PETROGLYPH Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological Society
Volume 44, Number 3 www.AzArchSoc.org November 2007
IN THIS ISSUE… FIELDER FUND THANK-YOUS !! 2 — Chapter Meeting Calendar So far in 2007, a number of folks have made generous contributions to the 3 — Fielder Fund Update Fielder Fund, moving it slowly but surely towards the goal of $100,000 as a self 5 — Upcoming Events -renewing source of funding for publication of THE ARIZONA 6 — Periodical Reviews Part II ARCHAEOLOGIST. We would like to thank Allen Dart and Janet Chumbley 8 — Winter State Meeting of the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center in Tucson, Evelyn Partridge of the 9 — Chapter News Desert Foothills Chapter, Sue and Dick Mueller of the Desert Foothills Chapter, and our ever-constant cornucopia of monthly checks, William Henry, in Maryland. Thank you one and all. Next deadline is at noon Sunday, November 18th, for the December — Alan Ferg, Editor The Archaeologist issue. Chapter Treasurers Reminder
Please prepare to create & submit your chapter IRS Form 990 no later than January 15, 2008. These will be sent to AAS Financial Advisor, Mike Magnan. Thank you for addressing this in a timely matter. For more information contact the AAS State Treasurer, Judy Rounds. Thank you for addressing this in a timely manner. REMINDER: If you would like to receive your Judy E. Rounds, AAS State Treasurer Petroglyph by e-mail, contact P. O. Box 1401, Carefree, AZ 85377 Jerry Mead at [email protected] 602.363.6985 Hedgpeth Hills Winter Festival
The festival will take place on Saturday, November 17, 2007 from 10am to 3pm at the Deer Valley Rock Art Center. It is a free day at the museum, featuring fun activities and attractions for the whole family. They will have guided tours on their petroglyph trail with Public Educator Desert Little Bear, hands-on activities and storytelling for children, book signing by children’s author Conrad Storad, Native American art demonstrations and artwork for sale, special guest exhibitors, ancient spear throwing, musical performances, farmer’s market vendors, and up to 25% discounts on selected items in our gift store!
Plus the Center is opening a new exhibit featuring award-winning photographs of rock art with a special lecture by Elisabeth Culley. 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 the Hedgpeth Hills Winter Festival, please call (623) 582-8007 or visit: www.asu.edu/clas/shesc/dvrac T H E P E T R O G L Y P H / November 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
2 November 2007 / Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological Society
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.
$35, 069.78
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
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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.
3 T H E P E T R O G L Y P H / November 2007 CAVE CREEK MUSEUM OPEN HOUSE
An invitation to all AAS members to an Open House at The Cave Creek Museum. Come view the refurbished Archaeology Room, enjoy refreshments and hear Mark Harkbarth speak about the archaeology of the area.
Where: When: Sunday November 11, 2007 The Cave Creek Museum, Corner of Basin and Skyline in Time: 2:00pm Cave Creek, 480.488.2764 or Speaker: Mark Hackbarth www.cavecreekmuseum@org
Listen Live: The Dig
The Dig airs Sundays at 2:00 pm AZ MST, on 1480 KPHX in Phoenix, flagship station of the Nova M Radio network.
The Dig Modern Solutions from the Ancient Mind "The dig” is what anthropologists call an on-site field investigation into the mysteries of humankind’s deeply-buried and fascinating past. Little by little, clues are unearthed that begin to tell the story of a people and place, lost in time. The discoveries that result from a dig help us to understand not only the lives of our ancient ancestors, but ourselves, how we came to be who and what we are, our place in the world, and where the future may lead. The word “anthropology” means study of humans, and that’s what The Dig does: from mythology and politics, to culture, relationships, and the environment, anthropologist Katarina Lang combines ancient wisdom with real-world applications, resulting in an smart and engaging weekly broadcast from 1480 KPHX, the Phoenix home of Air America Radio and flagship station of the Nova M Radio Network, as The Dig with Katarina Lang™ (http://www.thedigradio.com)
Katarina Lang is an anthropologist whose fieldwork has spanned several continents. In addition to anthropology, she holds numerous degrees including culinary arts, Italian language, and psychology. Katarina's first book will be published in 2008.
