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Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological Society Volume 42, Number 1 www.AzArchSoc.org September 2005 Message From the State Chair I hope you have all had an excellent participated in fieldwork this summer, excellent meeting. Please bring to the summer, and are ready to resume your some at field schools, increasing their meeting any issues that need to be chapter meetings, classes, field trips field skills, some volunteered at discussed, or requests for assistance and projects. I wish you all success archaeological research projects. All from the state. Also give serious and enjoyment in these activities, and were fulfilling the objectives of the thought to the upcoming elections for remind you that I am readily available society. An issue of concern to me as state officers, and bring your to support and assist you in your State Chair is that of suitable respect suggestions for nominees to the endeavors. You may recall that I for our professional advisers. The nominating committee. The State formed a new state planning AAS is fortunate to have many of the Nominating Committee consists of committee when I came into office top professional archaeologists in Sylvia Lesko, Ginger Johnson, and earlier this year. This committee is Arizona as advisers at the state level, Ralf Kurzhals. They welcome your responsible for addressing and chapter level, and in our nationally input! If any other members would correcting problems that are of recognized certification department. like to join the nominating committee, immediate concern to the society, but These individuals have many years of or if you volunteered to join at the also for planning ahead for the future research and fieldwork behind them, May State Meeting, but were not of the society. The members of this and have achieved high levels of contacted, please let me know as soon committee have been hard at work success in their professional lives. as possible. this summer, writing the manual They contribute generously of their which will supplement the bylaws in time to the AAS, teaching courses, I look forward to seeing all of you at assisting you with the everyday lecturing, leading field trips, attending the State Meeting in Kingman this operation of your chapter. This our meetings, etc. Regardless of our fall! manual will provide you with helpful perception of our own knowledge and information for the planning of field experience in the field, it is contrary — Brenda Poulos, State Chairperson trips, courses, chapter projects, state to the objectives of this society for meetings and much more. It will also any of our members to treat our assist you in liaising with the state, professional advisers with disrespect, informing you of what information or to disregard their instructions in the IN THIS ISSUE… the state officers and committee heads field. 2 — Certification Department News need from you each year, when it 2 — Q Ranch Update needs to be sent in, and to whom it Our state meeting will be held in 4 — Fielder Fund Updates needs to be sent. The first draft of Kingman this fall, hosted by the 5 — Upcoming events this manual will be ready for Mohave Chapter. They have done 6 — Stoner Award distribution to the chapters at the fall such a great job planning this meeting 7 — New AAS Website state meeting. Your feedback and for us, offering a wonderful selection 8 — News from the chapters suggestions will be invited, so the of field trips, guest speaker and final copy can be published and meals. You will find more Next deadline is at noon Tuesday, September 20, for the October issue distributed in January. information on the meeting in this edition of The Petroglyph. Do plan to A number of our members join us there, as it promises to be an T H E P E T R O G L Y P H / September 2005 From the certification department chair It seems this is the year to say goodbye to people who have de- appreciated. Please contact me if you voted many hours to the Department of Certification. We lost to would like more information. retirement Charlie Gilbert, John Sturgis, and now Susan Relecom. Susan has been Secretary for four years and now will Unfortunately the Walnut Creek Field School for Survey move back to Canada to be with her family. She not only wrote Techniques scheduled for September 18 to 30 has been canceled. and distributed minutes for each meeting, but her thoughtful com- Susan Jones, Field School Certification Representative has ments on certification issues were greatly appreciated. Her informed me that the Field School Director, Paul Long, is ill and cheerful countenance and sense of humor will be sorely missed. will not be able to run it this year. We wish him a speedy recovery. We are fortunate to have Evelyn Partridge as the new Secretary for the Department of Certification. She is a member