The July 17, 2024, GCAS Meeting Features Speaker Karen Schollmeyer PhD

NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, May 21, 2025, CANCELLED NOTE THE 5:00 PM START TIME at the WNMU Museum: This special monthly GCAS meeting is the GCAS's annual fundraiser for the WNMU Museum, with which we are so closely allied. Dr. Patricia (Pat) Gilman will be our honored presenter explaining, What Are Tropical Macaws Doing in Mimbres Sites? Watch this space for the date and topic of our next meeting.

NEXT FIELD TRIP: Sunday, June 1, 2025. The GCAS’s next field trip – WEATHER PERMITTING - will visit the Twin Pines site in the upper Mimbres Valley where we will have the opportunity to see directing archaeologist Fumi Arakawa and his crew’s work. This is Gila National Forest land with Mimbres habitations built on top of pithouses and a great kiva. Some petroglyphs are nearby. Access is slow going along rocky roads but high-clearance or 4WD vehicles are not required. However, the trip to Twin Pines takes about 2.5-3 hours from Silver City driving up the Mimbres Valley and into the west side of the Black Range; or about 2.5 hours driving from Truth or Consequences through the east side of the Black Range on an easier road. Overnight camping (boondocking, no amenities) may be available near the Beaverhead Work Center. GCAS members will meet at the Beaverhead Work Center on NM Hwy 59 at 11:00 AM on June 1. To protect this sensitive site, interested GCAS members should contact Marianne at [email protected] for more specific directions.

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The July 17, 2024, GCAS Meeting Features Speaker Karen Schollmeyer PhD

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Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 6:00PM: the GCAS monthly meeting at the Roundup Lodge in San Lorenzo (Mimbres Valley) begins with our usual summertime potluck - bring your own plates & utensils, and a dish for yourself or to share with what we expect to be a larger than usual number of guests, including the starving students of the 2024 Preservation Archaeology Museum Curation and Survey Field School, jointly directed by Archaeology Southwest/ASU's Karen Schollmeyer PhD and WNMU Museum's director Danni Romero PhD. Let's feed these folks well, people, they've earned it!

At about 6:30PM we will have a brief business meeting after which we will welcome our featured speaker, Karen Schollmeyer herself, who will share updates on her and her field school team's current work at the WNMU Museum which includes curating the artifacts comprising the NAN Ranch collection.

Karen grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and earned her undergraduate degree at Stanford University and her Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Arizona State University. Her archaeological projects have taken her from the Peruvian highlands to the Ethiopian desert, and throughout the American Southwest.

Now a preservation archaeologist for Archaeology Southwest, Karen’s research incorporates zooarchaeology, and long-term human-environment interactions such as food security and landscape use. For the past 15 years her fieldwork on behalf of Archaeology Southwest and Arizona State University has included teaching multiple field schools in southwest New Mexico, most notably for the GCAS at the Gila River Farm near Cliff, New Mexico.

Karen's years of collaborative historical research has identified vegetative remains and animal bone in previously unanalyzed collections from several older excavations in the region. She and other archaeologists combine the plant and animal datasets to gain a clearer picture of prehistoric hunting and agricultural patterns as they responded to long-term environmental changes in the Mimbres and the greater Southwest region, and how those patterns may apply to contemporary issues in conservation and development.

Come meet the future generation of archaeologists, and learn about the latest activity at our own WNMU Museum!

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