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GLYPHSThe Monthly Newsletter of the

Arizona Archaeological and Historical SocietyAn Affiliate of the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona

Founded in 1916

Tucson, ArizonaVol. 63, No. 11 May 2013

Next General Meeting: May 20, 20137:30 p.m., Duval Auditorium, University Medical Center

www.az-arch-and-hist.org

Prominent solar marker glyph at Sutherland Wash, which may also be arepresentation of a flower (photograph by Janine Hernbrode).

HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS ISSUE

President’s Message .................................................................................................... 2Hohokam Petroglyphs at Sutherland Wash: Flower World and Gender Imagery, Janine Hernbrode and Peter Boyle ........................................................ 4Investigating the Coal Mining Camps of Vermejo Park Ranch, Matthew J. Barbour ................................................................................................. 6The Cornerstone ......................................................................................................... 12

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

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AAHS LECTURE SERIES

All meetings are held at the University Medical Center, Duval AuditoriumThird Monday of the month, 7:30–9:00 p.m.

May 20, 2013: Janine Hernbrode and Peter Boyle, Hohokam Petroglyphs atSutherland Wash: Flower World and Gender Imagery

June 17, 2013: J. Homer Thiel, Recent Discoveries at the Hardy Site and FortLowell

July 15, 2013: William H. Doelle, Tucson Underground: The Archaeology of aDesert Community

August 2013: No meeting: Pecos ConferenceSept. 16, 2013: TBAOct. 21, 2013: Laurie Webster, New Research with the Earliest Perishable

Collections from Southeastern UtahNov. 18, 2013: J. Jefferson Reid, Prehistory, Personality, and Place: Emil W.

Haury and the Mogollon ControversyDec. 16, 2013: Stephen H. Lekson, Mimbres: Its Causes and Consequences

This period is critical for under-standing the arrival, dispersal, anddevelopment of maize agriculture, butsites of that age somehow elude us.We typically explain the pre-maizegap in the archaeological record as acombination punch of harsh environ-mental conditions and erosion, butradiocarbon dating in the Lower Gila,Santa Cruz, and especially the SanPedro river valleys indicates that5,000- to 13,000-year-old sedimentsare preserved out there. I think thatthe upper San Pedro River may havethe most accessible and promisingsites for pushing back the arrival ofmaize, although no army of archae-

ologists is clambering at its door tofind them.

Finally, it was my pleasure tolearn that the Scholarship and Re-search Committee awarded a dozentravel and research grants last month,and I thank the hard work of MikeLindeman (co-chair), Doug Mitchell(co-chair), Deborah Huntley, JennyAdams, Laurie Webster, KenFleshman, and Arthur Vokes. I hopethe travel grant recipients enjoyedtheir experiences at the SAA annualmeeting, and I wish the researchawardees good luck with theirprojects.

—Jesse Ballenger

Follow AAHS on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/pages/Tucson-AZ/Arizona-Archaeological-and-Historical-Society

Today I received an an- nouncement for thePaleoamerican Odyssey

planned in Santa Fe this Oc-tober. It’s a heavy dose of

Clovis and pre-Clovis research, butit’s also a huge artifact show, featur-ing as many as 30 collections thatspan the Paleoindian period.

If it seems like archaeologists arerecognizing pre-Clovis sites at an un-precedented pace, it might be becausein 2007, Michael Waters and ThomasStafford limited the age of Clovis tono more than 13,100 years ago. Thisis a good strategy for discovering pre-Clovis sites, as long as they don’tcontain Clovis artifacts. For example,four years later, Michael Waters andothers reported artifacts below theClovis component at the Debra L.Friedkin site, in Texas. This is argu-ably the least contested pre-Clovis sitein North America south of the icesheets. They actually called it “proto-Clovis,” however, because the arti-facts resemble Clovis flaked stonetechnology. So, some “pre-Clovis”sites may eventually turn out to be“older Clovis,” but not without thediscovery of a Clovis projectile point.

If you’re interested in saying“Clovis” a zillion times and seeingproto-Clovis and other remarkableevidence first-hand, you will want tovisit the conference web page andconsider attending (see announce-ment on page 9).

