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Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Announces
2008 Adventures in Anthropology Trips <br>
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Santa Fe- Adventures in Anthropology announces eight trips this year in its perennially popular tour series. The one big mulit-day big trip this year is to Mexico. It is called Maya Arts, Archaeology, and Day of the Dead, an eleven day trip to study Maya Arts, Archaeology, and Day of the Dead led by Museum and Lab Director, Dr. Shelby Tisdale.
These anthropology day trips meet at the Laboratory of Anthropology staff parking lot at 7:30 a.m. and return by approximately 5:00 p.m. Lunch and snacks are included in the tour price. Transportation is by carpool. Specific instructions will be sent in a confirmation mailing prior to each trip. To reserve your spot on any of the trips please call 505-476-1250.
Note: The Gallina and Pueblo Pintado trips are longer days with different meeting locations; see trip descriptions for details.
Payment in full is required with registration. Space is limited so please register early.
Cancellation Policy: For single day trips, a 50% refund will be made only if a replacement can be found.
Proceeds from the trips support public programs, education, and research at the museum / lab.
The trips this year are:
Pottery Mound Pueblo - May 2, '08 (Friday)
David A. Phillips, Jr., Curator of Archaeology, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, and Helen Crotty, Research Associate, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology
On this trip you will gain a sense of one of the more important Pueblo IV sites in the Rio Grande region. Located on the Rio Puerco west of Los Lunas, New Mexico, Pottery Mound was founded about AD 1350 and occupied until AD 1500. In some ways it is a typical rambling Pueblo IV period village of about 500 rooms but it also has the most varied assemblage of pottery styles in the region. Pottery Mound is known for its spectacular kiva murals and may have served as a ceremonial center. Trip leaders are Dave Phillips, who leads the current site management efforts at Pottery Mound and curates collections from the site, and Helen Crotty, an expert on kiva mural art.
Tour conditions: Easy hiking.
Price per person: $95.00 / $75.00 MNMF members
Cerrillos Turquoise - June 6, '08 (Friday)
Joan Mathien, Ret. National Park Service Archaeologist; Bill Baxter, Historian; Dody Fugate, Assistant Curator of Archaeological Research Collections, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology
This tour features the latest research on the Cerrillos turquoise trade. Joan Mathien will lead you to Chalchihuitl, the largest, still-visible prehistoric turquoise mine in the American Southwest and share results of her multi-year, National Science Foundation-funded research project on turquoise sourcing. One of the goals of this project has been to assess whether turquoise excavated at Chaco Canyon came from the Cerrillos Hills. Bill Baxter will take you to Cerrillos turquoise mines that were heavily utilized during New Mexico's Territorial Period and discuss new documentary evidence tying the Tiffany Company to the Cerrillos mines and the development of turquoise as a popular gemstone. The day will include a visit to an active turquoise claim adjacent to a prehistoric mine.
Tour conditions: Hiking to the top of Chalchihuitl is strenuous; terrain includes slippery slopes without formal trails and steep paths with poor footing.
Price per person: $95.00 / $75.00 MNMF members)
Hands-On Pottery Firing with Robert Tenorio and Family at Santo Domingo - June 13, '08 (Friday)
Robert Tenorio, Potter
Experience an outdoor pottery firing and visit a pottery studio with Robert Tenorio and family at Santo Domingo Pueblo. Robert uses natural materials such as local clays, plants, and bark gathered from areas near the village to re-create traditional pottery. Every firing is different and a magical and exciting experience as raw greenware becomes fired Santo Domingo pottery. Come prepared to assist with all steps of the firing, including preparation of the pit. You will paint 5" diameter plates with yucca paintbrushes and plant juices to create your own design, then fire and take your creation home as a memento of the day. Trip attendees will participate in the table and food preparation for a traditional Pueblo meal homemade by Robert's family, including fry bread, beans, meat and chile, and dessert. The main ingredients will be prepared ahead of time but you will have the experience of making your own fry bread.
Tour conditions: No hiking. Please dress to participate in an outdoor pottery firing and assist with traditional food preparation.
Price per person: $125.00 / $105.00 MNMF members
Hiking the Gallina - June 27, '08 (Friday)
Mike Bremer, US Forest Service Archaeologist
Note: Please plan for a very long day as the Gallina area is approximately 2 hours from Santa Fe. Trip will return to Santa Fe by approximately 6:30 p.m.
