PETROGLYPH Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological Society

Volume 44, Number 2 www.AzArchSoc.org October 2007 AAS “Professional Archaeologist of the Year” Award to Dr. Alexander Lindsay, Tucson, AZ

Acknowledgment of Dr. Alexander Lindsay's service to the Arizona Archaeological Society is long overdue. In the early days of our organization we were all so busy looking at sites etc. that we failed to give deserved credit to the professional archaeologists who were guiding us in the right direction. Dr. Lindsay was a consultant on almost all the Archaeological "Clubs" that have been formed in the last 40 years, and later these clubs were the foundation for many of the affiliated chapters AAS enjoys around the state. In this way he has directed the path of almost every chapter of AAS in the state of Arizona.

Contact was made with Dr. Lindsay after the AAS Board voted to form the Department of Certification. At that time he was Director of the Museum of Northern Arizona. He approved of the project and we kept him informed on our progress. He was one of six professional archaeologists that founded the Department in 1977 along with avocational archaeologists. During the 39 years Lex attended Department meetings in Phoenix, he offered wise counsel and participated in all aspects of Department activities. His particular contribution focused on review of new or revised course outlines. His cogent reviews were greatly appreciated as were the archaeologists he recruited in specialized fields to look over new course outlines. As a member of the Review Committee for all those years, he also reviewed applications by archaeologists who wished to become instructors and student course waiver applications. He helped considerably with the development of our Certification Manual and it’s many updates. His editing always made the product more readable and pertinent. His low key manner belied the interest and efforts he made in working with avocational archaeologists and other professionals in the Department over the years. He could always be counted on to lead and lend his hand.

IN THIS ISSUE… Dr Lindsay's role in instituting Arizona's professional archaeological organization is not surprising in light of his other achievements. Themes that repeat themselves 2 — Chapter Meeting Calendar throughout his career are his commitment to archaeological resources, professional 3 — Fielder Fund Update responsibility, and public education in its many guises. As a researcher at the 5 — Q Ranch Update Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) Dr. Lindsay directed the Glen Canyon 5 — Upcoming Events project. As Curator of Archaeology at MNA and a research archaeologist at the 6 — Periodical Reviews Part I Arizona State Museum, Lindsay pursued his research on the Kayenta region, Point 8 — Chapter News of Pines, ceramics, and population movements into southern Arizona. In the 1970s, with William D. Lipe, Keith Anderson, Don Fowler, and R. Gwinn Vivian, he Next deadline is at noon championed the conservation ethic in archaeology, and was recognized for his Thursday, October 18th, for the pioneering role by the American Society for Conservation Archaeology in 1982. November issue. He has also taught at Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona. (Continued on page 3) T H E P E T R O G L Y P H / October 2007

CHAPTER MEETINGS Chapter Location Date & Time Agave House Black Mesa Ranger Station Conf. Rm. 4th Wednesday of each month 2748 Hwy. 260, Overgaard 6:30 pm

Agua Fria Glendale Public Library Auditorium 2nd Tuesday of each month 59th Avenue & Brown, Glendale Meeting: 7:00-9:00 pm One light so. of Peoria on 59th September thru May

Ajo/Why November thru May

Cochise Cochise College Library Conf. Rm. 2nd Tuesday of each month Sierra Vista, AZ

Desert Foothills Cave Creek Town Hall 2nd Wednesday of each month 37622 N. Cave Creek Road 7:00 pm Cave Creek September thru May

Homolovi Homolovi Ruins State Park 3rd Thursday of each month Visitors Center 7:00 pm

Little Colorado River Casa Malpais Museum 3rd Monday of each month Springerville 7:00 pm

Mohave The Grace Lutheran Church 2nd Friday of each month 2101 Harrison Ave., Kingman. 7:00-9:00 pm

Northern Az The Peaks (Senior Living Community) 3rd Tuesday of each month "Alpine Room", 3150 N. Winding Brook Sept. to Nov., Jan. to June Road, Flagstaff (Hwy 180 north of 7:00 pm Flagstaff, just before MNA)

Phoenix Pueblo Grande Museum 2nd Thursday of each month 4619 E. Washington Sept. thru June Phoenix 7:30 pm

Rim Country To be determined 3rd Saturday of each month 10:00 am

Verde Valley Sedona Public Library 4th Thursday, Sept. thru May 3250 White Bear Road, Sedona except 3rd Thursday, Nov & Dec. 7:00 pm

Yavapai Pueblo of the Smoki Museum 3rd Thursday of each month 147 North Arizona St., Prescott 7:30 pm

