Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 6:00 PM: GCAS general meeting at 2045 Memory Lane in Silver City, New Mexico. No potluck dinner, but light refreshments provided. After the GCAS General Meeting, our Featured Speaker, the GCAS's very own Greg Conlin, will speak about what lies "Beyond Machu Picchu: a Travelogue of Pre-Columbian Architecture in Peru."

Friday, November 22, 2019: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site to guide several groups of students from Stout Elementary School through the MCHS grounds. No experience necessary, and we need your help to make this school field trip a success! For hours and other details please contact the GCAS's education coordinator Marilyn Markel ASAP by telephone at 575-536-9337, or via email.

Through December 15, 2019: "Living in Sacred Continuum" - a display of Mimbres pottery dating from 1000 CE to 1130 CE, at the American Indian Student Center, at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. In addition to the exhibit, a panel of Native American artists will share interpretations about the pottery’s designs during a discussion from 1-4 PM Friday, April 26 at the American Indian Student Center. Details here. Contact info for the American Indian Student Center here.

Wednesday, January 15, 2020, 6:00 PM: GCAS general meeting at 2045 Memory Lane in Silver City, New Mexico. No potluck dinner, but light refreshments provided. After the GCAS General Meeting, our Featured Speaker, the GCAS's very own Joseph A. Bryce, Assistant Curator of History and Exhibitions at the Silver City Museum, will discuss experimental archaeology on a topic TBA.

Thursday, January 23, 2020, 7:00 PM in Las Cruces - "A Synthesis of Twenty Years of Archaeological Discoveries on the Cañada Alamosa": Karl W. Laumbach, archaeologist, Director of the Cañada Alamosa Project, and Associate Director of Human Systems Research, Inc., continues his monthly lecture series with "Late Pueblo Period at the Cañada Alamosa: Tularosa, Magdalena, and Glaze." All lectures in this series start at 7:00 pm in the Social Center Auditorium at the University Terrace Good Samaritan Village, 3011 Buena Vida Circle, Las Cruces. For contact info and details of the entire series, please check out this PDF: Download Canada Alamosas Lectures in Cruces-1

January 25, 2020, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center presents a "Cave Creek Canyon Pictographs Tour" led by archaeologist Kelsey Hanson starting at the Chiricahua Desert Museum located at the US-80 & NM-533 (Portal Road) junction, Rodeo, New Mexico. There is a $45 requested donation ($36 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members). Registrants have the option of visiting the Chiricahua Desert Museum on their own and at their own expense if they arrive early (the museum opens at 9) but need to be ready to go on the tour promptly at 10. This seems to be a tour that is quickly filling up so visit the page for this tour for registration information and further details. For other Old Pueblo excursions, visit their Upcoming Activities page.

Through February 8, 2020: At the El Paso Museum of Archaeology, 4301 Transmountain Road, El Paso, Texas, visit their exhibit of "Enchanted Faces - Latin American Mask Traditions." Further details at the museum's website.

Thursday, February 13, 2020, 7:00 PM in Las Cruces - "A Synthesis of Twenty Years of Archaeological Discoveries on the Cañada Alamosa": Karl W. Laumbach, archaeologist, Director of the Cañada Alamosa Project, and Associate Director of Human Systems Research, Inc., winds up his monthly lecture series with "Cañada Alamosa and the Apaches." This final lecture starts at 7:00 pm in the Social Center Auditorium at the University Terrace Good Samaritan Village, 3011 Buena Vida Circle, Las Cruces. For contact info and more details, please check out this PDF: Download Canada Alamosas Lectures in Cruces-1

Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 6:00 PM: GCAS general meeting at 2045 Memory Lane in Silver City, New Mexico. No potluck dinner, but light refreshments provided. After the GCAS General Meeting, our Featured Speaker, Christopher D. Adams, District Archaeologist for the US Forest Service, will tell us about his research of the "1869 Last Chance Canyon Apache/Cavalry Fight in SE New Mexico." On November 14, 1869, First Lieutenant Howard B. Cushing along with Second Lieutenant Franklin Yeaton and the 3rd Cavalry, Troop F from Fort Stanton responded to an Apache raid on the Casey Ranch located on the Hondo River. Troop F consisted of 31 enlisted men with 15 days of rations and this Apache campaign lasted 10 days, with the main fight between the Apaches and 3rd Cavalry, Troop F taking place on November 18, 1869. The presentation will highlight the techniques of battlefield archaeology used to uncover this fight location and how the application of modern forensics helped us better understand this late 19th century conflict. Please come hear a riveting tale!

Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 6:00 PM: GCAS general meeting at 2045 Memory Lane in Silver City, New Mexico. No potluck dinner, but light refreshments provided. After the GCAS General Meeting, our Featured Speaker, University of New Mexico PhD candidate and 2018/2019 GCAS Coinman Grant Awardee Thatcher A. Rogers will speak on the findings of his current research regarding a topic TBA.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 6:00 PM: GCAS general meeting at 2045 Memory Lane in Silver City, New Mexico. No potluck dinner, but light refreshments provided. After the GCAS General Meeting, our Featured Speaker, Margaret (Peggy) Nelson, author and expert on Mimbres culture, will share with us "News from the East - Contributions to Understanding Mimbres Lives and Landscapes."

Watch some of Peggy's YouTube talks about our area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSbReVp8s4E  "Mimbres Lives and Landscapes of SW New Mexico," 4/2019; and