Anytime is a terrific time to join the GCAS! Membership runs from January through December of the current year. Our individual membership is $20 and our family membership is $30. Click through to this page to join online via our PayPal link; or if you're Old Skool you can download, print, fill out our Membership form, and send it with a check by mail to: Grant County Archaeological Society, PO Box 1713, Silver City, NM 88062. Thank you for joining us!
Fill your calendar by scrolling down through all these upcoming events. Plan ahead but be mindful that any of the following events may be postponed or cancelled on very short notice for any number of weather-related or other reasons.
Watch this Events Page for details on our GCAS general meetings, held in-person or alternatively online via Zoom.
Please join our supporters in the GCAS's ongoing priority project, the Mimbres Archaeological Research and Education Center (MAREC) located in the historic Wood House at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site. The GCAS is working in our library and lab/workroom in the Wood House's ground floor. We welcome donations and volunteers so that we may continue expanding and improving our resource materials and educational programs. Learn about the beginnings of our GCAS project here, make your donations either online or by standard mail here; and if you'd like to volunteer email us for ideas of the projects and events where we need you the most. [Photo: Mattocks Site/Mimbres Culture Heritage Site. Wood House, center. © Mitchell Clinton, Mitchell Clinton Photography. All Rights Reserved.]
Now and continuing on most weekends: the Jornada Research Institute works at the Creekside Village site near Tularosa NM to continue excavations in the great kiva and pithouse areas. This is a great opportunity to join an excavation crew to better understand this incredibly informative Mesilla phase site. Meet at the wye in Tularosa (junction of US 54 & US 70) at 8:45 AM and then carpool to the site. (An alternate investigation is ongoing at the Cornelius Locus site in Ruidoso NM.)
If you are not trained in archaeological methods, JRI will provide instructions and pair you with an experienced partner. Dress for cooler temperatures, bring a hat, gloves, water and a lunch. Otherwise JRI will provide appropriate digging equipment. Contact Dave Greenwald to check excavation status and for details on how you (yes, you!) can participate in an official archaeological excavation.
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.
This field school will employ a two-part approach, analyzing the existing research and catalog collections housed at the WNMU Museum, including the NAN Ranch collection; and compiling survey data gathered in the field to address issues in their research in preservation archaeology. The GCAS plans to support this field school however their directing archaeologists, Danni Romero PhD and Karen Schollmeyer PhD, find suitable for our group. Watch this space and upcoming newsletters for developments.
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.
Wednesday June 25, 2025, 7:00 PM Mountain Daylight Time, Pueblo, CO - FREE in-person and online: the Pueblo Archaeological and Historical Society (PAHS) hosts archaeologist Larry Loendorf, PhD discussing Shields and Shield-Bearing Warrior Pictographs and Petroglyphs in the Heritage Room, Pueblo Heritage Museum, 201 W. B St., Pueblo, CO.
Photos of petroglyph panels with shield images
courtesy of Larry Loendorf and PAHS
Larry Loendorf's contributions to archaeology and rock art research are significant and multifaceted. He has been instrumental in the preservation and management of ancient pictograph and petroglyph sites. His research has focused on Native American rock art. Loendorf's work has been recognized with numerous scholarly articles and two books. His dedication to rock art research and conservation has left a lasting legacy in the field of archaeology.
Go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 4:00PM Mountain Daylight Time: FREE online (donations encouraged). Crow Canyon Archaeological Center of Cortez, Colorado sponsors Lithophones in Colorado: Were these Ground Stone Artifacts Utilized to Play Some of the Earliest Music in the Western U.S.? by archaeologist Marilyn Martorano.
Photo courtesy of Marilyn Martorano
and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
A new class of precontact artifacts called portable lithophones has been identified from Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve and the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. “Litho” is Greek for stone and “phone” means sound. A lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a purposely selected, often formally shaped rock that is tapped or rubbed with friction to produce musical notes. Portable and stationary lithophones have been utilized in ancient and modern cultures around the world for thousands of years. Only a few highly modified, portable lithophones have been formally recognized in North America, and none were previously documented in Colorado. Marilyn Martorano (Principal, Martorano Consultants LLC, Longmont, Colorado) analyzed 22 lithophones that at first were interpreted as grinding stones, pestles, and/or digging tools as part of a Colorado State Historical Fund archaeological assessment grant, verifying their acoustical properties. She will discuss their characteristics and demonstrate a few sample lithophones.