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(Continued from page 1) Outside the classroom he has turned cultural resource management into educational opportunities for students on the northern Arizona reservations. He edited and advised Kiva, the Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History, and for his service to Kiva he was awarded the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society's Victor Stoner award in 1992. In addition to being a 25-year member of the Arizona Archaeological Council, Dr. Lindsay is a member (often a founder, often a board member) of other organizations that serve professional and avocational archaeologists, including: the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, the Arizona Archaeological Society, the Arizona State Museum, Old Pueblo Archaeology, the Center for Desert Archaeology, American Society for Conservation Archaeology, the Society of American Archaeology, the Society of Historical Archaeology, the American Anthropological Association, and Sigma Xi (to name a few). Retirement in 1993 turned him from staff member to volunteer, and Dr. Lindsay continues to be a researcher, mentor, and role model to many students and young professionals. On November 1, 2002, Peter Pilles presented Dr. Alexander (Lex) J. Lindsay with the Arizona Archaeological Council's first Lifetime Achievement award..

The Arizona Archaeological Society will present it’s “Professional Archaeologist of the Year, 2007" award to Dr. Alexander J. Lindsay at the AAC 2007 Fall Conference, October 12-13, 2007 (http://www.arizonaarchaeologicalcouncil.org/conferences/symposiums.html).

— Jerry Mead, Professional Archaeologists Award Committee AAS Certification Department Position Opening

The AAS Certification Department is still seeking a Certification Manual Manager. The duties of this position are:

1. Maintain a computer database with the source documents for the Certification Manual. 2. Update the Certification Manual as new courses are approved or when changes are made in the manual. 3. Maintain a database of Certification Manual holders. 4. Distribute Certification Manual updates to Certification Manual holders. 5. Maintain a list of revisions to the Certification Manual, and poll the list of instructors for a given course to solicit recommended changes. 6. Attend Departmental meetings and submit a status report of activities at each meeting. 7. Deliver updated Manual information expeditiously to all Manual holders.

If anyone can recommend a candidate for this position or wishes to volunteer, please contact members of the nominating committee: Robert Lindsay ([email protected]), Acting Chair; Sylvia Lesko ([email protected]); Alan Troxel ([email protected]); or Jerry Erhardt ([email protected]).

— Bob Lindsay, Acting Chair AAS Certification Department

Preserving old airmarks At Chavez Pass Ruin (Nuvaqueotaka), Arizona, there is a large, relatively flat plaza area next to an ancient pueblo ruin. Rocks borrowed from the ancient pueblo ruin spell out the words " Winslow 30 MI " The airmark was a visual aid-to- navigation for pilots flying VFR from Camp Verde to Winslow AZ. Notice in the articles below that markings were used as early as WW I, but a more systematic marking program was introduced in the 30s, conceived, planned and directed by a woman with an all-woman staff. Her name was Phoebe F. Omlie.

Aviation Archaeology - AAIR's 2007 Aviation Archaeology Course - Course Dates: Sat & Sun Nov 10th & 11th 2007. Email: [email protected]; webpage: http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/courses.htm

— Brian Kenny

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Fielder Fund: Your Chance to Endow AAS Publications

Established by the Society in 1996, the Fielder Fund was created to help inform the public about archaeology, anthropology, and the history of the American Southwest through the support of publications and other media. The goal is to build a fund large enough that its annual interest alone can pay for publication of The Arizona Archaeologist and possibly other publications. Contributions to the fund are welcome from chapters and individuals. The name honors the Society’s first publications team, Marje and Herb Fielder.

$34,914.44

For more information, or to contribute, contact Alan Ferg, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721-0026; phone 520-621-2970 or email [email protected], or you can send contributions directly to our AAS treasurer, Judy Rounds, P.O. Box 1401, Carefree 85377. Please include your chapter affiliation.

To make contributions to the Fielder Fund, please copy the following form and send it along with your check, made out to AAS Fielder Fund, to either:

Alan Ferg, Judy Rounds Arizona State Museum AAS Treasurer University of Arizona P. O. Box 1401 Tucson, AZ 85721-0026 Carefree, AZ 85377

Contribution for the Fielder Fund

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The Petroglyph is published 10 times a year as a service to the membership of the Arizona Archaeological Society. Address correspondence for the newsletter to Editors at [email protected] or mail to Elinor Large, 945 N. Pasadena #5, Mesa, AZ 85201. Call Ellie at 480.461.0563. Send address changes to the membership chair, Sylvia Lesko, at her address above. Submissions are subject to approval by the editors, advisory committee, or members, and may be edited to best represent the scientific, educational, and organizational objectives of the AAS. Deadline: 18th of each month, at noon.

