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Thursday September 16, 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
Wednesday September 22, 2010:
Library Presenters free presentation, “Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces” at the Pima County Public Library, Geasa-Marana Branch, 13370 N. Lon Adams Rd., Marana, Arizona 5:30-7 p.m. 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 historically known sky-watching practices of various southwestern peoples, and how their ancestors’ observations of the heavens may have been commemorated in ancient architecture and rock symbols. The program illustrates cardinal, solstice, and equinox alignments and possible calendrical reckoning features at such places as Arizona’s Casa Grande Ruins and Picture Rocks petroglyph sites, New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon archaeological district, the Hovenweep area of Utah, and the Mesa Verde and Chimney Rock regions of Colorado. Mr. Dart also offers interpretation of how these discoveries may relate to ancient Native American ritual. No reservations needed. For event details contact Librarian Nancy Lindeman in Marana at 520-594-5259 or Nancy.Lindeman@Pima.gov ; for information about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or adart@oldpueblo.org Click here for a flyer containing more information.
Saturday September 25, 2010:
Arrowhead-making and Flintknapping Workshop with flintknapper Allen Denoyer at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson (in Tucson Unified School District’s Ajo Service Center, just west of La Cholla Blvd., ½-mile north of John F. Kennedy Park) 9 a.m. to noon. $35 ($28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members) fee includes all materials and equipment. Learn how to make arrowheads, spear points, and other flaked stone artifacts just like ancient peoples did. In this workshop, flintknapping expert Allen Denoyer provides participants with hands-on experience and learning on how prehistoric people made and used projectile points and other tools created from obsidian and other stone. The class is designed to help modern people understand how prehistoric Native Americans made traditional crafts, and is not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale. Minimum enrollment 6, maximum 8. Reservations required: 520-798-1201 or info@oldpueblo.org