To learn more and register visit https://crowcanyon.org/
Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 6:00-7:30 PM Pacific Time Zone: the Sacramento Archaeological Society (California) hosts a FREE webinar, Discover Mayan Civilization in Meso America: Reflections from Mexico City, Belize, and Guatemala presented by Lynette Blumhardt, Jan Johansen, Tom Johansen, and Jeremy Johansen. The SAS describes,
"What do you know about the Mayan Civilization in Meso America? Given that it developed in the Yucatan Peninsula where else did it develop? When did it flourish? What was is known for? These were some of the many questions that were addressed in March 2025 when a group of SAS members attended The Archeological Conservancy’s archaeological tour of Belize and Guatemala. The tour highlighted six Mayan sites in Belize and two in Guatemala including the very special Tikal. Some SAS members also toured sites at Mexico City including Teotihuacan. Pictures and commentary from these locations will highlight the impressive architecture, advanced understandings of astronomy, sophisticated writing system and conflict between cities.
"Friends are welcome and also invited to join our SAS organization. There is no participation fee."
For more details, contact the SAS; on the day and time of the program, use the link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Monday, July 7 through Wednesday, July 9, 2025: The Jornada Research Institute is busy organizing the 2025 Tularosa Basin Conference at the Ruidoso Convention Center in Ruidoso, New Mexico. The theme for 2025 is Archaeoastronomy and Celestial Geometry: Understanding Ancient Astronomy, with archaeological tours planned on Thursday, July 10, 2025, following the conference.
The dates of the Tularosa Basin Conference fall on each side of the lunar maximum event that can be witnessed from inside the great kiva at Creekside Village in Tularosa Canyon. This celestial event only occurs once every 18.6 years, and we will gather for it late afternoon and hike in to Creekside Village. The event will conclude prior to sundown allowing observers to easily hike back out while it is still light.
The JRI seeks presenters from the various areas described above and is actively contacting individuals with specific knowledge of such sites and their recent investigations. The conference is open to the public with various activities planned. They expect a large turnout and will have ample space for vendors in the Ruidoso Convention Center. The JRI is also seeking sponsors and supporting organizations so if you or your organization can help, please contact Judith White [email protected] or Dave Greenwald.
Thursday July 17, 2025, FREE online, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time): Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's “Third Thursday Food for Thought” features The Great Rock-Art of Chaco Canyon by rock-art specialist Jane Kolber, who describes,
The reason for “The Great” in the title of this presentation is because the Chaco Canyon region has Great Rock-Art panels in addition to Great Houses and Great Roads. Hundreds of books and articles have been written about Chaco Canyon and its archaeological treasures. It is renowned throughout the world. However, until recently Chaco rock-art has been almost completely ignored. Why is that? A partial answer is its invisibility. Southwestern U.S. rock-art is often created on surfaces with a dark coating, which emphasizes the images carved into the rocks. In contrast, very few of the cliff walls and boulders in Chaco Canyon have patinated surfaces so images on them are difficult to see. In addition, many of the most impressive panels are located high on cliff faces where an observer rarely looks.
In this presentation Jane Kolber will show and discuss a nearly 30-year research project, still on-going, that has shown that Ancient Chaco rock-art is unadorned and dominated by the spiral and animal motifs, that there also is significant later Navajo (Diné) rock-art in Chaco Canyon, and that Chaco rock-art continues to be damaged. To register for the Zoom webinar go to https://us06web.zoom.us/
Saturday and Sunday, July 26 and 27, 2025, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM both days, it's HummerFest at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site and the GCAS educational booth will be just outside and around the corner from the GCAS library & lab in the historic Wood House. We’re seeking 3 or 4 volunteers for each of the 2 days to run the GCAS educational booth for an hour or 2, or as long as you like. No experience necessary; we’ll show you how to hand out GCAS brochures, play the potsherd ID game, & sell used books. Email Marianne or telephone/text her at 772-529-2627 to please help!
