The Castle Valley Archaeological Society
Invites You to the
2014 USAS/UPAC Convention in Price, UT
June 5th – 8th
CVAS hopes you will join us in Price for the 2014 USAS/UPAC Convention. We are very excited to
have you visit us. Plan for a great time of presentations, workshops and tours! This packet is to help guide you
through all the events. There are many different venues so make sure you are in the right place at the right time.
All the tours have descriptions pertaining to location and physical demands to help plan the best trip for you.
We recommend that members make their motel or camping reservations as soon as possible!!
There are other events taking place this weekend as well as heavy industrial use and you may not find a room if
you wait. Please avoid disappointment by making your reservation now! For your convenience, a map and list
of hotels/campground sites will be provided.
You will receive additional information at registration, including literature about this travel region. If
you have any questions, there are contacts listed below. We hope to see you in June!
NOTE: If anyone would like to donate items for the auction, please bring them along. We thank those
folks in advance for their generous contributions.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Margene Hackney
435-637-0482
mrsth@emerytelcom.net
Heidi Essex
435-630-9523
heidisue1960@hotmail.com
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Thursday, June 5th Early Bird Events
7:30 am – 8:00 am
Check In/Event Packet – USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum (155 East 100 North)
YOU MUST SIGN UP TO PARTICIPATE IN TOURS! Each tour has a description that pertains to the
location and physical fitness level needed in order to help plan the best trip for you. Tour end times are
estimates only; tours could go over or under listed times. Most tours require carpooling, so space will be
limited. PLEASE NOTE that in most tour areas, cell phone reception will be nonexistent; therefore, it could
take EMTs two hours or more to arrive for emergencies. In addition, tours may be canceled due to bad weather,
hazardous road conditions, or high stream flows. PLEASE DON’T FORGET to bring your own food/water,
first aid kit, camera, binoculars, hiking boots/walking shoes, hat, sun screen and bug spray! ALL TOUR
PARTICIPANTS WILL NEED TO SIGN A MEDICAL RELEASE FORM & A LIABILITY RELEASE
FORM IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE.
8:00am – 6:00 pm
Range Creek Tour – Alan Green & Mark Connolly
Meet at USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum parking lot (155 East 100 North)
This tour will involve strenuous hikes to ruins and rock art sites not visited on driving
tours of Range Creek. We will be hiking up steep mountainsides, and scrambling or
climbing up rock outcrops at elevations over 7000 feet. Visiting some of the sites
requires crossing the creek, so you may get wet if you do not bring hip boots. It is
suggested that everyone bring a day pack. Limit of 12 participants with a maximum of 4
vehicles total. Vehicles must have high ground clearance, and four-wheel drive is
preferable. If you have any questions, please contact Mark Connolly at 435-630-0538 or
Alan Green at 435-650-0707.
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Check In/Event Packet – USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum (155 East 100 North)
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Open House - USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum (155 East 100 North)
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Fremont Foodways: A Taste of the Past (presentation & sampling) – Dr. Tim Riley,
Curator of Archaeology, (upstairs museum classroom)
Friday, June 6th Tours & Dinner at Pioneer Park
7:30 am – 8:00 am
Check In/Event Packet – USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum (155 East 100 North)
YOU MUST SIGN UP TO PARTICIPATE IN TOURS! Each tour has a description that pertains to the
location and physical fitness level needed in order to help plan the best trip for you. Tour end times are
estimates only; tours could go over or under listed times. Most tours require carpooling, so space will be
limited. PLEASE NOTE that in most tour areas, cell phone reception will be nonexistent; therefore, it could
take EMTs two hours or more to arrive for emergencies. In addition, tours may be canceled due to bad weather,
hazardous road conditions, or high stream flows. PLEASE DON’T FORGET to bring your own food/water,
first aid kit, camera, binoculars, hiking boots/walking shoes, hat, sun screen and bug spray! ALL TOUR
PARTICIPANTS WILL NEED TO SIGN A MEDICAL RELEASE FORM & A LIABILITY RELEASE
FORM IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE.
