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PETROGLYPHNewsletter of the Arizona Archaeological Society

Volume 46, Number 1 www.AzArchSoc.org September 2009

Arizona Archaeological Society State MeetingWinslow, Arizona – May 16-17, 2009

Hosted by Homolovi Chapter

I. Welcome - Chair Sylvia Lesko welcomed all attendees and offered special thanks to the Homolovi Chapter for organizingthe event. Darlene Brinkerhoff added her welcome and reviewed the event schedule for the weekend as well as the logisticsof where everything would be located. Attendees were asked to sign the Hubble Trading Post register, information wasgiven on the Silent Auction, and all going on field trips were asked to sign field trip releases and give them to the leader.The lunch speaker will be followed by the raffle.

II. Call to Order - Chair Sylvia Lesko called the meeting to order at 9:15 a.m. Roll call followed:

Chapter Present Voting Proxy Chapter Present Voting ProxyAgua Fria 8 3 3 Northern Arizona 2 5 2Ajo 0 0 0 Phoenix 5 0 6Agave House 3 3 0 Rim Country 4 4 4Desert Foothills 11 5 1 San Tan 0 0 0Homolovi 4 2 0 Tubac/Santa Cruz 1 0 0Little Colorado 0 0 0 Verde Valley 9 2 0Mohave 0 0 0 Yavapai 7 2 0

Proxies were collected from Agua Fria, Northern Arizona, Desert Foothills, Phoenix, and Rim Country

III. Approval of January 2009 State Meeting Minutes - The minutes were approved as published.

IV. State Treasurer’s Report – submitted via email to Ginger Johnson for placement in secretary’s file

V. Membership Report - Chair Lesko announced we have 944 members, with 639 memberships. “The Petroglyph” wasmailed to 438 members, with 246 receiving it by email.

VI. Committee ReportsA. Certification Department – Bob Lindsay said the first attempt to teleconference the meeting will be May 22. He needsresponse ASAP from those who will participate in the teleconferencing. Later in the meeting Jerry Mead gave a plug for

Bob continuing to get teleconferencing to work. Bob announced Dr. Glen Rice has resignedas advisor due to his workload, but will continue to be our faculty sponsor with ASU.Sandy Carson has also resigned, because of the travel requirements. He publicly thankedboth for their help. Now candidates are needed for both positions. There is $9,000+ for thepublication on rock art recording and the Chevelon publication. Jerry Mead will hold twofield school sessions at Perry Mesa. The Phoenix Chapter is sponsoring a mapping class atQ-Ranch. Elden Field School will offer Crew Member 1 & 2, ruins stabilization, rock artrecording and another alumni weekend. Bob submitted a written report and budget to thesecretary for the files.

B. Legislative – Kevin Palmer reported that there will be very little lobbying this year,

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IN THIS ISSUE…

2 — Chapter Meeting Calendar3 — Fielder Fund Update4 — Upcoming Events6 — Chapter News

11— Fall State Meeting

Next deadline is noon on Friday,September 18th, for the Octoberissue.

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CHAPTER MEETINGS

Chapter Location Date & Time

Agave House Black Mesa Ranger Station Conf. Rm. 4th Wednesday of each month2748 Hwy. 260, Overgaard 6:30 pm

Agua Fria Glendale Public Library Auditorium 2nd Tuesday of each month59th Avenue & Brown, Glendale Meeting: 7:00-9:00 pmOne light so. of Peoria on 59th September thru May

Ajo/Why Ajo Salazar Library 1st Wednesday of each month,Dec. thru April; Bus. Meetingat 6:30 pm, Talk at 7:00 pm

Desert Foothills Church of Good Shepherd of the Hills 2nd Wednesday of each monthEpiscopal Church Hall 7:00 pm6502 E Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek September thru May

Homolovi Homolovi Ruins State Park 3rd Thursday of each monthVisitors Center 7:00 pm

Little Colorado River Casa Malpais Museum 3rd Monday of each monthSpringerville 7:00 pm

Mohave The Grace Lutheran Church 2nd Wednesday of each month2101 Harrison Ave., Kingman. 7:00-9:00 pm

Northern AZ The Peaks (Senior Living Community) 3rd Tuesday of each month"Alpine Room", 3150 N. Winding Brook Sept. to Nov., Jan. to JuneRoad, Flagstaff (Hwy 180 north of 7:00 pmFlagstaff, just before MNA)

Phoenix Pueblo Grande Museum 2nd Thursday of each month4619 E. Washington, Phoenix Sept. thru June; 7:30 pm