We’ll also show members around our two rental rooms during HummerFest, to introduce them to the layout and how our artifact collections are organized. The more members who are familiar with our library and collections, the better!
Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 6:00PM: the GCAS monthly meeting convenes either in-person or online so watch this space for final details. Regardless of the venue we will have our usual brief business meeting followed by our Featured Speaker, archaeologist Mary F. Ownby PhD, recently returned from Egypt, who will discuss Science and Pottery: a Match Made in Clay. Dr. Ownby offers a comparatison between Mimbres and Egyptian pottery techniques, describing:
The use of scientific techniques in Archaeology has a long history, particularly in regards to pottery. However, this collaboration is not very apparent when the research is presented and results are discussed. Without the data generated in this way, valuable information on ceramic provenance, technology, and use would be missing. Consequently, information on cultural interactions, pottery development, and economic systems would be lost. This talk presents an overview of science and pottery, and how critical evidence is acquired through various instruments. Two case studies will illustrate the process, one from pottery sourced to the Mimbres Valley, and the other pottery made along the Nile River in Egypt. The vast differences in how pottery was made and used in both areas shows the importance of scientific methods and their application across cultures and time.
Dr. Ownby’s research utilizes petrographic and instrumental analysis of pottery (and other material types) to examine interregional contacts, identity dynamics, technological choice, and ceramic ecology. Studies have been conducted throughout the U.S. Southwest and many other areas of the world. Dr. Ownby is an Associate Researcher at the University of Arizona and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. She currently runs her own archaeological analytical services company, Ownby Analytical, LLC. Dr. Ownby received her PhD in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge (U.K.) in 2010 with a research focus on scientific analysis of ceramics. She completed a MSc in Technology and Analysis of Archaeological Materials from University College London and a MA in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She has a BA in Anthropology from the University of Arizona.
Thursday August 21, 2025, 7PM-8:30PM ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time) - FREE online: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's “Third Thursday Food for Thought” program features archaeologist José Luis Punzo Díaz, PhD, presenting Copper Networks in the U.S. Southwest, Mexican Northwest, and Mesoamerica. 
Some Mexican archaeological copper artifacts,
photos courtesy of José Luis Punzo Díaz
(not all shown at the same scale)
The emergence of metallurgy, especially copper, took place in western Mesoamerica a little over a thousand years ago. This new type of objects was quickly appreciated by the societies of the time and integrated into long-standing exchange networks that spanned thousands of kilometers from the earliest production sites in western Mexico to the southwestern United States. In this presentation, we will explore the exchange networks for these objects and how they changed over time, with special emphasis on the relationships between the southwestern U.S. and Mesoamerica. Dr. Punzo Díaz has been an archaeology researcher for Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) since 2004.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to https://us06web.zoom.us/
August 27 through September 7, 2025: the Jornada Research Institute continues their Overseas Journeys program of small-group guided tours, introducing participants to archaeological sites around the world. Spend 11 days visiting the Emerald Island's Historic Portrait: Experiencing the Wonders of Ireland. Check here for destination details and pricing.
The JRI is also developing an 11-day tour to Egypt's Archaeological Wonders, Museums, and Old Cairo's Historic Area. for late 2026. OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO GCAS MEMBERS, JRI's President, Dave Greenwald, reports that JRI has developed a policy that allows them to donate to other nonprofit organizations whose member participates in one or more of their Overseas Journeys Programs. So, for example, JRI will donate $125.00 to the Grant County Archaeological Society for each tour participant who specifies that the GCAS should receive JRI's donation. Join a JRI tour, and you can support two nonprofits at once! None of JRI's Overseas Journeys is ever repeated, and tend to fill up quickly so if you are considering either the 2025 Ireland trip or the 2026 tour to Egypt, contact JRI's Dave Greenwald ASAP for all info.
