The CAS Surveyor Newsletter of the Colorado Archaeological Society Winter 2011 REPORT OF 2011 CAS ANNUAL MEETING PRESENTATIONS Volume 9, Number 4 REPORT OF 2011 CAS ANNUAL Cody Newton - Hiding Horses in the MEETING PRESENTATIONS: Breaks: Documenting the Early to At the CAS Annual Meeting, Saturday, Middle Eighteenth Century Indigenous October 15, 2011, the day was filled Occupation of the Little Snake River with excellent presentations and Drainage outstanding posters covering a wide Robert Brunswig, Andy Creekmore variety of interesting topics. I want to & Noel Dijkstra - Archaeological thank the following presenters for Research at Dearfield: an Early 20th sharing their time, papers and posters Century African-American Agricultural and those who helped create an Colony in Weld County, Colorado enjoyable and educational day: Brenda Todd - Chimney Rock, Chaco Morning General Session: and the Local Community: New Chaz Evans - Catlinite: Evidence of Research at Chimney Rock Great Long Distance Exchange in an House Apishapa Site in Southeastern Steve Lekson - Mesa Verde Migrations Colorado and CU Research at Pinnacle Ruin Jakob Sedig - Preliminary Jessica Hedgepeth - Early Postclassic Please send the editor Archaeological Research at Woodrow Pottery from Río Viejo, Oaxaca, your meeting dates and Ruin (SW New Mexico): Prehistoric Mexico: A Typological and topic information. These Mimbres Culture Iconographic Analysis will be published in our Kellam Throgmorton - Customs, Kathryn Putsavage - The Black calendar when space is available. At jc- Ceremonies, Legends and Culture of Mountain Archaeological Site of [email protected] the Pueblo of Zuni Southern New Catherine Johns - Ceramic Mexico: A Second Year of Excavations Assemblages: Teuchitlan Tradition at Afternoon Symposium: Recent and Navajas site, Jalisco, Mexico Remarkable Archaeological CAS BOARD MEETING Andrew Carroll - Terra Cotta Roofing Research in Colorado CAS Board Meeting Systems in Central Italy: Richard Wilshusen – Introduction will be hosted by the Comprehensive Catalog of Periods of Cody Newton - The Snowmastodon Denver Chapter on Occupation at Poggio Civitate Sunday, January 21, (Archaic) Project™: A World-Class Late Pleistocene Site in High Altitude 2012. Location and Jack Warner - Lamb Spring Colorado details are yet to be de- Archaeological Preserve: Past, Present, termined. Future? Continued on page 4 Winter 2011 The CAS Surveyor Page 2 QUARTERLY BOARD MEETING/ ANNUAL MEETING HIGHLIGHTS QUARTERLY BOARD MEETING/ ANNUAL PUBLICATIONS / COLORADO ARCHAE- MEETING HIGHLIGHTS OLOGY (KEVIN BLACK): Short versions of Boulder, Colorado many of the papers that were presented at the sympo- sium honoring the career of Jim Benedict at the October 14/15, 2011 March, 2011 CCPA meeting are planned to be in- The CAS Quarterly Board Meeting and CAS Annual cluded in the next issue of Colorado Archaeology. Meeting were held on October 14/15, 2011, in Boul- Publication is targeted for the CCPA annual meeting der, CO. in Durango in March, 2012. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY (TOM HOFF): The PUBLICATIONS / SURVEYOR NEWSLETTER CAS bone collection has been returned. (JOHN/CARLA SANBORN): Items for inclusion TREASURER (MICHELE GIOMETTI): Current in the next issue of the Surveyor are requested by assets are $37,020.66 and liabilities are $3,000.00. November 6. MEMBERSHIP (BEV GOERING): There are 887 PUBLICATIONS / WEBSITE (TERRI HOFF): chapter members and 633 chapter memberships. Un- Southwestern Lore index files have been received affiliated members are 45 and unaffiliated member- and are being updated. ships are 41. Life memberships are 24. Chapters are ADVISORY BOARD (LINDA SEYFERT): The requested to verify their active life members. reports will be combined into a final report, sent to ALICE HAMILTON SCHOLARSHIP (PHIL the State Archaeologist, and also published in the WILLIAMS): Several speakers at the CAS Annual Surveyor. A copy also will be attached to the final Meeting are Alice Hamilton Scholarship awardees. minutes. PAAC (KEVIN BLACK): One PAAC class was LONG RANGE PLANNING – (RICHARD held in Eagle. Four PAAC certificates were awarded SUNDSTROM): Denver and Indian Peaks shared for the third quarter. Mary Ann Gabriel (Denver) newsletters. The Long Range Planning Committee achieved Provisional Surveyor and Certified Sur- recommends all chapters exchange newsletters dur- veyor I, Bonnie Moser (Pikes Peak) achieved PAAC ing the first quarter of 2012. All chapters shall bring Scholar, and Katherine McComb (Indian Peaks) newsletter contact email addresses to the January, achieved Certified Surveyor I. The new schedule for 2012 Quarterly Board Meeting. PAAC lab training sessions was posted on the OAHP STATE ARCHAEOLOGIST (RICHARD WIL- website. There will be a new lab venue in central SHUSEN): OAHP moved