BEAR TRACKS
The Roaring Fork Chapter of the
Colorado Archaeology Society
March 2011
Monthly General Meeting
Volume 29, Issue 3
Unless otherwise noted, all Chapter meetings are held at the First Presbyterian church at 1016 Cooper St., Glenwood springs, at
7:00 pm on the third Monday of the month
Monday, March 21, 2011
Continuing the series entitled We Shall Remain, the Native History of Utah and the Great
Basin, three 30 minute videos will be shown. The first segment is about the Navajo, the second
is about the Goshute culture and the third about the Northwestern Shoshone tribes. The
series talks about the cultures that came to the area before the Conquistadors or trappers and
long before the settlers dotted the region.
Rock Art Training Seminar/Workshop – May 1-5, 2011
Sponsored by the Colorado Rock Art Association, this seminar-workshop has been planned by
Lawrence Loendorf, Sacred Sites Research, Elizabeth Lynch, doctoral student from the
University of Wyoming, and Laurie White, Whitelight Images. The plan is to train individuals to
use the rock art recording procedures that have been developed over the past two decades.
The training will take place at a site on the JE Canyon Ranch in southeastern Colorado in a field
camp set up. We will have seminar lectures for half a day, field training in the other half, with
some evening lectures. The workshop is open to any member of CAS, with a preference for
individuals who also belong to CRAA, until March 15, 2011, when registration will be open to
individuals from other organizations. Group size: 12. $30.00 materials fee is payable upon
acceptance and registration. Participants are encouraged to purchase Thunder and Herds: Rock
art of the High Plains, by Lawrence Loendorf, 2008.
Book Review, submitted by Lucy Burris, Fort Collins CAS
Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah by Steve Simms and
Francois Gohier. The University of Utah Press, 2010, softcover, 133 pages.
Here we get two books for the price of one. Every page contains Gohier’s stunning photography
of Fremont artifacts and rock art in Utah and Colorado while Simms’ narrative about Fremont
organization provides a new perspective on integration in the prehistoric Intermountain West.
Gohier has been taking photographs of Fremont rock art for twenty years and Simms is one of
the leading scholars in Fremont research. This book will be a beautiful addition to the library
(and coffee table) of anyone interested in rock art.
Summer Volunteer Opportunities – University of Wyoming
Fieldwork dates:
June 4-13
June 14-17
June 18-27
June 28-July 1
July 2-11
July 12-15
July 16-25
Hell Gap
Break
Hell Gap
Break
Hell Gap
Break
Last Canyon
Hell Gap
We will continue excavation of the middle Paleoindian Cody component. The Advanced
Archaeological Field School will be running concurrently with the excavation. For those of you
interested in the field school please see the web site for the course (ANTH 5180
http://www.uwyo.edu/anthropology/field-schools/ANTH5180.html).
Last Canyon Cave
Following Hell Gap the field camp will move to Last Canyon Cave in the Pryor Mountains of southcentral Montana. The small rockshelter is yielding a 40,000 year old paleoclimatic record in the
form of fauna, pollen, phytoliths, various isotopes, ingested grit, and other forms of proxy data
bearing information on the paleoenvironmental conditions just prior to and confronted by the
earliest Americans. Last Canyon will thus complement other sites in the region with late
Pleistocene records in other forms, such as the rich faunal record from Natural Trap Cave.
For more information and application forms contact:
Marcel Kornfeld, anpro1@uwyo.edu, or call (307) 766-5136.
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Wyoming
Dept. 3431, 1000 East University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071
Notable Events
 Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists Annual Conference/CAS spring quarterly
meeting
o March 24-27, Holiday Inn Express, La Junta, CO. www.coloraoarchaeologists.org.
 Chimney Rock in the Chacoan World Conference
o April 29-May 1, Pagosa Springs, CO, www.chimneyrockco.org/mainnew
 World Atlatl Open
o May 20-22, Saratoga, WY, www.worldatlatl.org
 Biennial Conference on Archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest
o June 16-18, Albuquerque, NM, www.caasw.org
COLORADO ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY CODE OF ETHICS (Reprinted from the CAS Constitution, updated
10-90)
Members of the Colorado Archaeological Society agree as follows:
1) Members will uphold State and Federal antiquity laws.
2) Excavation of archaeological sites will be conducted only according to professionally accepted procedures developed in consultation with
a professional archaeologist and with the written permission of the landowner. The investigator has the responsibility for publication of the
results of his/her investigation and for making the collection available for scientific study.
3) Members are encouraged to report archaeological sites to the Office of the State Archaeologist on State survey forms. Material collected
from the surface sites shall be catalogued and described in the site survey report. Collected materials should be deposited with the State
Archaeologist’s Office or other responsible repository and made available for scientific study.
4) Members will not support Illegal or unscientifically conducted activities by participating in or condoning the sale, exchange, or purchase
of artifacts obtained from such sites.
5) Members who exhibit artifacts will do so in an educational context. Items from burials and objects considered sacred will not be exhibited.
6) Members will cooperate with the State Archaeologist and other persons and agencies concerned with archaeology and related fields.
7) Members will respect the dignity of groups whose cultural histories are the subject of archaeological investigation.
8) Members will not participate in conduct involving dishonesty, deceit, or misrepresentation about archaeological matters.
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ROARING FORK CAS CHAPTER OFFICERS - 2011
President/Newsletter: Cynthia Vodopich, (970) 524-7981, PO Box 5544, Eagle, CO 81631,
mcvodopich@centurytel.net
PAAC Coord: Christine Elliott, (328) 7323, PO Box 375, Eagle, CO, 81631, redrock68@hotmail.com
Secretary: Bob Ludtke (970) 945-8722, 406 Yale Circle, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601, bobl@sopris.net
Treasurer: Emilie Somerville, (970) 384-0185, 5387 County Road 154, #49, Glenwood Spgs, CO 81601,
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Programs: Larry Scarbrough, (970) 524-8166, PO Box 1340, Avon, CO 81620,
lscarbrough@holycross.com
Publicity: Joan Troth, (970) 945-0668, 3202 Cooper Court, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601,
troth@rof.net
Club Archaeologist: Alice Gustafson, (970) 928-8602, 1903 Colorow Rd, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601