of the The next meeting of the Department of Certification will be held Phoenix Chapter Board. We look forward to her participation. from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. on Friday, September 16 and tentatively Please see the front page for her contact information. on the following dates, November 18, January 20, March 17, and May 19. We meet in Room 203A in the Community Services I am looking for an interested person to serve on the department’s Building of ASU on Curry Road between Washington and Rural Review Committee. This person will be asked to review AAS Roads in Tempe. AAS members are invited. to attend. Please course outlines, and Instructor, Chapter Adviser, and Student contact me for directions. Waiver applications. It is not necessary to attend Department meetings as most review work is done electronically. Your — Ann Gorton contributions in this interesting position would be greatly The Q Ranch Archaeological Research Project 2005 Season The 2005 field season at Q Ranch has the archaeology of the region. Lecturers informative, exciting and fun field trip, been successful and enjoyable. invited to Q Ranch included Dr. J. and was enjoyed by all our participants. Activities were conducted in fulfillment Jefferson Reid, who talked about his of the current research design. Data many years of research at Grasshopper The summer session was followed by an recovery at Pueblo I is nearing Pueblo, Dr. Cynthia Bettison of WNMU enjoyable and productive work weekend completion, to be followed by the who talked about Mogollon Culture in in July, and the season will conclude backfilling of rooms. A stabilization the Southwest, Banks Leonard of SSI, with one final work weekend on program conducted by Jim Britton and who talked about a site he excavated in September 23-26. For information, or to his crew restored selected walls that had the region of Q Ranch, and Dr. Roy register for this work weekend, visit the been ravaged by vandalism and the Carlson, the authority on White AAS website, or contact Brenda Poulos elements. Their highly skilled work is Mountain Redware (a ware frequently at [email protected] part of the AAS objective to provide the found in the Q Ranch ceramic site with some protection from future assemblage). Unfortunately Dr. Carlson destruction. Work in Pueblo II focused had a fall, sustaining some injuries primarily on rooms that appear to be which prevented him from joining us. undisturbed by pothunters, and will therefore provide the necessary data for The two-day field trip provided the comparison of the two pueblo sites. participants with the opportunity to visit Laboratory analysis of artifacts from other sites of importance, in a richly Pueblo I is almost completed, with the educational environment, in the assistance and expertise of Joyce Clarke company of some of the most highly and a number of AAS members who regarded archaeologists in the state. Dr. conducted analysis at Q Ranch and in Chuck Adams very graciously led our the Phoenix area, under the supervision group on a site tour of Chevelon, Peter of Dr. Hohmann. Analysis of the Pilles did the same at Elden Pueblo, and Pueblo II material will take place in a Dr. David Wilcox provided us with an similar controlled environment. update on his research in the area, the opportunity to see the pottery collections Lectures and field trips supplemented at the Museum of Northern Arizona, and project participants’ understanding of a fascinating tour of Wupatki. It was an 2 September 2005 / Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological Society Agua Fria Chapter Report on the summer’s FAUNAL ID AND ANALYSIS CLASS In June of 2005, six lucky members participated in AAS’s new Faunal Identification and Analysis Class hosted by the Agua Fria Chapter. The class was held in Arizona State University’s faunal lab (pictured at left). Many thanks go to Dr. Curtis Marean for letting us use the lab and for recruiting his Ph.D. candidate, Lydia Pyne, as our instructor. Ms. Pyne has worked in South Africa with Dr. Marean relating hominid and carnivore activity to faunal bone assemblages. Because many theories and methodologies on faunal analysis (zooarchaeology) have their beginnings in African hominid research, Ms. Pyne was the ideal instructor for this groundbreaking class. Class size was limited to six persons due to the space needed to accommodate the faunal comparative collection as well as the bone elements to be identified. The small class size was also a positive for the one-on-one attention each participant needed from the instructor. The Seated in back (L-R): Donna Ruiz y Costello, Lydia Pyne, Bob faunal assemblage for the Calderwood (AZ:T:7:1) AAS 1965 Lindsay, Mary Lawrence, Tim Cullison. Seated in front (L-R) Meghann – 1971 excavations was used and is estimated to number more Vance, Walter “Dutch” Duering.