an article in The Journal of Military
History (2016) that was awarded the Moncado Prize.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6SsyU2ahQjiGYtBUfQG18g>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6SsyU2ahQjiGYtBUfQG18g. 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 January 19, 2024: Tucson
“Presidio District Tour – Why is Tucson the City It is Today”
walking tour with historian Ken Scoville, sponsored by the Presidio San
Agustín del Tucson Museum, beginning at the 1928 Pima County Courthouse, 115
N Church Ave, Tucson*
10 am-12 pm. $30 ($20 Presidio Museum members).
Beginning at Tucson’s 1928 Pima County Courthouse, guide Ken
Scoville will discuss the archaeological efforts to find the Spanish
presidio (fort), two earlier courthouses built at this same location, and
the beginning of the burg now known as “the Old Pueblo.” El Presidio
Historic District provides many of the answers to why Tucson is the city it
is today. Homes constructed there responded to and later denied the desert
environment. The constant pressure for change and real estate speculation in
a growing city is also a part of the story as the infancy of historic
districts established the desire to preserve the buildings and landscape
environment of an area that connects to important past events and people in
the community and nation.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information and to register click here:
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=9588&qid=854610> Friday,
Jan. 19, 10 am-12 pm or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594
or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday January 20, 2024: Tucson
“How Did People Make Stone Tools?” hands-on archaeology class
with archaeologist Allen Denoyer at Archaeology Southwest (ASW), 300 N. Ash
Alley, Tucson*
9 am-12 pm. $50 ($40 for new ASW members)
Join ancient technologies expert Allen Denoyer for an engaging
hands-on archaeology class on how people make and use flaked stone tools.
Participants will use ancient techniques and replica tools to create a stone
projectile point, learn about the history of stone tools and their uses, and
explore the intricate components of complete hunting technology beyond just
the points. Beginners are welcome! Open to individuals 18 years and older.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/how-did-people-make-and-use-ston
e-tools-18/?ms=this-month_email&utm_source=aswemail&utm_medium=email&utm_cam
paign=this-month&emci=db5d923d-d8ad-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=021a8957-47a
e-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=15100>
https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/how-did-people-make-and-use-stone
-tools-18/ or contact Sara Anderson at 520-882-6946 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturday January 20, 2024: Tucson
“History Relived Special Event” at Tucson Wagon & History
Museum, 4823 S. 6th Ave., Tucson*
9:30 am-3:30 pm. Free.
Displays of carriages, wagons, historic Tucson businesses, model
trains, delicious food trucks, and more! Historical & promotional displays
from Arizona Historical Society, Empire Ranch, Glen Gold & John Schaffer
wagon displays, Mescal Movie Set, Mission Garden, Old Pueblo Trolley, Old
Tucson Studios, Presidio San Augustín, Purple Devil Donuts, Rails in the
Garden, Southern Arizona Attractions Alliance, Southern Arizona
Transportation Museum, Sulphur Springs Valley Historical Society &
Chiricahua Regional Museum, Territory of Arizona Buffalo Soldiers, True
Ranches (White Stallion, La Osa, etc.), Tucson Auto Museum, musician Buck
Helton, and authors Doug Hocking and P. J. Lawton.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact the museum at 520-294-3636 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday January 20, 2024: Tucson
“Mansions of Main Avenue Walking Tour” with Alan Kruse
sponsored by Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, meeting at Café a la
C’art, 150 N. Main Ave., Tucson*
10 am-12 pm. $30 (Presidio Museum members $20).
Presidio Museum tour guide Alan Kruse leads a 1/4-mile-long
stroll down Main Avenue 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” but involved in
the Camp Grant Massacre along Aravaipa Creek), Annie Cheyney (whose newly
restored 1905 home was the talk of the town), Albert Steinfeld (famous
department store proprietor), Frank Hereford (attorney who represented the
defendants in the Wham Robbery), and William Herring (Wyatt Earp’s lawyer
once upon a time).
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information or to register click here:
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=9598&qid=854610>
Saturday, Jan. 20, 10 am-12 pm; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at
520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday January 20, 2024: Payson, AZ
“Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces” free
presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Rim Country Chapter, Arizona
Archaeological Society, at Payson Public Library, 328 N. McLane Rd., Payson,
Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
10-11:30 am. Free.
Native Americans in the U.S. Southwest developed sophisticated
skills in astronomy and predicting the seasons, centuries before non-Indian
peoples entered the region. In this presentation archaeologist Allen Dart
discusses the petroglyphs at Picture Rocks, the architecture of the “Great
House” at Arizona's Casa Grande Ruins, and other archaeological evidence of
ancient southwestern astronomy and calendrical reckoning, and interprets how
these discoveries may have related to ancient Native American rituals. This
program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <https://azarchsoc.org/RimCountry>
https://azarchsoc.org/RimCountry.
Saturday January 20, 2024: Tucson
“Tucson’s Presidio During the Mexican Era, 1821-1854” Salon
and Saloon lecture in the Monsoon Room at JoJo’s restaurant, 201 N. Court
Ave., Tucson (across the street from the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson
Museum)*
2 pm. $5 per person.
