Meet Tuesday Critz at the GCAS November 20 Annual Meeting!

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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Meet Tuesday Critz at the GCAS November 20 Annual Meeting!

11/13/2024

Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 6:00 PM: Please join the GCAS as we shift to our wintertime location - the clubhouse at 2045 Memory Lane in Silver City, New Mexico. Our November meeting is our GCAS annual meeting so bring your questions, opinions, and votes (!) as we elect two new members to our board of directors. No potluck during the winter months but some light refreshments will be on offer.

We will follow our typically brief business meeting with our Featured Speaker, NMSU graduate student in Anthropology, Tuesday Critz, who will discuss her ongoing research at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (LA 175): Ceramic Exchange in a Multiethnic Community during the El Paso Phase (AD 1275/1300 – 1450). Tuesday indicates that this research is in its early stages so the GCAS is being treated to a sneak preview. Tuesday explains,

I will present our ongoing research at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (LA 175). Dr. William Walker of NMSU has been working at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo since 2012 but recent excavations in 2023 and 2024 have changed the trajectory of this research. Excavations in Area E and Area D presented new patterns in architecture, artifacts, and closure practices. In collaboration with this study, I am focusing on ceramic exchange. I will be presenting data from my master’s thesis, a sourcing study using neutron activation analysis (NAA). Results are preliminary at this time and this presentation will be the first sneak preview.

Tuesday Critz is currently pursuing her M.A. in Anthropology at New Mexico State University. Her thesis research focuses on the exchange of ceramics which she will explore by conducting compositional analysis of ceramics from the NMSU field school at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo where she worked as a crew chief and teaching assistant for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. She is also currently collaborating with Dr. William Walker and Dr. Judy Berryman on research regarding migration in the southern Jornada Mogollon. Tuesday Critz was a field intern at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in 2011. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Missouri, Columbia and has worked extensively in field and museum settings.

Please join us at the GCAS's annual meeting and to hear Tuesday bring fresh insights into the archaeological work at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo.

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