Visit sites associated with the Gallina Culture in the Llaves Valley north of Cuba, New Mexico. The Gallina were an ancestral puebloan culture that occupied the upland margins east of the San Juan Basin between the 10th and 13th centuries, although they did not appear to participate in the larger Chacoan system. The landscape occupied by the Gallina is distinguished by topographic extremes including deep canyons and majestic hogbacks. The Gallina forged an agricultural and hunting lifestyle, building small communities around clusters of masonry structures frequently constructed in precarious situations with stupendous views. The trip will explore several communities and isolated sites in the Llaves Valley including sites in Mud Springs and Chupadero Arroyo. We will also visit a reconstructed masonry pithouse.
Tour conditions: Strenuous hiking over steep terrain through areas without trails for distances up to one mile. Trip will require high clearance vehicles and depending on weather, 4-wheel drive may be preferred.
Price per person: $95.00 / $75.00 MNMF members
Pot Creek Ruin & Picuris Pueblo Feast Day - Aug 9, '08 (Saturday)
Richard Ford, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, and Don Brown, Research Associate, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology
This unique trip pairs a visit to the modern pueblo of Picuris on its traditional San Lorenzo Feast Day with a tour of nearby Pot Creek Pueblo ruin, which was ancestral to both Picuris and Taos pueblos. This large and complex site of about 300 rooms was occupied from about AD 1250 to 1320. Trip participants will view the famed relay foot races at Picuris in the morning, followed by a tour of Pot Creek and lunch. In the afternoon we return to Picuris for the trade fair and various dances. Participants will have the option of staying later at Picuris to view the amazing pole climb.
Tour conditions: Easy to moderate. (Price per person: $95.00 / $75.00 MNMF members)
The Spanish Missions of Galisteo and Pecos - Sept 12, '08 (Friday)
Cordelia Snow, Archaeologist, New Mexico Historic Preservation Division
Don't miss an opportunity to travel with Dedie Snow, an expert in New Mexico Spanish Missions, to the missions of Galisteo and Pecos. The mission at Galisteo, built ca. 1613, was one of the earliest missions in the Galisteo Basin and the only one refounded after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The mission had been abandoned due to disease and attacks by the Comanche after 1780. Although the history of the Spanish mission at Pecos Pueblo is well known as the result of John Kessell's extraordinary book Kiva, Cross, and Crown, Dedie will focus on little-known facts about the historic settlement at South Pueblo, the so-called Lost Church, and the convento kiva constructed ca. 1620.
Tour conditions: Easy hiking.
Price per person: $95.00 / $75.00 MNMF members
A Chacoan Great House: Pueblo Pintado - Oct 10, '08 (Friday)
Tom Windes, Ret. National Park Service Archaeologist
NOTE: Trip meets in Cuba, New Mexico at 9:30 a.m. Please plan for a very long day since the site is approximately 3 hours from Santa Fe. Following the tour, you have the option of joining the group in Cuba for dinner at the excellent El Bruno's restaurant (not included in trip price).
Spend the day with Chaco expert and archaeologist Tom Windes exploring Pueblo Pintado, a massive four-story Chacoan great house with construction dates in the AD 1060s. The easternmost of the Chaco ruins, Pueblo Pintado sits on a prominent low hill overlooking the countryside. It has a prehistoric road that leaves the site and crosses the plains and drops into Chaco Canyon via cut steps about 1.5 miles away to the west. There is also evidence for nearby signaling communication stations. Tom will discuss the complex pattern of the site's settlement, involving an earlier occupation, migration of families, and Pueblo Pintado's relationship to "Downtown" Chaco Canyon and other outliers within the Chacoan regional system.
Tour conditions: Easy walking.
Price per person: $95.00 / $75.00 MNMF members
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Maya Arts, Archaeology, and Day of the Dead
October 24 - November 3, 2008 (11 days, Friday through Monday)
Shelby Tisdale, Director, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology
From the lowland jungles that housed the greatest of the ancient Maya cities to the mist-clad uplands where Maya villages and customs still thrive, this 10-night journey transports us through 3,000 years of Maya history. Our journey not only spans a great expanse of human history, it also sets us into one of Mesoamerica's most unique celebrations, Day of the Dead, when the souls of the ancestors are believed to return to visit the living.
