Introduction

The Arizona Archaeological Society, Phoenix Chapter, is an independent nonprofit corporation. Members are eligible to participate in field trips, excavations, surveys, lab work, and other areas of archaeological interest. Each member also receives a copy of the annual publication of the Society, The Arizona Archaeologist, together with the monthly newsletter, The Petroglyph.

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Chapter Officers

Meetings 

The chapter meets at Pueblo Grande Museum, at 7:30 pm, on the second Thursday of each month (except during June, July & August). Driving directions to PGM: Due to the construction of the light-rail system, west-bound cars can no longer turn left from Washington Street into the museum; instead traffic approaching from the east must make a u-turn at the light at 44th street. From the West Valley, use 44th Street or east-bound Washington Street.

Chapter Projects

PGM STABILIZATION PROJECT- PHOENIX CHAPTER

Pueblo Grande is a Classic Period Hohokam site located in downtown Phoenix at Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park. This archaeological site has been designated a National Historic Landmark. For the past thirteen years the Arizona Archaeology Society, Phoenix Chapter volunteers along with the Southwest Archaeology Team have participated in doing stabilization, reconstruction, and general maintenance on the platform mound and adjacent room structures.

After the Hohokam abandoned this site, it fell into a state of self-stabilization where walls become protected by the material that eroded from above. Early excavations, especially in the 1930's, exposed many of these walls again. These adobe walls have been subjected to constant erosion from wind and rain as well as other agents of deterioration. Consequently, new adobe mud must be applied periodically to keep these structures from melting away. Stone faced walls require repointing to keep the stones from falling from the wall. Exposed room walls are protected by applying a thin layer of mud to the wall surface. Monitoring these architectural features for erosion damage is an on-going task.

A dedicated group of volunteers, known as the PGM Mudslingers meet one Saturday a month except in July and August. The Mudslingers work is coordinated by Jim Britton (member of AAS and SWAT) under the direction of Dr.Todd Bostwick (Phoenix City Archaeologist). All work is documented by detailed field notes and photos.

This partnership between the Mudslingers and the City Archaeologist is a great benefit to Pueblo Grande Museum and is very much appreciated by the Museum Director and the Parks and Recreation Department staff.

by Jim Britton

Local Museums

Phoenix Chapter History

Chapter News January 2012

On Thursday, Dec. 15^th, Deni Seymour gave us an excellent talk explaining how the archaeological evidence added to and corroborated Spanish accounts of an important battle on the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona.  She discovered that the archaeological site identified by Charles DiPeso as Santa Cruz de Gaybanapitea on the north side of the Babocomari River was in fact a different site, one called Santa Cruz del Pitaitutgam.  The actual site of Santa Cruz de Gaybanapitea was located south of the river, as the Spanish documents indicated it should be.  Excavations there confirmed the Spanish accounts of the buildings on the site and the arrowheads recovered corroborated the description of the battle as well as the participants in that battle.

The Dec. 15^th Holiday Potluck was well attended and the food was bountiful.  Arizona author Lori Hines was available to sell as well as sign her new paranormal mystery book, The Ancient Ones.  The nominees for the chapter board were approved by acclimation.  The officers for 2012 are: President, Nancy Unferth; Exec. V. P., Ellie Large; Treasurer, Bob Unferth; Secretary, Ellen Martin; Director, 3 yr., Marie Britton; Director, 2 yr., Al Arpad; Archivist, Sylvia Lesko.  We still need a volunteer to fill the 1-yr. Director position. 

Pottery Workshops at PGM: Holly Young will give 2 pottery workshops, one on Saturday, Feb. 18^th from 12:30 pm to 3:30, and a repeat workshop on Thursday evening, Feb. 13rd, from 6:30 to 9:30.  They will be limited to 10 people each.  Sign-up sheets will be available at the January meeting.  The workshop will mostly cover Classic period artifacts.

Hikes: Plans are in the works for a couple of hikes in Phoenix during February and March, and perhaps an overnight trip to Verde Valley in April or May.  If you have suggestions on areas you would like to visit, please email Ellen Martin at e13martin@hotmail.com.