Tubac/Santa Cruz The Historic Lowe House 2nd Thursday of each monthCounty

San Tan San Tan Historical Society Museum 2nd Wednesday of the monthSE corner of Ellsworth & Queen Creek Rds 7:00 pm

Rim Country Church of the Holy Nativity, The Cottage 3rd Saturday of each month1414 North Easy Street 10:00 am

Verde Valley Sedona Public Library 4th Thursday, Sept. thru May3250 White Bear Road, Sedona except 3rd Thursday, Nov &

Dec. 7:00 pm

Yavapai Pueblo of the Smoki Museum 3rd Thursday of each month147 North Arizona St., Prescott 7:00 pm

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Fielder Fund: Your Chance to Endow AAS Publications

Established by the Society in 1996, the Fielder Fund was created to help inform the public about archaeology,anthropology, and the history of the American Southwest through the support of publications and other media. Thegoal is to build a fund large enough that its annual interest alone can pay for publication of The ArizonaArchaeologist and possibly other publications. Contributions to the fund are welcome from chapters andindividuals. The name honors the Society’s first publications team, Marje and Herb Fielder.

A special thanks to the following for their contributions this month:

William & Caroline HenryKathryn Russell

$37, 123.16

For more information, or to contribute, contact Alan Ferg, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson85721-0026; phone 520-621-2970 or email [email protected], or you can send contributions directly to ourAAS treasurer, Judy Rounds, P.O. Box 1401, Carefree 85377. Please include your chapter affiliation.

The Petroglyph is published 10 times a year as a service to the membership of the Arizona ArchaeologicalSociety. Address correspondence for the newsletter to Editors at [email protected] or mail to Elinor Large,945 N. Pasadena #5, Mesa, AZ 85201. Call Ellie at 480.461.0563. Send address changes to the membershipchair, Sylvia Lesko, at [email protected]. Submissions are subject to approval by the editors, advisory committee,or members, and may be edited to best represent the scientific, educational, and organizational objectives of theAAS. Deadline: 18th of each month, at noon.

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Sept. 12, 1:30 pm, BTASP, GuidedWalk: Edible & Medicinal DesertPlants, led by either Apache Junctionauthor Jean Groen or ethnobotanistDavid Morris of the Choctaw Nation.Learn the ways that desert plantshave fed, clothed and healedindigenous people for a thousandyears. This tour explores theCurandero Trail, which hasmoderately steep sections and is notaccessible by wheelchair.

Sept. 13, 8 am-2 pm, DVRAC,Grandparents Day – Half-priceadmission is offered to allgrandparents as DVRAC celebratesNational Grandparents Day.

Sept. 17, 7:30 – 9 pm, OPAC,Lecture: Mesoamerica and HohokamSymbolism, Public Architecture andIdeology by ASM archaeologist Dr.Paul R. Fish.

Sept 18 & 19, 10 am – 4 pm, ASM:Very Nearly Annual Discount BenefitBooksale, Free admission. Save 40–70% on remainders and first-qualityNEW books: visual arts, humanities,poetry, ethnology, Southwest studies,world archaeology, anthropology,cooking, lifestyle, architecture, andchildren’s books. ASM membersadmitted one hour early on Friday for

best selection!

Sept 18 & 19, 9 – 11 am, DVRAC:Volunteer Orientation. The DeerValley Rock Art Center is looking forvolunteers to participate in all facetsof the Center’s operations, fromworking directly with visitors ontours to assisting with “behind thescenes” projects.

Sept. 19, 1-2 pm, DVRAC: Lecture -Notes on Making a Time Machine byWill Bruder, architect of the DeerValley Rock Art Center. He willspeak on the process of building themuseum on a nature preserve andover a spillway.

Sept. 21, 7:30 pm, AAHS, Lecture:Zeckendorfs and Steinfelds: MerchantPrinces of the Southwest, by BettinaLyons.

Sept. 26, 7 pm, RMSHP, EveningSlide Presentation: Was Wukoki a12th Century AstronomicalObservatory?, by Jerry Snow, MNA.Observations made at the Wukoki siteat Wupatki National Monument since1995 have suggested that it may havebeen built to mark significantpositions of the sun and moon in the12th century A.D. The story ofmaking these observations will be

told and illustrated as part of theFlagstaff Festival of Science and theInternational Year of Astronomy.Reservations are recommended dueto limited availability.Call 928-779-4395.