Attendees will hear what life was like in Tucson during the
Mexican era, a transitional and important period that often is glossed over
in tellings of our history. Discussions will include events that affected
life in Tucson prior to Mexican independence, what life was like at the
time, and what made the Mexican era in Tucson so significant.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. The $5
entry fee can be paid at the door or online at
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/calendar/9667/>
https://tucsonpresidio.com/calendar/9667/. For more information on this and
other Presidio Museum activities visit <http://www.TucsonPresidio.com>
www.TucsonPresidio.com or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594
or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Sunday January 21, 2024: Sedona, AZ
“Archaeology Hike at Red Rock State Park,” 4050 Red Rock Loop
Rd., Sedona, Arizona*
1 to 2:30 or 3 pm. Free with park entrance fees: $7 ages 14
and up, $4 ages 7-13, free 6 and under.
Red Rock State Park has been a destination for Native
Americans for several millennia. Most of the ancient features found in the
park are from the Sinagua culture dating about 1100 to 1425 CE. Come and
hear the fascinating story of the pre-Columbian people who lived and
traveled in the park. The hike will identify the various archaeological
features visible from park trails and interpret them into the wider context
of important regional Sinagua sites. The guide will also touch on ideas of
other cultures that likely have made use of the park’s resources. The hike
involves an elevation gain of about 250 feet along easy to moderate trails
and may begin with a short presentation in the theater. Please bring water
and wear suitable footwear.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event.
Reservations are required: 928-282-6907. For more information visit
<https://azstateparks.com/red-rock/events/red-rock-archaeology-hike>
https://azstateparks.com/red-rock/events/red-rock-archaeology-hike.
Monday January 22 or February 12, 2024: Tucson
“Fort Lowell Neighborhood Walking Tour” with historian Ken
Scoville sponsored by the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum starting at
Fort Lowell Park, 2900 N. Craycroft Rd., Tucson*
For times see links below. $30 ($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/event/info/?reset=1&id=567> Monday,
January 22, 10 am-12 pm or
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=568> Monday,
February 12, 10 am-12 pm; or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at
520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Tuesday January 23, 2024: Waddell, AZ
“Willow Springs History Hike” starting at Area 7, White Tank
Mountain Regional Park, 20304 W. White Tank Mtn Rd, Waddell, Arizona*
8 am-1 pm. Free with park admission: $7 per vehicle or $2
hike/bike/equestrian.
Join volunteer Keith for a 7.5-mile roundtrip, moderate
difficulty hike up to Willow Springs, and learn some unique history on the
way. The hike will head up the Mesquite Canyon trail and then to the Willow
Canyon Trail. Bring plenty of water and a lunch if you would like. No pets.
Limited to 15 people.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event.
Reservations required. To register call the Nature Center at 602-506-2930
ext. 5 and leave name, phone number and number of people attending.
Registration closes January 22.
Wednesday January 24, 2024: Surprise, AZ
“Archaeology’s Deep Time Perspective on Environment and Social
Sustainability” free presentation for City of Surprise AZ Speaker series by
archaeologist Allen Dart at Surprise City Hall Council Chambers, 16000 N.
Civic Center Plaza, Surprise, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
11 am-12:30 pm. Free.
The deep time perspective that archaeology and related
disciplines provide about natural hazards, environmental change, and human
adaptation not only is a valuable supplement to historical records, it
sometimes contradicts historical data used by modern societies to make
decisions affecting social sustainability and human safety. What can be
learned from scientific evidence that virtually all prehistoric farming
cultures in Arizona and the Southwest eventually surpassed their thresholds
of sustainability, leading to collapse or reorganization of their societies?
Could the disastrous damages to nuclear power plants damaged by the Japanese
tsunami of 2011 have been avoided if the engineers who decided where to
build those plants had not ignored evidence of prehistoric tsunamis? This
presentation looks at archaeological, geological, and
sustainable-agricultural evidence on environmental changes and how human
cultures have adapted to those changes, and discusses the value of a “beyond
history” perspective for modern society. This program is made possible by
Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact the City of Surprise at 623-222-2920 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday January 25, 2024: Sedona, AZ
“Documenting Precontact Hilltop Enclosures in Arizona” free
presentation by Mike and JJ Golio for Verde Valley Chapter, Arizona
Archaeological Society meeting at the Sedona Public Library, 3250 White Bear
Road, Sedona, Arizona*
3:30 pm. Free.
Forty years ago, JJ and Mike Golio discovered their first
precontact hilltop enclosure in Arizona and have been studying them ever
since. Hilltop enclosures have been interpreted as forts and ritual
enclosures, but some include habitation features. Mike’s aerial drone videos
allow archaeologists to study a site without actually going there. He also
does 3D site models that give even more detail. The Golios have been
recording drone videos of sites whenever possible, writing site reports,
taking photographs, and turning them over to archaeologists. This
presentation will show some of the interesting things they've found while
documenting hilltop enclosures. (JJ is leading Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center’s Badger Springs Pueblo and Petroglyphs Archaeology and Geology Tour
on February 10.)