The Dig with Katarina Lang PO Box 10711 Phoenix, AZ 85064 [email protected] 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
4 November 2007 / Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological Society Upcoming Events
Nov. 6, 7 pm, ASU, Tempe, AIA Lec- Spanish Market. Strolling mariachis preview and Auction. The Navajo Rug ture: Current Controversies in Biblical and artwork by nearly 70 Hispanic art- Auction will begin at 10am with a pre- Archaeology: The Search for David ists from Arizona and New Mexico view and bidding will begin at 12 and Solomon by Dr. Lisa Cole, Glen- highlight this festive, casual and noon. A portion of the proceeds from dale Community College. ASU Main friendly annual marketplace. Chat with the auction will go to benefit the Campus, Life Sciences Bldg. A, Room artists as they sell a range of distinctive Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeo- 191. artwork. With art in every price range, logical Park Auxiliary. The auction Spanish Market offers buyers a wide will be a wonderful event with free Nov. 7, 7:30 - 9:00 pm, PGM, Phoe- selection of objects from Hispanic tra- museum admission, beautiful rugs and nix: PGM Auxiliary Meeting: Pueblo ditions including santos, pottery, col- frybread. Come and enjoy the sites and Grande Museum Auxiliary Meeting: cha embroidery, furniture making, sounds and have a traditional Native Arizona Site Stewards: Protecting Ari- painting, printmaking and silver and American frybread taco! zona's Cultural Heritage, by Mary Es- tinwork. Free admission. Museum ad- tes, Resource Protection Specialist, mission additional. Heard Museum, Nov. 19, 7:30 pm, ASM, Tucson: Arizona State Parks/SHPO. Ms. Estes 2301 N. Central Avenue (Central & AAHS Lecture: Recent Archaeological will discuss how over 800 volunteers Encanto), Phoenix, AZ 85004; open Work on the Colonial Period in the spend thousands of hours a year moni- daily from 9:30 am-5 pm. For more Tucson Basin, by Eric Klucas. Duval toring Arizona's unique cultural re- information call 602.252.8848 or go to Auditorium, University Medical Cen- sources, --the sacred places of Ameri- their web site at www.heard.org. ter, 1501 North Campbell Avenue can Indians. They report both natural (north of Speedway. For further infor- and human-made impacts to the land Nov. 25, 8-11 am, PGM: Petroglyph mation and directions to the audito- agencies who manage the land. Atten- Hike - Mormon Trail, South Mountain rium, see their website at http:// dees will learn about the history of the Difficult Advance registration is re- www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/ Arizona Site Steward Program, the quired. Fee is $5 for Non-Members, lectures.shtml. types of vandalism most commonly and free for Members. seen that destroy the footprints of Ari- zona's first peoples and what you can Nov. 11, 11am- 4pm, PGM: Veterans Nov. 24, 10-11 am, PGM: Park of do to help preserve archaeological sites Day Gourd Dance and Community Four Waters Tour. This tour will take for future generations to enjoy. Potluck. Join us to honor the memory you through undeveloped, natural de- of all Veterans who served our nation. sert to the ruins of some of the Hoho- Nov. 7, 8-11 am, PGM Petroglyph Gourd Dancing starts at 11:30am. kam canal systems. General Admission Hike: Hieroglyphic Canyon, South Event is free and open to everyone. prices apply. Mountain. Difficult. Advance registra- Bring your favorite potluck dish to tion is required. Fee is $5 for Non- share. No advanced registration re- Dec. 3, 7 pm, ASU, Tempe, AIA Lec- Members, and free for Members. quired. ture: Egypt’s Earliest Kings and Their Courtiers: Sacrifices for the State? By Nov. 9, 3:30-4:30 pm, ASU, Tempe: Nov. 16, 7 pm, PGM, Navajo Rug Lec- Dr. Brenda J. Baker, ASU. ASU Main SHESH Colloquium: Hohokam Econ- ture and Rug Preview featuring Auc- Campus, Life Sciences Bldg. A, Room omy: Large-Scale Intensified Agricul- tioneers Bruce Burnham, owner of the 191. ture in the Absence of Social Complex- Burnham Trading Post in Sanders, Ari- ity by Robert C. Hunt, Brandeis Uni- zona and trader Hank Blair. Over the Dec. 6, 7 pm, AMNH, Mesa, SWAT versity. ASU Main Campus, Anthro- years as an Indian Trader Mr. Burn- Meeting: The geomorphology of a Ho- pology Building, Rm. 340. ham has gained recognition for his hokam site near Williams Field, by dedication to the Navajo people and Bruce Phillips, EcoPlan Associates, Nov. 10, 8-11 am, PGM, Petroglyph their art and is often called upon to Inc. This is also the annual potluck Hike: Beverly Canyon/Javelina, South lecture on Navajo culture and their arts dinner and members meeting. Mountain. Moderate. Advance regis- and crafts. He and his family are orga- tration is required. Fee is $5 for Non- nizing the rug auction and have Dec. 8-9, 9:30am-5:00pm, 30th Annual Members, and free for Members. brought in exquisite examples of what Pueblo Grande Museum Indian Mar- will be auctioned off on Nov. 17. ket, Steele Indian School Park, Phoe- Nov. 10-11, 10 am-5 pm, Heard Mu- nix. For more information, see http:// seum, Phoenix: The Heard Museum Nov. 17, 10 am, PGM, Navajo Rug (Continued on page 11)
5 T H E P E T R O G L Y P H / November 2007 PERIODICAL REVIEWS PART I By F. Ellen Martin Phoenix Chapter
Archaeology - bi-monthly magazine, bi-monthly magazine, $24.95; color multiple lines in an image may be $21.95; color and B & W; and B & W illus; British publication deliberate depictions of movement, Archaeology, Subscription Services, available in the US via CWA, PO Box much like old-fashoned flip-page PO Box 549, Mt. Morris IL 61054- 457, Mt. Morris IL 61054-9940, comic books. The range of articles 0549, tel. 877-275-9782, website website www.archaeology.co.uk depends on contributions; material on www.archaeology.org the Americas pops up from time to Similar in format to Archaeology, but time. This is the Archaeological Institute of reflecting British and European America’s magazine, in contrast to the viewpoints, it includes articles, news, Kiva: the Journal of Southwestern scholarly American Journal of fieldwork opportunities, book Anthropology and History - quarterly; Archaeology, which I tried, but reviews, and exhibits. It’s relatively rates from $30, depending on the type discontinued because of its Old World new (about four years); Border’s of membership, all of which include focus. The popular version provides carries it, if you’d like to take a look. I the monthly Arizona Archaeological plenty of general coverage. The found it strange to see the recent and Historical Society Glyphs September/October issue had topics feature article on original and recent newsletter; some choices include ranging from Thracian chariot burials work at the Folsom Site, a Kiva. Information available through in Bulgaria to the origins of Chinese condensation of David Meltzer’s AAHS, Arizona State Museum, PO purple dye to the Ice Age Cultural Folsom: New Archaeological Box 210026, University of Arizona, Revolution in the Alps (art thought to Excavations of a Classic Paleoindian Tucson AZ 85721-0026, website be as early as 40,000 BP). Another Bison Kill (2006, University of www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/ piece focused on Utah’s Nine Mile California) before finding comparable aahs.shtml. Canyon, whose rock art galleries are material in US publications. threatened by BLM-permitted energy In case Kiva is new to you, it’s a development and associated mining International Newsletter on Rock Art - collection of scholarly papers relating vibrations, rumbling trucks, heavy three times per year, $20 US check to to the whole Southwest, which dust and chemical road spraying. I ARARA (American Rock Art includes the northern Mexican states noticed fewer reviews and lists of Research Association), c/o Donna of Chihuahua and Sonora. Contents museum exhibits in this issue than in Gillette, 1642 Tiber Court, San Jose usually vary, but there’s an occasional the past; perhaps these are online? CA 95138; published by the Ministere thematic issue; two recent ones de la Culture, Paris, France, website concentrated on textiles and Archaeology Southwest - quarterly www.inoraonline.org. English Basketmaker II, the latter one with bulletin; primarily color illus; part of versions of recent issues are also rock art variation in the Four Corners Center for Desert Archaeology available online through the Bradshaw area. I tend to read it cover to cover. membership at several