LA JORNADA. Newsletter of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico VOLUME 38, NO. 1 SPRING 2010 ISSN ASNM NEWS

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1 LA JORNADA Newsletter of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico VOLUME 38, NO. 1 SPRING 2010 ISSN ASNM NEWS Register Now for Annual Meeting in Santa Fe April 30-May 2 The fee for early before April 23 registration for the ASNM 2010 Annual Meeting April 30-May 2 is $22 per person. Late registration after April 23 is $40. Register now and save! The banquet is $28 per person. Host facility is the Courtyard Marriott, 3347 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe. The special room rate for the meeting of $89.00, plus taxes, is available through April 16, provided the Archaeological Society of New Mexico is mentioned when making reservations at (505) A full weekend of activities is planned, including a Friday night reception, Saturday paper presentations and posters, Saturday night awards banquet and Bandelier Lecture, and Sunday field trips to petroglyph sites and pueblo and historic ruins in the Santa Fe area. A registration form for the Annual Meeting is on page 6. It can also be downloaded from the ASNM website newmexico-archaeology.org. Annual Meeting Program Matthew Barbour, Program Chair, reports an unusually enthusiastic response to his call for papers and at press time had tentatively scheduled a very full program. There will be seven sessions starting with Broad Perspectives on the American Southwest and continuing with papers on New Mexico by geographic area: Points South, the Archaeology of Southern New Mexico; The Anasazi Heartland Northwest New Mexico; The Northern Rio Grande and Galisteo Basin; East of the Mountains, the Archaeology of Northeast New Mexico; and two sessions dealing with historic issues, Identity Lost and Archaeological Perspectives on the Historic Period. Program details can be found on the ASNM website newmexico-archaeology.org. Wolky Toll will deliver the Bandelier Lecture, Miracles of Preservation: Tales of Archaeological Survival in the face of Progress. Sunday field trips are listed on page 2. Election of ASNM Trustees Although the By-laws provide for twice as many candidates as there are vacant positions on the Board, Nancy Woodworth, Nominating Committee Chair, reports that the committee was unable to find six people willing to run for the three open positions. At last year s Annual Meeting, the membership present voted to delete the provisions for term limits in the By-laws. Therefore Karen Armstrong of Albuquerque is eligible to serve a third consecutive three-year term. The other candidates are Charlie Barnes of Deming, a member of the Grant County Society; Hayward Franklin of Albuquerque running for a second term; and Doris Morgan, Las Cruces, a former Trustee. President John Hayden and Nancy Woodworth are retiring from the Board after their second consecutive terms. Short biographies of the four candidates are on page 4 and ballots on page 5. Members in good standing may vote by mail (see directions on ballot) or turn in their ballots at the Annual Meeting. Membership Renewals Everyone except life members needs to renew at the beginning of each calendar year. Annual membership is from January 1 to December 31, and memberships received after November 1 start January 1. Please fill in the membership renewal form on page 5 and return with your check. Contact Executive Secretary Dolores Sundt at P.O. Box 3485, Albuquerque NM or dfsundt@msn.com with questions about your membership status.