Sept. 27, 7 pm, RMSHP, EveningSlide Presentation: The LowellExpedition to Arizona, 1894 by KevinSchindler, Lowell Observatory. In1894 Percival Lowell, a wealthyBoston patrician, hired astronomerAndrew Douglass to travel to ArizonaTerritory in search of an appropriatelocation for a new astronomicalobservatory. This program willdiscuss the fascinating details of the1894 Douglass Expedition, followedby a look at why Flagstaff waschosen as the site for LowellObservatory, and why this act hadsuch a dramatic influence over thedevelopment of Arizona and thepeople who came here. Reservationsare recommended due to limitedavailability. Call 928-779-4395.

GUIDE TO LOCATIONSAAHS Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society. Meets in Duval Auditorium, Univ. Medical Center,

1501 N. Campbell Avenue, north of Speedway (www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/lectures.shtml)ASM Arizona State Museum, 1013 E. University Boulevard, Tucson (www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/)BTASP Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park, just west of Superior, Arizona.DVRAC Deer Valley Rock Art Center, 3711 W. Deer Valley Road, Phoenix (shesc.asu.edu/dvrac)OPAC Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson, 520-798-1201(www.oldpueblo.org/

index.html)PGM Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix 602-495-0901 (www.ci.phoenix.az.us/

PARKS/pueblo.html).PGMA Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary, Pueblo Grande MuseumRMSHP Riordan Mansion State Historic Park,409 West Riordan Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, 928-779-4395.

(azstateparks.com/Parks/RIMA/index.html)RRSP Red Rock State Park, 4050 Red Rock Loop Rd, Sedona, AZ 86336 928-282-6907. (azstateparks.com/

Parks/RERO/index.html)

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primarily because of lack of money. He thanked those on the Legislative Policy Committee. They will work with largernon-profit groups so we can prepare to protect our interests. A question was raised regarding the Heritage Fund status. Itwas supposed to be off limits, but now that is gone. Kevin stated that there are other funds that are also gone. Nothing issafe. We may get them back but… Another questionconcerned the status of Homolovi State Park – again, there are no answers yet.

C. Education – Joan Young prepared a packet for each chapter that contains master sheets of all of the bookmarkwinners, asking that these be copied and distributed in chapter outreach programs, libraries, and elsewhere as appropriate.

D. Publication – Alan Ferg was unable to attend the meting. June Freden reported that the bottle book should be outsometime this summer and Alan will take responsibility for distributing it. He will proceed with the Coyote Ruin report.After that he intends to resign from doing further publications.

E. Website Committee – Six chapters have updated their own websites, 3 successfully and 3 are coming along. The videohas been up for 2-3 months now. Jerry got tired of seeing it, so it is now optional. If someone else wants to do anothervideo he will be happy to put one on. He mentioned there is a possibility we could have an AAS store on line as a fundraiser. Sell books, etc. Payment would be made through Pay Pal. He has some old photos of Q-Ranch and wondered ifthere is interest in making a video on that project. Jerry provided the secretary a copy of his report for the files.

VII. Old BusinessA. Dr. John Hohmann has been chosen to receive this year’s Professional Archaeologist award. It will be presentedsometime this fall.

B. As a question has been raised regarding how many State meetings should be held each year, the By-Laws have beenreviewed. Chair Lesko said that meetings need to be held at least biannually, so no change would be needed to the By-Lawsif we decide to have only two meetings a year. Hosts are in place for this year and next.

VIII. New BusinessA. Chair Lesko asked for volunteers for the Nominating Committee. It is hoped that email and phone calls can make thispossible without long distance travel for meetings. Glenda Simmons, Trudy Martens, Ken Zoll, Phyllis Smith, and GingerJohnson volunteered to take this on.

B. Phyllis Smith suggested that there be a future money raising project for signs that are in a state of disrepair.

C. Chair Lesko reported that hosts are in place for immediate future State meetings.

IX. AnnouncementsA. AAS Fall 2009 State Meeting Rim Country Chapter – October 16-17, Payson. Evelyn Christian announced it willbe at the Masonic Lodge, there will be field trips, and Todd Bostwick is scheduled to speak.

B. AAS Winter 2010 State Meeting: Date to come – Mohave Chapter – January

C. AAS Spring 2010 State Meeting Verde Valley Chapter – June 5. The State meeting will be the Verde Valley Chapter’skick-off for their summer activities. Ken Zoll listed those for the Festival of Native American Culture, June 5-13, and theConference on Archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest on June 11-13. Information on the former is atwww.festivalofnativeamericanculture.org, the latter at www.caasw.org.