Next Meeting: On Jan. 12^th, Dr. Jeremy Rowe from ASU will give us an Arizona Humanities Council sponsored talk on 19th Century Arizona Through the Stereoscope.  Discover the history of stereophotography in Arizona, from the Hayden and Powell surveys of the Grand Canyon in the 1870s to the entrepreneurs and local photographers documenting the development of our state. The images selected to accompany this engaging presentation are high quality copies of original stereographs and depict activities in many little known regions of the state, as well as of the development of the camps, forts, and towns throughout the Territory. Dr. Jeremy Rowe has collected, researched, and written about 19th and early 20th century photographs for 25 years. He has written Arizona Photographers 1850 - 1920: A History and Directory and Arizona Real Photo Postcards: A History and Portfolio, and curated exhibitions with many regional museums. He worked with the Library of Congress American Memory project, a digital historic photographic collection, and manages vintagephoto.com. He is the Executive Director of the School of Computing and Informatics at ASU.

Chapter News December 2011

On Wednesday, Nov. 2^nd, Todd Bostwick gave a well-illustrated and very informative talk on Ancient Egypt: 3,000 Years of Pyramids, Temples and Tombs for our joint meeting with the Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary.  The talk was well attended by members of both groups.

Next meeting: Thursday, Dec. 15: Archaeologist Deni J. Seymour, Ph.D., will discuss her new manuscript On a Fateful Day in 1698…"A Glorious Victory": The Battle that Spelled the End of the Jano & Jocome.  In 1698 the enemies of the Province of Sonora - the Jocomes, Janos, Sumas, Mansos, and Apaches - attacked the Sobaípuri-O'odham ranchería of Santa Cruz de Gaybanipitea. This event was recorded by Father Kino and several other chroniclers. Excavations at the site, including the burned adobe fortification in which the Sobaípuri-O'odham defended themselves against the arrows of 500 assailants, reveals incredible details about this turning point in regional history. Artifacts including projectile points and architectural details provide links to these historically documented groups and help pinpoint the archaeological signature of the groups that succeeded the Mogollon.  Dr. Seymour is a research associate at the Univ. of Arizona and a research archaeologist for Dos Locos Consultores, LLC, Albuquerque. She has studied the archaeology of the protohistoric and historic Sobaipuri-O'odham, Apache, and others for more than 25 years and has published numerous journal articles and books. She will be available to sign her most recent book “Where the Earth and Sky Are Sewn Together.” For more information, go to her website at http://www.seymourharlan.com/My_Homepage_Files/Page35.html.

Jan. 12: 19th Century Arizona Through the Stereoscope by Jeremy Rowe. Discover the history of stereo photography in Arizona, from the Hayden and Powell surveys of the Grand Canyon in the 1870s to the entrepreneurs and local photographers documenting the development of our state. The images selected to accompany this engaging presentation are high quality copies of original stereographs and depict activities in many little known regions of the state, as well as of the development of the camps, forts, and towns throughout the Territory. Dr. Jeremy Rowe has collected, researched, and written about 19th and early 20th century photographs for 25 years. He has written Arizona Photographers 1850 - 1920: A History and Directory and Arizona Real Photo Postcards: A History and Portfolio, and curated exhibitions with many regional museums. He worked with the Library of Congress American Memory project, a digital historic photographic collection, and manages vintagephoto.com. He is the Executive Director of the School of Computing and Informatics at ASU.

Holiday Potluck:  The Dec. 15th meeting will also be our Holiday Potluck as well as the election of officers for 2012.  As always, all are welcome


to attend the potluck which will begin at 6:15 pm.  Please bring a side dish or dessert to share.  Barbecued pork and chicken will be provided. 


Arizona author Lori Hines will also have her new paranormal mystery book, The Ancient Ones, available for sale and signing. Readers can visit


her online at http://lhauthor.wordpress.com/.


 
Elections for the 2012 Phoenix Chapter Board will be held at the December meeting, and we need at least one more volunteer to serve as a Director. 
If anyone is interested, please speak to any of the current board members at our November meeting, or contact one of them via telephone or email.
Contact information is available on the Phoenix Chapter page of the AAS website (www.azarchsoc.org).  The slate of officers for 2012 so far is:
            President         Nancy Unferth             Exec. V. P.           Ellie Large
            Treasurer         Bob Unferth                Secretary              Ellen Martin
            Director, 3 yr   Marie Britton                Director, 1 yr        Vacant
            Archives          Sylvia Lesko

Hikes: Eight members joined Dave Morris on Nov. 6^th for a tour of the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. We are also planning some hikes or field trips to local attractions in the Phoenix area during January and February.  More information will be coming soon.

