NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, April 19, 2023: the GCAS meets at 2045 Memory Lane in Silver City, New Mexico. Light refreshments provided; OK to bring your own light snacks or handy meal (burrito, etc.) & beverage if desired. Doors open at 5 PM for socializing. Meeting starts at 5:30 PM sharp with a short business meeting followed at 5:45 PM by featured speaker and GCAS member Carolyn O’Bagy Davis, who will discuss Bert and Hattie Cosgrove, avocational archaeologists who were instrumental in documenting and preserving a number of local sites including Arenas Valley's Treasure Hill. Meeting to adjourn about 7:00 PM. In order to offer our members a safe and comfortable experience the GCAS follows CDC and New Mexico Department of Health guidelines for indoor gatherings including masking, distancing, and vaccinations. We recommend all attendees follow the same.

NEXT FIELD TRIP: Sunday, April 2, 2023, beginning 9:00 AM: Regular GCAS field trip to City of Rocks State Park - view remnants of Apache shelters along the Cienega Trail, plus features in other easy-access locations like a rock shelter, Apache petroglyph, kiva, and multiple mortar holes. City of Rocks is about a 1-hour drive one-way from Silver City. At 9:00 AM meet at the Cienega Trail trailhead parking (a few hundred yards from the Highway 61 turnoff to the City of Rocks - look on the left side of the road for a parking area with a Port-o-Let). Walk the 1-mile easy Cienega Trail loop to inspect some off-trail features. About 11:00 AM, non-hikers can join the rest of the group to learn about the kiva site a few yards from the Visitor Center. About 11:15 AM, drive round the park’s perimeter road to the north side to view the rock shelter, Apache petroglyph, and mortar holes (short but moderately steep walk uphill from area near campsite #35). Picnic lunch follows at any convenient unoccupied campsite.

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November 16, 2022, Via Zoom: GCAS Monthly Meeting With Our Featured Speaker: Peggy Nelson

Peggy NelsonWednesday, November 16, 2022, 7:00PM via Zoom: Let's get together online for our monthly meeting. As usual we'll start with a brief-if-any business meeting to be immediately followed by our Featured Speaker and longtime GCAS friend and supporter, Margaret "Peggy" Nelson PhD. Peggy will share with us NEWS FROM THE EAST: Contributions to Understanding Mimbres Lives and Landscapes.

Join us on Zoom starting at 6:45 to get situated before Peggy begins her presentation at 7:00 PM sharp. A Q&A session will follow her talk. Check your email inbox for your Zoom invitation about one week beforehand, and join us to hear about Peggy's insights. Meanwhile, learn more about her and her archaeological career:

Margaret "Peggy" Nelson is President’s Professor Emeritus in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and Vice Dean Emeritus of Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University. She collaborates on research in the Mimbres region of southwest New Mexico, focusing on social and ecological aspects of continuity and change in cultural traditions. Most recently, she has led two interdisciplinary research teams. The first addresses social-ecological issues concerning resilience and sustainability for prehistoric small-scale farmers in the US Southwest and northern Mexico (600-1500 CE). The second focuses on the impacts of climate challenges on people and includes researchers working across the US Southwest and the North Atlantic Islands of Iceland, Greenland, Faroes, and Scotland (PNAS 2015). Nelson was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008 and has been recognized for her teaching excellence as ASASU Centennial Professor, ASU Parents Association Professor of the Year, and ASU President’s Professor. As a retiree she currently does research in support of Our Family Services in Tucson and Chairs the Board of Amerind Foundation.

Watch some of Peggy's past YouTube talks about our area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSbReVp8s4E  "Mimbres Lives and Landscapes of SW New Mexico," 4/2019; and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfCwdAX9wbg  Archaeology of the Ancient Mimbres, 2014.

Join us on November 16!

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