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8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Warrior Ridge/Nine Mile Canyon Tour - Alan Green & Mark Connolly
Meet at USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum parking lot (155 East 100 North)
This tour involves strenuous hikes to ruins and rock art sites, so excellent physical health
is required to participate. Participants will travel along rocky trails, hike steep
mountainsides and scramble around on rocks. This site contains very unique rock art that
gives the ridge its name. Participants will be away for their vehicles all day, so it is
suggested that everyone bring a day pack. Limit of 12 participants with a maximum of 4
vehicles total. If you have any questions, please contact Mark Connolly at 435-630-0538
or Alan Green at 435-650-0707.
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Nine Mile Canyon Tour – Fred & Diane G. Jenkins
Meet at USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum parking lot (155 East 100 North)
This tour includes a drive/walk along the paved Nine Mile Canyon road. There will be
stops at various points along the way where guides will give information about these
sites. Limit of 20 participants total.
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Rochester & Quitchupah Creek Rock Art Tour – Arlene Connolly
Meet at USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum parking lot (155 East 100 North)
Rochester Creek, just east of Emery town, is a strenuous three mile roundtrip hike on
rocky trails with slopes; and, Quitchupah Creek, about 20 minutes southwest of Emery
town, involves walking up short gradual slopes on rocky uneven ground. Limit of 20
participants total. Please contact Arlene Connolly at 435-630-1747 if you have any
questions.
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Buckhorn Flat/Buckhorn Wash Tour – Bruce Burgess
Meet at USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum parking lot (155 East 100 North)
Participants will take I-10 to Cleveland. The first stop will be Buckhorn Well and then
the Draw. Participants will learn the history of the area and then take a walk to a
habitation site, the bucket head pictography, and then to a newly found site. The next
sites will be Down Canyon and Cattle Guard, which requires a medium hike up a steep
slope. Then, there will be walking to several small sites, a dinosaur track, and one large
rock shelter. Participants may see desert Bighorns along the way. The last stop will be
the Buckhorn Panel, a large barrier canyon painted panel with Fremont additions, and
then lunch at Swinging Bridge Campground. This is about a 90 mile round trip tour and
all hiking is less than a quarter mile.
8:00am – 12:00 pm Historic Mining Camp Tours – Sue Ann Martell & Darrin Teply. Meet at old
Dominos parking lot, Price (592 East Main Street)
This is a half day tour about the mining history of the area. It will include an easy
driving/walking trip to several mining camps, including Royal and Spring Canyons, the
Castle Gate Cemetery, and the mine portal where the 1924 explosion happened. Limit of
20 participants total.
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
East Carbon Archaeology Tour – Dr. Tim Riley, Craig Royce &
Todd Andrews. Meet at USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum parking lot (155 East
100 North) This tour focuses on rock art and habitation sites found in and around East
Carbon. Native groups didn’t just live in currently remote areas; many modern cities are
built on top of the same landscape. Tour will include sites with a variety of modern
impacts and will require brief, easy walks. Limit of 20 participants total.
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5:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Check In/Event Packet – Pioneer Park Pavilion (100 E & 500 N/600 N)
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Dinner at Pioneer Park Pavilion (100 E & 500 N/600 N)
Hamburgers, hot dogs, salads, chips, and desserts will be provided. Come join the fun!
Saturday, June 7th Presentations, Workshops, USAS Meeting,
Dinner, Key Note Speaker, Raffle, Silent
Auction & Entertainment
All events this day will take place at the Carbon Co. Events Center (310 South Fairgrounds Road) located
on the southwest bluff above Price, except for the “Introduction to Museums” workshop. Items for the
raffle and auction will be on display at the Event Center throughout the day. Winners will be announced after
the Event Dinner.
