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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.

The GCAS/Nancy Coinman Grant Awards

Established in 2018, the Nancy Coinman Grant Awards are an essential component of the mission of the Grant County Archaeological Society: to recognize and support students of anthropology and archaeology in their efforts to analyze, preserve, and protect archaeological resources and culturally significant places and objects. Our group offers these grant awards to PhD candidates and/or Master's level students.

The GCAS is suspending our upcoming awards cycle so that our Board of Trustees may reevaluate our program for ways to improve the process for our group and the researchers we support. Watch this page to learn when our Coinman Grant Awards resume.

Current Grant Awards:

For our 2021 award cycle, the time period to apply expired on March 1, 2021. We provided two awards in the amount of $1000 each to one PhD candidate and one Master's-level student:

PhD candidate Thatcher Rogers received an award of $1000. Read his research proposal here.

Read some of Thatcher's related research, entitled "Mimbreños y Paquiméños: Historicism and the Ancestry of the Casas Grandes Ceramic Tradition," as a PDF: Download Rogers-TA-2021-Mimbrenos-y-Paquimenos.pdf (1071.5K) or as a Word document: Download Rogers-TA-2021-Mimbrenos-y-Paquimenos

Master's candidate Jonah Jankovik also received an award of $1000. Read her research proposal here.

Past Grant Awards:

Only one applicant was selected for a Grant Award in 2020: PhD candidate Danielle Romero received an award of $1000. Read her research proposal here.

For the second half of the 2018-2019 academic year, two awards in the amount of $750 each, were provided to one PhD candidate and one Master’s-level student:

Read the progress report of Samantha Bomkamp, our 2018-2019 Coinman Grant Award recipient, here.

Read Samantha Bomkamp's May, 2020, Master's thesis Download Bomkamp-Thesis-Casas-Grandes-Pottery-MPM-2020.pdf (15666.2K)">here.

Read the progress report of Thatcher Rogers, our 2018-2019 Coinman Grant Award recipient, here.

 

Nancy showing student spear point from Upper Paleolithic

Learn more about Nancy Coinman's remarkable life and her and her family's generosity toward the GCAS's mission, here.

We have suspended applications for future awards cycles until our Board of Trustees can review and revise our procedures, but you can read the rules and criteria for the GCAS/Nancy Coinman Grant Awards on our Application Information page.

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