into the new History Denver this year. Two site form workshops for the Colorado Museum (3rd floor) at 1200 Broadway on 2011 PAAC Training Survey at Antelope Gulch were September 26. Colorado Archaeology weekend will held at OAHP on August 27 and September 15. take place on May 5-6, 2012 as part of the opening Kevin gave a presentation on central Colorado chert month ceremonies and festivals. CAS assistance is sources at the Rocky Mountain Anthropological requested. An on-site assessment of the curation of Conference in Missoula, MT. The Introduction to Colorado artifacts in almost 30 state-approved re- Archaeology PAAC course will be offered in Denver positories is being conducted to evaluate current con- in conjunction with the January, 2012 CAS Quarterly ditions and offer basic minimal conditions for a state- Board Meeting. approved curation facility. Almost 3,000 projects in PUBLICATIONS / SOUTHWESTERN LORE Colorado were reviewed over the last year. (JUDI HALASI): The Summer/Fall double issue of CHS / CAS REPS (ROBERT MUTAW/PETER Southwestern Lore (Vol. 77, Nos. 2&3) contained FARIS): The State Historical Fund is going to a sin- articles on the Basketmakers. Work is in progress on gle round of awards. A new storage facility is lo- the winter issue. cated on North Pecos. Continued on page 6 Winter 2011 Page 3 CAS Advisory Board Report to the State Archaeologist COLORADO ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY tionship with the university. ADVISORY BOARD REPORT TO THE STATE PUBLIC EDUCATION / OUTREACH: ARCHAEOLOGIST Denver – Two public talks and tours at Lamb Spring Ar- October 15, 2011 chaeological Preserve, Douglas County; A special Lamb Spring tour for students related to a Mullen High School SCIENTIFIC (SURVEY, TESTING, EXCAVATION, Human Geography class; A talk on Archaeology as a Pro- LAB): fession to Pinnacle Charter Middle School students in sup- Denver – The Chapter obtained the State Historical Fund- port of a career counselor's program , Thornton, CO. Also ing grant for scientific analysis of materials from Blackfoot Bob Rushforth’s Aviation Archaeology Group of the Colo- Site. The Chapter continues to excavate there and likely rado Aviation Historical Society is assisting the city of La will do another season there next summer. At present, the Junta in photographing the old La Junta Army Airfield chapter is working on a synthesis of the work done on W. (WWII) to determine what is still identifiable and to assist Bijou surveys between Metro State and CAS-Denver. It in applying for Colorado Registry for the old Painting Han- is hoped to have that completed by first of the year. gar. The building will be put on the Historic Register as the Painting Hangar and not the terminal building as once PUBLICATIONS REPORT: NONE thought. It is the only WWII building still standing on the CURATION ISSUES: site. Also, at this time they have identified the location of a Denver – There is a proposal for CAS-Denver to donate B-25 crash (fatal) on the base. The city plans to put up a money through the Archaeological Conservancy to pur- memorial plaque on the location. chase the site near Pueblo called Roper's Walk. It is an Apishapa site and they need to raise $61,000 by January. It San Juan Basin - Several SJBAS members continue to has 9 intact features, a possible quarry and a natural pool. participate in the volunteer program at Mesa Verde, volun- SITE STEWARDSHIPS: teer at the Anasazi Heritage Center on a regular basis, and San Juan Basin - A few members of SJBAS are cultural assist on a weekly basis with curation efforts for the artifact site stewards in the program managed by the San Juan collections at the Center of Southwest Studies. Joint meet- Mountains Association. Stewards monitor their sites at ings are held with the Life Long Learning Program and the least once a quarter. Some sites are monitored monthly, Center of Southwest Studies of Fort Lewis College several depending on expected site impact. times a year. Monthly meetings normally draw 40 to 60. VANDALISM AND COMPLIANCE ISSUES: OTHER: San Juan Basin – Cultural site stewards notify the appro- Indian Peaks - Within CAS, the chapter is working with priate Federal or State agencies if any vandalism is ob- the Denver CAS Chapter (Jack Warner) on ways to ex- served. None was observed during the last quarter. change information on chapter programs, presentations, CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL INTERACTIONS: and other activities. They are also forwarding their news- Denver – As per our CO-CAS Long Range Planning Com- letter to all chapters and have received some positive feed- mittee experiment, President Jack Warner sent the DC- back from the other chapters. In addition, the chapter is CAS newsletter, "All Points Bulletin (APB)", to all CO- planning for annual CAS meeting.