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Check In/Event Packet – Carbon Co. Events Center (310 South Fairgrounds Road)
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Speaker Chris Kiahtipes (main room) – “Expecting the Unexpected: Lessons from the
Central African Iron Age”
9:30 am – 10:00 am
Speaker Jerry Spangler (main room) – “In the Footsteps of Giants: New Insights from
the Investigations of Henry Montgomery, Donald Scott, Noel Morss and John Gillin”
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am – 11:00 am Speaker Corinne Springer (main room) – “The Archaeology of Range Creek Canyon”
11:00 am – 11:30 am Speaker Chris Merritt (main room) - "The Coming Man from Canton: Historical
Archaeology of the Chinese in Montana and Utah"
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Lunch on your own (a list of restaurants will be provided at check in)
12:30 pm – 3:20 pm Basketry & Pottery Demonstrations (main room)
12:30 pm – 1:20 pm Workshops
 Distinguishing Between Human and Nonhuman Bones and Procedures for the
Discovery of Human Remains – Derinna Kopp (main room)
 Identifying Fremont Pottery and Anasazi Trade Ware – Lane Richens
(conference room)
 Drum Circle - Alan Green and Mark Connolly (Limit 20) (east patio 1)
 Mat Making Demonstration – Bruce Burgess (east patio 2)
 Introduction to Museums – Dr. Tim Riley (prehistoric museum classroom)
1:20 pm – 1:30 pm
Break
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1:30 pm – 2:20 pm
Workshops
 Distinguishing Between Human and Nonhuman Bones and Procedures for the
Discovery of Human Remains – Derinna Kopp (main room)
 Wrapping Your Head Around Historic Stuff: Identification of Key and
Common Historic Artifacts – Chris Merritt (conference room)
 Making Duck Decoys – Arlene and Mark Connolly (Limit 15) (east patio 1)
 Mat Making Demonstration – Bruce Burgess (east patio 2)
 Introduction to Museums – Dr. Tim Riley (prehistoric museum classroom)
2:20 pm – 2:30 pm
Break
2:30 pm – 3:20 pm
Workshops
 Site Stewardship in Nine Mile Canyon and Other Locales in Utah – Amber
Koski, Jody Patterson, Chris Merritt and others (main room)
 Identifying Fremont Pottery and Anasazi Trade Ware – Lane Richens
(conference room)
 Drum Circle - Alan Green and Mark Connolly (Limit 20) (east patio 1)
 Mat Making Demonstration – Bruce Burgess (east patio 2)
3:20 pm – 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm – 4:20 pm
Workshops
 The Nuts and Bolts of Site Stewardship – Amber Koski, Michael Wolfe, and
Others (main room)
 Wrapping Your Head Around Historic Stuff: Identification of Key and
Common Historic Artifacts – Chris Merritt (conference room)
4:20 pm – 4:30 pm
Break
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
USAS Meeting (main room)
Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend.
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Break
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Event Dinner Buffet (main room): Pork, Salmon, Tossed Salad, Maui Vegetable Blend,
Rice, Red Potatoes, and Cheesecake.
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Key Note Speaker Jody Patterson (main room) - “Digging Deeper: Uncovering Buried
Fremont Habitations in Nine Mile Canyon”
8:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Announcement of Raffle & Silent Auction Winners (main room)
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm Entertainment (main room) – “The Lab Dogs” Band
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Sunday, June 8th Tours
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Rochester & Quitchupah Creek Rock Art Tour – Arlene Connolly
Meet at USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum parking lot (155 East 100 North)
Rochester Creek, just east of Emery town, is a strenuous three mile roundtrip hike on
rocky trails with slopes; and, Quitchupah Creek, about 20 minutes southwest of Emery
town, involves walking up short gradual slopes on rocky uneven ground. Limit of 20
participants total. Please contact Arlene Connolly at 435-630-1747 if you have any
questions.
10:00 am – 1:00 pm Historic Mining Camp Tours – Sue Ann Martell & Darrin Teply. Meet at old
Dominos parking lot, Price (592 East Main Street)
This is a half day tour about the mining history of the area. It will include an easy
driving/walking trip to several mining camps, including Royal and Spring Canyons, the
Castle Gate Cemetery, and the mine portal where the 1924 explosion happened. Limit of
20 participants total.