E. Pecos Conference dates and location were announced. August 6-9, Cortez area. Further details on line.

X. Chapter Report – Homolovi Chapter: Karen Berggren thanked everyone for coming and for helping the chapter, theState Park and the community of Winslow by being there. All seasonal personnel at the park have been laid off. There willbe no park archaeologist this summer. Three staff members are covering 7 days a week, with the assistance of some greatvolunteers. Basically they can plan any activities they want as long as it doesn’t cost the State Park system. Hopi and Homolovi State Park have a cooperation agreement. The chapter has helped with funding for travel. Local artists can comeand sell on their own, as the Park cannot buy from them. The new book on Awatovi was supposed to make it to the meeting, but didn’t, so contact Karen for a copy.

XI. The meeting was adjourned by Chair Lesko at 10:10 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,Ginger Johnson, Acting Secretary

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Agave HouseChapter

The Agave House Chapter held itsJune meeting on the 24th at the BlackMesa Ranger Station. Acongratulatory card was passed forsignatures for Bill and GertrudeBartlett, who celebrated their 69thwedding anniversary. Betty Mixonreported that the yard/bake sale netted$270.70. Pictures from the Zuni Washouting were passed around. The groupwill visit the Howard Thomas Ranchon July 11th, to see the potterycollected by the family. Afterwardsthey will visit Broken K Pueblo andFour-Mile Ruin.

The speaker for the evening was KenZoll, from the Verde Valley Chapter.Ken has written a book, UnderstandingRock Art of Sedona. His talk wasentitled An Archeoastronomy Survey ofthe Verde Valley. He talked aboutusing rock art to track stars and the sunfor agricultural purpose and creatingcalendars from this information.Among the sites covered were thePalatki Heritage Site, the PedestalRock Site, Thompson Terrace, and theV-Bar-V Heritage Site. We learnedabout many symbols, such as theconcentric circles, centipede-likemarks, and the falling spiral, and howeach played a part in charting thepassage of time. Ken explained howlong it takes to prove a theory abouthow a site was used for a calendar andfor marking the equinox and thesolstice. He also praised Ben Mixonfor his work in the field and told us ofthe universal respect with which Ben'swork is studied. So much is yet to belearned about these peoples, but muchis uncovered by people like Ken,whose patient study and expertiseexplain much of what these so-calledprimitive people were capable of.

The July 22nd meeting was called to

order by Ralf Kurzhals. The field tripto the Howard Thomas Ranch was asuccess, with 19 members attending.There will be an election of officers inSeptember. Those who wish to mayhelp with a land survey in Utah inAugust. The August meeting will beheld on the 26th, with dinner at the RedOnion prior to the meeting.

The speaker for the evening wasNiccole Villa Cerveny, Ph.D., whoteaches physical geography at MCC.Her talk was entitled An Introductionto the Rock Art Stability Index, (RASI).This is a means by which expertsattempt to determine the lifeexpectancy of rock panels andrecommend those which need helpfirst. Funding for this is limited, so amethod of determining those whichwill be saved had to be developed.Those working on these projects lookat petroglyphs, in which something isremoved from the rock; pictographs, inwhich something is added; rockalignments, which are made by rollingboulders to make huge images; andintaglios, in which large amounts ofmaterial are subtracted to make hugeimages. RASI provides an easy way totrain people for cost effective triageassessment. This study involvesgeologists, botanists, andarchaeologists. They look at rockswhich have been abused by humans, aswell as those that are decayingnaturally. They look at the weaknessof the rock panel, evidence of largeand small erosion events, rock coating,and vandalism. We were shown themethods of evaluation and given acrash course in making such decisions.The training for this program isavailable to all who wish to help.Following the informative andentertaining presentation, refreshmentswere served.

— Diane Collins

Agua Fria Chapter

Over the summer the chapter memberswere busy with a variety of projects.Jerry Rightnour and Linda Dorseyforged on with the ceramics and lithicslabs. Members met at Linda's in theheat to wash, sort and rebag the "new"batch of artifacts and Dutch Dueringhad the prestigious task of ironing thedecades old, falling apart and mouse-chewed paper sacks that held theartifacts.

The Pierpoint Team continued withtheir writing of the Pierpoint report.Several members attended meetings ofthe Gila River Preservation andProtection Committee. Severalmembers also attended thePecos Conference in Colorado.

The speaker for the September 8thmeeting will be Allen Dart of OldPueblo in Tucson. His presentation is:Set in Stone but Not in Meaning:Southwestern Indian Rock Art. Thisprogram is funded by the ArizonaHumanities Council. Mr. Dart'slecture will be one and a half hours;therefore the meeting will begin at6:30 pm and his lecture at 7:00 pm.You don't want to miss thispresentation!

Dinner with the speaker will be atApplebee's, NE corner of 59th Ave. &Peoria at 4:30 pm (one half hourearlier than usual). Please join us.

