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Monday August 16, 2010:
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free presentation by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's director, archaeologist Allen Dart, for Library Friends of Payson at Payson Public Library, 328 N. McLane Rd. in Payson, Arizona. Cosponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Free. Archaeologist Allen Dart, Executive Director of Tucson, Arizona’s nonprofit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, illustrates pictographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved or pecked on rocks), and discusses how even the same rock art symbol may be interpreted differently from popular, scientific, and modern Native American perspectives. Funding for program provided by the Arizona Humanities Council. No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Bessie J. Tucker at 928-474-9260 or btucker@gcldaz.org in Payson; for information about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or adart@oldpueblo.org
Saturday August 28, 2010:
“Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Rincon Institute at Wheeler Taft Abbett, Sr. Library, 7800 N. Schisler Drive in Marana (just south of Cortaro Road & west of I-10) 11 a.m. to noon. Free. Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist Allen Dart, illustrates artifacts, architecture, and other material culture of the ancient Hohokam Indians, and discusses archaeological interpretations of how these people tamed southern Arizona’s Sonoran Desert for centuries before their culture mysteriously disappeared. No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Julie Jonsson at 520-290-0828 or julie@rinconinstitute.org in Tucson; for information about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or adart@oldpueblo.org