Chapter News November 2011

Allen Dart, Executive Director of the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson, gave us a very interesting talk on Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces.  Incorporating elements of both rock art and archaeoastronomy, the talk provided an explanation of the basic principles of archaeoastronomy illustrated with examples from across the southwest, from the Chimney Rock Pueblo in Colorado to Painted Rocks near Gila Bend.

Upcoming Speakers:

Wednesday, Nov. 2, Joint meeting with the PGM Auxiliary: Todd Bostwick will talk on Ancient Egypt: 3,000 Years of Pyramids, Temples and Tombs at our joint meeting with the Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary.

Thursday, Dec. 15: Deni Seymour will talk on Where the Earth and Sky are Sewn Together: Sobaipuri O’odham Contexts of Contact and Colonialism (her new book).  This will also be our Holiday Potluck.

Hikes: A Nov. 6^th hike with Dave Morris is set for the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Cost is $10 plus garden admission.  If participants are DBG members, please bring guest passes to share with others.  We are also planning some hikes or field trips to local attractions in the Phoenix area during January and February.  More information will be coming soon.

Chapter Board Elections:

Elections for the 2012 Phoenix Chapter Board will be held at the December meeting, and we need at least one more volunteer to serve as a Director.  If anyone is interested, please speak to any of the current board members at our November meeting, or contact one of them via telephone or email.  Addresses are available on the Phoenix Chapter page of the AAS website (www.azarchsoc.org).

State Meeting

Six members of the Phoenix Chapter made the trek to Benson for the Annual State Meeting.  It was a fun weekend, from the Chapter Officers Meeting and potluck on Friday night to a behind-the-scenes tour of the Amerind Foundation given by its Director, who was also the speaker at the Saturday evening dinner.  Several members also took advantage of field trips to points south and east of Benson, and a number gathered at the Singing Winds Bookshop, which is just outside Benson.

Chapter News October 2011

Next Meeting, Thursday, Oct.13th: Allen Dart, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson, will speak on Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces in a presentation for the Arizona Humanities Council. Allen Dart has worked and volunteered as a professional archaeologist in New Mexico and Arizona since 1975, for government, private companies, and nonprofit organizations. He is a principal investigator in the Tucson office of EcoPlan Associates, Inc., an environmental and cultural resources consulting firm. He also works part-time as the Executive Director of Tucson’s nonprofit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, which he founded in 1993 to provide educational and scientific programs in archaeology and culture. A Registered Professional Archaeologist, he has been a recipient of the Arizona Governor’s Award in Public Archaeology for his efforts to bring archaeology and history to the public.  In this presentation he discusses the petroglyphs at Picture Rocks, the architecture of the “Great House” at Arizona’s Casa Grande Ruins, and other archaeological evidence of ancient astronomy and calendrical reckoning, and interprets how these discoveries may have related to ancient Native American rituals.

At our Sept. 15^th meeting, Dr. Geoffrey Clark, ASU, gave us a follow-up lecture to his May talk on Human Origins: from the Miocene to the Pleistocene. In a well-illustrated talk, he showed us photographs and artist’s interpretations of recent finds and explained how they have added to or altered our understanding of the evolution of the human lineage. 

Upcoming Speakers:

Wednesday, Nov. 2, Todd Bostwick will talk on Ancient Egypt: 3,000 Years of Pyramids, Temples and Tombs at our joint meeting with the Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary.

Thursday, Dec. 15: Deni Seymour will talk on Where the Earth and Sky are Sewn Together: Sobaipuri O’odham Contexts of Contact and Colonialism, her new book, and will have copies available to purchase.

Hikes: A hike with ethnobotanist Dave Morris is scheduled for Nov. 6th at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.  Cost is $10, not including entry to the Garden; if you are a member of the DBG, please consider bringing guest passes with you to share with non-members. Sign-up sheets will be available at the October meeting.

State Meeting

Oct. 14-16: The annual AAS State Meeting will be held in Benson, Arizona.  The schedule, lodging, and field trip information are on pages 3 and 4 of the May Petroglyph, and the Dinner Menu and Registration Form is on page 3 of the June Petroglyph, or you can logon to http://www.azarchsoc.org/annualmeeting. Tonto National Forest Archaeologist J. Scott Wood  is the winner of the 2011 AAS Archaeologist Of The Year award and will receive his belt buckle at the State Meeting.  If you haven’t already registered, please do so that you can give Scott the accolades that he deserves. This award is a wonderful tribute to Scott for all of the work and support that he has given to the AAS.