— Sandy Gauthier and

Desert FoothillsChapter

At our May meeting, Andy Seagle toldthe story of “Tim’s Cave” in Sedona,and imparted the story of his brother,Tim Seagle, for whom the cave was


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named. Tim was very interested inarchaeology, and encouraged Andy tojoin him on his explorations. Timdied of Cystic Fibrosis at the age of24, but Andy continued his interest inphotographing the Sinaguaarchaeology of the Sedona area. InJuly of 1991, during a helicopter triparound Loy Butte and the Honankisite, Andy and the 4 other people onthe helicopter discovered an unknowncave containing large, undisturbedSinaguan pottery and baskets. Andycontacted USFS to discuss the find,and spoke with Peter Pilles, who hadknown Tim. Before USFS could getto the site, it had been looted of a rarepainted basket, and a pot within abasket. A notice and reward for returnof the artifacts was issuedimmediately. USFS removed theremaining artifacts from the cave, andAndy was invited to go along. Thestolen artifacts were anonymouslyreturned, using the Yavapai tribe as ago-between, a year later. Andyshowed the chapter photos he hadtaken of the cave, the artifacts withinthe cave, and the removal of theartifacts for study in Flagstaff. We allwondered how the Sinagua evermanaged to get up to the cave, to storetheir goods!

For our last meeting of the year, wehad an “ice cream social,” which wasa hit with the membership. To helpdefray the costs of providingrefreshments, the chapter is now ask-ing for donations.

The next meeting will be held at TheGood Shepherd of the Hills(Community Building), 6502 E. CaveCreek Rd, Cave Creek, AZ, onSeptember 9, 2009, starting at 7 pm

Upcoming Speakers:

September: David E. Doyel .willspeak on his extensive archaeologicalexcavations for the Arizona StateMuseum at the Hohokam communityof Escalante near Florence, which hedirected 35 years ago. This was thefirst project to focus on the Classicperiod (A.D.1100-1450) in the GilaRiver Valley since the work of GilaPueblo 50 years earlier. Thecommunity formed the core of anirrigation community on the north sideof the Gila River. The main sitecontained a platform mound andassociated compound.The presentation will discuss theevolution of the Escalante communityand the contributions of theexcavations to understandingHohokam society. The Escalantecommunity has recently gainedattention as part of a plan to include itand other ruins along the north side ofthe Gila River within a much-expanded National Monument alongwith the more famous Casa GrandeRuins located on the south side of theriver at Coolidge.

— Robyn Davidson

Little ColoradoChapter

Casa Malpais and the LCRC invitesanyone interested to attend a unique'One Day Event' on September 19th at418 E. Main Street in downtownSpringerville from 8:00 am to 4:00pm. Demonstrations and special guestspeakers will include Doug Gann,Preservation Archaeologist andDigital Media Specialist from theCenter for Desert Archaeology inTucson, who will speak about InternetArchaeology; ASU Ph.D. candidateMatthew Peeples, presentinginformation on ArchaeologicalCultures and Social Change Acrossthe Prehistoric Cibola World; notedspeaker Ken Zoll discussing

Prehistoric Astronomy at CasaMalpais; and Petrified Forest NationalPark archaeologist Jason Theuer, whowill be giving a demonstration on flintknapping. Tours of the site will beavailable. For further informationcontact Site Manager Linda Matthews(928) 333-5375 [email protected].

Archaeologist Jay Theuer from ThePetrified Forest National Park wasJune's featured speaker. Jay hasstudied and investigated thecompositional variability of 13th and14th century pueblo glazewares. Heenthusiastically discussed theinvention, production anddissemination of glaze paint onpottery as it related to the settlementhistory of site LA578 orHummingbird Site near Rio Puerco.Jay covered migration patterns ofPueblo clans during wet and drycycles which were analyzed by treering moisture fluctuations and thegeology of the pottery clays andtempers. Facts were presented alsoabout aflatoxin contaminating desertcorn and possible reasons why wholerooms of stored corn had beensystematically burned.

Members attended the June SW SocialNetworks Project in Luna, NewMexico and heard speakers BarbaraMills, Deborah Huntley, and MeaghanTrowbridge discuss the Interactionand Migration of Clans in the Late Pre-Hispanic SW. The National ScienceFoundation is funding grants forspecialists in different fields to pulltogether findings by archaeologistsfrom over the past 100 years todevelop the most comprehensivedatabase of settlement networksduring AD 1200 to 1500 when thedynamic social changes occurred.