Wednesdays, September 3-December 10, 2025 (skipping October 22) - Online: register for The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona 14-session online adult education class with archaeologist Allen Dart, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, held each Wednesday 6:30-8:30PM ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time through Oct. 29) except skip October 22. The $109 donation per person ($90 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Arizona Archaeological Society, and Arizona Site Stewards members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures. Donation does not include costs of recommended text (The Hohokam Millennium by Paul R. Fish and Suzanne K. Fish, editors) or of the optional AAS membership or AAS Certification Program enrollment.
Hohokam irrigation paintings by Charles O. Kemper
courtesy of Salt River Project
Registered Professional Archaeologist Allen Dart teaches this class in 14 two-hour sessions to explore the archaeology of the ancient Hohokam culture of the American Southwest. The class covers Hohokam origins, subsistence and settlement systems, social and organizational systems, material culture including ceramics, other artifacts, and architecture, interaction within and beyond the Hohokam culture's regional boundaries, and ideas on religion and exchange. Minimum enrollment 10 people. The class meets the requirements of the Arizona Archaeological Society’s Training, Certification and Education program’s “Advanced Southwest Archaeology–Hohokam” course. To qualify for the AAS Certification the student must submit a brief written or video research report. The AAS basic “Archaeology of the Southwest” class is recommended as a prerequisite but this is negotiable with the instructor. For information on the AAS Certification Program, go to Certification Program under Activities on the AAS website, http://www.azarchsoc.org. Reservations and prepayment are due 10 days after reservation request or by 12 pm Arizona time Tuesday September 2, 2025, whichever is earlier. To register or for more information email Old Pueblo and request a color flyer by placing "Send Hohokam class flyer" in the subject line, or phone 520-798-1201.
Monday September 22, 2025, 8:00-11;30AM, in Marana/Tucson Mountains: It's Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Autumn Equinox Tour to Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Sites” with archaeologist Allen Dart departing from near Silverbell Road and Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana, AZ. Your $45 donation per person ($36 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center members) supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
The 2025 autumn equinox occurs on Monday September 22, 2025 at 11:19AM Arizona/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time; 6:20 pm Greenwich Mean Time). To celebrate the equinox day (but not the exact time!) and explore ancient peoples' recognition of equinoxes and other calendrical events, archaeologist Allen Dart (Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's executive director) leads this tour to Los Morteros, an ancient village site that includes a Hohokam ballcourt, bedrock mortars, and other archaeological features; and to Picture Rocks, where ancient petroglyphs include a solstice and equinox calendar marker and depict dancing human-like figures, whimsical animals, and other rock images made by Hohokam Indians between 800 and 1100 CE. An equinox calendar petroglyph at Picture Rocks exhibits a specific interaction with a ray of sunlight on the morning of each equinox regardless of the hour and minute of the actual celestial equinox, so participants in this tour will see that sunlight interaction with the calendar glyph unless clouds block the sunlight. Registration and prepayment are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5:00PM Saturday, September 20, 2025, whichever is earlier: more info, phone 520-798-1201 or email Old Pueblo and if requesting a color flyer of this event enter "Send Autumn Equinox tour flyer" in your email subject line.
Saturday, September 27, 2025, 9:00AM - 4:00PM in Dragoon, Arizona: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center conducts a tour to the historic Dragoon Springs Stage Station and Cochise-Howard Treaty archaeological sites in the foothills of southern Arizona’s Dragoon Mountains. This tour will be co-led by archaeologist Deni Seymour, PhD, whose lifelong research has focused largely on the Protohistoric and Historic period Native American and Spanish cultures of the United States’ “southern Southwest,” and historian and firearms expert Bill Mapoles, who is especially knowledgeable about the Dragoon Springs site.