4 October 2007 / Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological Society Q Ranch Project Update The focus of this year’s program at Q Ranch was stabilization and site preservation. The certification course in stabilization was taught during the Summer Session, with 21 attendees over the two week period, and 11 people completed the requirements for certification in this course. Field work was conducted on the pueblo and on the prehistoric cemetery at the ranch. Principal Investigator of the project, Dr. John Hohmann was present to oversee the work, and field supervisors were Jim Britton and Larry Roberts. Other experts in stabilization attended the project to provide lectures on their work in relation to the requirements of the course outline. A two-day field trip, as suggested in the course outline, took participants to other sites in the region that have undergone stabilization and site preservation programs.

Two Work Weekends in August and September provided participants with the opportunity to put their stabilization skills into practice. Future goals towards site preservation include completing stabilization and backfilling a number of the rooms that have been excavated.

— Brenda Poulos, Co-Chair of Projects Committee AAS Department of Certification Upcoming Events

Oct. 3, 7:30 - 9:00 pm, PGM, Phoenix: (formerly Mesa Southwest Museum ), daily from 9:30 am-5 pm. For more PGM Auxiliary Meeting: Monuments 53 S. MacDonald St., Mesa . Theater information call 602.252.8848 or go to of the Highest Order: The Cathedrals entrance is on First Street. For more their web site at www.heard.org. of Paris, a PowerPoint lecture by Dr. information contact Donna Benge at Todd Bostwick on his recent [email protected] or call at Oct. 15 7:30 pm, ASM, Tucson: experience exploring the Gothic (and 480-969-0578. AAHS Lecture: Out of the Museum later) churches of Paris, France. Basement: The Textiles, Baskets, and Several famous cathedrals are Oct. 12-13, AMNH, Mesa. Fall 2007 Painted Wood from Aztec Ruins and examined, inside and out. Highlights AAC Conference: Going with the Pueblo Bonito by Laurie Webster. Du- include visiting the Egyptian obelisk Flow: Current Research in Prehistoric val Auditorium, University Medical solstice marker in Saint Sulpice that Irrigation Technology. For an Center, 1501 North Campbell Avenue was featured in The Da Vinci Code, overview of the conference topic visit (north of Speedway). For further in- and climbing to the top of www.arizonaarchaeologicalcouncil.org formation and directions to the audito- Quasimodo’s famous bell tower and Bruce G. Phillips (EcoPlan Associates, rium, see their website at http:// coming face to face with the gargoyles Inc.) and Jerry Howard (Mesa www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/ of Notre Dame. Southwest Museum) will be organizing lectures.shtml. the conference, including a dinner Oct. 4, 7 pm, ASU, Tempe: AIA reception, coffee break sponsors, local Oct. 18 7:30 - 9 pm, OPAC, Tucson. Lecture: Egypt’s Earliest Kings and events, accommodations, and possible OPAC’s Third Thursdays: The Earliest Their Courtiers: Sacrifices for the field trips to local archaeological sites Ancestors of Navajo and Apache in the State? by Dr. Brenda J. Baker, ASU’s on Sunday. Arizona Museum of Southwest with archaeologist Dr. School of Human Evolution and Social Natural History, 53 S. MacDonald St., Ronald H. Towner. Old Pueblo Change. ASU Main Campus, Life Mesa. Archaeology Center Auditorium, 5100 Sciences Bldg. A, Room 191. W. Ina Road Bldg. 8, Marana. Oct. 12-14, Heard Museum, Phoenix: Oct. 4, 7 pm, AMNH, Mesa. SWAT The Heard Museum Film Festival of- Oct. 20-21, AAS Fall State Meeting, Meeting: Archaeology at the Hayden fers a must-see-line up of original and Sedona. See details in June and Flour Mill - Results of Phase 1 and 2 award-winning Native films. Unique September issues. Research by Dr. Robert Stokes from among film festivals, this year’s Archaeological Consulting Services offerings meld art, culture and Oct. 26, 3:30-4:30 pm, ASU, Tempe: and Mesa Community College. The innovation in an unparalleled, thought- SHESH Colloquium: State-Sanctioned SWAT Annual Meeting will be held in provoking experience. Heard Museum, Violence in the Prehispanic Andes: the theater of the newly named 2301 N. Central Avenue (Central & Trauma and Trophy Heads in the Wari Arizona Museum of Natural History Encanto), Phoenix, AZ 85004; open (Continued on page 7)