2 Annual Meeting Field Trips Members planning to participate in the Sunday field trips may want to plan on bringing a four-wheel drive or high-clearance vehicle and/or hiking boots. For those who prefer less strenuous field experiences, Sunday is free admission day for New Mexico residents at Santa Fe s many museums, including the new History Museum. Bring proof of residence. Signup sheets for the field trips will be near the registration desk and museum information will be available at the meeting. Trip 1: Bill Baxter, Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve This trip will assemble at the gate to the Preserve. Roads to this point are paved. Beyond the gate four-wheel drive vehicles will be required. Once we arrive at our destination the hiking will be leisurely with a few stairs. Trip 2: Paul Williams, La Cieneguilla Pueblo / Rock Art Paved roads all the way to the site. There will be a good deal of hiking on both flat and steep, rocky terrain. Hikers can stop and return to vehicles when they are ready. Trip 3: David Eck, Pueblo Blanco / Rock Art Carpooling will be required in order to limit the total number of vehicles into no more than six. Fourwheel drive is not normally necessary, but high clearance is essential. The terrain can be moderately difficult, especially in the vicinity of the petroglyphs. Attendees who do not feel they can handle the rougher terrain can certainly wait for the others in near the vehicles, which will be parked adjacent to the site. Trip 4: Mike Bremer, Los Aguajes A high clearance vehicle is required. The hike will be moderate to strenuous hiking since we'll be visiting the outlying shrines and doing quite a bit of hiking. Trip 5: Gary Hein, Obscure Rock Art and Historical Sites in the Galisteo Basin Any vehicle will get us within walking distance. The round trip hike will be 6 miles with frequent elevation changes as we climb up and down the hills and through the washes. Note from your Editor Submissions for the July 2010 issue of La Jornada should be sent to Helen Crotty by June 15 th. is jhcrotty947@gmail.com, snail mail is 1366 State Road 344, Sandia Park, NM Please check the listing for your own affiliate society and contact Helen Crotty at either of the addresses above if the contact information is incorrect or out of date. NEWS AND NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE Report on Pottery of Pottery Mound Now Available Online Free of Charge Franklin, Hayward H., The Pottery of Pottery Mound, A Study of the 1979 UNM Field School Collection, Part 2: Ceramic Materials and Regional Exchange. Maxwell Museum Technical Series No. 12, Stanford University Press Issues New Book on Pueblo Revolt New research about the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 by Stanford archaeologist Mike Wilcox is presented in The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest. See 2

3 Digital Image Archives of Southeastern Utah Rock Art Now Available for Research Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum in Blanding, Utah, announces the availability of the Earthwatch/BLM Rock Art Project digital image archives. The collection features more than 1,500 digital images of southeastern Utah rock art ranging from pre-basketmaker through the historic period. Digitization was funded through a grant from the Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board. The digital archives represent about half the sites documented by the Earthwatch/BLM project ( ) in Cedar Mesa/Grand Gulch, Beef Basin, Fable Valley, Montezuma Creek, and the San Juan River corridor. Sally J. Cole directed the project. The museum also houses the complete original project records including some 3,000 original drawings, 11,000 color slides, and 5,000 prints, negatives, and transparencies documenting sites in Grand County and San Juan County, Utah. Both the original documentation and the digital archives are available for research at the museum, located at 660 West 400 North in Blanding. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9 AM-5 PM; closed Sundays. Please call the museum at for more information or to make a research appointment. Change to NAGPRA Regulations on Culturally Unidentifiable Human Remains A change in the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act may force the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology (as well as museums across the country) to redistribute their collections of Native American human remains. A NAGPRA committee recently approved a change in the act that will force museums to inform Native American tribes that "culturally unidentifiable" remains found in their tribal regions may potentially be returned to them. - Michigan Daily [from Archaeology Today, a service of the Center for Desert Archaeology]. Ancient Americans at Yellowstone University of Montana archaeologists have found evidence that 10,000 years ago, Native Americans were using Yellowstone Lake to hunt for food and gather medicine and to obtain obsidian at Obsidian Cliff. Bear, wolves, deer and rabbits were hunted here. Ancient Americans from the Great Plains, Great Basin and Rockies came here. They processed hides and had lithic workshops. A Hopewell style spear point was found. Perhaps Hopewell themselves traveled from the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys to obtain obsidian here. The whole area was a tribal gathering ground. The researchers are hoping to uncover more in the next field season. See or [from Mike Ruggeri's The Ancient America's Breaking News Calendar Check: Conferences and Annual Meetings in 2010 Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies Symposium: April 9-11, Hobbs, Western Heritage Museum Complex, 5317 Lovington Highway, Hobbs, NM Contact csmith@nmjc.edu. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting: April 14-18, St. Louis, MO. See saa.org. Archaeological Society of New Mexico Annual Meeting: April 30- May 2, Santa Fe. Tularosa Basin Conference 2010: May 14-16, NMSU Alamogordo. See details at tularosabasinconference.nmsua.edu/index.html. Pecos Conference 2010: August 12-15, Silverton Colorado. No official website yet, but see Facebook and/or Twitter for 2010 Pecos Conference. Mogollon Archaeology Conference (16th Biennial): October 14-16, NMSU Las Cruces. See lonjul.net/mog2010/conference. 3