Coincidentally, Saul Hedquist re-cently informed me that The Arizona

Paleoindian Projectile Point data-base is now on-line. Arizona hasnever had a strong pre-Clovis con-tender, and nobody would recognizea pre-Clovis projectile point if theysaw one. The state does, however,have a remarkable record of Clovisand later groups. The ArizonaPaleoindian Projectile Point Surveyoriginated as a collaborative effort byvolunteers from Statistical Research,Inc., WestLand Resources, Inc., Ar-chaeology Southwest, School of An-thropology (University of Arizona),Arizona Archaeological and Histori-cal Society, and the Arizona SiteStewards Program. The 2011 data-base is accessible on The DigitalArchaeological Record (tDAR). Ifyou like archaeology and youhaven’t visited tDAR yet, I recom-mend trying the search engine. Thedownloads are free, and they in-clude a rich assortment of archaeo-logical studies, new and old.

Southern Arizona has a muchmore recent problem that hasn’t at-tracted the same level of enthusiasmas the quest for Clovis and pre-Clovissites, but that is arguably just as im-portant. We know that Clovis peoplewere hunting in southern Arizonaaround 12,900 years ago. But, we arehard-pressed to find buried sites thatpredate 4,000 years ago, and to finda well-preserved site older than 5,000years ago is cause for amazement.The same pattern holds up in thewestern Papaguería, and in the Phoe-nix Basin.

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AAHS HAPPENINGSTOPIC OF THE MAY GENERAL MEETING

Hohokam Petroglyphs at Sutherland Wash:Flower World and Gender Imagery

by Janine Hernbrode and Peter Boyle

A place of special significance to the late pre-Classic Hokokam is

located at the base of the westernslope of the Santa Catalina Moun-tains near Tucson. Taken in contextwith other anthropological informa-tion, it appears that Sutherland WashRock Art District was a ceremonialplace, with an emphasis on the Uto-Aztecan Flower World. Flowers holdspecial meaning to speakers of Uto-Aztecan languages, representing aspiritual landscape, a flowery, color-ful, glittering paradise, which can beevoked through prayers, songs, andother human actions. Previously re-ported in kiva murals and ceramics,Jane H. Hill suggested that such im-agery might also be found in rock art.

A rich set of data recently createdby a team of volunteers from AAHSand the Arizona Site Stewards in-cludes a detailed recording of 3,251prehistoric petroglyphs, a variety ofsurface features, artifacts, trails, so-lar markers and the results of a rudi-mentary acoustic experiment. Inthese data, we found three importantlines of evidence suggesting the spe-cial significance of Sutherland Wash.The first is the Flower World com-

plex, which is evident not only inpetroglyphs representing both real-istic and abstract flowers, but also inglyphs depicting important relatedimagery, including birds and butter-flies. Second, the importance of gen-der is apparent in many male andfemale anthropomorphs, vulvaforms, family groups, birthing scenes,and a landscape that includes yoniand phallus formations. Third, theinteraction of sunlight and shadowsamong some of the panels clearlymarked the equinoxes and solstices;one panel is a compelling horizonmarker at the summer solstice in-volving Romo Peak, where copperbells of Mesoamerican origin werefound in the 1940s.

We believe that these findings sig-nificantly strengthen the evidence forthe presence of the Flower WorldComplex among the pre-ClassicHohokam and, to our knowledge,provide the most comprehensive setof Flower World imagery evident inthe medium of rock art. Taken to-gether, our findings provide aglimpse of the Hohokam worldviewand its probable Mesoamerican ori-gins.

Suggested Reading:

Hays-Gilpin, Kelley, and Jane H. Hill 1999 The Flower World in Material Cul-

ture: An Iconographic Complex inthe Southwest and Mesoamerica.Journal of Anthropological Research55:1–37.

