From April 6 through April 8, 2025, the GCAS embarked upon our first overnight field trip in several years. A fine time was had by all 9 participants thanks to field trip coordinators Eduardo Argüello and Torie Grass. Our group enjoyed excursions to the petroglyphs and pueblo site at Lyman Lake State Park as well as a special guided minibus tour from the Casa Malpais Museum in Springerville to the archaeological site of Casa Malpais itself.

Tuesday, June 10-Monday, July 21, 2025: The Preservation Archaeology Museum Curation and Survey Field School sponsored by Archaeology Southwest, Western New Mexico University, and the University of Arizona, begins for student participants with 3 days at Archaeology Southwest and the University of Arizona in Tucson, then continues for the next several weeks at the WNMU Museum in Silver City and the NAN Ranch in the lower Mimbres Valley.

Saturday, April 19, 2025, 10:00AM-3:00PM at Gough Park in Silver City,NM: celebrate Earth Day, hosted by the Continental Divide Trail Days/Continental Divide Trail Coalition, at the GCAS educational booth. We're asking for 3 or more GCAS members to help set up, run, and/or close out our booth during this event. Volunteer for a couple hours or all day. No experience necessary to show the public what the GCAS does - we'll have plenty of brochures, games, and selected artifacts on display as well as used books for sale to support our GCAS library. Contact Marianne by email or telephone/text to 772-529-2627 to offer your help!

Unfortunately we have no volunteers for a GCAS booth, but Earth Day still goes on so enjoy the events in Gough Park all day!

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Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 6:00 PM at 2045 Memory Lane in Silver City, New Mexico. The GCAS's next monthly IN-PERSON ONLY meeting features speaker geoarchaeologist Dave Rachal PhD of Tierra Vieja Consulting in Las Cruces NM. Dave has been involved in some YouTube interviews that discuss various aspects of geoarchaeology, site formation processes related to the formation of ancient footprints and megafauna tracks, and the peopling of the New World. This evening Dave will describe to us the issues surrounding the specific data sets that scientists are applying to the ancient human footprints recently found at White Sands National Park. Doors open at 6:00 PM with light refreshments on offer. Socializing and a brief-to-nonexistent business meeting will immediately precede Dave's presentation of: How Did The Seeds Get There? Ruppia cirrhosa Ecology, Depositional Context and Accurate Radiocarbon Dating at White Sands:

Fill your calendar with a number of adventures on offer by the Jornada Research Institute. Consider any or all of the following:

Tuesday, April 15, 2025: sponsored by the Jornada Research Institute, Joan E. Price, MFA and JRI Research Associate, presents her most recent studies, MONEY RUNS UPHILL:THE PRIVATIZATION OF A COMMONWEALTH IN SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO. This presentation explores the cultural history of Tularosa, a Mexican American "acequia democracy" known for its equitable water irrigation and traditional settlement practices. It examines the ethnic conflicts and rapid cultural assimilation during the New Mexico Territorial Era (1848-1912), within the ambiguous relationship with the U.S. military presence and American capitalists who eventually gained control of the Rio Bonito, Rio Tularosa and the streams along the west slopes of the Sacramento Mountains. Contact Dave Greenwald for details.