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Linda Krumrie at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Friday January 26, 2024: 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*
10 am-12 pm. $35 ($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 19th and 20th century factors that affected its demise.
The tour includes the sites of the former Spanish mission and O’odham
village that was the origin of modern Tucson, plus visits to 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 here:
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=9957&qid=870055> Friday,
January 26, 10 am-12 pm or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at
520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Saturday January 27, 2024: Green Valley, AZ
“Caretakers of the Land: History of Land and Water in the San
Xavier Community” presentation by Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan, PhD, for the 2024
Native Peoples, Native Voices Speaker Series at Raul M. Grijalva Canoa Ranch
Conservation Park, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley, Arizona
(accessible from I-19 Canoa Road Exit 56)*
1-2:30 pm. $5 per person plus Activenet registration fee
approximately $3/ticket. (Purchase multiple tickets together to lower the
per-ticket fee.) Cash will not be accepted at the door.
Dr. Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan (Tohono O'odham) 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. Register
in advance at <https://bit.ly/NRPRregistration>
https://bit.ly/NRPRregistration; search for CANOA RANCH and select this
program’s title and date to enroll. (You must create an account before
registering for the program.) For more information contact Marsha Colbert at
520-724-5359 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Sunday January 28, 2024: Tucson
“Soledad Jácome, a Territorial Tucson Seamstress and Mother”
presentation by archaeologist and historian Homer Thiel at Presidio San
Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
2 pm. Included with admission: $1 adults, $5 ages 6-13, 5 &
under Free.
Mr. Thiel will focus on the lady who lived in what is today
the Presidio Museum’s Gift Shop and exhibit space. Jácome arrived in Tucson
from Sonora in the late 1850s and began a relationship that led to the birth
of six daughters. After her common-law husband abandoned her in 1873, how
did she cope with raising her four surviving daughters? Archaeological
finds and historical documents help reveal the life of this remarkable woman
and help explain what life was like for women in Tucson during the 19th and
early 20th centuries.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/calendar/special-lecture-soledad-jacome-a-territ
orial-tucson-seamstress-and-mother-jan-28-2-pm/>
https://tucsonpresidio.com/calendar/special-lecture-soledad-jacome-a-territo
rial-tucson-seamstress-and-mother-jan-28-2-pm/ or contact the Tucson
Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Wednesdays January 31, February 7, 14, 21, 28, & March 6, 2024: Online
“Recent Discoveries Regarding Point of Pines Pueblo” online
Master Class taught by Patrick D. Lyons, PhD, sponsored by the Arizona State
Museum (ASM), Tucson*
10 am-12 pm Mountain Standard Time on each date. $180 (ASM
members $150). Credit card payments incur a 3% fee.
Excavated from 1946 to 1958 by the Arizona State Museum and
the University of Arizona Department (now School) of Anthropology, Point of
Pines Pueblo was the largest late pre-Hispanic settlement in the mountains
of Arizona, consisting of as many as 800 rooms. It has long been at the
center of discussions about ancient migrations in the US Southwest and
interactions between locals and immigrants. However, a lack of systematic
analysis of the collections from the site and a dearth of published data
about it have left generations of researchers in the position of having to
make assumptions about social processes unfolding in the Point of Pines
region based on Emil W. Haury's 1958 six-page summary of his complex
inferences. In this six-session Master Class, Dr. Patrick D. Lyons, ASM
Director and Curator, and Professor of Anthropology will guide participants
through the results of four recent studies focused on unpublished
collections from the site and their associated records, including original
fieldnotes, maps, and photographs.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/point-pines>
https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/point-pines. To register contact
Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturday February 3, 2024: Tucson
“How Did People Haft a Knife?” hands-on class with
archaeologist Allen Denoyer at Archaeology Southwest (ASW), 300 N. Ash
Alley, Tucson*
9 am-12 pm. $50 ($40 for new ASW members)
Explore the history of hafted stone knives inspired by
Southwest traditions. Learn hands-on techniques using pitch, sinew, and
cordage to craft your knife. All materials provided, including an obsidian
blade and saguaro root handle. Experience a live demonstration on crafting a
pitch-resin mixture. Shape the handle with stone tools and learn to saw the
notch for blade insertion. Wear long pants and bring gloves for carving.
Beginners are welcome! Open to individuals 12 years and older.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit
<https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/how-did-people-haft-a-knife-10/?
ms=this-month_email&utm_source=aswemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=this-m
onth&emci=db5d923d-d8ad-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=021a8957-47ae-ee11-bea1-
0022482237da&ceid=15100>
https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/event/how-did-people-haft-a-knife-10/
or contact Sara Anderson at 520-882-6946 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturday February 3, 2024: Near Sierra Vista, AZ
“History Walk to Clanton Ranch” sponsored by the Friends of
the San Pedro River, Sierra Vista, Arizona, starting at Escapule Trailhead
on E. Escapule Rd. northeast of Sierra Vista, ca. 1.4 miles southeast of
Charleston Rd. intersection*
10 am to approximately 12 pm. Free.