Hays-Gilpin, Kelley, Elizabeth A. Newsome,and Emory Sekaquaptewa

2010 Siitalpuva, “Through the LandBrightened with Flowers”: Ecologyand Cosmology in Mural and Pot-tery Painting, Hopi and Beyond. InPainting the Cosmos: Metaphor andWorldview in Images from the South-west Pueblos and Mexico, pp. 121–

Speaker Janine Hernbrode, a graduate of the University of Arizona, took electivecourses in anthropology in the 1960s, forming the basis of a lifelong avocationalinterest in rock art. Her professional life as Director of Camps, Workshops and FieldSeminars, National Audubon Society, enabled viewing rock art of many culturesthroughout North America. Since her retirement in 2003, she has served on theTumamoc recording team, completed a project on solar markers, led the SutherlandWash Rock Art District recording effort, and been honored by the Site Steward Pro-gram as AZ Site Steward of the Year 2010 and Research Project of the Year 2012. Sheis currently on the Boards of both AAHS and Archaeology Southwest and is a memberof the American Rock Art Research Association.

Speaker Peter Boyle joined the Tucson community in 2002, and since that time, haspursued his long-standing interest in archaeology. Peter received a Ph.D. in Physi-ological Psychology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and was a PostdoctoralFellow in Biochemistry at the same institution. Formerly, he was head of research andengineering at Kraft Foods, Inc. Peter now volunteers regularly in the laboratory atArchaeology Southwest, where he particularly enjoys ceramic analysis. With GayleHartmann, he co-lead the AAHS project to record rock art on Tumamoc Hill, and morerecently, has worked on the recording project at Sutherland Wash. He is a past presi-dent and vice president of AAHS and is currently a member of the Board of Directorsand Treasurer of Archaeology Southwest.

GLYPHS: Information and articles to be included in Glyphs must be re-ceived by the 10th of each month for inclusion in the next month’s issue.Contact me, Emilee Mead, at [email protected] or 520.881.2244.

138. Bulletin No. 67. Museum ofNorthern Arizona, Flagstaff.

Hill, Jane H. 1992 The Flower World of Old Uto-Az-

tecan. Journal of Anthropological Re-search 48117–144.

Wallace, Henry D. 2012 The Architecture of Honey Bee Vil-

lage. In Life in the Valley of Gold: Arch-aeological Investigations at Honey BeeVillage, A Prehistoric HohokamBallcourt Village, part 2, edited byH. D. Wallace, pp. 709–766. An-thropological Papers No. 48. Ar-chaeology Southwest, Tucson.


Investigating the Coal Mining Camps ofVermejo Park Ranch

by Matthew J. BarbourNew Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

Over the past several years, the Office of Archaeological Studies (OAS) hasconducted archaeological research into the coal towns west of Raton,

New Mexico, on Ted Turner’s Vermejo Park Ranch, for the New Mexico Aban-doned Mine Lands Program (AML). AML is seeking to close the mines onVermejo Park Ranch, and to bury and reseed the coal piles to return the area toits natural state. The area under reclamation includes the towns of Blossburg,Brilliant, Swastika, and Gardiner.

Most recently, work has fo-cused on Seeley Canyon, asmall canyon within thetown of Blossburg. Blossburgis the earliest of the coal min-ing communities. Known asthe “Pittsburgh of the West,”the town was founded byColonel Ed Savage fromBlossburg, Pennsylvania, in1880. Inside Seeley Canyonare the two oldest mines,Blossburg No. 1 and the OldDutchman. These mines ex-tended for miles under-ground, creating a labyrinthof tunnels that would even-tually connect to the work-ings at Swastika to the northand Gardiner to the south.

Conditions in the mineswere extremely poor. In 1894,an explosion at Blossurg No.1 caused the death of fiveworkers and the injury ofthree others. This event sub-sequently led to a strike inwhich miners from Blossburgsabotaged the Atchison To-

peka and Santa Fe Railwayspur in the adjoining DillonCanyon. Miners only re-turned to work when 83U.S. Deputy Marshals andfour companies of U.S. Armysoldiers arrived on thescene to calm the situation.

Archaeological survey inthe Seeley Canyon area hasrevealed a treasure trove ofarchaeological features as-sociated with the mines.These include foundationsfor stone and concrete struc-tures, machine platforms,adits, shafts, refuse piles, and aban-doned railbeds. The features allowarchaeologists to reconstruct both theworkings of the mines and the socialorder of the Blossburg community.