4 Karen Armstrong (Albuquerque) CANDIDATES FOR ASNM TRUSTEE 2010 Karen discovered anthropology as an undergraduate at Occidental College and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. degree in Cultural Anthropology. Finding that she disliked prying into people s lives as a cultural anthropologist, she turned to archaeology and earned an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois. She has done field work in sites in Great Britain, California, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico and has continued her anthropology education with a number of classes at UNM. She has been active in the Albuquerque Archaeological Society, Friends of Tijeras Pueblo, New Mexico Archaeological Council, and ASNM, where she currently serves as chair of the Honoree Selection Committee. Karen is enthusiastic about her current volunteer activities in organizing and supervising a group of volunteers who gather weekly at the Hibben Center of the Maxwell Museum to archive various collections stored there. Over the past several years they have completed work on collections from Tijeras Pueblo, Pottery Mound, and Tonque, among others, and have just begun to archive another interesting collection. Karen welcomes anyone wishing to join in this work. Charlie Barnes (Deming) Charlie is retired but is currently employed as a tennis coach at Deming High School. His serious interest in archaeology started in Arizona with Arizona Archaeology Society in 1997, and he served on the Board of Directors of the Aqua Fria Chapter for three years, during which time he participated in the AAS Certification Program taking several classes including academic Southwest archaeology, field school, survey techniques, lab work and others. He moved to New Mexico in 2004 and became affiliated with the Grant County Archaeology Society and joined ASNM. He has been a member of the GCAS Board of Directors for two years (serving as Secretary). He also participates in the New Mexico SiteWatch program. Hayward H. Franklin (Albuquerque) Hayward received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Arizona. He worked as a park ranger at Mesa Verde for several summers. He then directed the ceramics lab at Salmon Ruins while teaching archaeology as Assistant Professor at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. In a separate but parallel life, he taught computer programming at CNM community college in Albuquerque for 22 years. Since retiring from teaching, he has returned to ceramic studies, currently examining the Pottery Mound collection. He is a Research Associate at the Maxwell Museum, UNM, and is active in the Albuquerque Archaeological Society and ASNM. Major archaeology/ceramic projects include projects and publications for Arizona State Museum, Salmon Ruins (San Juan Archaeology Project), Bissa'ani (Chaco outlier) Archaeological Project, Cuchillo Negro, Valencia Pueblo, Sapawe Ruin (excavation), Forest Service (field survey and mapping projects). Recently, he has completed ceramic work and finished reports for major projects at Montaño Bridge Pueblo, and Pottery Mound. The latter research is published in the Maxwell Museum Technical Series, available at the website of the Maxwell Museum. DORIS MORGAN (Las Cruces) Doris Morgan has been an active member of ASNM since 1997, serving on both the Board of Trustees and (currently) the Certification Council. She has earned certification as Provisional Rock Art Surveyor, Provisional Lab Technician, and Provisional Field Crew Member. While President of Doña Ana Archaeological Society ( ) she directed the organization of and chaired the 1997 ASNM Annual Meeting in Las Cruces. She coauthored/edited the history of the Doña Ana Society published in the 2000 Annual Volume, presented a paper at the ASNM Annual Meeting in El Paso (1995) and participated in the DAAS rock art recording project at Summerford Mountain. She directed DAAS members in the reconstruction of Mimbres pottery from Elk Ridge for Human Systems Research and taught pottery reconstruction at Doña Ana Community College for Kent Museum, NMSU. Doris has catalogued and analyzed artifacts from Elk Ridge and Rayado for HSR. She has excavated sites in New Mexico, New Jersey, Majorca and Israel, and has been an Earthwatch lecturer at universities, museums and other organizations since

5 Karen Armstrong Ballot Vote for three Hayward Franklin Charlie Barnes Doris Morgan Bring ballot to Annual Meeting or mail by April 26 to ASNM Secretary, PO Box 3485, Albuquerque NM Karen Armstrong Ballot Vote for three Hayward Franklin Charlie Barnes Doris Morgan Bring ballot to Annual Meeting or mail by April 26 to ASNM Secretary, PO Box 3485, Albuquerque NM ASNM 2010 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION/RENEWAL Name (s): Year: Renewal New Address: Individual, Institution, or Family ($25) $ Contributor ($35 & up) $ Telephone (Opt): Affiliated Society ($25) $ Newsletter Address: * Print Newsletter Surcharge ($5) $ Extra Scholarship Fund Contribution $ If you cannot or do not wish to receive your Total Enclosed: $ newsletter electronically, please pay the $5.00 printing and postage surcharge for a print copy via first class mail. *Please be sure your address is legible. If more space is needed, write it again in the space below. Send payment to: The Archaeological Society of New Mexico, PO Box 3485, Albuquerque, NM If your address changes, please contact list manager Gary Hein at garyh@newmexicoarchaeology.org. 5