Dragoon Springs, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, served the “Jackass Mail” and Butterfield Overland mail companies during the 1850s and 1860s, and was the site of altercations in which construction workers and soldiers of both the Confederate and Union armies were killed, allegedly by Apaches. Debate surrounding the burials will be incorporated into the discussion. A second site, the Cochise-Howard Treaty location, is where Brigadier General Oliver Otis Howard met with the Apache leader Cochise in October 1872 to negotiate the surrender and relocation of Cochise’s Chokonen Apache band. The place of that meeting, which culminated in a peace treaty between Cochise’s band and the U.S. government, has been published by Dr. Seymour based on photographs of unique boulder formations, written historical descriptions of the landscape, and archaeological evidence that she will discuss during our visit. Detailed historical accounts and archaeological investigations enrich our understanding of the location.
Photos by Allen Dart and Deni J. Seymour, respectively
Registration is due 10 days after reservation request or by 5:00PM Tuesday, September 23, 2025. For payment details, tour meet-up location, and other information consult Old Pueblo's event flyer, phone 520-798-1201, or email Old Pueblo and include "Send Dragoon Springs tour flyer" in your email subject line.
Thursday, October 16, 2025, thru Sunday, October 19, 2025, in Safford AZ: the Southwest Kiln Conference is hosted this year by Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher AZ, home to the Jack and Vera Mills collection of pottery and other artifacts. Contact Southwest Kiln to register and for all the details, and check out their website to learn more about their demonstrations of primitive pottery firing techniques.
Saturday December 6, 2025, 9:00AM-5:00PM, Dragoon Mountains, AZ: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center offers the “Amerind Museum and Dragoon Mountains Pictographs Tour” with archaeologists Eric Kaldahl and William Gillespie. This fundraising tour starts at the Amerind Museum, 2100 N. Amerind Rd., Dragoon, AZ. Participants each pay their own Amerind Museum entry fee and are asked to make a separate donation to Old Pueblo to help cover its tour expenses and support its education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures.
Photos of Amerind Main Gallery and pictographs at
Council Rocks and West Stronghold,
Dragoon Mountains, courtesy of
the Amerind and Bill Gillespie, respectively
The Amerind Museum, situated amid the rugged boulder formations of Texas Canyon in southeastern Arizona’s rugged Dragoon Mountains, was incorporated in 1937 as the Amerind Foundation on the private ranch property of Connecticut native William Shirley Fulton to support archaeological research on a major scale. Eventually the Amerind Foundation was developed into the Amerind Museum, Library, and Art Gallery, which encompasses one of the finest private museum collections of ethnographic and archaeological materials in North America.
Amerind’s best known research project is its 1959-1962 ground-breaking work in collaboration with the Mexican government at Paquimé, northern Chihuahua, one of the largest ancient sites in the greater Southwest, under the direction of Amerind’s first professional director, archaeologist Dr. Charles C. Di Peso.
Amerind’s current director, archaeologist Dr. Eric Kaldahl, will personally guide us through the Amerind during the first part of this Old Pueblo Archaeology Center tour. After a picnic lunch at the Amerind we will drive in a caravan to the Dragoon Mountains’ famous Council Rocks area and West Stronghold Canyon to view ancient pictographs with Bill Gillespie, who knows the archaeology of the region well from having been the Coronado National Forest archaeologist for 35 years. The pictographs, which show a diversity of elements, paint colors, and styles, likely were painted by both Mogollon and later Apache residents. The greatest concentration of these pictographs are in the area where the great Chiricahua Apache leader Cochise is known to have lived in the 1870s.
Tour registrants are responsible for providing their own transportation, picnic lunch, snacks, drinking water, footwear and clothing appropriate for hiking, and any lodging needed. Visiting the pictographs requires moderately strenuous hiking a little less than 2 miles over rugged, rocky, and brushy terrain with minimal trails. Registration and Old Pueblo donations are due 10 days after reservation request or by 5:00PM Wednesday December 3, 2025, whichever is earlier. To register for this fundraising event and for more payment, cancellation, and other information email Old Pueblo including "Send Amerind-Dragoon Pictographs tour flyer" in your email subject line, or phone 520-798-1201.
There are even more online and in-person events happening all over the place. Make it a regular habit to check out what the following organizations offer the avocational archaeologist:
American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA)
The Archaeological Conservancy posts recorded lectures on YouTube and on their website's event page after the event occurs. Visit them for this and lots more information, and follow them on their Facebook page.