Chapter News September 2011

Sept. 15^th meeting: Geoffrey Clark, Ph.D., a Regents Prof. of Anthropology at ASU, will provide a follow-up lecture to his May 12^th talk to start off our fall season.  Note that the date is 1 week later than our usual meeting, to allow members to attend the 30^th Anniversary Celebration of ASU’s Institute of Human Origins on Sept. 8^th.

Upcoming Speakers:

Thursday, Oct.13^th: Allen Dart, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson, will speak on Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces.

Wednesday, Nov. 2, Joint meeting with the PGM Auxiliary: Todd Bostwick will talk on Ancient Egypt: 3,000 Years of Pyramids, Temples and Tombs at our joint meeting with the Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary.

Thursday, Dec. 15: Deni Seymour will talk on “Where the Earth and Sky are Sewn Together: Sobaipuri O’odham Contexts of Contact and Colonialism (her new book).

Classes: The Ceramic Reconstruction and Repair Workshop was held June 20-24.

Hikes: A hike with ethnobotanist Dave Morris is planned for September or October at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.

State Meeting

Oct. 14-16.  The annual AAS State Meeting will be held in Benson, Arizona.  The schedule, lodging, and field trip information are on pages 3 and 4 of the May Petroglyph, and the Dinner Menu and Registration Form is on page 3 of the June Petroglyph.  Information is also available on the AAS web site at http://www.azarchsoc.org/annualmeeting 

The Phoenix Chapter meets on the second Thursday of each month in the Community Room at the Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix, starting at 7:30 pm.  We usually take the evening’s speaker to dinner at 5:30 pm at the new Ruby Tuesday Restaurant on 44th Street and Washington, just northwest of the museum.. If you are interested in having dinner with the speaker, please call or email Marie (480-827-8070 or mbrit@cox.net) so that she can reserve a large enough table.

Chapter member Jim Britton, the leader of the PGM Mudslinger Project and our AAS expert on stabilization, gave us an overview of the work done by the AAS crew on the Homol'ovi Stabilization Project last fall at the Homolovi Ruins State Park outside of Winslow, Arizona.  The presentation was very informative, with great photographs showing the condition of the ruins before and after the work was done, and a good explanation of the problems caused by weathering and the technology used to counteract the weathering.

Geoffrey Clark, Ph.D., a Regents Prof. of Anthropology at ASU, will be our speaker, on Human Origins from the Miocene to the Pleistocene.  An archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Dr. Clark is the author, co-author or editor of over 250 articles, notes, reviews and comments, and 11 monographs and books on human biological and cultural evolution in the past four million years.  A University of Chicago Ph.D. (1971), Clark has done fieldwork in Arizona, Mexico, France, Spain, Cyprus, Turkey and Jordan.  His research interests include the logic of inference underlying knowledge claims in the various aspects of modern human origins research, European Mesolithic forager adaptations, and the peopling of the Americas.  Clark has headed the Archeology Division of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Anthropology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  He lectures on race, racism and ethnic conflict; the evolution of human mating; the conflict between religion and science; human evolution; and modern human origins.

The MCC Planetarium field trip, which had to be rescheduled from its original Feb. 25^th date and was eagerly anticipated, finally took place on March 18th at 5:30 pm. Twelve members enjoyed a tour of the facility and two great programs, one on the Stars of the Pharaohs and one on the Maya.  In addition, Asst. Director of the ASU Museum of Anthropology, Peter Banko, set up a tour of their current exhibit, Choosing a Future with Water: Lessons from the Hohokam on April 13th.  Because the offer came after our March meeting and the exhibit was scheduled to close on April 15^th, the day after our April meeting, members were notified by email.  The consulting archaeologist, Dr. David Abbott, gave ten of us an overview of the research on which the exhibit was based and stayed to answer questions about the exhibit.

Classes:

Archaeological Recording Class:  John Hohmann will be leading an an Archaeological Recording class at Q Ranch on the weekends of April 30-May 1; May 14-15; June 4-5; June 18-19; and June 25-26.  See the March Petroglyph for details and the registration form. 

Ceramic Reconstruction and Repair Workshop:  John Hohmann will also conduct this workshop at Q-Ranch the week of June 20-24.  See the March Petroglyph for details and the registration form.

Upcoming Meetings:  Just a note to let everyone know that the September meeting date has been moved from Sept. 8^th to Sept. 15^th so that all can attend the Institute for Human Origins’ 30^th Anniversary Celebration at ASU.

