Arizona Archaeological Society

* This year's meeting will be open to the public. In addition a few of our Grant Program recipients and several members of ASU, NAU and Archaeology Southwest will attend.

* This AAS State Meeting is in part a means to help support the Dr. David R. Wilcox Grant Program. From the monies raised we are able to help with funding for undergrads and grads in the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, and any component field of such. Please consider making a donation to support this worthwhile program. Donations are tax deductible.

*As customary, we will have a silent auction and a book sale. All silent auction items must come with a bid sheet supplied by the donator. Also, brand new AAS T-shirts will be available. All forms of payment accepted.

* Every attendee will receive a free raffle ticket for 3 drawings, 2 gift cards and a free membership in the Verde Valley Chapter for the 2026 year.

* Motels are much less expensive in Cottonwood than Sedona. There are four (4) rooms on reserve at the View Motel (928) 634-7581 under “AAS State Meeting”.

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2025 AAS STATE MEETING AGENDA

Hosted by the Verde Valley Chapter

Saturday, October 25 and Sunday, October 26

Sedona Elks Lodge, 110 Airport Rd. Sedona, AZ

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 9:00 (sharp) - 10:45 AM

Board of Directors and Planning Committee Meeting (Includes all Chapter Presidents and interested AAS members)

9:30 – 4:00 PM Silent Auction bidding and item purchases

11:30 – 12:30 PM Lunch will be served

12:30 – 2:00 PM KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Rich Lange and Chuck Adams:

“Homolovi Ruins and Rock Art Ranch”

2:00 – 2:15 PM BREAK

2:15 – 3:45 PM MINI-PRESENTATIONS:

Ralph Burrillo: Perry Mesa

John Welch: Oak Flats Now

** HAPPY HOUR and SILENT AUCTION WINNERS**

5:30 – 6:30 PM Dinner will be served

FINAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

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**2025 AAS STATE MEETING DAY TRIPS**

Sunday, October 26, 2025

1. Private tour Verde Valley Archaeology Center 9 am

2. Perry Mesa tour led by Ralph Burillo

3. Museum of Indigenous Peoples tour and tour of

Fitzmaurice Ruins with Andy Christenson

**You must be an AAS member to attend any tour. Tours will have a limited attendance so register early. There are admission fees for tour #1 and #3.

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2025 AAS State Meeting

Speaker Biographies

Rich Lange was the Associate Director of ASM's Homol'ovi Research Program since its inception in 1983-84 until full retirement in 2018. He led the survey of the Homolovi State Park area from 1985-89 and participated in the excavations thereafter. He also conducted survey in the Rock Art Ranch area and directed the excavations at the Multi-Kiva Site south of the Rock Art Ranch. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1974 and his MA from the University of Arizona in 1977. Final reports for Homol'ovi II Pueblo and the Rock Art Ranch survey and excavations, for which Rich did writing and editing, have been generously published by the Arizona Archaeological Society in recent years.

E. Charles Adams, Associate Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, is the author of numerous articles on the archaeology of Pueblo cultures of the Southwest. Adams has directed the Homol’ovi Research Program for the Arizona State Museum since 1985. The project has focused on several fourteenth-century pueblos in northeastern Arizona believed ancestral to the Hopi Indians. Previously, Adams was the Director of Research for the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center near Cortez, Colorado, and Senior Archaeologist for the Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff. From 1975 to 1982, while at the Museum of Northern Arizona, he directed the Walpi Archaeological Project which included excavations of the historic First Mesa Hopi village of Walpi. Adams has spent much of his professional life working closely with the Native Americans, especially the Hopi, trying to improve dialogue between Native American groups and the larger community on a wide range of issues.

Ralph “R.E.” Burrillo is an archaeologist, researcher, author, and conservation advocate. He holds a Master of Science in Archaeology from the University of Utah and is a Research Associate with Archaeology Southwest. His writing has appeared in Archaeology Southwest Magazine, Colorado Plateau Advocate, The Salt Lake Tribune, along with many regional publications. He is the author of Behind the Bears Ears: Exploring the Cultural and Natural Histories of a Sacred Landscape, which was chosen by Foreword Book Reviews as their critic’s choice in nonfiction for the year 2020.

John R. Welch is VP for Preservation & Collaboration, which includes administering Archaeology Southwest’s Landscape and Site Preservation Program. Welch has spent more than three decades facilitating research, resource management, and outreach partnerships with tribes in upland Arizona and New Mexico. Welch served as the archaeologist and historic preservation officer for the White Mountain Apache Tribe from 1992 to 2005, and continues on the board of the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation, a tribally chartered nonprofit he helped found in 1997. Welch joined the faculties of Simon Fraser University’s Archaeology Department and School of Resource and Environmental Management as a Canada Research Chair in 2005, and has published widely on opportunities and challenges at the interface of cultural and resource management in Indigenous contexts.

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