Take a walk to the Clanton Ranch site, a key location in the
Wyatt Earp vs. The Cowboys epic. Here Old Man Clanton grazed (stolen) cattle
in a pasture along the San Pedro River. The round trip to the site requires
1.5 miles of walking on an uneven gravel/dirt trail. The last 100 feet or so
are up a gradual hill on a rocky, uneven trail. Make sure you are able to
handle this walk. Wear a hat, sun protection, appropriate clothing, sturdy
shoes, and bring water and a snack.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. No
reservations required. For more information call 520-508-4445 or email
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday February 3, 2024: Dragoon, AZ
“Vintage Basketry & Navajo Weavings Show and
Sale” with Terry DeWald at the Amerind Museum, 2100 N. Amerind Rd., Dragoon,
Arizona*
10 am-4 pm; talk at 11 am. Included with Amerind membership pr
with museum admission ($12 adults; $10 college students w/ID & ages 10-17 &
62+; under 10 free).
This show by the proprietor of Terry DeWald American Indian
Art will feature vintage Navajo weavings, vintage baskets from California
and the
Greater Southwest, and contemporary Tohono O’odham baskets. Terry DeWald has
been a prominent dealer, lecturer, appraiser, and author of Native American
art for more than 40 years.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. 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]
Sunday February 4, 2024: Near Sierra Vista, AZ
“History Walk at San Pedro House” sponsored by the Friends of
the San Pedro River, Sierra Vista, Arizona, starting at San Pedro House,
9800 Highway 90, Sierra Vista*
9 am to approximately 10 am. Free.
Take a tour of the San Pedro House and learn about the history
of the house as part of the Little Boquillas Ranch and what life was like
for the Foster family who lived there in the 1940s. The group will then tour
the area around the house looking at historical remnants from its time as a
ranch house.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. No
reservations required. For more information call 520-508-4445 or email
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Monday February 5, 2024: Ajo, AZ
“Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces” free
presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart at Salazar-Ajo Library, 15 W. Plaza
#179, Ajo, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*
5:30-6:45 pm. Free.
See January 20 listing for presentation description. This
program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact the library at 520-387-6075 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Thursday February 8, 2024: Online
“Why Corrugated Cooking Pots?” free online presentation by
archaeologist Chris Pierce, PhD, sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological
Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 pm Mountain Standard Time. Free (donations encouraged).
In the early 11th century CE, the use of full-body-corrugated
cooking pots spread rapidly through Ancestral Puebloan populations. This
corrugation technology grew out of plain and neck-banded antecedents and
eventually (15th century) was replaced by a return to plain cooking pots.
During the 1990s Dr. Pierce performed extensive literature review, detailed
technological analyses, and controlled experiments to further understand why
corrugated cooking pots were adopted. His work identified the technological
changes involved in the development of corrugation, documented the spread of
these technologies across the northern Southwest, and demonstrated cost and
performance differences between plain and corrugated vessels. In this
presentation he reviews the results of his earlier work, presents new
possible explanations for why corrugated cooking pots were adopted and
eventually rejected, and evaluates one of these hypotheses.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn
more and register visit
<https://crowcanyon.org/programs/why-corrugated-cooking-pots/?ms=sat_email&u
tm_campaign=sat&utm_medium=email&utm_source=aswemail&emci=e386d572-6599-ee11
-8925-002248223cbb&emdi=22606cc1-d099-ee11-bea1-002248223f36&ceid=15100>
https://crowcanyon.org/programs/why-corrugated-cooking-pots/.
Saturday February 10, 2024: Agua Fria National Monument, AZ
TOUR FULL – WAITING LIST
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Badger Springs Pueblo and
Petroglyphs Archaeology and Geology Tour” with JJ Golio and Allen Dart in
Agua Fria National Monument, starting at Badger Springs Trailhead parking
area ca. 1 mile east of Interstate-17 Exit 256 (Badger Springs).
8:30 am to 3:30 pm. $55 donation per person ($45 for Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members)
supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional
cultures.
Agua Fria National Monument, located approximately 40 miles
north of central Phoenix, was established in 2000 by President Bill Clinton
to protect its extensive and important cultural and natural resources.
Encompassing two mesas, the canyon of the Agua Fria River, and the river’s
tributaries including Badger Spring Wash, the monument protects numerous
archaeological sites as well as outstanding geological and biological
resources. This Old Pueblo tour will visit Badger Springs Pueblo, a 70-plus
room precontact settlement perched atop a high bluff, plus ancient boulder
metates and bedrock outcrops with elaborate figurative petroglyphs. It also
will stop at a historical arrastre – an ore-grinding mill in which heavy
stones attached to horizontal poles radiating from a central pillar were
turned by a draft animal or powered by water to drag the stones on the
mill’s floor of stone to pulverize ore. Guides also will point out and
interpret geologic processes in which Badger Spring Wash cut through the
basalt and granodiorite to create colorful red, pink, yellow, green, brown,
white, dark gray, and black formations, some including xenoliths.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm
Wednesday February 7, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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 Badger Springs
flyer” in your email subject line.