6 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICO 2010 ANNUAL MEETING April 30 May 2, 2010, Santa Fe, NM Hosted by the Santa Fe Archaeological Society 1) Choose registration type and number of attendees: Type Cost per Person Student $ x No. of people Early Registration (before April 23) $ x = Late Registration (after April 23) $ x = Saturday BBQ Buffet and Bandelier Lecture $ x = Bandelier Lecture Only $ x = Total $ = Total 2) Enter registration information and dinner choices: Name: ASNM Affilaite or Other Affiliation Mailing Address: Person 1 Person 2 Regular or Vegetarian Dinner? Telephone: Address: 3) Mail completed form and check to: Santa Fe Archaeological Society P.O. Box Santa Fe, NM ) Please make lodging reservations directly: Courtyard by Marriott Cost: Guestroom $89 + tax per night 3347 Cerrillos Road Suite $ tax per night Santa Fe, NM Telephone

9 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICO P.O. Box 3485 Albuquerque, New Mexico As a New Mexico non-profit corporation, ASNM is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. The Society has a number of affiliated local societies listed below. ASNM encourages and assists others to unit to preserve, study, protect, and promote appreciation of the prehistoric and historic cultural resources of New Mexico. Membership: Individual, Family, Institution $25, Contributing $35 or more Privileges: Enrolling in ASNM Incremental Certification Program and Seminars, ASNM newsletter, and annual volume of Papers of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico. ASNM Newsletter: Helen Crotty, editor Papers of the ASNM (Honoree volumes): Emily Brown, editor, Karen Armstrong, Dave Brugge, and Carol Condie. Officers and Elected Trustees John Hayden, President John Roney Vice-President Arlette Miller, Secretary Anna Walters, Treasurer Karen Armstrong Bradley Bowman Emily Brown Carol Condie Hayward Franklin Gary Hein Greg Sagemiller Nancy Woodworth Ex Officio Trustees State Archaeologist State SiteWatch Coordinator NMAC President Executive Secretary Dolores Sundt Alternate Charlie Barnes AFFILIATE SOCIETIES Advisors and Appointees Jean and Jerry Brody Dave Brugge Helen Crotty Dave Kirkpatrick Joan Mathien Roger Moore Albuquerque Archaeological Society PO Box 4029 Albuquerque, NM President: Ann Carson info@abqarchaeology.org Doña Ana Archaeological Society PO Box Las Cruces, NM President: Mike Hughes damhughes@msn.com El Paso Archaeological Society PO Box 4345 El Paso, TX President: Buddy York kayyote@aol.com Grant County Archaeological Society PO Box 1713 Silver City, NM President: Bill Hudson whudson43@yahoo.com Friends of Tijeras Pueblo PO Box 1916 Tijeras, NM President: Dorothy Bender dorothy.bender@gmail.com Midland Archaeological Society PO Box 4224 Midland, TX President: Rick Day Plateau Sciences Society PO Box 2433 Gallup, NM President: Martin Link link87301@yahoo.com San Juan Archaeological Society PO Box 118 Flora Vista, NM Contact: Roger Moore maraztec@sisna.com Santa Fe Archaeological Society PO Box Santa Fe, NM President: Sidney Barteau sb.barteau@comcastnet Taos Archaeological Society PO Box 143 Taos, NM President: Carolyn Johnson cjj721@q.com Torrance County Archaeological Society 9360-A Old Highway 14 Estancia, NM President: Sharon Hanna hungryhorse@plateautel.net

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VOLUME 40, NO. 4 WINTER 2013 ISSN 0749-1816 LIFE ALONG THE RIO GRANDE IS THEME OF 2013 ANNUAL MEETING MAY 3-5 IN ALBUQUERQUE Plans for the ASNM 2013 Annual Meeting at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center