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Biographical Information
Speakers:
Timothy Riley – “Fremont Foodways: A Taste of the Past”
Bio: Tim Riley is the Curator of Archaeology at the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Price, UT. He
received his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago and his doctorate at Texas A&M University. He
has participated in fieldwork across the Midwest and Southwestern United States. Within the field of
archaeology, his specialty is Paleoethnobotany, or the study of past human use of plants for subsistence and
other aspects of material culture. His research has ranged from assessing diet with coprolites (desiccated feces)
in Texas to examining changes in vegetation associated with agricultural intensification along the Mississippi
river. There is a strong ecological approach to his research, focusing on how past cultures interacted with their
environment.
Chris Kiahtipes – “Expecting the Unexpected: Lessons from the Central African Iron Age”
Bio: Biographical information not provided.
Jerry Spangler – “In the Footsteps of Giants: New Insights from the Investigations of
Henry Montgomery, Donald Scott, Noel Morss and John Gillin”
Abstract: Since 2006, CPAA has been re-locating and re-documenting sites first described between 1892 and
1938 in Nine Mile Canyon -- called Legacy Sites because they were the first sites ever recorded in the canyon.
The location of some of these sites -- Sky House, Valley Village and Warrior Ridge -- is well known. Others
remain elusive, such as Lookout House. The re-documentation of these sites offers important new insights, not
only to the temporal placement of these sites but the rate of site degradation through time through natural and
anthropogenic impacts. The address will share our recent efforts to document Devil's Playground (first
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documented in 1931), our recent discovery of Fortress in the Sky (first described in 1892), and our failed
attempt to find Lookout House that led to the discovery of an unknown residential complex more than 1000 feet
above the floodplain.
Bio: Jerry D. Spangler is executive director of the Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance, a non-profit
dedicated to the long-term preservation of cultural resources. He has been researching in Nine Mile Canyon
since 1989 when he was a graduate student at Brigham Young University. He is currently engaged in a research
partnership with the BLM in the Grand Staircase and Kaiparowits Plateau areas, and in the St. George Basin.
He also continues his research in Nine Mile Canyon and Desolation Canyon -- part of the greater Tavaputs
Plateau -- where his interests are focused on site and land-use patterns evident during the late Formative (A.D.
900 to 1250). He is the author of "Nine Mile Canyon: The Archaeological History of an American Treasure"
(University of Utah Press, 2013) and with his wife, Donna, they authored "Horned Snakes and Axle Grease: A
Roadside Guide to the Archaeology, Rock Art and History of Nine Mile Canyon" (Uinta Publishing, 2003),
"Treasures of the Tavaputs" (Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance, 2007), and "Nine Mile Canyon: Where
the Old West Came to Die," a Euroamerican history of Nine Mile Canyon to be published by the University of
Utah Press in late 2014 or early 2015.
Corinne Springer – “The Archaeology of Range Creek Canyon”
Bio: Corinne Springer graduated with a MS in Anthropology from the University of Utah and is currently
employed by the Natural History Museum of Utah as Manager and Resident Archaeologist for the Range Creek
Field Station. She lives at the ranch from April to November, weather permitting, and engages in a host of
activities. As site manager she assists in scheduling, tours, public relations and a host of tasks that don't
immediately come to mind when someone says archaeologist- hostess, cook, farrier, wrangler, gardener,
mechanic, farmer, plumber, roofer, painter, ditch digger, fire fighter... She also finds time to pursue her research
interests: prehistory of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau, ethnobotany, and prehistoric land use and
settlement patterns.
Chris Merritt - "The Coming Man from Canton: Historical Archaeology of the Chinese
in Montana and Utah"
Bio: Merritt received a Ph.D. from the University of Montana in 2010 focused on the Historical Archaeology
of the Overseas Chinese. He is currently the compliance officer for the Utah State Historic Preservation Office.
Jody Patterson - “Digging Deeper: Uncovering Buried Fremont Habitations in Nine Mile Canyon”
Bio: Jody J. Patterson received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and a
M.A. in Southwest Studies/Anthropology from New Mexico Highlands University. Jody’s research interests
include historical ecology, spatial theory, and landscape studies. He has been regularly surveying and
excavating in Nine Mile since 2001. Jody is a principal investigator at Montgomery Archaeological
Consultants, Inc. in Moab, Utah.