Saturday February 10, 2024: Tucson
“Turquoise Trail Guided Walking Tour” starting at the Presidio
San Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson*
10 am-12:30 pm. $30 (Presidio Museum members $20).
Sponsored by the Presidio Museum, this tour guided by Mauro
Trejo takes attendees on a walk along the 2.5-mile Turquoise Trail through
downtown Tucson to see historic buildings and hear stories that make
Tucson’s history special. The trail passes many of Tucson’s historic
buildings, parks, sculptures and shrines.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
preregister (required) click here:
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=10443&qid=891558>
Saturday, Feb. 10, 10 am-12:30 pm. For more information contact the Tucson
Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturday February 10, 2024: Near Huachuca City, AZ
“History Walk to Millville and Petroglyph Site” free history
hike sponsored by Friends of the San Pedro River, Sierra Vista, Arizona,
along Charleston Rd. NE of Sierra Vista starting at Millville Petroglyph and
Discovery Trail, 31.636736, -110.172538*
10 am to approximately 12 noon. Free.
Take a tour of Millville, the site of an historic silver mill,
and an adjacent Indian rock art site. The tour will focus on the history of
mining and this mill, which was active during the Tombstone silver boom.
This is about a 2 mile walk on an uneven dirt and gravel trail that crosses
through a deep wash. There is no shade so it may be hot if the day is sunny.
Please realistically assess your ability to do this walk. Wear a hat, sun
protection, appropriate clothing, and sturdy shoes, and bring water and a
snack.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information call 520-508-4445 or email [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Saturday February 10, 2024: Green Valley, AZ
“Yoeme Culture and History” presentation by Felipe S. Molina
(Yaqui) for 2024 Native Peoples, Native Voices speaker series at Raul M.
Grijalva Canoa Ranch Conservation Park, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green
Valley, Arizona (accessible from I-19 Canoa Road Exit 56)*
1 to 2:30 pm. $5 per person plus Activenet registration fee
approximately $3/ticket. (Purchase multiple tickets together to lower the
per-ticket fee.) Cash will not be accepted at the door.
Join Felipe Molina, a resident of the Yoem Pueblo in Marana,
Arizona: author, former teacher, and deer dancer for a discussion of Yoeme
history and culture in southern Arizona and beyond.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Register
in advance at <https://bit.ly/NRPRregistration>
https://bit.ly/NRPRregistration; search for CANOA RANCH and select this
program’s title and date to enroll. (You must create an account before
registering for the program.) For more information contact Marsha Colbert at
520-724-5359 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Mondays-Fridays February 12-16 and February 19-23, 2024: Tucson
“Sabino Canyon Survey” volunteer opportunities offered by
Tucson’s Archaeology Southwest (ASW) in the Santa Catalina Mountains
northeast of Tucson*
Times TBA. Free.
Led by Sara Anderson and Allen Denoyer, the volunteer-assisted
Sabino Canyon pedestrian archaeological survey project will be in the field
five days a week. The ideal field crew size for this project is 6 per day
including the field leaders, so up to four volunteers may participate daily,
for a full day or just a half day.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn
more, contact Sara Anderson at 520-882-6946 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask], or fill out this form
<https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/volunteer/volunteer-interest-form/>
to indicate you are interested in the project and ASW will reply with
details and a sign-up sheet.
Tuesday February 13, 2024: Tucson
“Modern Streetcar & Walking Tour” with Alan Kruse, sponsored
by the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, beginning at Mercado San
Agustin, 100 S. Avenida del Convento, Tucson*
9 am-12:30 or 1 pm. $40 ($30 for Presidio Museum members)
Potentially one of the most significant events to occur in
Tucson in many decades is the modern Streetcar. Presidio Museum tour guide
Alan Kruse takes attendees on the Tucson Streetcar from one end of the line
to the other, getting on and off at various points to walk and further
explore Tucson today as well as in history. Starting at the Mercado with a
short history of the streetcar, the tour visits the Gutierrez Bridge
artwork, more art in Downtown along Congress Street and Fourth Avenue, the
University of Arizona Main Gate (where Alan will talk about the earlier
streetcar history, 1897-1930), and through the U of A campus to the last
stop at Helen St. and Warren Ave. with the head of Poet (the source of all
the poetry generated along the line) around 12:30, then participants can
return to the Mercado on the streetcar. Total time includes one hour sitting
and some standing on the streetcar with the rest walking approximately ¾
mile, sitting, and waiting for the streetcar.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information or to register click here:
<https://tucsonpresidio.com/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=9601&qid=854610> Tuesday,
February 13, 9 am-1 pm or contact the Tucson Presidio Museum at 520-622-0594
or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Wednesday February 14, 2024: Queen Creek, AZ
(Rescheduled from January)
“This Native American Tribe Is Taking Back Its Water” free
presentation by archaeologist M. Kyle Woodson, PhD, for San Tan Chapter,
Arizona Archaeological Society meeting at San Tan Historical Society Museum,
20425 S. Old Ellsworth Rd. (at intersection of Queen Creek Rd. and Ellsworth
Loop Rd.), Queen Creek, Arizona*
6:30 pm. Free.