price levels. Foundation, based in South Africa at CDARC, 300 East University www.bradshawfoundation.com/inora/ La Pintura: the Official Newsletter of Boulevard, #230, Tucson AZ 85705, index.html. (There are links to other the American Rock Art Research tel. 520-882-6946, website rock art sites on the Bradshaw Association - quarterly, with www.cdarc.org Foundation’s homepage.) memberships beginning at $35. ARARA, Box 210026, Tucson AZ Published by the non-profit arm of the INORA is edited by Dr. Jean Clottes, 85721-0026, website www.arara.org. CRM firm Desert Archaeology, issues well known for his work in the Ice Membership now includes the annual contain a variety of brief articles on Age caves of Europe. It’s bilingual in American Indian Rock Art, with most work in the Southwest, which includes French and English and includes papers those presented at the previous Northwestern Mexico, or thematic news, papers, techniques (digital year’s annual meeting. issues such as Salmon Ruins or Casas modeling, for example), international Grandes, Chihuahua. I especially like conferences and recent publications; The newsletter promotes responsible the regional focus, great for keeping most papers include bibliographies. stewardship and recording of rock art up with current archaeological work. Issue #48 has an interesting piece on sites and includes articles submitted “Split-Frame Movement in Paleolithic by members, committee updates, book Current World Archaeology - Digs & Art,” a reply to one in issue #43. What reviews, calls for papers, and Discoveries from Around the World - may appear to be mistakes and/or (Continued on page 7)
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(Continued from page 6) www.oldpueblo.org. Piecework emphasizes historical and/ information on the annual meeting, or ethnic/folk background more than usually held over Memorial Day Reports focus on Tucson Area actual techniques, though each weekend; the 2008 one will be in archaeology, much of it done by Old magazine contains several projects. Farmington NM. Optional field trips Pueblo’s professional arm. Most of its July/August 2006 covered Uzbec are usually outstanding. The web site efforts, including tours, are intended to Dowry Cloths, Estonian mittens, and contains details on membership and fund its non-profit children’s the paisley motif. There are sections on committees, conference forms, as well programs, workshops and classes, textile tours (Asia, Andes, Colonial as links to other rock art organizations public archaeological activities, talks. Revival Quilts), history of and sites, worldwide. If you are on the Arizona manufacturing processes, regional Archaeological Council list-serve, styles and collections, calendar of Latin American Antiquity - quarterly you’ll find events listed there. exhibits. This publication would be journal in Spanish and English. See Contributions encouraged. valuable if you collect or work with American Antiquity. historical, ethnic or folk-art textiles or Ornament: the Art and Craft of in historic house museums. Mammoth Trumpet - quarterly Personal Adornment - magazine newsletter; subscriptions start at $25, published five times a year, $26; color Saudi Aramco World - bi-monthly with higher levels including the annual and B & W illus; Ornament, PO Box magazine and online editions; color Current Research in the Pleistocene. 2349, San Marcos CA 92079-2349 tel. and B & W; free from Center for the Study of First 800-888-8950, website www.saudiaramcoworld.com/about.us/ Americans, now located at Texas A & www.ornamentmagazine.com. subscriptions or send a signed request M University, Department of to SAW, PO Box 469008, Escondido Anthropology, 4352 TAMU, College I stumbled onto this 20+ years ago in CA 92046-9008 Station TX 77843-4352, tel. the Heard Museum Library. It satisfies 979-845-4046, website both the cultural anthropologist and For those interested in Arab and www.centerfirstamericans.com. artist parts of me with a wonderful mix Muslim cultures worldwide (Africa, of folk, ethnic, vintage and modern Indonesia, Spain, the Americas, as well I wasn’t impressed with earlier issues beads, jewelry and clothing. The as the Middle East), this is a great (skinny and