In addition, OAS archaeologistsdiscovered several Native Americansites, including a wickiup possiblyoccupied by Apache peoples in theearly nineteenth century, and arockshelter used by an unknown pre-historic group. These sites help usunderstand land use by NativeAmerican people. By identifyingthese sites, archaeologists can directlabor crews away from these areasduring the reclamation process.

Overall archaeological investiga-tions of the Vermejo Park area haveproven to be fruitful in contributingto a better understanding of the de-velopment of coal mining and itslegacy in northeastern New Mexico.Although no additional research isplanned in the area at this time, sev-eral OAS publications highlight theresults of archaeological investiga-tions in the area. I encourage anyonewho would like to learn more todownload The Coal Camps of VermejoPark Ranch, Colfax County, NewMexico, by Yvonne R. Oakes and Dor-othy A. Zamora from the OASwebsite www.nmarchaeology.org.

Top: Native American rockshelter above SeeleyCanyon. Bottom: Possible wickiup and culturallymodified tree (photographs by Office of Arch-aeological Studies staff).

Nineteenth century residential structure (photographby Office of Archaeological Studies staff).

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS FOR GLYPHS: If you have research or a fieldproject that would be interesting to Glyphs readers, please consider contrib-uting an article. Requirements are a maximum of 1,000 words, or 750 wordsand one illustration, or 500 words and two illustrations. Please send elec-tronic submissions to [email protected], or by mail to Jenny Adams, DesertArchaeology, Inc., 3975 N. Tucson Blvd., Tucson, Arizona 85716.


Linda S. Cordell died suddenly on March 29, 2013. Although retired, she was actively engaged in archaeology. She was found working on a paper

that she was to present the following day.Linda was born on October 11, 1943, in New York. Her mother, Evelyn

Seinfeld, was an anthropologist who obtained her Ph.D. at Columbia, andLinda recalled one of her mother’s ad-visors, Margaret Mead. Linda receivedher B.A. degree at The George Wash-ington University in Washington D.C.,and worked for several years at theSmithsonian Institution (and was onceinadvertently locked in the attic of theNatural History museum!). She beganher Southwestern career in 1964, as astudent on a University of New Mexicofield school in northern New Mexico.This began her life-long engagementwith the northern Rio Grande, attestedby the paper on Galisteo Basin archae-ology, which she was writing the dayshe died.

Linda received her M.A. from theUniversity of Oregon in 1967, and herPh.D. from the University of California,Santa Barbara in 1972. At Santa Bar-

bara, she worked with Albert Spaulding, the eminent quantitative archaeolo-gist. She joined the faculty of the University of New Mexico (UNM) in 1971, asan Assistant Professor, and began work at Tijeras Pueblo east of Albuquerque.In the early 1980s, she moved the field school to Rowe Ruin in the PecosValley, working with Dr. Fred Plog. Both projects trained many Southwesternstudents. She had a distinguished career at UNM, serving not only as profes-sor, but also as Chair of the department and Acting Vice President of Research.

In 1987, she took the position as Irving Curator and Chair of Anthropologyat the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. In 1993, she accepteda position as Director at the Museum of Natural History at the University ofColorado, Boulder and Professor of Anthropology. She elevated the Museumand Field Studies graduate program to national prominence. Through herpersuasion and fund-raising, the museum expanded into a large renovated

Linda S. Cordell (1943–2013)Catherine M. Cameron and Stephen H. Lekson

building. She was very active in theDepartment of Anthropology, espe-cially in graduate teaching, and sheserved as a mentor to many students.She retired from the museum anddepartment in 2006, and moved toSanta Fe. There, she was a SeniorScholar at the School for AdvancedResearch and also served as externalfaculty to the Santa Fe Institute.

Linda was a prolific scholar, with16 books and more than 100 articlesand chapters, four of which ap-peared in 2012. She was perhaps bestknown for having written the stan-dard textbook on Southwestern ar-chaeology, Prehistory of the Southwest(1984), with a second edition in 1997,retitled Archaeology of the Southwest,and a third edition with Dr. MaxineMcBrinn in 2012.