Dr. Woodson is Director of the Gila River Indian Community’s
Cultural Resource Management Program in Sacaton, Arizona. His research
focuses on southern Arizona and includes Hohokam canal irrigation
agriculture, community organization, and ceramic production and technology
as well as Ancestral Pueblo migrations and other topics.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Marie Britton at 480-390-3491 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Thursday February 15, 2024: Online
“Third Thursday Food for Thought” free Zoom online program
featuring the presentation “Recent University of New Mexico Research at
Chaco Canyon with some Background and Future” by archaeologist W. H. Wills,
PhD, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ
85717
7 to 8:30 pm Mountain Standard Time. Free.
In Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s February Third Thursday
presentation Dr. W. H. Wills, Professor of Anthropology and Regents'
Lecturer, University of New Mexico, will offer a brief historical overview
of UNM’s archaeological investigations at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, with an
emphasis on the joint National Park Service - UNM Chaco Project (1969-1984).
More recent UNM work includes studies of water control features,
agricultural suitability modeling, and remote sensing applications that
have built on the innovative research of the Chaco Project.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to
<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rHpfWqbkQdeiUNI2YNLLLw>
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rHpfWqbkQdeiUNI2YNLLLw. 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 February
THIRDTHURSDAY flyer” in your email subject line.
Thursday February 15, 2024: Online
“Diné Being & Seeing through Storytelling” free online
presentation by Rapheal Begay sponsored by Crow Canyon Archaeological
Center, Cortez, Colorado*
4 PM Mountain Standard Time. Free (donations encouraged).
Through photographs and life stories on the Navajo Nation,
Rapheal Begay will illustrate how one’s artistic journey is an extension of
one’s holistic being. Inspired by past, present, and future memories,
Rapheal invites you to see through his lens to connect with and understand
Diné concepts of land, home, kinship, and life.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To learn
more and register visit
<https://crowcanyon.org/programs/dine-being-seeing-through-storytelling/>
https://crowcanyon.org/programs/dine-being-seeing-through-storytelling/.
Thursday February 15, 2024: Cave Creek, AZ
“The Great Murals of Baja California: A Glimpse into the
Spirit World of Ancient Hunter-Gatherers” free presentation by
archaeologist Todd Bostwick, PhD, for Desert Foothills Chapter, Arizona
Archaeological Society meeting at Good Shepherd of the Hills Fellowship
Hall, 6502 E. Cave Creek Rd., Cave Creek, Arizona*
7:30-8:30 pm (refreshment and socialization begin at 7). Free.
Scattered among the deep canyons of Baja California’s rugged
mountains are some of the most spectacular rock art sites in the Americas.
They include both petroglyphs and pictographs, but the latter are especially
impressive for their vivid polychrome colors depicting large anthropomorphs
and bighorn sheep, deer, rabbits, birds, sea turtles, whales, fish, manta
rays and occasional mountain lions, coyotes, and snakes. Many of the figures
are up to six feet in height and some of the anthropomorphs and animals have
arrows or spears piercing their bodies. Created by unknown hunter-gatherer
groups, these pictographs date as far back as 7,500 years ago and have been
named the Great Murals of Baja. Dr. Bostwick will share his recent
experiences visiting these UNESCO designated sites during two mule trips
into the canyons and will discuss current ideas about what these incredible
pictograph panels may represent.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information contact Mary Kearney at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Wednesday, February 21, 2024: Online
“Let’s Go on a Trek! Shumla’s Public Outreach and Treks
Programs” free Lunch & Learn presentation by archaeologist Katie Wilson, MA,
sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center, Comstock,
Texas*
12 pm Central Standard Time. Free.
Whether you’re thinking about signing up for a Shumla Trek or
you’ve already filled your Treks Passport, come find out more about Shumla
Treks and Shumla’s Outreach Programs from archaeologist and outreach
coordinator Katie Wilson. She’ll include sneak peeks of sites on the Spring
calendar and tips for the best trekking experience.
*This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. To
register go to https://shumla.org/lunchandlearn/. For more information
contact Shumla at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Thursday February 22, 2024: Online
“Utah Preservation Consultant Workshop” free online program
sponsored by the Utah State Historic Preservation Office, Salt Lake City*
9 am-12 pm Mountain Standard Time. Free.
Topics in this workshop will focus on various National
Register items and State/Federal Tax Credits applications. The Utah SHPO
encourages firms that do either of these types of projects to attend. Agenda
items include SHPO updates and planning on office activities including
scanning, National Register requirements, and tax credit discussion.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For
reservations (required) or more information visit
<https://ushpo.utah.gov/event/utah-preservation-consultant-workshop/>
https://ushpo.utah.gov/event/utah-preservation-consultant-workshop/.
Wednesday February 28, 2024: Tucson
This talk has been postponed. Please watch for the new date
and time in a future Old Pueblo semimonthly upcoming-activities email.
