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“Mimbres Ruins, Rock Art, and Museums of Southern New Mexico” Archaeology Education Tour
June 9, 2016 @ 8:00 am - June 13, 2016 @ 5:00 pm
Photo by Jim Diers of Mimbres pottery sherds at one of the sites visited during the June tour.
A Mimbres petroglyph at the Pony Hills site, New Mexico.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Mimbres Ruins, Rock Art, and Museums of Southern New Mexico” archaeology education tour with archaeologist Allen Dart, June 9-13, 2016 (Thursday-Monday). Drive your own vehicle and meet tour in Silver City, NM. Actual touring begins Friday and continues through Monday. Fee $279 for the full four-day tour ($249 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members), or $75 per day to attend tour on individual days ($69/day for Old Pueblo and PGMA members). Participants are responsible for their own transportation, meals, and lodging. Registered Professional Archaeologist Allen Dart leads this tour to Classic Mimbres and Early Mogollon village archaeological sites, spectacular petroglyph and pictograph sites, and museums with probably the finest Mimbres Puebloan pottery collections in the world, all in southwestern New Mexico’s Silver City, Mimbres, Glenwood, and Deming areas. Places tentatively to be visited include the original Mogollon Village site excavated by archaeologist Emil W. Haury; sites in the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument and vicinity; Classic Mimbres sites (Beauregard-Montezuma, Cottonwood, Elk Ridge, Gattons Park, Lake Roberts Vista, Mattocks, Old Town, TJ, and Woodrow); the Frying Pan Canyon and Pony Hills petroglyph sites; and the Western New Mexico University Museum and Deming-Luna Mimbres Museum. The tour will be based in Silver City and depart from a hotel there each morning. Hotels, camping, and other accommodations for those who wish to arrange their own lodging and transport are available in and near Silver City.
Tentative schedule:
June 9 Thursday afternoon: participants travel to Silver City on their own
June 10 Friday: Western New Mexico University Museum then drive northwest to Woodrow, Gila River Farms, WS Ranch, and Mogollon Village archaeological sites
June 11 Saturday: Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument and Spanish arrastre site north of Silver City
June 12 Sunday: Mimbres Valley archaeological sites including University of Nevada-Las Vegas archaeological field school excavations at Elk Ridge site (Barb’s only day available)
June 13 Monday: Frying Pan Canyon and Pony Hills petroglyphs sites; optional Deming-Luna Mimbres Museum; participants go home or to next destination
Minimum enrollment 10, maximum 20. Reservations required by Friday June 3: 520-798-1201 or info@oldpueblo.org.