Tucson’s nonprofit
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center offers the
“Old Pueblo Educational Neighborhood” education program featuring simulated archaeological dig field trips, classroom outreach presentations, and guided tours to real archaeological sites for elementary, middle school, and high school classes. Classroom scholarships may be available to cover some or all of the program fees for these youth programs. RESERVE
NOW
– Dates for this academic year are being filled on a first-reserved/first-served basis! For more information visit these web pages: http://www.oldpueblo.org/open3.html
http://www.oldpueblo.org/azplp.html
“OPEN3” Simulated Excavation for Classrooms
Archaeological Site Tours for Youth
“Ancient People of Arizona” in-classroom presentation
“Lifestyle of the Hohokam” in-classroom presentation
“What is an Archaeologist?” in-classroom presentation http://www.oldpueblo.org/lifestyles.html
http://www.oldpueblo.org/whatarch.html
http://www.oldpueblo.org/sitetour.html
The Tucson Unified School District and other school districts neither endorse nor sponsor the organization or activity represented in Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s offerings. The distribution of this material is provided as a community service to TUSD and other schools and districts.
Old Pueblo also offers the following learning programs for adult educators. Many of Old Pueblo’s adult learning opportunities may be counted toward hours that educators need for their continued professional development. Contact Old Pueblo and your school district administrator to confirm whether any of the above programs may be counted toward your Arizona certification.
 Wednesday October 9, 2013: “Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians” free presentation by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's director, archaeologist Allen Dart, for Friends of
SaddleBrooke Libraries at SaddleBrooke Clubhouse Vermilion Room, 64500 E. SaddleBrooke Blvd.,
SaddleBrooke, Arizona; 4-5 p.m. The Hohokam Native American culture flourished in southern
Arizona from the sixth through fifteenth centuries. Hohokam artifacts, architecture, and other material culture provide archaeologists with clues for identifying where the Hohokam lived, for interpreting how they adapted to the Sonoran Desert for centuries, and explaining why the Hohokam culture mysteriously disappeared. In this presentation archaeologist Allen Dart illustrates the material culture of the Hohokam and presents possible interpretations about their relationships to the natural world, their time reckoning, religious practices, beliefs, and deities, and possible reasons for the eventual demise of their way of life. The program features slides of Hohokam artifacts, rock art, and other cultural features, a display of authentic prehistoric artifacts, and recommended readings for more information about the Hohokam. Funding for program provided by the Arizona
Humanities Council. This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For event details contact Laura Benson in SaddleBrooke at 520-825-1323 or laurafbenson@gmail.com
; for information about the activity subject matter contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or adart@oldpueblo.org
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Sundays October 13-
November 24, 2013: “Traditional Pottery Making Level 1 Workshop” with Andy
Ward at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson; 2 to 5 p.m. each Sunday. Fee
$79; $63.20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members; includes all materials except clay, which participants will collect during class field trip. A series of seven pottery-making class sessions will be offered by artist Andy Ward on seven Sunday afternoons October 13 through November 24, 2013, including a clay-gathering field trip on October
20. The class is designed to help modern people understand how prehistoric Native Americans made and used pottery, and is not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale. The
Level 1 class demonstrates traditional hand-building pottery techniques using gourd scrapers, mineral paints, and yucca brushes instead of mode rn potters’ wheels and paint. The course introduces some history of southwestern Ancestral and Modern Pueblo, Mogollon, and Hohokam pottery-making, includes a field trip in which participants dig their own clay, and demonstrates initial steps in forming, shaping and smoothing, and completion of bowls, jars, canteens, ladles, and rattles of both smooth and corrugated pottery, by scraping, polishing, sanding, slipping and painting. The paddle-and-anvil hand-building method is also demonstrated. Reservations required by October 9, 2013: 520-798-1201 or info@oldpueblo.org
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 Thursday October 17, 2013: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner & presentation: “Does Deep History Matter “ with archaeologist Dr. John Ware at Karichimaka
Mexican Restaurant, 5252 S. Mission Rd., Tucson;6 to 8:30 p.m. Free (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s menu). For ninety-nine percent of the time humans have been wandering the globe –

and we are inveterate roamers
– there was no written history. Literate peoples tend to think that nothing remarkable happened during humanity's long shuffling ‘prehistory,’ and that whatever happened in our remote past has little bearing on contemporary issues, problems, and prospects.
Archaeologist John Ware, the director of the Amerind Foundation in southeastern Arizona, will try to convince you in this presentation that the ‘scribbling classes’ may have gotten it all wrong. Old
Pueblo’s guest speaker for this “dinner-format” program is anthropologist and archaeologist Dr.
John Ware, the executive director of the Amerind Foundation in Dragoon, Arizona. Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s menu. There is no entry fee but donations will b e requested to benefit Old Pueblo’s educational efforts. Because seating is limited in order for the program to be in compliance with the Fire Code, those wishing to attend must call 520-
798-1201 and must have their reservations confirmed before 5 p.m. Wednesday October 16.
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Friday October 18-
Monday October 21, 2013: “Canyon de Chelly Archaeology and Cultures” educational tour with archaeologist Marc Severson, sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center.
Drive your own vehicle and meet tour in Chinle, Arizona; actual touring begins Friday and continues through Saturday, with Sunday reserved for return trip home. Fee $225 ($210 for Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members). Participants are responsible for their own transportation, meals, and lodging. Canyon de Chelly National Monument in northeastern Arizona is one of the most beautiful and unique places on the planet. Towering sandstone cliffs, abundant streamside vegetation, ancient cliff dwellings, and Navajo families who have lived in the canyon for generations make Canyon de Chelly a must-see destination in the
Southwest. Old Pueblo’s tour will take you inside the Canyon to experience its geology, environment, prehistory, history, and cultures with Marc Severson, an archaeologist since 1972 and a 20-year-veteran leader of southwestern tours for Pima Community College and Old Pueblo
Archaeology Center. Tour will be based at Sacred Canyon Lodge in Chinle and includes four-wheeldrive-vehicle in-canyon tour.
For more information on these programs click on the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center link above or contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or info@oldpueblo.org
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