“Chaco, Mimbres and Paquimé: A New Synthesis” free
presentation by archaeologist Steven LeBlanc, PhD, sponsored by the Arizona
State Museum (ASM) in Environmental & Natural Resources (ENR) Bldg. 2, Room
S107 (ground-floor auditorium), 1064 E. Lowell St., University of Arizona
campus, Tucson*
3-4 pm. Free.
Chaco Canyon and Paquimé (Casas Grandes) are both World
Heritage Sites. When they were florescing, between them lay the unique
Mimbres archaeological culture. For over 50 years the relationships among
these three culture regions have produced many theories, but little
consensus. Recent information strongly suggests the terminal dates for Chaco
and Mimbres at ca. 1130 CE are very near the initial date for the founding
of Paquimé, thus changing ideas on how they might have been related. A new
synthesis provides insights into the links among these three cultures. Dr.
LeBlanc is retired Director of Collections, Peabody Museum/Harvard
University.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. Parking is
available in the U of A 6th St Garage, 1201 E. 6th St. For more information
contact Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturday March 9, 2024: Tucson
“Benefit Sale of Indigenous Art” sponsored by Friends of the
ASM Collections on the front lawn of the Arizona State Museum (ASM),
University of Arizona, 1013 E. University Blvd., Tucson*
10 am-3 pm. Free to browse.
Shop an array of previously owned Southwest Native pottery,
jewelry, baskets, carvings, flat art, and more. You might even find some
handicrafts from around the world. These items are donated by individuals
and estates throughout the year specifically to be sold at this event. The
inventory is always different and the prices are always phenomenal – in a
good way! No tax. Proceeds benefit ASM's ethnological collections. And while
you’re there, visit the amazing ASM galleries!
* 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]
Saturday & Sunday March 9 & 10, 2024: Tucson
“ASM Library Benefit Book Sale” sponsored by the Arizona
Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) at the Arizona State Museum
(ASM), University of Arizona, 1013 E. University Blvd., Tucson*
10 am-4 pm Saturday, 10 am-2 pm Sunday. Free to browse.
Shop a huge selection of used anthropology books with an
emphasis on the Southwest but with selections from all of the Americas,
Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. A large number of volumes of American
and world history, philosophy, biography, economics, etc. Many books are
priced at $2 and $4. Prices drop to half price from 12-2 on Sunday. Proceeds
support the ASM library.
* 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]
Thursday March 14, 2023: Tucson & San Xavier, AZ
“Tucson’s O’odham and Spanish Food Heritage Day Trip”
fundraising coach trip to support the ongoing work of the Arizona State
Museum's Office of Ethnohistorical Research, starting at Mission Garden, 946
W. Mission Lane, Tucson.
8 am-5 pm. $275 ($225 for ASM members) includes motor coach
transportation, breakfast, parking, entry fees, gratuities, guest speaker
honoraria, lunch, snacks and beverages.
Spend the day with ASM scholars Dale S. Brenneman, PhD, and
Monica Young, MA, exploring Tucson’s rich Native and Hispanic food
heritages. See how culture, religion, and farming intersected and
transformed the landscape in multiple ways, shaping southern Arizona and the
future city of Tucson. Tour begins at Tucson’s Mission Garden (where
full-day parking is available) with light breakfast and a tour of the garden
with Maegan Lopez and Kendall Kroesen. From there it will depart by motor
coach to visit ancient Hohokam agave fields at the base of Tumamoc Hill with
archaeologist and ethnobotanist Suzanne Fish, PhD, then to the San Xavier
Co-op Farm where lunch will be served followed by a tour of the farm. The
last stop will be at the Tucson Presidio for a tour with a Presidio docent
and food display before the tour returns to Mission Garden.
* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center event. For more
information visit <https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/food-heritage>
https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/events/food-heritage or contact Darlene
Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]
Saturday March 16, 2024: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Halo Shelter and the Devils River Overlook”
with archaeologist Katie Wilson sponsored by Shumla Archaeological Research
& Education Center, meets at Shumla Center, 28 Langtry St., Comstock, Texas*
8 am-5 pm. $120.
Halo Shelter sits within a small tributary canyon
approximately 5 km from the Devils River on a private ranch in Val Verde
county. Halo Shelter boasts one of the best-preserved Pecos River style
pictograph panels in the region. The site gets its name from a unique arch
motif with rayed lines extending from it over the top of several figures’
heads. This is a wide assortment of unique and vibrant Pecos River style
figures and motifs intricately executed. The unique vantage point of the
Devils River overlook provides an unforgettable view of one of Texas’s 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]> [log in to unmask]
Sunday March 17, 2024: Comstock, TX
“Guided Tour to Fate Bell Annex, Fate Bell Shelter, and
Running Horse Shelter” with archaeologist Katie Wilson sponsored by Shumla
Archaeological Research & Education Center, meets at Seminole Canyon State
Park and Historic Site Visitors Center, US-90, Comstock, Texas*
8 am-3 pm. $120.