unattractive) until I saw co-editors often travel to the window to architecture, water control Santa Fe’s 1999 Clovis and Beyond exhibitions and ancient sites they write and agrigulture, arts, archaeology, rock Conference displays of stunning about, whether in Asia or the art, ethnic clothing and jewelry, bifaces, points, enormous blanks, and Southwest. One recent issue features history, music. Each issue includes a fabulous caches and learned more the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, children’s activity page, related books, about early people’s movement, with its exceptional collection of events and exhibitions. Indexed mitochondrial DNA, etc. These folks vintage and contemporary Indian annually. One recent copy had a not only appreciated, and traveled/ jewelry; it also has a travel piece on fascinating report on Asian Silk Road traded long distances to obtain prime Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot, with ikat textiles, with their ancient and tool stone, but chose beautifully beautiful photos of artifacts. Another complex dyeing and weaving patterned and colored pieces as well; I copy might discuss Turkomen techniques; Western Hemisphere ikats, was impressed! The newsletter is a (Afghani) clothing and metalwork. such as Guatemalan cottons, seem to simple publication that wouldn’t win Many items fall into the art or one-of-a have developed independently. any awards for aesthetics, but I like the kind realm, with some pieces not ex- contents, focusing on the peopling of actly “wearable” - but intriguing Think Spanish!/¡Piensa en Español! - the Americas, with updates on sites, anyway. You can often find older monthly Spanish language magazine, dating and controversies, technology, issues at Bookman’s. $45.95; with optional audio CD, and new migration theories. TCFSFA $119.95; call or write for a free also publishes and sells a variety of Piecework: Needlework’s Living sample: Second Language Publishing, books on Ice Age peoples and sites. Legacy - bi-monthly magazine, 2323 Broadway, Studio 204, San $29.95; color and B & W illus; Diego CA 92102, tel. 800-741-0773. Old Pueblo Archaeology - quarterly Interweave Press LLC, 201 East 4th Check website for special offers and bulletin available as a subscription for Street, Loveland CO 80537-5655, tel. back issues: www.thinkspanish.com $10 or with memberships of $25 or 800-340-7496, website more. Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, www.interweave.com. It’s designed to help you brush up on PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717- your reading skills via one or two page 0577, tel. 520-798-1201, website It’s not obvious in the title, but (Continued on page 8)
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(Continued from page 7) I’ve omitted many organizations like There are numerous magazines and articles on celebrations and traditions, the Arizona Archaeological Council journals that publish archaeological news, travel, history (including ar- and the New Mexico Archaeological pieces occasionally. Check your li- chaeological sites), grammar, recipes Council, both with good websites, list- braries, newsstands, etc. for Arizona from Spanish-speaking countries. serves, newsletters, workshops, con- Highways, Discover, New Mexico Each article stresses unusual words in ferences, and occasional publications; Magazine, Scientific American, bold print and lists these vocabulary check the Internet. Those in the Phoe- Smithsonian. words and meanings alongside each nix area might want to consider page of text. One recent issue dis- SWAT, the Southwest Archaeology I also know there are members with cussed the meaning and origins of El Team, an active group that meets at different specializations and interests Día de los Muertos; another included the Mesa Southwest Museum; check than mine, so why don’t YOU write background material on Teotihuacán. the web or call the museum. Tucson- something up and share it with the rest I’ve seen copies at Bookman’s. If you area residents have their own Arizona of us; submit to Ellie Large, the Petro- have a year or so of formal Spanish Archaeological and Historical Society glyph editor. behind you, you can handle it. (see Kiva).