5 T H E P E T R O G L Y P H / October 2007 PERIODICAL REVIEWS PART I By F. Ellen Martin Phoenix Chapter

As a lifelong learner and bookworm, I from many university and large public recent issue covered contemporary read many periodicals on a regular library computer systems. Mesa Pueblo potter Nora Naranjo-Morse as basis. Most are archaeological or rock Community College, where I work, well as an interesting piece on the art oriented, while others include a doesn’t subscribe, so I pay SAA an history of Cortes’ lost Aztec treasures, related piece occasionally. Perhaps a additional $25 per year to connect. I sent to Spain in the early 1500s and few will pique your interest. Check can locate considerable factual disappearing from exhibits within the local libraries or look for copies at information on specific topics like former Habsburg Empire. Several newsstands, chain or second-hand archaeoastronomy; the Internet isn’t items have recently been unearthed. bookstores before subscribing. always a reliable resource. American Indian Art - quarterly *Note that they are printed in two American Archaeology - quarterly magazine; color and B & W illus; $20 colors, unless otherwise stated. magazine; color and B & W illus; per year; AIA, Circulation included with basic $25 membership Department, 7314 East Osborn Drive, American Antiquity - quarterly in the non-profit Archaeological Con- Scottsdale AZ 85251, tel. journal; rates vary according to servancy, 5301 Central Avenue NE, 480-994-5445, email Society for American Archaeology suite 902, Albuquerque NM 87108- [email protected]. Back issues, membership level and optional 1517, tel. 520-266.1540, website bound volumes and indexes are interest groups. SAA, 900 Second www.americanarchaeology.com/ available. Street NE #12, Washington DC 20002 aaabout.html. -3560, tel. 202-789-8200, website Gorgeous and informative articles on www.saa.org. Articles cover museum exhibits and the arts of the Americas, with an sites north of Mexico, with an emphasis on North American All memberships include the SAA occasional feature on Latin America; historical and contemporary works; it Archaeological Record, published five curation and stewardship news; includes calendars of events, gallery times per annum, with short conferences, and exhibits; and recent and museum showings, auction manuscripts, conference calendar, sites the Conservancy has acquired or prices, book reviews, and legal briefs news and notes, committee and is trying to raise funds for. The on collecting and the effects of legislative updates. You have a choice Summer 2007 issue has material on NAGPRA. This is a good value of journals, both scholarly, or you can pirates, travel, Caribbean underwater money- and knowledge-wise. Whether subscribe to both for an additional archaeology, and a rock art revolution you’re a collector, connected with a charge. American Antiquity focuses (in dating and interpretation). The museum, or need well-researched on North American topics, while Latin publication is excellent, as is the material on Apache playing cards or American Antiquity covers the Conservancy’s goal of buying up origins of design motifs, you can’t go predominantly Spanish-speaking areas endangered properties; contributions wrong. south of the US border. are welcome at any time. Archaeoastronomy - The Journal of Topics vary considerably, from work- American Indian - quarterly, color and Astronomy in Culture - annual; $40; force and migration in the B & W; available with basic National University of Texas Press, Journals Grasshopper Region to lithic Museum of the American Indian Division, PO Box 7819, Austin TX production techniques and styles in membership of $25; NMAI, 4th Street 78713-7819, tel. 301-864-6637; past France. Book reviews are thorough, and Independence Avenue SW, volumes available. useful in deciding where to spend Washington DC 20560, tel. your hard-earned money. I generally 800-242-6624, website When it comes to archaeoastronomy, read only those articles of interest to www.nmai.si.edu. you have to hunt for decent research me. material. Some of the popular books Beautifully photographed magazine and Internet references run to the For researchers without access to back with articles on Indians of the sensational (aliens, New Age Druids, issues, both American Antiquity and Americans primarily from their own etc.). I’ve seen an occasional article in Latin American Antiquity, through viewpoints, topics include history, art archaeological or rock art 2003, are available in full-text, online and music, current exhibits and events publications, but this is more versions through JSTOR, accessible at the DC or New York locations. One (Continued on page 11)

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(Continued from page 5) lecture features scholar and author J. Museum, Phoenix: The Heard Empire, by Tiffiny A. Tung, J. Brody, professor emeritus of art Museum Spanish Market. Strolling Vanderbilt University, ASU Main history, University of New Mexico. mariachis and artwork by nearly 70 Campus, Anthropology Dr. Brody will speak on early 20th Hispanic artists from Arizona and Building, Rm. 340. century Native American painting. New Mexico highlight this festive, Marriott University Park (880 E. Sec- casual and friendly annual Oct 25, 7-8 pm, Patagonia: Arizona ond St.). 6:30 p.m. reception, 7 p.m. marketplace. Chat with artists as they Humanities Council presentation: Arts lecture. Free and open to the public. sell a range of distinctive artwork. And Culture Of Ancient Southern See their website for more With art in every price range, Spanish Arizona Hohokam Indians, by information at http:// Market offers buyers a wide selection archaeologist Allen Dart, for Friends www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/ of objects from Hispanic traditions of Sonoita Creek at Sonoita Creek public/index.shtml. including santos, pottery, colcha State Natural Area Visitor Center near embroidery, furniture making, Patagonia, Arizona.. Contact Park Nov. 6, 7 pm, ASU, Tempe. AIA Lec- painting, printmaking and silver and Ranger Jennifer Parks, 520-287-2791 ture: Current Controversies in tinwork. Free admission. Museum or [email protected] at the Biblical Archaeology: The Search for admission additional. Heard Museum, Sonoita Creek park for more David and Solomon by Dr. Lisa Cole, 2301 N. Central Avenue (Central & information Glendale Community College. ASU Encanto), Phoenix, AZ 85004; open Main Campus, Life Sciences Bldg. A, daily from 9:30 am-5 pm. For more Oct. 26, 6:30 pm, ASM, Tucson. Room 191. information call 602.252.8848 or go Arnold and Doris Roland Distin- to their web site at www.heard.org. guished Speaker Series. The inaugural Nov. 10-11, 10 am-5 pm, Heard Ollie’s Storybook Adventures