Barbara Stark, Ph.D., Prof. of Anthropology at ASU, gave us a very interesting lecture illustrating the way in which archaeologists sift through


information in order to propose explanations for unusual finds in the field.  In an effort to understand the distribution of “blank spaces” in the 


urban site of Cerro de las Mesas, in central Veracruz, Dr. Stark looked at other large urban sites from around the world which included large 


open public spaces, which could be called Urban Gardens, and compiled a list of attributes that they shared which she then used to analyze 


the features at Cerro de las Mesas.



April 14th Meeting: Chapter member Jim Britton, the leader of the PGM Mudslinger Project, will give us an overview of the work done by the AAS crew on the Homol'ovi Stabilization Project conducted late last Summer/Fall at the Homolovi Ruins State Park outside of Winslow, Arizona, including before-and-after photographs showing how much the team accomplished.

May 12^th meeting: Geoffrey Clark, Ph.D., a Regents Prof. of Anthropology at ASU, will be our speaker, on Human Origins from the Miocene to the Pleistocene.

Drawing: The drawing for the Amerind Foundations’ Casas Grandes Reports, Volumes 4, 6, & 7, was held at the March meeting.  Vol. 4 was won by James Greenfield, Vol. 6 by David Burkett, and Vol. 7 by Thomas Kreuser.

Upcoming Field Trip: The Asst. Director of the ASU Museum of Anthropology, Peter Banko, has offered to give us a tour of their current exhibit, Choosing a Future with Water: Lessons from the Hohokam, which runs through April 25^th.  The consulting archaeologist, David Abbott, said he would be delighted to speak to the group about his research and to conduct the tour of the museum.  The date and time are yet to be determined.

Archaeological Recording Class:  John Hohmann will be leading an an Archaeological Recording class at Q Ranch on the weekends of April 30-May 1; May 14-15; June 4-5; June 18-19; and June 25-26.  See the March Petroglyph for details and the registration form. 

Ceramic Reconstruction and Repair Workshop:  John Hohmann will also conduct this workshop at Q-Ranch the week of June 20-24.  See the March Petroglyph for details and the registration form.

Phoenix Chapter March 2011

Glen Rice, Rio Salado Archaeology, spoke at our Feb. 9^th meeting on The Gillespie Dam Site; An Archaeological Example of a Multi-Ethnic Village on the Lower Gila River. Dr. Rice is a retired professor from the Dept. of Anthropology at ASU and now runs an archaeological consulting firm, Rio Salado Archaeology.  His research for the past 30 years has focused on Hohokam archaeology. Over the past decade survey work in and around the Gila Bend area has found many sites containing both Hohokam and Patayan sherds, suggesting the sites may have been occupied by both groups.  However, based on surface data alone, it was unclear whether the Patayan succeeded the Hohokam groups in these villages, or if they lived together in the same villages.  Recent excavations at the Gillespie Dam site have provided an answer, showing that around AD 1050 to 1100 Patayan and Hohokam groups were living together in the same village while each group continued to make their own traditional pottery and buried their dead in separate cemeteries. Spanish explorers in the 1700s and early 1800s found villages near Gila Bend occupied by two different peoples, the Coco-Maricopa and Opa.  Multi-ethnic villages may have been the norm in the Lower Gila for a period of seven to eight centuries. 

Barbara Stark, Ph.D., Prof. of Anthropology at ASU, will speak on the topic "The Challenge of Ancient Urban Gardens in Mesoamerica" at our March 10th meeting, based on comparative research.  Her interest in urban gardens grew from her research in the western lower Papaloapan River basin in the Gulf lowlands of Veracruz, Mexico.  This area has been the focus of a long-term survey and settlement pattern investigation which has included multiple students and archaeological professionals.  Dr. Stark specializes in the origins and developmental trajectories of complex societies in Mesoamerica, and her many publications have dealt with such topics as coastal adaptations, settlement patterns, tropical urbanism, ceramics, crafts and long-term economic and political change.

The drawing for the Amerind Foundations’ Casas Grandes Reports, Volumes 4, 6, & 7, was postponed until the March meeting.  Tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5.  The books and raffle ticket containers will be at the back of the room so members can choose which volume they want to win.

Field Trip: The MCC Planetarium will give us a tour of their facility and a special showing of the program ‘Stars of the Pharaohs’ on Feb. 25.  A desert plant tour with David Morris is planned for early April at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum just outside of Superior.  More details and signup sheets should be available at the March meeting.