Linda was fluent in Spanish, andshe worked with many Mexican ar-chaeologists. She was co-author withher colleague Beatriz Braniff-C. andothers of La Gran Chichimeca, el Lugarde las Rocas Secas (2001). Linda alsowrote for the public. Some of her mostpopular books include Ancient PuebloPeoples (1994) and Chilies to Choco-late, Foods the Americas Gave the World(1992, co-edited with Nelson Foster).Some of her most important recent

publications involved the analysis ofSouthwestern ceramics, includingthe 2012 volume, Potters and Commu-nities of Practice: Glaze Paint and Poly-chrome Pottery in the American South-west, AD 1275 – 1700 (edited with Dr.Judith Habicht-Mauche).

She worked closely with a groupof prominent young women cerami-cists who met frequently in Santa Fe,at “slumber parties” to collaborate ontheir projects. Linda was also deeplyengaged as colleague and friend withPueblo Indian scholars and artists,as well as Native Americans frommany tribes.

Linda was the recipient of manyhonors during her career, includinginduction to the National Academyof Sciences in 2006, and receipt of theA.V. Kidder Award for Eminence inAmerican Archaeology from theAmerican Anthropological Associa-tion in 2001. She was only the sec-ond woman to have won this awardin its 50-year history. She will per-haps be best known, however, for themany warm friendships she madethroughout the field of archaeology,for her caring mentorship of gradu-ate students and young scholars,and for her strong ethical stands onthe issues confronting archaeology.

PALEOINDIAN ODYSSEY CONFERENCE

The Center for the Study of the First Americans is excited to present threedays of public lectures by leaders in the field of first Americans studies, as

well as posters and artifact displays. The conference is open to the public andwill be held October 17–19, 2013, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Additional infor-mation is available at: paleoamericanodyssey.com/index.html.

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UPCOMING AAHS FIELD TRIPSAAHS membership is required to participate in field trips. Prospective

members may attend one AAHS field trip prior to joining.

Kinishba and Ft. Apache TourMay 18, 2013

Join us for a tour of Kinishba, a Western Pueblo site located on the WhiteMountain Apache Reservation in east-central Arizona on Saturday, May18. We will meet Dr. John Welch at 10:00 a.m. at the Ft. Apache Museum,where we will pay a fee to visit the area. We then will go to Kinishba, whichhas a similar architectural style to Grasshopper and Q-Ranch pueblos. Af-ter Kinishba, we will have lunch (pack your own) at a “not often visited”rock art site. We then can go back to tour Ft. Apache, both prehistoric andhistoric components. If time permits, we may visit an unexcavated pueblonearby. The museum/cultural center is about 1 hour, 40 minutes from Globe,or 4 hours from Tucson. You may want to spend Saturday night in Pinetopor the Hon-Dah Casino, or in Globe. Those spending the night in Globe canvisit the partially reconstructed Salado pueblo of Besh-be-gowa on Sunday,prior to returning to Tucson. Hopefully, Dr. Welsh will have copies of new-est (this spring!) publication on Kinishba for sale. You must be a member ofAAHS to participate on this trip. For more information, contact Chris Langeat [email protected]. or 520.792.1303. Space is limited to 20 participants.

FIELD TRIP PLANNERS NEEDED

Field trips are an important part of AAHS. As it warms up and this season’sfield trips wind down, we start thinking about field trips for next season.

Our goal is to have a variety of trips available, from museum visits, to ½-daytrips based from Tucson, to weekend excursions. If you have an idea for a fieldtrip you would like to lead or if you would like to serve on the Field TripCommittee, please contact Katherine Cerino ([email protected]). You don’thave to live in Tucson! We do most of our organizing by email and wouldespecially welcome members from the Phoenix Basin or other parts of Arizonaor eastern New Mexico who would be willing to organize a trip in their area.

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David M. Brugge, archaeologist,Navajo historian, and ethnolo-

gist, died on March 15, 2013, in Al-buquerque.