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The Deer Valley Rock Art Center is a museum, nature preserve, and archaeological site with the largest concentration of Native American rock art in the Phoenix Valley. Our interpretive trail takes you back 5000 years, when ancient people marked boulders with thousands of special symbols called “glyphs.” Managed by Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change, the Museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Phoenix Point of Pride. Deer Valley Rock Art Center is located at 3711 W. Deer Valley Road, approximately two miles north of Highway 101 and two miles west of I-17. For more details about Ollie’s Storybook Adventures, please call (623) 582-8007 or visit: www.asu.edu/clas/shesc/dvrac

7 T H E P E T R O G L Y P H / October 2007 CHAPTER NEWS Agave House at our September meeting. This paper Chapter will be published by ASU in their The Calderwood Project is still on Archaeology Research Papers; authors hold until the Chapter finds an are Teresa Rodrigues and Hoski archaeologist to oversee the Lab work. The Agave House chapter held its Schaafsma. This presentation was meeting on Aug. 22, 2007 at Black accompanied by a wonderful Power- This year the Board has decided to Mesa Ranger Station. The meeting Point presentation. After this lecture have a Christmas Party instead of the was called to order by President Ralf Mr. Shaafsma caught the Chapter up regular meeting. Bill Johnson’s Big Kurhals, who led us in the Pledge of on the ongoing work on Perry Mesa Apple at 19th Ave. and Bell Rd. has Allegiance. Ralf reported on the Pecos with the Legacies on the Landscape been selected and has provided a great Conference. study. Several Chapter members have menu selection. We need a minimum volunteered time with this cultural of 50 people for the dinner. Linda The speaker for the evening was Dr. survey and we were informed work Dorsey will be emailing a flyer to the David Wilcox, who talked about will soon resume “walking the land.” membership. Please rsvp since we civilizations in West Central Arizona, really need to have a 50-person count stressing the work done for the past The Chapter still has two ongoing by December 10th. Those without ten years on Perry Mesa. Questions projects: the Pierpoint Site and the email will receive the flyer in the about who the neighbors were, why Gatlin National Historic Landmark regular mail. the people left and where they went Site. Volunteers are welcome to were posed. Interesting theories were participate in either or both projects. The book club’s review of “Massacre presented about how pottery and Bob Lindsay has scheduled several on the Gila” was quite spirited due to artifacts from other cultures may have dates for the Pierpoint Site: Oct. 27th, the warfare topic. Examples of arrived at Perry Mesa. We also Nov. 18th, Jan. 12th, Feb. 16th, March warfare were cited back to Archaic learned about the possibilities of 8th and April 5th. If there is a large times (and before) and up to today’s warfare and early warning systems. enough crew, the first three or four modern conflicts. The next meeting is Dr. Wilcox was most interesting and dates will probably be all that is in November and we will be informative. needed to finish the fieldwork. The discussing the book “1491” by remaining dates will be used for Charles C. Mann. This book deals The group went on an outing to see meetings to work on the report. with research showing what the the Pinta Petroglyphs on Aug. 25. Ten Contact Bob Lindsay 602-866-3649 or landscape and human population in members enjoyed the rock art at the [email protected]. the Americas (north, central and site. south) was probably like before There is still a lot of work to be European contact. The annual Bar-B-Q will be held Sept. accomplished at the Gatlin Site: 8 at Bum Heel Ranch. The club will finishing the interior of the The Chapter has selected two projects have a booth at the Octoberfest on interpretive pithouse, slinging mud for fundraising this year: the first will Sept. 15-16. onto the exterior of all three pithouses be a novel t-shirt honoring the Gatlin (one already has a first coat of mud) Site in Gila Bend and the second will The next meeting is Sept. 26 at 6:30 and reworking one of the ramadas. be a rock art calendar (only Arizona pm at Black Mesa Ranger Station. We Ella Pierpoint announced that rock art will be used). Both should be will have dinner before the additional grant money has been available in early October. meeting at Casa Ramos, at 5:00 pm. awarded for the above work as well as constructing replicas of a ballcourt Shelley Rasmussen, the Chapter’s — Diane Collins and a platform mound and interpretive Hike Leader, has some wonderful signs for the site. These are the major hikes scheduled for this season. The Agua Fria tasks; there will still be many minor Oct. 11th hike is to Badger Springs Chapter tasks to be completed. If you have Petroglyphs and a short walk along never been to either site, or it has been the Agua Fria River; the Nov. 17th Many thanks go to Mr. Hoski a long time since you have visited, hike will take us through the Cave Schaafsma for his intriguing and please come out to see these unique Creek Park to view petroglyphs and informative lecture on the sites. It will be well worth the effort. then on to the Shoger Site; and the reinterpretation of isolated human Roy Pierpoint is making up a schedule Dec. 15th hike will take us to the remains in an archaeological context for the Gatlin work dates. (Continued on page 9) 8 October 2007 / Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological Society More CHAPTER NEWS….