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discussed her design idea andpreliminary fieldwork completed inPhoenix with specific indicators takenin the South Mountain Municipal Parkarea. Her topic was Park ManagementPreservation Efforts and thechallenges of monitoring and putting astability index together when there isno existing rapid assessmenttechnique for deserts. Monitoringincluded a focus on noise impact,vandalism, trash accumulation, andchanges/disturbances in roads, trailsand mature vegetation cover.

— Catherine Cely

Northern ArizonaChapter

At our monthly meeting on May 19th,Neil Weintraub made an interestingpresentation about measuring thethickness of shards at various sites inthe Kaibab National Forest. They feelthere is a correlation between thethickness of the pottery and the datesthey were made. This was based on atheory by Dan Sorrel and seems to beholding true based on measurementstaken by Neil's volunteers. He showeda beautiful slide show of sites fromaround the area. This is an on-goingevaluation.

Summer events: (No RegularMeetings Until September)Public Dig Days at Elden Pueblo wereheld in June, July and August. Thosewho attended received a tour of thesite and had the opportunity to dig andwork with potsherds. At the Juneevent, Jerry Bacon presented atlatlthrowing techniques. He has a nicecollection of atlatl's he has made andcollected. He also taught FlintKnapping techniques. (Band-Aidswere available but not needed).

Upcoming meetings:At the first monthly meeting on Sept.

15th, John Pitts of Santa Fe, NewMexico, will speak on the San RockArt of Southern Africa with examplesfrom world-class sites in threecountries, the Tsodillo Hills ofBotswanna, Tweifelfontain inNamibia, and the Drakensberg ofSouth Africa. John spent threedecades in the Foreign Service prior to“retiring” to Santa Fe, where hevolunteers as a Site Steward with theSanta Fe National Forest, as rock artrecorder for the Vecinos de los Riosproject and in Arizona with the BLMSears Point Rock Art RecordingProject.

Oct. 20: Kathy Farretta of RiordanMansion will present a talk onMichael Riordan.

— Bill Jones

Phoenix Chapter

On Sept. 10th, Tim Kearns, fromWestern Cultural ResourceManagement, will tell us about “The920-Mile Dig,” the result ofmonitoring the right-of-way forAT&T’s fiber-optic network fromLamesa, Texas, to Blythe, California.See the article by Mike Toner in theFall 2008 issue of AmericanArchaeology. A free buffet dinnerand drinks will be offered from 6 to7:15 pm in the PGM CommunityRoom before the meeting.

We are sponsoring a mapping class atQ-Ranch which began in late Augustand will be completed by lateOctober. We are also working onarranging both new classes andadditional hikes and field trips. Ifanyone has suggestions on eitherclasses they would like to take orplaces they would like to visit aseither a hike or a weekend field trip,please contact Marie Britton [email protected] or any member of theboard (see the AAS website for the

phone numbers and email addresses ofthe rest of the Phoenix ChapterBoard).

The Phoenix Chapter meets on thesecond Thursday of each month in theCommunity Room at the PuebloGrande Museum, 4619 E. WashingtonSt. in Phoenix, starting at 7:30 pm.Remember you can now take theLight Rail to 44th Street andWashington to reach the museum!We usually take the evening’s speakerto dinner at 5:30 pm at the new RubyTuesdays restaurant on 44th Streetnorth of the museum. If you areinterested in having dinner with thespeaker, please call or email Marie(480-827-8070 or [email protected]) tofind out the location and let her knowthat you will be attending.

— Ellie Large

Rim Country Chapter

The Rim Country Chapter will beholding its annual potluck in Paysonon September 19th from 11am to 2pm at Rumsey Park, Pavilion 3. Therewill be a Rim Country Chapter signposted in front of that pavilion. Bringwhat you wish and your own platesand utensils. Iced tea and lemonadewill be served.

The chapter is scheduled to host theFall Meeting of the ArizonaArchaeological Society in Payson onOctober 17th and 18th. If you requirefurther information, please consult theAAS website at www.azarchsoc.org.Lunch and dinner on the 17th will beat the Payson Masonic Lodge. Thelunch speaker will be Wally Davis,Tonto Apache Tribe, who will discuss"Tribal Beginnings and Future". Thedinner speaker will be Dr. ToddBostwick, City of PhoenixArchaeologist and Director of Pueblo





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Grande Museum. His topic will be“Beneath the Runways at Sky HarborAirport.” Happy Hour, that evening,will take place at the Mazatzal Casino.

Field trips planned for the meetingwill visit Risser Ruins and Goat CampRuins in Payson, the Shoofly VillageRuins, Vista Acres “Two Foot”Petroglyphs, "Jaws" petroglyph site atAnderson Mesa, and the Rye CreekRuins and Zulu Petroglyphs near thetown of Rye. Local attractions are theRim Country Museum of NorthernGila County and the Tonto NaturalBridge.