REGISTRATION
WINTER STATE MEETING In Phoenix
JANUARY 26/27, 2008
PUEBLO GRANDE MUSEUM, 4619 E. WASHINGTON ST., PHOENIX
Name(s):______Chapter:______
Address:______
City:______State:______Zip:______
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Box Lunch from Cousin’s Subs
Italian____Beef____Chicken____Veggie_____ $7.00 per person
Dinner will be a catered buffet with beef and chicken entrée’s, a salad, vegetable, potato and dessert. $25 per person
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Guest speaker: Dr. William Doelle, Desert Archaeology
Make checks payable to: Phoenix Chapter, AAS
Mail checks to: Sylvia Lesko, 865 S. Oak St., Gilbert 85233 No later than January 11, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:00 a.m. Registration 8:30 a.m. Presidents meeting 9:15 a.m. Business meeting (Continued on page 11) 8 November 2007 / Newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological Society CHAPTER NEWS Agave House fields, 17th century Apache fall hunting, past and present, in relation Chapter harvesting camps, 19th century wagon to these sites. roads and one of Arizona’s early Boy Scout camps. Chapter member Suzanne Arnold will The Sept. 26th meeting was called to be talking about Thailand at our order by Ralf Kurzhals, who led us in Professor Ekkehart Malotki will be November meeting - .more informa- the Pledge of Allegiance. Gloria gave our speaker at the Nov. 13th meeting tion on that in the next Petroglyph. a report on the Oktoberfest booth, and his topic will be about Archaic which netted us $177 on the raffle and Rock Art. He will have copies of his — Denise A. Agnew bake sale. latest book available. Our originally scheduled speaker from Desert Foothills The next Pierpoint field workday will the Petrified Forest could not attend, th Chapter be Nov. 18 . Contact Bob Lindsay, and Jeanne Schofer, archeologist for 602-866-3649 or [email protected] the Lakeside District of the Apache- We begin the month with a hike on for more information. Shelley Sitgreaves Forest, kindly filled in. Nov. 3rd led by our advisor, Scott Rasmussen will lead a hike on Nov. She talked about the making of Pueblo Wood, archaeologist for the Tonto 17th through the Cave Creek Park to IV Period ceramics in Arizona's White National Forest. We will be on the view petroglyphs and then on to the Mountains. Her research project was Tonto Forest in the New River area. Shoger Site. Contact Shelley at conducted through the U of A, after 928-684-1670 for more information. she was given permission by the tribe The Cave Creek Museum, in the town to research Forestdale Valley. Her of Cave Creek, has invited all AAS There is another opportunity to assist talk covered several types of ceramics, members to an open house on Sunday, ASU with survey work on Perry Mesa who made them, how they were made, Nov. 11th, beginning at 2:00pm. They this season. Will Russell has and what temper was used. We would like all of us to see the identified additional racetracks on learned about the 4 major wares: Archaeology Room, which was Perry Mesa and needs volunteers to Corrugated Plain Ware, Cibola White, completely redone this summer. A lot help “ground-truth” them. Contact White Mountain Red, and Roosevelt of the volunteer work on it was done Linda Dorsey (623-974-3683 or Red. She talked about comparisons by Desert Foothills Chapter members [email protected]) if you are between Kinishba Polychrome and led by our own Grace Schoonover. interested. Jeddito Yellow Ware. Refreshments We will be able to tour the museum followed the interesting presentation. and have refreshment, and then Mark If you would like to join the speaker Hackbarth will speak on the for dinner at The Black Bear Diner, The next meeting is Oct. 24th, starting archaeology of the foothills area. It 6039 W. Bell Rd. at 5:00 pm before with dinner at Pizza Time at 5:00 pm, should be a really good event that I the Chapter meeting, please phone or followed by the meeting at Black hope many of you will be able to email Linda Dorsey at 623-974-3683 Mesa Ranger Station at 6:30 pm. All attend. Come into Cave Creek early or [email protected]. are welcome. If you have questions, in that day as the town is celebrating please call Ralf Kurzhals at Wild West Days with lots of — Sandy Haddock & Sandy Gauthier 928-536-3056. activities.
— Diane Collins Cochise Chapter Our speaker at our regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 14th is The Cochise Chapter welcomed Jesse Dr. David Wilcox, the Senior Curator Agua Fria Ballenger of the San Pedro Project, of Anthropology at the Museum of Chapter University of Arizona Department of Northern Arizona. We're really Anthropology to our October meeting. looking forward to having him at our Dr. Sarah Herr’s October presentation Jesse presented a fascinating meeting. Our meetings begin at 7pm on the State Route 260 - Payson to introduction to the Clovis and with refreshments. We meet at Cave Heber Project was great. The Mammoth sites in Cochise County. Creek Town Hall, 37622 Cave Creek archaeological investigations in the Several members of our chapter have Road, in the Town of Cave Creek. past 8 years have identified 3000 had the opportunity to assist Jesse years of occupation from Archaic with excavations this summer. Jesse — Paddi Mozilo houses to 8th century AD villages and explained the history of big game (Continued on page 10) 9 T H E P E T R O G L Y P H / November 2007 More CHAPTER NEWS….