(Continued from page 8) Gary Dillard, The Earthquake of White Tank Mountains along the 1887. Many of our members have worked Mesquite Canyon Trail to view Oct. 9, Rebecca Orozco,Travels in over the summer at the Cave Creek seldom-seen petroglyphs. Eastern Europe. Oct. 10, Lisa Reed Museum with Grace Schoonover Forensics. Oct. 16, Casas Grandes remodeling the Archaeology Room. The Chapter will be participating in and Mata Ortiz. Oct. 17, Fort Bowie. They have done a beautiful job and I the “5th Annual Desert Shrimp Festi- Oct. 23, Fort Bowie. Oct. 24, Music hope everyone will get out to Cave val” in Gila Bend on Nov. 3rd from10 by the Fountain. Oct. 30, Mary Creek and enjoy it. am - 10 pm at the Community Center Coyle, Literary Landscapes of Ire- Park (Euclid Ave.). There will be fun land. Nov. 6, Millie Galliher, TBA. — Paddi Mozilo events for all: shrimp cooking and Nov. 13, The Eurasian Undergradu- eating ate Exchange Program. Nov. 27, The Homolovi Chapter contests, bobbing for shrimp, a kids’ Border Patrol. Dec. 4, Venezuela. sand castle building contest, live en- tertainment, door prizes, food vendors Lectures are from 12:10 - 1:00 pm in The Homolovi Chapter has had a great and arts and crafts vendors. Join us Conference Room 521, Cochise summer! In cooperation with Arizona for all the fun! College Student Union. For more in- State Parks and the Hopi Nation, our formation on how to join these lec- chapter has assisted in the presenta- Dr. Sarah Herr will be the October tures contact Rebecca Orozco at 417- tion of weekly Hopi artist demonstra- speaker. Her lecture will address the 4772 or email her at oroz- tions and a successful Suvoyuki Day, archaeology under the Rim – Payson [email protected]. a celebration of the 50th Anniversary to Heber. Professor Ekkehart Malotki of will speak about Archaic rock art at On Sept. 28 the book club visited the Arizona State Parks. While we were the November meeting and have his John Slaughter Ranch. Sept. 29 the celebrating Suvoyuki Day, the Leuppe latest publication available for a book Cochise Chapter celebrated National Kiln Conference was held in the park signing. His name was misspelled in Public Lands Day with trail building, campground. It was quite an exciting last month’s issue as Ekehart. His maintenance and children's activities time! email address is: at Murray Springs. Also in September [email protected]. we enjoyed a great presentation from We are now working up our plan for John Ware of the Amerind Museum programs and workshops over the The Chapter now takes the speaker on “Pueblo Social History: Upstream- coming year. We do not yet have the out to dinner at the Black Bear Diner, ing Into The Past.” schedule finalized, but are planning 6039 W. Bell Rd (southeast corner of workshops on identifying authentic Bell Rd. & 61st Ave.). The dinner is — Denise A. Agnew Hopi art work, Native American from 5 - 6 pm, then on to the Library. Concerns in the Classroom, Tradi- Everyone is welcome to join the tional Storytelling, etc. Check our speaker for dinner. Please call or Desert Foothills webpage at www.homolovi.com for email Linda Dorsey if you plan to at- Chapter current tend - 623-974-3683 or ldor- information. Teachers may earn continuing education credit for some [email protected]. J. Scott Wood's September presenta- of these workshops. tion on the old mill town of Pinal City — Sandy Haddock & Sandy Gauthier (aka Pitchfork) was great. He will be At our Oct. 18th meeting (7 pm, taking us there on a field trip in De- Homolovi Visitor Center, Leigh Cochise County cember. We’re all looking forward to Kuwanwisiuma of the Hopi Cultural it. We've had a field trip the end of Chapter Preservation Office will present a September to 3 Rivers, New Mexico. review of current Hopi research We’ve had a good response and a lot The Cochise Chapter of AAS is projects. The November meeting is of interested members. Hoski Schaaf- enjoying lectures given at Cochise not yet determined, but in December sma will be speaking to us on the College. Upcoming lectures include: we will have our annual Christmas Agua Fria at our next meeting, Dinner. Oct. 2, Wes Patience , Closing the Wednesday October 10th. We meet (Continued on page 10) Golden Door: 12 July 1917. Oct. 3, in the Cave Creek Town Hall at 7 pm.

