Eighteen GCAS members and guests enjoyed our most recent field trip on June 1, 2025, to the Twin Pines archaeological site in the Upper Mimbres Valley. The GCAS's own Marilyn Gendron wrote:

"...I am happy to report that 18 people showed up for the Twin Pines field trip.....With the 20 students, 4 volunteers and [directing archaeologist Fumi Arakawa] and Chris Adams, that was a group of 44….Eduardo, Mark, Steve & Beth, Ken & Ellen all camped in a grove at the intersection the nite before,…Tori and Jim camped a little ways away and they had a fun time.

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

Monday, June 23, 2025 via ZOOM: David Greenwald of the Jornada Research Institute presents a powerpoint lecture on behalf of Aztlander Magazine, a monthly online publication, titled A Jornada Mogollon Cultural Landscape: Aberration or Microcosm of the American Southwest? Dave condenses the complexities of the Mesilla Phase archaeology in Tularosa Canyon - an arduous job to say the least. Visit Aztlander to pre-register for this zoom presentation.

Dr. Fumi Arakawa, Associate Director of Research at Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, has invited the general public to the Geronimo Springs Museum in Truth or Consequences on Saturday, June 21, 2025, when about 15 students from Indiana University/Bloomington will present the findings of their 2025 fieldwork at the Twin Pines Village site in the Gila National Forest. From 11:00AM to 2:00PM, each of Dr. Arakawa's student crew will present their individual research projects at the Geronimo Springs Museum. To see more details, either click on the photo on the right to enlarge, or download the flyer here to open in a new window: Download 2025 IU Field School

Please join the community in celebrating the IU 2025 field school students' hard work and discoveries!

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

Monday, June 23, 2025 via ZOOM: David Greenwald of the Jornada Research Institute presents a powerpoint lecture on behalf of Aztlander Magazine, a monthly online publication, titled A Jornada Mogollon Cultural Landscape: Aberration or Microcosm of the American Southwest? Dave condenses the complexities of the Mesilla Phase archaeology in Tularosa Canyon - an arduous job to say the least. Visit Aztlander to pre-register for this zoom presentation.

On May 4, 2025* fifteen or more GCAS members led by Marilyn Markel took a short hike up Sapillo Canyon to inspect some pictographs there, then gathered again at the Lake Roberts Vista/Overlook to learn more about the Mimbres-Mogollon habitation site that was professionally excavated there in the 1990s. The weather was ideal, as was the company.

We used the DStretch app to enhance one of the more faded pictographs; below we see the original photo on the left, an image in the center of the same photo with DStretch's CRGB filter applied, and the image on the far right with DStretch's RGBO filter applied. Fun fact: DStretch is also useful in enhancing features in aerial photographs, and even ink on faded historic documents. Science never ceases to amaze.

*May the Fourth Be With You!

/s/ webmaster [All photos courtesy of Eduardo Argüello]