(Continued from page 9) massive new Meroe Dam will you are interested in having dinner displace more than 50,000 people, as with the speaker, please call or email well as submerge tens of thousands of Sylvia (480-497-4229 or Little Colorado ancient archaeological sites as early as [email protected]) so that she can River Chapter next year. reserve a large enough table.
The October meeting was the venue Dr. Robert Stokes from — Ellie Large for a presentation of Pre-Roman and Archaeological Consulting Services Roman archeology of the region of will talk about ACS’ recent Verde Valley archaeological investigations at the southern France known as Provence, th Chapter by President Dave Rohlader and his Hayden Flour Mill at out Nov. 8 meeting, and Dr. Barbara Stark will wife, Dorothy, just returned from The VVAS held its September update us on “The Debate about the France. Provence, and particularly the meeting at the Sedona Public Library Olmec Legacy in Mesoamerica” at our town of Arles and its vicinity were the on the 27th. The speakers were Steve Dec. 13th holiday potluck. focus, revealing first century BC and Lois Hirst, long-time residents activity, up to the fourth century baths with the Havasupai, who are called by On the weekend of Nov. 10th, Tom constructed by Emperor Constantine. the Hopi "the Guardians of the Harvey will lead a field trip to visit Included in the presentation were Canyon." In his book “I Am the the Blythe Intaglios and then go to slides and information about the Gallo Grand Canyon,” Steve chronicles the lesser known sites within about 10 -Roman site beneath the square in life of the Havasupai in the canyon miles of the more well known front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, during the winter, and their much features. Most of the features are on the Ile de la Cite, in Paris. freer life, hunting, farming, and within a mile of highway 95, so they grazing their animals, on the higher are reachable with short, cross-country The LCRC meets each third Monday, plains during the summer. He also hikes over relatively easy terrain. at 7:00 PM at the Casa Malpais spoke of the many sacrifices made by Tom knows the locations of about 55 Museum. For more information call the Havasupai, as more and more land of the lesser known intaglios, and also David Rohlader at 928 333 0521 or was taken from them. Finally, knows of lithic scatters and rock 928 245 3356 (Cell). however, they triumphed, and had alignments that should also be worth their land restored to them, and they trying to find. Ancient trails can also are now trying to rebuild their tribe — David W. Rohlader be found near some of the intaglios. according to many of the old ways. For more information, see Tom’s website at Phoenix Chapter Our October meeting will be held on http://home.att.net/~tbharvey/. the 25th, at the Keep Sedona Beautiful On Oct. 11th, Dr. Brenda Baker from Building at 7:00 p.m. Our speaker The 2007 PGM Indian Market will be ASU’s School of Human Evolution will be Jonathan S. Day, a second- held on Dec. 8 & 9 at Steele Indian and Social Change gave us a generation Indian trader who grew up School Park in Phoenix. The Chili PowerPoint presentation on in and around the Hopi reservation. Booth committee is now accepting “Archaeological Fieldwork at the His subject will be "The Role of volunteers to work on both days. Fourth Cataract of the Nile River in Kachina Dolls and Other Artifacts in Please contact Sylvia Lesko Sudan.” Archaeological survey of the Hopi Culture." Jonathan is the author 480-497-4229 for information on how riverbanks south of the fourth cataract of “Traditional Hopi Kachinas: A to get your name on the list. of the Nile River in Sudan, in an area New Generation of Carvers.” that had largely been considered of Jonathan has opened his own trading The chapter meets on the second only marginal archaeological interest, post in Flagstaff. He was recently Thursday of each month in the has revealed settlements, cemeteries featured on NPR's Morning Edition, Community Room at the Pueblo and rock art that span four millennia. and in Sunset Magazine. Grande Museum, 4619 E. Washington The survey work was undertaken to St. in Phoenix, starting at 7:30 pm. try to learn as much as possible about Marlene reported on the activities of We usually take the speaker to dinner the area before it is inundated by the the volunteers. A number are at 5:30 pm at Monti’s La Casa Vieja construction of a new and massive on Mill and Rio Salado in Tempe. If dam on the Nile at Meroe. The (Continued on page 11)