Dave was born in 1927, inJamestown, in the southwestern cor-ner of New York state. Turning 18 ascant month after the end of WorldWar II in 1945, he was drafted intothe Army, served his term and re-en-listed. In the fall of 1947, he went tothe University of New Mexico (UNM)on the GI bill, and completed his B.A.in archaeology in 1950. While he wasa student in Albuquerque, he madeNavajo friends. Among them werethree silversmiths, David Taliman,Luke B. Yazzie, and Howard Yazza,who not only taught him to make sil-ver—he was quite proficient—butwho took him home with them whenthey visited their families.

Dave’s post-UNM years includednot only work on a variety of south-west salvage archeological excava-tions, but also jobs that took him allover the Southwest and the NavajoReservation, making more Navajofriends and colleagues. For a time, heworked for the Unitarian ServiceCommittee, first teaching English toNavajo railroad employees, and sub-sequently, at the Gallup Indian Com-munity Center.

In the course of this, he met J. LeeCorrell and Richard Van Valken-burgh, as well as Ruth Sherlog, a so-cial worker, who became his wife. In1959, after Van Valkenburgh’s death,

Lee Correll hired Dave to work forthe Navajo Tribe, where he con-ducted fieldwork for the NavajoLand Claims case. This includedboth archaeological surveying ofNavajo sites and, equally important,going on site visits with Navajo el-ders and an interpreter to learn theirrecollections. This was a seminal ex-perience that taught Dave the practi-cal aspects of ethnographic inter-viewing, as well as the importanceof oral history.

The Brugges lived first in Gallup,where their sons Doug and Stevewere born, then they moved to Win-dow Rock, where their daughterJanet was born; the children grew upon the Reservation. In 1974, Davewent to work for the National ParkService, first at Hubbell Trading Post,subsequently at the Chaco Center,and finally, as Regional Curator inSanta Fe until his retirement. He co-founded, with Charlotte Frisbie, theNavajo Studies Conference in 1986.

Ruth died in 1990, and Dave con-tinued to be involved with Navajostudies and support Navajo studentsand scholars. In 1998, the Archaeo-logical Society of New Mexico pub-lished Diné Bikéyah: Papers in Honorof David M. Brugge (edited by MelihaS.Duran and David T. Kirkpatrick),and in 2005, he received an honor-ary doctorate from UNM.

His many publications includeNavajos in the Catholic Church Recordsof New Mexico, 1694-1875; Tsegai: An

David M. Brugge (1927–2013)Willow Powers

Archaeological Ethnohistory of theChaco Region; A History of the ChacoNavajo; and The Navajo-Hopi LandDispute: An American Tragedy.

Dave Brugge was hugely gener-ous with his time, both in reviewing

manuscripts on his areas of interestand expertise—a review that wouldalways be thorough, detailed, andaccurate—and in sharing his knowl-edge, thoughts, and extensive expe-rience. He will be very much missed.


THE CORNERSTONE

The Cornerstone is presented by:Darlene F. Lizarraga, Marketing Coordinator

Arizona State Museum, University of ArizonaP.O. Box 210026, Tucson, AZ 85721-0026Phone: 520.626.8381, FAX: 520.621.2976

[email protected]

A Makeover for Homol’ovi II: The Map, That Is!by Rich Lange, Arizona State Museum

Homol’ovi II (H2) has been touted as the largest of the Homol’ovi

pueblos in the group of ancestralHopi villages near Winslow in north-eastern Arizona. The figure showsH2 how it was originally mapped inthe early 1980s, with overlays of theareas excavated by Arizona State

Museum’s Homol’ovi Research Pro-gram (HRP) in 1984 and from 1991–1995.

The circled areas show severalportions of the room blocks sur-rounding the plazas that exhibit po-tential errors or misinterpretations bythe earlier mapping. For those whohave seen H2, it is clear that map-ping the pueblo from the surface evi-dence is difficult at best. Severepothunting (vandalism) over theyears affects nearly every one of the

estimated more than 1,000 rooms tosome depth. The vandalism also de-stroyed many walls and corners ofrooms so that they are no longer vis-ible at the surface.