— Monte McCord

San Tan Chapter

On June 10, J Scott Wood, TontoNational Forest Archaeologist,presented The Pinal Historic TownSite by Superior. He has alsoconsented to lead a Tour/hike at thePinal Historic Town Site in the fall.The San Tan Chapter will sponsor thisactivity for the benefit andparticipation of all interested AASmembers. Detailed information willbe provided in the fall.

We have completed a site survey inthe Coolidge/Casa Grande area.Sufficient surface artifacts justify anexploratory excavation of the sitewhich we anticipate performing in thefall.

Our Archaeological Site Survey ofSan Tan Mountain Regional Park ison hold pending the required permits,licenses and funding. The Chapter willschedule the Certification Trainingand the actual survey when thisprocess is complete.

The September speaker has yet to bedetermined. On October 14, MarkElson, Principal Investigator, Desert

Archaeology Inc. will present HumanAdaptation to Catastrophic Events:Lessons from the11th Century A.D.Eruption of Sunset Crater Volcano.On November 11, Sara Herr, SeniorProject Director, Desert ArchaeologyInc. will present Life in the LandBetween. The Arizona TransitionZone is situated between the ColoradoPlateau, the home to puebloan people,and the Basin and Range home of theHohokam. Little is know of the peoplewho lived in this land “between” themajor prehistoric population centers.This talk will describe some of theresults of the ongoing State Route 260- Payson to Heber project, the firstlarge excavation in the region. Shewill discuss how people lived in therugged forests of Arizona for over3000 years, including some well-preserved Archaic and Apacheoccupations.

The San Tan Chapter meets at 7:00pm, the second Wednesday of eachmonth, at the Queen Creek Museumlocated on the southwest corner of theintersection of Ellsworth and QueenCreek Roads

— Mel Marshall

Tubac/Santa Cruz CountyChapter

Noted archaeologist Allen Dart willpresent Archaeology and You:Preserving the Past for the Future atour Sept. 10th meeting at 7 pm atSanta Cruz County’s North CountyFacility at 50 Bridge Road in Tubac.The presentation is free and open tothe public. He will tell how artifactsand cultural features, ranging fromsmall pieces of pottery and arrow-heads to petroglyphs, glass bottles,coins and other historical objects, areoften the only sources of informationthat archaeologists have to answerquestions about an ancient people's

way of life. Using examples fromrecent excavations here in SouthernArizona, he will explain theimportance of leaving these itemsundisturbed in their original context.This program is a must for everyoneinterested in protecting the veryspecial archaeological heritage of ourarea.

Mr. Dart has worked and volunteeredas a professional archaeologist in NewMexico and Arizona since 1975, forgovernment, private companies, andnonprofit organizations. He iscurrently the Executive Director ofTucson’s nonprofit Old PuebloArchaeology Center, which hefounded in 1993 to provideeducational and scientific programs inarchaeology and culture, and is aprincipal investigator in the Tucsonoffice of EcoPlan Associates, Inc., anenvironmental and cultural resourcesconsulting firm. A RegisteredProfessional Archaeologist, he hasbeen a recipient of the Arizona Gover-nor’s Award in Public Archaeologyfor his efforts to bring archaeologyand history to the public.

The Tubac/SCC AAS chapter meetsthe second Thursday of each month.In addition to hosting programsfeaturing experts in historical andarchaeological topics that focus on theSanta Cruz River Valley, the chapteroffers members opportunities to assistarchaeologists with excavating areasites, as well as hikes and tours toarchaeologically and historicallysignificant locations. The chapter’seducational and advocacy programsare intended to preserve and protectthe region’s unique cultural resourcesand draw upon and partner with otherorganizations with heritage-basedgoals and objectives. Tubac AASchapter members also have theopportunity to participate in manyeducational, stewardship and





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excavation activities of the statewideorganization’s other local chapters.

For more information about theTubac/SCC AAS Chapter and itsactivities, call Alan Sorkowitz at520-207-7151 or inquire via e-mail [email protected]. The AAS web site,www.AzArchSoc.org, offersinformation about the Tubac chapterand others throughout the state as wellas activities and benefits of member-ship in the statewide organization.Contact: Alan Sorkowitz, President,Tubac/SCC Chapter, ArizonaArchaeological Society,520-207-7151, [email protected]

— Alan Sorkowitz

Verde ValleyChapter

The speaker for our May 28th meetingwas John S. Westerlund, a long-timemilitary officer, educated at WestPoint, the U. S. Army War College,and the French Army EcoleSuperieure de Guerre Interarmees. Hereceived his Ph.D in American historyat the University of Northern Arizona.He spoke to us about the wartimestory of Flagstaff, including theinteractions among the Hopi, theNavajo, Blacks, prisoners of war,military personnel of all descriptions,and the local people of Flagstaff.John Westerlund is indeed a conciseand interesting speaker.

