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NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, January 15, 2024, 6:00 PM New Mexico time - ONLINE VIA ZOOM: The GCAS kicks off 2025 with a brief business meeting to be immediately followed by our Featured Speaker, Rhianna Cooke, senior anthropology undergraduate at Indiana University/Bloomington. Rhianna will discuss Clay in the Kiva: Possible Uses for Natural Clay Beneath Twin Pines Village. Twin Pines Village is a site located in the upper Mimbres Valley area in the Gila National Forest. It has been the subject of years of study under the direction of Dr. Fumi Arakawa, and Rhianna performed fieldwork there during the summer of 2024. She will describe that during their 2024 excavation, Dr. Arakawa’s crew discovered a large natural deposit of clay beneath the site. Later, it became clear that the clay had been manipulated/used in some fashion in the great kiva at the site, although Dr. Arakawa, Rhianna, and other researchers are still questioning the exact purpose that this "clay pit" may have served. Join us on Zoom starting at about 5:45 to get situated and socialize before the official meeting begins at 6:00 PM sharp. A Q&A session will follow Rhianna’s talk. Members, check your email inbox for your Zoom invitation about one week before the presentation (roughly 1/8/2025). Nonmembers, email the GCAS for the Zoom link about a week prior (1/8/2025).

NEXT FIELD TRIP: TBA: watch this space.

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October Reminders

10/15/2023

It's been a busy month, going from September into October. Set aside these remaining October dates for archaeological action leading into the Halloween holiday:

Wednesday, 10/18/2023: GCAS’s general meeting IS RESCHEDULED to 3 days later on Saturday, October 21, 2023, beginning at 6:00PM, for a special meeting and potluck dinner at 2045 Memory Lane in Silver City to welcome visiting members of the Albuquerque Archaeological Society to our area for the weekend. GCAS members, please bring your finest potluck dishes to share with about 15 members of AAS who would love to meet you - see below for a sketch of the rest of the weekend's plans.

Friday evening, 10/20/2023 thru Sunday morning, 10/22/2023: Members of our companion organization and generous supporters of our MAREC project, the Albuquerque Archaeological Society, will visit Silver City for the weekend! GCAS members are welcome to join any/all activities but space is limited so email or call Marianne at [email protected] or 772-529-2627 to confirm availability for one or more of the following activities, and for details/directions as they develop:

Friday, 10/20, 6:00PM, Little Toad Creek Brewery get-together (dutch treat);

Saturday, 10/21, 10:00AM, tour of WNMU Museum;

Saturday, 10/21, 2:30PM, tour of Mimbres Culture Heritage Site;

Saturday, 10/21, 6:00 PM: GCAS general meeting and potluck at the Memory Lane clubhouse - 2045 Memory Lane in Silver City; presentation will be a casual slideshow of petroglyphs from Dragonfly and Rock House sites with all attendees invited to share their own interpretations of rock imagery;

Sunday, 10/22, 10:00AM: field trip, destination is the 3.4-mile Dragonfly Petroglyph loop trail in the Arenas Valley. Meet at the car park at the Dragonfly Trailhead at 10:00 AM sharp. Take Hwy 180 East and between mile markers 118 and 119 where you see the brown "Dragonfly Trailhead" sign , turn north off of Hwy 180 onto Arenas Valley Road. It's a short distance from there to the car park. See you there!

We'll see you!

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