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(Continued from page 9) historic mining town to Kingman. from Archaeological Consulting Ser- Field work, including a search for vices will talk about ACS’ The Homolovi Chapter operates the traces of this road, is pending. recent archaeological investigations at park's museum shop. We presently have the Hayden Flour Mill at out Nov. 8th a SALE of 25% off all Hopi quilts and Mohave Chapter meetings are held at 7 meeting, and Dr. Barbara Stark will quilted items. We will soon be starting pm on the second Friday of each month update us on “The Debate about the our Christmas sale with 10% off most at the community room at Grace Lu- Olmec Legacy in Mesoamerica” at our items in the shop (for AAS members- theran Church, 2101 Dec. 13th holiday potluck. we already give you a 10% discount! Harrison Ave in Kingman. Our next So- for Christmas we will give you an meeting will be held on October 12th. On the weekend of Nov. 10th, Tom additional 5% off most items in the mu- For more information, please contact Harvey will lead a field trip to visit the seum shop!) John Ainlay at 928-753-2600 or Blythe Intaglios and then go to lesser [email protected] . known sites within about 10 miles of — Karen Berggren the more well known — Gale Dom features. Most of the features are within Mohave Chapter a mile of highway 95, so they are Phoenix Chapter reachable with short, cross-country hikes over relatively easy terrain. Tom At our Sept. 14th meeting, chapter ad- knows the locations of about 55 of the viser and BLM archaeologist Craig Dr. Henry Wallace from the Center for lesser known intaglios, and also knows Johnson discussed several current Desert Archaeology, our guest speaker of lithic scatters and rock alignments local archaeological activities. He on Sept. 13, reviewed the that should also be worth trying to find. noted that in June, Pima Community archaeological work at Honey Bee Vil- Ancient trails can also be found near College, in collaboration with the King- lage, a Hohokam Ballcourt Village some of the intaglios. For more infor- man BLM, held a field school in the north of Tucson. Honey Bee was first mation, see Tom’s website at remote upper Burro Creek area. Par- recorded in 1978 by archaeologists http://home.att.net/~tbharvey/. ticipants surveyed approximately 300 from Pima Community College. acres and recorded five new Desert Archaeology, Inc., conducted The 2007 PGM Indian Market will be prehistoric Prescott culture sites. Craig survey, mapping, and limited test held on Dec. 8 & 9 at Steele Indian also reported that an aggressive law excavations in the mid-1980s that School Park in Phoenix. The chili enforcement investigation focused on the core area of the site booth committee is now accepting vol- regarding the theft of grave markers at which contained a large, open plaza unteers to work on both days. Please an historic Hualapai cemetery resulted area, a small ballcourt, nearly 20 contact Sylvia Lesko at in their anonymous return eight months refuse mounds, and an estimated 400 or 480 497 4229 for information on how later. The investigation of this incident more pithouses. The most recent inves- to get your name on the list. continues. tigations by Desert Archaeology cov- ered 34 acres outside the core area of The chapter meets on the second Thurs- Chapter members recently assisted the site. While this area will be devel- day of each month in the Craig in recording several new sites in oped for residential and Community Room at the Pueblo the Hackberry area and in the foothills commercial use, the 13-acre core of the Grande Museum, 4619 E. Washington of the Hualapai Mountains. Some of site has been donated to Pima County St. in Phoenix, starting at 7:30 pm. We the latter sites may represent historic and will be protected as the Honey Bee usually take the speaker to dinner at Hualapai camps. Members also have Village Preserve, featuring interpreta- 5:30 pm at Monti’s La Casa Vieja on the opportunity to assist Craig in BLM tion of the 800-year Mill and Rio Salado in Tempe. If you clearance surveys. occupation of the site by the ancient are interested in having dinner with the Hohokam. speaker, please call or email Sylvia Progress is continuing on the Signal (480-497-4229 or project. Loren Wilson has compiled On Oct. 11th, Dr. Brenda Baker from [email protected]) so that she can records including oral histories from ASU’s School of Human Evolution and reserve a large enough table. people who lived in the Signal area. Social Change will give a PowerPoint John Ainlay has examined maps from presentation on “Archaeological Field- — Ellie Large the early 1900’s showing the route of work at the Fourth Cataract of the Nile the freight road which connected this River in Sudan.” Dr. Robert Stokes (Continued on page 11)