Our next meeting will be held at theSedona Public Library, White BearRoad, on Sept. 24th at 7 pm. Ourspeaker will be Sharon Urban, SeniorArchaeologist for the HarrisEnvironmental Group in Tucson.Among her areas of expertise areprehistoric shells, petroglyphs andpictographs, the Hohokam,

archaeological surveying, mapping,and excavations, museum artifactcataloguing, and calligraphy. Herprofessional experience includespositions such as teacher, guestlecturer, field director, crew chief,laboratory director, PublicArchaeologist, Research Assistant,and Project Director, and author ofmany articles, surveys, glyphs, etc.

Congratulations to Marlene Conklin,our own "Queen of the Shards," who,during the summer, was nominated bytwo of her professional colleagues,Dr. David R. Wilcox and Peter J.Pilles, Jr., for the state's mostprestigious award given to amateurarchaeologists - the Governor'sArchaeology Advisory CommissionAward in Public Archaeology.Marlene, in addition to coordinatingthe Chapter volunteers who work atthe Museum, is assigning Museum ofNorthern Arizona site numbers to thethousands of sites in the CoconinoNational Forest. These sites,numbered and recorded, along with allpertinent archaeological data, serve asa system to back up and safeguard thevast amount of data in the NationalForest Service computer recordingsystem.

We have many exciting activitiesplanned for the coming months. Afterthe success of the Festival of NativeAmerican Culture in June, plans arealready underway for the 2010 event,to be held June 5 - 13. Chaptervolunteers are needed for severalactivity committees. We have alsobooked our guest for theDistinguished Speaker Program, to beheld on April 22nd - Dr. Carroll L.Riley, the distinguished ProfessorEmeritus of Anthropology, SouthernIllinois University. He is author ofmore than 20 books on archaeologyand ethnohistory, with specialemphasis on the Southwest. He will

be talking about his latest bookentitled Becoming Aztlan, whichdescribes the Meso-Americaninfluences in the greater Southwest.

Contact is Ken Zoll (928) 284-1228,or [email protected].

— Louise Fitzgerald

Yavapai Chapter

Chapter members had their annualsummer potluck August 20th at theThumb Butte picnic area, a casualtime to catch up on what’s beenhappening and to get the word onwhat’s in the works. Thank you to thefolks who have worked during thesummer to set up our fall schedule oftalks and trips. Neal Schortinghuisstepped in as Acting Vice-Presidentand has lined up interesting speakersand Tom Garrison continues to recruitknowledgeable tour guides to avariety of sites in the area.

The September field trip will be to thePowerline/Doreen site, a largeconcentration of petroglyphs in north-ern Yavapai County; it’s an adventurejust to get there! In October, Dr.David Wilcox will be our expert as wehead to Brown Springs, a large pueblosite along the Verde River. Field tripsare on the fourth Saturday of eachmonth.

Meetings are held on the thirdThursday of each month at 7 pm at theSmoki Museum. As usual, there willbe dinner at the Prescott Brewing Co(upstairs) at 5 pm. All members andtheir guests are welcome.

Sept. 17th - don’t miss HoskiSchaafsma’s presentation on interac-tions of people and landscapesthrough time on Perry Mesa.Schaafsma, an Arizona State




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University paleobotanist, has beenconducting research at the Agua FriaNational Monument on howHohokam agriculture changed thelandscape. He was quoted July 24,2009 in Prescott’s Daily Courier “Themonument offers a uniqueopportunity to study how theancient Hohokam people lived fromabout 1275 to 1385 A.D. on alandscape scale. Thousands of

contiguous acres containingHohokam ruins are relativelyundisturbed except for modern-daygrazing activities.”

Then on Oct 15th Stewart Deats, withEnviroSystems Management Inc, willdiscuss his work on the Talking RockRanch project. He has beenexcavating at 15 sites at the ranch, 17miles northwest of Prescott and eastof Mint Wash along Williamson

Valley Road.

Contacts: President Gloria Grimditch(928) 443-8881 [email protected]

Field trips: Tom [email protected]

— Susan Jones



PLEASE SEND IN YOUR REGISTRATION FORM BY SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

REGISTRATION FORM -- FALL 2009 AAS STATE MEETINGHosted by the Rim Country Chapter in Payson

Saturday, October 17, 2009

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