Archaeological Recording Class:  John Hohman will be leading an an Archaeological Recording class at Q Ranch on the weekends of April 30-May 1; May 14-15; June 4-5; June 18-19; and June 25-26. --Ellie Large

Phoenix Chapter February 2011

Glen Rice, Rio Salado Archaeology, will speak at our next meeting on Feb. 9 on The Gillespie Dam Site; An Archaeological Example of a Multi-Ethnic Village on the Lower Gila River.  Over the past decade survey work in and around the Gila Bend area has found many sites containing both Hohokam and Patayan sherds, suggesting the sites may have been occupied by both groups.  However, based on surface data alone, it was unclear whether the Patayan succeeded the Hohokam groups in these villages, or if they lived together in the same villages.  Recent excavations at the Gillespie Dam site have provided the data to decide this issue.  Dr. Rice is a retired professor from the Dept.of Anthropology at ASU and now runs an archaeological consulting firm, Rio Salado Archaeology.  His research for the past 30 years has focused on Hohokam archaeology.

Barbara Stark, Ph.D., Prof. of Anthropology at ASU, will speak on the topic Urban Gardens in Mesoamerica at our March 10th meeting, based on research in the western lower Papaloapan River basin in the Gulf lowlands of Veracruz, Mexico.  This area has been the focus of a long-term survey and settlement pattern investigation which has included multiple students and archaeological professionals.  Dr. Stark specializes in the origins and developmental trajectories of complex societies in Mesoamerica, and her many publications have dealt with such topics as coastal adaptations, settlement patterns, tropical urbanism, ceramics, crafts and long-term economic and political change.

We sold many of the archaeological journals and books remaining from our Chapter library cart at our January book sale, further reducing the need to store them.  The drawing for the Amerind Foundations’ Casas Grandes Reports, Volumes 4, 6, & 7, was postponed until the March meeting.  Tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5.  The books and raffle ticket containers will be at the back of the room so members can choose which volume(s) they want to win.

Rita Locke, a former member who recently returned to the Valley, volunteered to fill the vacant position of Secretary on the Phoenix Chapter Board, and was unanimously accepted at the Jan. 10^th board meeting.

Ellen Martin has arranged for the MCC Planetarium to give us a tour of their facility and a special showing of the program ‘Stars of the Pharaohs’ on Feb. 25.  Cost will be $10; sign-up sheets will be available at the February meeting.  Ellen is also working with David Morris to arrange a late March or early April desert plant hike in follow-up to his talk.

GPS Workshop:  Tom Harvey has volunteered to teach members how to interface their handheld GPS units with their laptops in order to get the most out of their GPS.  Several members requested a repeat of the one-day class that Tom taught several years ago on how to use a handheld GPS in the field; and would also like recommendations on buying new units.  Please contact Marie Britton to let her know if you are interested in learning more about your GPS so that we can determine if there is enough interest for a workshop.--Ellie Large

Phoenix Chapter January 2011

Election of Officers:  The slate of officers offered by the board was accepted and are as follows:  President, Nancy Unferth; Vice President, Ellie Large; Treasurer, Bob Unferth; 1-Year Director, Al Arpad; 2-Year Director, Ellen Martin; 3-Year Director, Barry Bertani; Archivist, Sylvia Lesko.  We still need a Secretary; Ellie Large will continue in this position until a replacement is found.

Jan. 13^th Meeting: David Morris, PGM, Harvest of the Desert.  Native American ethnobotanist David Morris will explain the many uses of our desert plants and the biology that makes them useful.  Some plants have provided for the people of the desert since prehistoric times; they were used for food, building, medicine and magic. Originally from the Kansas-Oklahoma area, David is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; he has been a resident of southern

Upcoming Meetings:

Feb. 10: Glen Rice, Rio Salado Archaeology, on the Gillespie Dam Petroglyphs

March 10: Barbara Stark, ASU, Urban Gardens in Mesoamerica

January Raffle & Book Sale: The Amerind Foundations’ Casas Grandes Reports, Volumes 4, 6, & 7, will be raffled off after the January meeting; tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5.  The books and raffle ticket containers will be at the back of the room so members can choose which volume(s) they want to win.  In addition, the remaining archaeology books from the Chapter library will be on sale.--Ellie Large

Phoenix Chapter May 2010

The Phoenix Chapter offered a new workshop this spring held at Q Ranch near Young AZ. The May 14-16 workshop featured History with a tour in the Young area with local tour guide, Pat Murdoch.  The workshop started at noon on Friday and run through Sunday noon.