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Workshop Presenters:
Derinna Kopp – “Distinguishing Between Human and Nonhuman Bones and Procedures for the Discovery of
Human Remains”
Bio: Derinna Kopp is the forensic anthropologist for the State of Utah. She is responsible for the recovery and
reporting of ancient human remains inadvertently discovered on private and local municipality lands in the
state. She also assists land managing state agencies with discoveries on state lands and conducts skeletal
analyses for the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner. Derinna has a PhD from the University of Utah and a
Master’s Degree for the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Lane Richens – “Identifying Fremont Pottery and Anasazi Trade Ware”
Bio: Mr. Lane D. Richens is Senior Staff Archaeologist at the Office of Public Archaeology at Brigham Young
University. He has been involved in a number of Fremont excavations during his career which have enabled
him to spend way too much time looking at Fremont pottery. Lately he has been engaged in identifying
Anasazi trade ware potsherds recovered from Fremont sites in Capitol Reef National Park, near the town of
Escalante, and the Parowan Valley.
Alan Green – “Drum Circle”
Bio: Biographical information not provided.
Mark Connolly – “Drum Circle”
Bio: Biographical information not provided.
Bruce W. Burgess – “Mat Making Demonstrations”
Bio: Burgess is a native Utahan and all his ancestors were early Mormon pioneers except one, who came with
Johnston's army. One of his ancestors was an Indian missionary, who saved Chief Blackhawks life and was
adopted into the Ute nation tribe. He has been interested in Native American people and life ways for many
years. As a child he visited many native sites in Carbon, Emery and Sanpete counties. Around 1965, Burgess
became enthralled with the Pilling figurines that came to the Price CEU Prehistoric Museum. He spent many
hours at the museum studying the figurines and many other exhibits. He always wondered how many of the
objects were made. His curiosity motivated him to study and learn about these subjects on his own. He is now a
replicative technologist. His replications are on display at the Price USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum, the
Castle Dale Museum of the San Raphael, and in the Colorado Natural History Museum in Grand Junction. He
served on the CEU Prehistoric Museum Board for many years. He graduated from Carbon High in 1971 and
received an Associates of Science degree in 1973 from the College of Eastern Utah (CEU). He served a LDS
Mission, the Oklahoma Tulsa Mission, from 1975-1977. He married Nona Vickrey in 1983 and they have two
children together, Mary and Seth. Burgess retired from a local Pacificorp power plant and is now employed at
the Castle Valley Center where he assists mentally and physically challenged adults in the day services
program.
Timothy Riley – “Introduction to Museums”
Bio: See above under “Speakers”.
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Chris Merritt – “Wrapping Your Head Around Historic Stuff: Identification of Key and Common Historic
Artifacts” and “Site Stewardship in Nine Mile Canyon and Other Locales in Utah”
Bio: Merritt received a Ph.D. from the University of Montana in 2010 focused on the Historical Archaeology
of the Overseas Chinese. He is currently the compliance officer for the Utah State Historic Preservation Office.
Amber Koski – “Site Stewardship in Nine Mile Canyon and Other Locales in Utah” and “The Nuts and Bolts
of Site Stewardship”
Bio: Amber Koski works for the Bureau of Land Management, Price Field Office as an archaeologist. She holds
a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, and a Master of Science in Environmental Management and Policy. She
has worked with public land management agencies for over a decade in the Intermountain West as both, an
archaeologist, and ecologist.
Jody Patterson - “Site Stewardship in Nine Mile Canyon and Other Locales in Utah”
Bio: Jody J. Patterson received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and a
M.A. in Southwest Studies/Anthropology from New Mexico Highlands University. Jody’s research interests
include historical ecology, spatial theory, and landscape studies. He has been regularly surveying and
excavating in Nine Mile since 2001. Jody is a principal investigator at Montgomery Archaeological
Consultants, Inc. in Moab, Utah.
Michael Wolfe – “The Nuts and Bolts of Site Stewardship”
Bio: Biographical information not provided.
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