Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 6:00PM: the GCAS in-person monthly meeting begins with the last potluck of the summer at the Roundup Lodge in San Lorenzo (Mimbres Valley). As usual bring your own plates & utensils, and a dish for yourself or to share. A brief business meeting follows at about 6:45PM, after which we will welcome our Featured Speaker, Allen Denoyer, preservation archaeologist at Archaeology Southwest in Tucson, Arizona. Allen will use examples from his years of experimental archaeology projects to introduce us to the wonderful world of MUD, ranging from how mud is utilized in pithouse construction, to excavations of mud-built agricultural fields, to the amazing impressions that archaeologists can find in prehistoric mud. Join us!
Allen Denoyer has been working as a professional archaeologist since the early 1990s with field experience throughout the Southwest and Rocky Mountains regions. In the Tucson Basin, Allen excavated sites that helped define the early agricultural period in southern Arizona. In Wyoming and Colorado, worked at a number of Paleoindian, precontact, and historic sites. Allen is a skilled replicator of ancient artifacts who has taught flintknapping and atlatl workshops for two decades. His replicas are used in classrooms, colleges, and universities, and his work has appeared on the television show Mythbusters. As the ancient 
technologies expert for Archaeology Southwest's Hands-On Archaeology program, Allen believes that replicating ancient tools and technologies helps people meaningfully connect with the past.
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