Archaeological Society of New Mexico
Archaeology Southwest: Things To Do, and More Things To Do
The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society produced a virtual field trip of the Mattocks Site and Mimbres Culture Heritage Site on February 5, 2022, which is now available via the AAHS's YouTube channel. Click here and enjoy as Marilyn Markel and Professor Emerita Pat Gilman, the supervising archaeologist for the 1970s Mattocks Site excavation, lead you through the site while discussing the future opportunities it offers for local educational programs and archaeological research.
Borderlandia offers specialized tours of the Arizona-Mexico borderland including Tubac & Tumacácori; and greater Mexico including locations such as Paquimé & Mexico City
As a member of the Council of Allied Societies, the GCAS and our members receive access to the CoAS monthly newsletter. The most recent CoAS newsletters are available by scrolling down to the bottom-most right-hand sidebar entitled "Council of Allied Societies Newsletter Archives" on this page. For further CoAS doings, visit their Facebook page and check out their directory of links to member organizations' newsletters and publications. GCAS members may also attend one free and one discounted online seminar; contact [email protected] to verify your GCAS membership and for all other details.
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center: Programs, Research, and Education
The Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument hosts a free series of presentations at their Visitors Center where folks can meet a number of speakers giving short presentations on a variety of archaeological and cultural topics. Follow them on Facebook too!
The Jornada Research Institute - JRI's past newsletters are informative on a wide variety of intriguing archaeological research in our local area and beyond. Look for their latest quarterly newsletters here. Join a JRI international archaeological tour, identify your favorite 501(c)(3) charity in your registration, and JRI will make a cash donation to that charity. Coincidentally, the GCAS is a 501(c)(3) public charity.
Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project: Events, Mesa Talks Lecture Series, Chats with the Archaeologist, and Tours
Considering a visit to the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site? Check for events; to confirm tours and museum access telephone the MCHS directly at 575.536.3092 or 307.640.3012.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center: at times throughout the year Old Pueblo offers multi-session online classes on a variety of topics. Click on these links for more information from Old Pueblo on these and other programs and events. Because the GCAS maintains an organizational membership with Old Pueblo, Old Pueblo offers discounts to individual GCAS members on many of their programs and events, so when signing up for an event, make a point of telling them you're a GCAS member. Old Pueblo has also posted recordings of many of their Third Thursday Food for Thought and Indigenous Interests webinar presentations on their Youtube channel. GCAS says check them out: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDgPTetfOL9FHuAW49TrSig/videos.
The Pueblo Archaeological and Historical Society of Pueblo, Colorado, has regular in-person and online presentations as well as their online-accessible newsletter and YouTube channel. Check them out for these options and much more.
The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) and their affiliate, the Council of Allied Societies (CoAS) work to build meaningful relationships between professional and avocational archaeologists. They act as clearinghouses for events, programs, and volunteer opportunities to suit all tastes and abilities. Go here to access SAA's digital versions of a variety of their regular publications. Enjoy!
Ron Barber, creator of the Stone Calendar Project, has been studying rock art sites throughout the Southwest and Northern Mexico identifying glyphs that mark specific times of the year using unique light and shadow interactions. He has some survey predictions for glyphs along the Gila Narrows and other southern sites and is looking for volunteers to help in further research. Anyone who is interested in spending time in the field recording/filming calendar sun light interactions in the region, please contact Ron directly at [email protected] . Click here for more of Ron's background.
The Texas Archaeological Society is based in San Marcos, Texas, and offers a wide variety of events and research/educational opportunities for the avocational and professional communities. Visit their website to learn how they provide support for research grants, scholarships, and more.
Tierra Vieja Consulting LLC in Las Cruces NM features geoarchaeologist David Rachal PhD in some YouTube interviews, such as a discussion of the currently available data being applied to the ancient human footprints found at White Sands National Park; and a podcast by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs regarding geoarchaeology, site formation processes related to footprints and megafauna tracks, and peopling of the New World. Contact Tierra Vieja Consulting for links to even more YouTube presentations.
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