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(Continued from page 10) vacations, family commitments, etc. Grimditch, (928) 443-8881, Verde Valley We are almost all back to work now, [email protected] Field trips: Tom ready to continue the varied projects Garrison, [email protected] Chapter of Dr. Wilcox. Our speaker on Sept. 20 will be Ken The Verde Valley Archaeological Our first field trip of the fall season Zoll on the archaeoastronomy of the Society will hold its September was to the Hartwell Canyon Nature Verde Valley. On Oct. 18, we meeting on the 27th, at the Sedona Conservancy Preserve. Matthew and welcome back Dr. Mike Rudell of Public Library, at 7 pm. The speakers Janelle Kelly, the Preserve managers Yavapai College, speaking on the will be Steve and Lois Hirst, who for the last eighteen years, were very osteology of the Willow Lake Site in resided with the Havasupai for eleven gracious and helpful. Prescott. As usual we will host a years. Their topic will be entitled dinner for our speakers at the Prescott "Water Wizards: Pai Responses to an On October 20- 21, the Verde Valley Brewing Company in their upstairs Arid Environment." Their most Archaeological Society will host the room, at 5:30 pm on the third interesting book, “I Am the Grand Fall State Meeting at the Elks Club in Thursday. All members and their Canyon,” is the outcome of their Sedona. Field trips will include: Peter guests are invited to join us there. research and documents the Havasupai Pilles in the East Alcove excavations efforts to regain their ancestral lands. at Honanki; Ron Krug in Red Tank September’s field trip will be on Sat., Draw; Gary Hellums in Loy Canyon; Sept. 29, to a great site in Sycamore Our schedule of speakers for 2007 -- John Sturgis at Wu Ranch; Ken Zoll at Canyon called “The Ladders,” a 2 1/2 2008 should equal last year's V Bar V; Dr. Ron Krug at Red Tank story, mostly intact masonry structure impressive list. Among those we can Draw;, and Paul Lindberg at Robbers under an overhang. Not for the faint anticipate hearing from are: Jonathan Roost. Our guest speaker will be Dr. of heart, it involves four-wheel drive Day, the Flagstaff expert on kachinas; Ekkehart Malotki from Northern vehicles and a two-mile hike. Lisa Leap and Ted Neff, of the U. S. Arizona University, who will discuss Forest Service at the Grand Canyon; "The Deep Structure of Arizona's The Yavapai Chapter’s Outreach Travis Bone, of the U. S. Forest Earliest Rock Art: Human Universals." Committee, led by Mark Millman, has Service here at Coconino; and our own begun a program to introduce Peter Pilles, to name just a few. Contact is Bud Henderson elementary school children to the Heartfelt thanks go to Bob Dick and (928) 649-0412, or prehistory of the Prescott region and Brenda Robinson, for their many [email protected]. site etiquette. Their first classroom months of hard work. We will visits take place in October. certainly miss Bob's amusing and — Louise Fitzgerald convoluted introductions! Building renovations at Sharlot Hall Yavapai Chapter Museum will impact our lab facilities Volunteer efforts have been continu- and library and we will need to move ing at the Museum of Northern Contacts: President Fred Kraps, out for up to a year. Beginning in Arizona, although occasionally at a bit (928)778-0653, [email protected]. October, the library will be set up in less than full-strength, due to Programs: Vice-president Gloria our Vice-President’s garage, to allow

(Continued from page 6) scholarly. I sent a check last Unless you have a strong interest, see Society for Archaeoastronomy and December; Volume XX, 2006, arrived if your local college or university Astronomy in Culture and its Oxford in August. This particular volume library subscribes. You can also look International Symposium. contains five papers, two on Neolithic for indexed archival collections, such * Note that it hasn’t been updated British sites, one about the as JSTOR (see American Antiquity). recently; useful more for names of Argentinean Chaco, another on a Another source is The Center for people involved in the field, links, and Bronze Age site in Central Asia, and a Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in publications than any current news. discussion of equinox dates, changed Culture’s website: when Julius Caesar adjusted the www.archaeoastronomy.net with calendar. There are also three book information on the International reviews.

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