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NEXT MEETING: 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 can be found in prehistoric mud. Join us!

NEXT FIELD TRIP: We defer a September field trip due to conflict with the Labor Day holiday. From Thursday, October 3 through Saturday, October 5, 2024, in lieu of the GCAS's typical monthly field trip we encourage GCAS members to attend the 22d annual Mogollon Conference in Silver City. The WNMU Museum at Fleming Hall will host a complimentary reception for attendees on the evening of October 3 before the two-day conference gets underway on Friday and Saturday at the Bessie Forward GRC on the WNMU campus. Registration for the conference is $45/person until September 19; thereafter $55/person. BUT: special offer to GCAS members! The Museum needs 3-4 volunteers to help with registration at the conference and would waive the registration fee for those folks! Contact Museum Director Danni Romero to volunteer; check the Mogollon Conference website for all other info including fees for the October 4 banquet and the Sunday, October 6 Mimbres Foundation reunion at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site in Mimbres NM from 10:00 AM-12:00PM noon. Join the alumni at the Mattocks Site where they spent four seasons of archaeological excavations in the mid-1970s. A tour of the archaeological site and the historic buildings is planned for the morning, with light refreshments on offer. Everyone is welcome to attend by reservation only with a contribution of $5 per person to offset expenses of refreshments and supplies. For preliminary details and to reserve a spot, Email the GCAS to sign up for the reunion only; or instead register for this reunion when signing up for the rest of the Mogollon Conference.

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Nancy & Barb Roth on Lower Mimbres 2014 (2)

The Coinman Grant Awards: Established in the 2018/2019 academic year, the GCAS's Nancy Coinman Grant Awards recognize and support graduate-level students of anthropology and archaeology. This program would not have been possible without Nancy Coinman's original gift and the continuing generosity of Bill Arvidson and his family. Please join them to help graduate research continue in our region. Read the full story here.

 

IMG_0348The GCAS Education Fund supports local students at the elementary to secondary school levels as they learn about historic and archaeological sites located in their own back yard. Your funds provide everything from basic instructional materials to helping schools cover the costs of bus transport to and from the outdoor museum classrooms and open-air, multi-station, experiential workshops the GCAS offers as part of the Mimbres Archaeological Research and Education Center (MAREC) at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site. We also use these funds for community outreach, offering the general public educational tours and other events. We are especially grateful for the generous and sustained support of Gerald Schultz in fostering the education of our area's youth.

 

The GCAS Library (currently non-circulating) is located at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site as part of the Mimbres Archaeological Research and Education Center (MAREC). Your support improves access to the Library and pays for necessities ranging from basic office supplies to replacing scientific books that were lost in decades past. Please check out "Our Wish List" on Amazon to get an idea of the kinds of supplies and books that we currently need - by either purchase or donation.

Join the donors whose continued support is helping our Library grow. We would like to especially thank the following individuals for their generous donations:

Allard and Nadine Bartlett Kathy Hill Francis Parsons
Nancy Coinman, PhD Margaret Hunt Cal & Barbara Salars
Mary E. Daniels Mel & Betty Johnson Gerald Schultz
Jack Desvaux Linda Martin Arch Slate
Pearl T. Dodds Paul E. Minnis, PhD Robert J. Stokes, PhD
Patricia A. Gilman, PhD Ann Owen Judy Welch
LaVerne Herrington

 

 

100_0252General Donations: our Board of Trustees can direct any unspecified donation to wherever they determine the greatest need is at the time. We thank our donors, including Bill Arvidson and family; Rick and Kathy Brown; Nancy Coinman PhD; Carolyn O'Bagy Davis; and John Lathrop, for their generous support in this way.