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(Continued from page 10) [email protected] probable antelope hunting walls and continuing in the process of petroglyphs, and, time permitting, the inventorying. The excavations from the Yavapai Chapter members were Rosalie Mine pueblo group. The trip Grand Canyon should be arriving on fascinated by Ken Zoll’s talk in will be led by Cliff Herstad, a Yavapai 10/24 or 10/31, ready for processing. September on the petroglyphs at the Chapter member who has done Almost 1300 photos have been taken of V-Bar-V site and elsewhere. He has extensive research in this area and who the pottery in the Babbitt Collection. studied the movement of the sun and its spoke at last fall’s AAC symposium correlation to petroglyphs and found an about these sites. Jerry Ehrhardt has announced the abundance of calendar markers around resumption of the site surveys. In Arizona. A public thank you to the many November there will be two dates: the members who have helped pack, load, 20th and the 27th and in December there Future speakers include: Oct. 18th, drive, and unload display cases and will be three dates: the 4th, the 11th, and Rem Hawes, the new director of the multitudes of boxes. By the time you the 18th. Agua Fria National Monument, on the read this issue, all our lab supplies and resources and future plans in the artifacts should be in the rented storage The field trip to Laughlin is coming up monument; Nov. 15th, Dr. John locker until our new quarters at Sharlot soon. Please make your reservations Hohmann, archaeologist with Louis Hall Museum are available. quickly, if you have not already done Berger and Associates and principal so. Jim Graceffa and Roy Eversole are investigator at Q Ranch Pueblo, a 220- So what kind of jewelry did kids wear busy planning the 14-day trip to Peru in room Mogollon site, on the work at that prehistorically? This is one of the the spring. We had our First Annual site; Dec. 13th potluck meeting with Dr. many questions put to Rosemary BBQ and Pot Luck Picnic on the 29th of Sandra Lynch, curator of Anthropology Hartner and Mark Millman when they Sept. The members of the VVAS of Sharlot Hall Museum, on Native made the first of their classroom visits demonstrated their skills in the American instruments and music. in early October to schools in Skull Culinary Arts Department, with Valley and Kirkland. They received especially scrumptious desserts. October’s field trip on Oct. 27th let kudos from the teachers for an members discover the inside story of imaginative and informative Contact is Bud Henderson another National Monument, presentation that kept the students en- (928) 649-0412, or Montezuma’s Well and Castle, where gaged. The next step is to develop a [email protected]. the monument archaeologist, John training module to involve more Schroeder, will lead the group. chapter members in this important — Louise Fitzgerald Monthly field trips continue, thanks to outreach project. the work of Tom Garrison. In Yavapai Chapter September, he led thirteen chapter Nine chapter members participated in members to The Ladders, a two-story, the Brooklyn Basin rock art project on th Contacts: President Fred Kraps probable Sinagua cliff dwelling in the Perry Mesa the weekend of Oct. 6 and th (928)778-0653 [email protected]. Verde Valley. While the access was 7 . It was wonderful to have this Programs: Vice-president Gloria challenging, the group enjoyed seeing opportunity to train on how to record Grimditch (928) 443-8881 the views, the structure, artifacts, and petroglyphs. th [email protected] ecofacts. For Nov. 17 , Tom has lined Field trips: Tom Garrison up a trip to Perry Mesa to view some — Susan Jones
(Continued from page 5) (Continued from page 8) www.ci.phoenix.az.us/PUEBLO/market.html. 12:00p.m. Lunch 1:00 p.m. Guest speaker, Aaron Wright, will speak about his Dec.17, 7:30 pm, ASM, Tucson: AAHS Lecture: work at the Terrace Gardens in the South Mountains Preservation Archaeology at Casa Malpais, Doug Gann, 2:00 p.m. Aaron will lead a field trip to the Terrace Gardens CDA. Duval Auditorium, University Medical Center, 5:00 p.m. Happy Hour at Pueblo Grande Ramada 1501 North Campbell Avenue. For further information 6:00 p.m. Dinner and directions to the auditorium, see their website at 7:30 p.m. Guest speaker: Dr. William Doelle http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/ lectures.shtml. Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:00 a.m. - noon Tours
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