Fate Bell Annex, Fate Bell Shelter and Running Horse Shelter
are all situated in Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site. Fate Bell
is one of the most famous and largest Pecos River style rock art sites in
the Lower Pecos Canyonlands Archeological District — a National Historic
Landmark. The archaeological deposits within the shelter are also extremely
well preserved. Then you will visit Running Horse Shelter, which offers, in
addition to beautiful remnant Pecos River Style rock art, intriguing
Historic period art and even a historic stone wall.
* 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]
Tuesday March 19, 2024: Tucson-Marana, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Spring Equinox Tour to Los
Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological 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) helps cover Old Pueblo’s
tour expenses and supports its education programs about archaeology and
traditional cultures.
The 2024 vernal equinox occurs on Tuesday March 19, 2024 at
8:06 pm Mountain Standard Time (Mar. 20, 3:06 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 mostly Hohokam Indians between 800 and 1100 CE.
An equinox calendar petroglyph at the site 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
Sunday March 17, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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 Spring Equinox
Tour flyer” in your email subject line.
Saturday April 6, 2024: Fort Huachuca/Sierra Vista & Naco, AZ
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Garden Canyon, Fort Huachuca,
and Camp Naco Pictographs, Archaeology, and History” tour with archaeologist
Stanislava Romih and historic architect R. Brooks Jeffery, starting at the
Van Deman Gate Visitor Control Center, Hatfield St., Fort Huachuca, Arizona
8:30 am to 3:30 pm. $55 donation per person ($45 for Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center and S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation members)
supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional
cultures.
Located on the historic Fort Huachuca Army Post, the Garden
Canyon site is a precontact American Indian settlement near where the
Mogollon, Hohokam, and Trincheras archaeological cultures came together.
Limited excavations at this site revealed remnants of pithouses and
above-ground dwellings, funerary features, and pottery and other artifacts.
Farther up Garden Canyon, a few hundred feet above its floor, are
rockshelters that contain pictographs that may have been painted in the
1700s by Apaches. In part 1 of this Old Pueblo tour, Fort Huachuca Cultural
Resources Manager Stanislava “Sasha” Romih will guide our visit to these
sites and the Fort Huachuca Museum, which focuses on the region’s military
history. After visiting Fort Huachuca, the tour group will take a lunch
break then caravan from Sierra Vista to Naco, Arizona to visit historic Camp
Naco. This early twentieth-century Buffalo Soldiers installation is now the
target of a City of Bisbee rehabilitation effort to explore a wide range of
future uses that commemorate history, expand cultural opportunities, and
serve as a resource for the communities of Naco and southern Cochise County.
Tour participants need to bring picnic lunch and water, wear sturdy hiking
shoes, and be able to hike along a short, narrow mountain trail.
Donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5 pm
Monday April 1st, whichever is earlier: 520-798-1201 or
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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 Garden Canyon
flyer” in your email subject line.
Wednesdays May 8-August 7, 2024: Online
“The Mogollon Culture of the US Southwest” 14-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 each Wednesday evening May 8-August 7, 2024.
$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. Donation does not include cost
of optional AAS membership or AAS Certification Program enrollment.
Registered Professional Archaeologist Allen Dart teaches this class
in 14 two-hour sessions on Wednesday evenings May 8-August 7, 2024, to
explore the archaeology of the ancient Mogollon culture of the American
Southwest. The class covers the history of Mogollon archaeology, Mogollon
origins, the complex subregional Mogollon “branches,” chronology of
habitation, subsistence and settlement patterns through time, artifacts,
rock art, religious and social organization, depopulation and movement, and
descendant peoples. 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 – Mogollon” course. Students seeking AAS
Certification are expected to prepare a brief research report to be
presented orally or in written or video format. 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 the TCE 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 May 3, 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]
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 Mogollon class
flyer” in your email subject line.
Wednesdays September 4-December 11, 2024
(skipping October 23): Online
“The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona” 14-session online
adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717-0577
Each Wednesday 6:30 to 8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time
(same as Pacific Daylight Time through Oct. 30). $109 donation per person
($90 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, AAS, and S’edav Va’aki Museum
Foundation members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about
archaeology and traditional cultures. 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 14 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
–Hohokam” 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 August 30, whichever is earlier. To register or
for more information contact Old Pueblo at 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 Hohokam class
flyer” in your email subject line.
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.
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would you like to help us continue to provide hands-on education programs in
archaeology, history, and cultures for children and adults? THEN PLEASE:
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for information on how you can support Old Pueblo as a member!
Payment Options for Donations and Memberships
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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
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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 make a donation using PayPal, please click on the “Donations”
image at right or go to the www.oldpueblo.org <http://www.oldpueblo.org>
home page, then scroll down to the “Donate” section, click on the “Donate”
button above the PayPal logo (see illustration at right), and follow the
prompts.
You also can donate using a major credit or debit card by clicking
on the “Donations” image at the top of this section or by visiting Old
Pueblo’s secure donations web page: www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/donations/
<http://www.oldpueblo.org/about-us/donations/> .
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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