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Monday April 12, 2010:
“Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces” free presentation by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's director, archaeologist Allen Dart, for Arizona Western College, 2020 S. Avenue 8E, Business Administration room 111 (BA 111), Yuma, Arizona. Cosponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council. 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Native Americans in the Southwest developed sophisticated skills in astronomy and predicting the seasons, centuries before Old World peoples first entered the region. In this presentation archaeologist Allen Dart 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. Funding for this program is being provided by the Arizona Humanities Council. No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Maria E. Aguirre in Yuma at 928-344-7791 or maria.aguirre@azwestern.edu ; for information about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or adart@oldpueblo.org
Thursday April 15, 2010:
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner & presentation: ****[Program title & speaker to be arranged] at El Charro Café Downtown, 311 N. Court Avenue, Tucson 6 to 8:30 p.m. $25 per person includes dinner, tax and gratuity, plus the presentation ****[Description to be provided later.] Reservations and dinner payment are due by 3:00 p.m. on the Thursday one week prior to the presentation date. 520-798-1201 or info@oldpueblo.org