When HRP returned to H2 in1991, we mapped the most obviousvisible architecture (walls and cor-

ners), but did not embark on the large-scale wall tracing that characterizedour later work at Homol’ovi I andChevelon pueblos. This was due toseveral factors, including: (1) the il-lusion that the H2 architecture wasvisible and that we had successfullymapped it; (2) the immense amountsof wall rubble that would have to becleared; and, (3) the concentration onthe excavation areas we opened aswe tried to more fully understand thepueblo.

Recently, as I began to write upthe work done at H2 by HRP, it be-came noticeable that we knew a greatdeal about the immediate areas of ourexcavation units, but that other keydetails were unclear or missing. Thiswas confirmed by an exploratoryvisit last fall. To fill in the missinginformation, I organized a re-map-ping expedition in March. A crewconsisting of graduate studentSamantha Fladd and volunteersChris Lange, Byron Estes, andDarlene Brinkerhoof shot more than1,800 map points in 2½ days of fortu-nately wonderful weather.

We believe we defined a previ-ously unknown entry corridor intothe central plaza, and that we have a

more nuanced understanding of howthe room blocks were constructed. Iam in the process of trying to makesense of the new information andcompare it with previously mademaps. The new details of construc-tion will help in understanding theimportant and unique history of H2,and the role of this important com-munity in the cluster of Homol’ovivillages.

UPCOMING ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM EVENTS

Coffee with the CuratorsMay 8, 2013; 3:00–3:45 p.m.

Join us for a cup of coffee and information conversation! Journalist Marga-ret Regan, author of The Death of Joseeline: Immigration Stories from the ArizonaBorderlands (Beacon Press, 2010), discusses the journeys of migrants throughthe dangerous deserts of southern Arizona.

ARCHAEOLOGY SOUTHWEST’SARCHAEOLOGY CAFÉ

Archaeology Southwest and Casa Vincente invite you to the Archaeology Café, a casual discussion forum dedicated to promoting community en-

gagement with cultural and scientific research. Meetings are the first Tuesdayof each month from September to May, at 6:00 p.m. Casa Vicente is located at375 S. Stone Avenue. The café is free and open to the community.The remainder of the spring 2013 season includes:

May 7: Ben Nelson, Connecting the American Southwest and Mesoamerica: ARitual Economy


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2013 PECOS CONFERENCE

The 2013 Pecos Conference of Southwestern Archaeology will be held inFlagstaff, Arizona, August 8–11. Preliminary information about the con-

ference is available online at www.swanet.org/2013_pecos_conference.Each August, archaeologists gather somewhere in the southwestern UnitedStates. They set up a large tent for shade, and spend three or more days togetherdiscussing recent research and the problems of the field and challenges of theprofession. In recent years, Native Americans, avocational archaeologists, thegeneral public, and media organizations have come to speak with the archae-ologists. These individuals and groups play an increasingly important role, asparticipants and as audience, helping professional archaeologists celebratearchaeological research and to mark cultural continuity.Open to all, the Pecos Conference remains an important and superlative oppor-tunity for students and students of prehistory to meet with professional ar-chaeologists on a one-on-one informal basis to learn about the profession, gainaccess to resources and to new research opportunities, and to test new methodsand theories related to archaeology.The 2013 Pecos Conference is presented by the Museum of Northern Arizonaand the USDA Coconino National Forest. The website is updated frequently;please make sure to check periodically for new information.

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Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam IndiansMay 18, 2013; 2:00–3:30 p.m.Caviglia-Arivaca Branch Library, 17180 W. Fourth St., Arivaca

The Hohokam Native American culture flourished in southern Arizona fromthe sixth through fifteenth centuries. Hohokam artifacts, architecture, andother material culture provide archaeologists with clues for identifying wherethe Hohokam lived, for interpreting how they adapted to the Sonoran Desertfor centuries, and explaining why the Hohokam culture mysteriously disap-peared. In this presentation, archaeologist Allen Dart illustrates the materialculture of the Hohokam and presents possible interpretations about theirrelationships to the natural world, their time reckoning, religious practices,beliefs, and deities, and possible reasons for the eventual demise of their wayof life. Sponsored by Pima County Public Library. No reservations are needed.

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