Our travels begin in the land of Mexico's first civilization, the Olmec, and we will see many of the legendary gigantic stone Olmec heads. We then travel to the edge of the Yucatan and visit three spectacular Maya Archaeological sites: the hill-slope city-state of Palenque, the mural encrusted temples of Bonampak, and the grand palaces of Yaxchilan on a bend of Usumacinta River.
From the jungle our road twists through the limestone mountains into the highlands where Maya culture and lifeways are alive and well. We will be based in the beautiful colonial town of San Cristobal de Las Casas and will pass our days visiting artisans, exploring San Cristobal, and traveling to surrounding villages. With Chip Morris, Maya expert and author of The Living Maya as our highland guide, we'll meet weavers, master sisal bag twiners, and other artisans. We'll visit unusual Maya churches and see how Catholicism and Classic Period Maya religious rites have fused.
On two special days we will visit the graveyards of the Zinacantan and Chamula. These two traditional Mayan cemeteries are worlds apart. The Zinacantan graveyard is on a jagged hilltop and each grave is as flower-adorned as the colorfully embroidered clothing of the Zinacatecos. The setting is somber as families stand around the tombs, talking quietly on the often mist-shrouded mountain top. One nation away in the land of the Chamula Maya the graveyard is topped with enormous green crosses as tall as pine trees and Day of the Dead is a raucous fiesta with live bands, booths selling all sorts of foods, ice cream carts, and hundreds of highland Chamulas dressed to the nines in their best homespun festival garb.
This trip is an unparalleled opportunity to travel with Director Shelby Tisdale to learn about the life of the Maya, both ancient and contemporary, to marvel at the ancient cities in the jungle and to see that the people and cultures who created those places have not disappeared, but continue to thrive in a far corner of an exotic land.
Tour conditions: Moderate physical condition needed for exploring ruins. Conditions include uneven trails, pyramid steps, and moderate elevation gains for walks of up to 1 mile. There will be walking on narrow sidewalks and cobblestone streets and short, uneven trails to artisans' homes in villages. San Cristobal is at 7,000 feet. The jungle region can be very hot and humid.
Price per person: $3,250 double occupancy; $3,525 single occupancy
Trip price includes a $500 tax deductible contribution to the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology.
Nonrefundable deposit of $200 due by June 6, 2008, with balance due August 8, 2008. All payments are forfeited if you cancel after August 15, 2008.
Space is limited to 10 people so please register early.
Note: Trip begins in Villahermosa, Mexico and ends in San Cristobal, Mexico.
Trip price does not include airfare to Mexico or airport transfers to and from hotels. Price includes 10 nights lodging, 25 meals, local transportation by van, entrance fees, and guides. Additional details will be sent once we receive your reservation.
To register, please call 505-476-1250.
2008 Adventures in Anthropology Trips <br>
<img src=http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/anthro2.gif border=0 align=center alt="Come Join our Museum staff for an Adventure!"> <br>
Santa Fe- Adventures in Anthropology announces eight trips this year in its perennially popular tour series. The one big mulit-day big trip this year is to Mexico. It is called Maya Arts, Archaeology, and Day of the Dead, an eleven day trip to study Maya Arts, Archaeology, and Day of the Dead led by Museum and Lab Director, Dr. Shelby Tisdale.
These anthropology day trips meet at the Laboratory of Anthropology staff parking lot at 7:30 a.m. and return by approximately 5:00 p.m. Lunch and snacks are included in the tour price. Transportation is by carpool. Specific instructions will be sent in a confirmation mailing prior to each trip. To reserve your spot on any of the trips please call 505-476-1250.
Note: The Gallina and Pueblo Pintado trips are longer days with different meeting locations; see trip descriptions for details.
Payment in full is required with registration. Space is limited so please register early.
Cancellation Policy: For single day trips, a 50% refund will be made only if a replacement can be found.
Proceeds from the trips support public programs, education, and research at the museum / lab.
The trips this year are:
Pottery Mound Pueblo - May 2, '08 (Friday)
David A. Phillips, Jr., Curator of Archaeology, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, and Helen Crotty, Research Associate, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology
On this trip you will gain a sense of one of the more important Pueblo IV sites in the Rio Grande region. Located on the Rio Puerco west of Los Lunas, New Mexico, Pottery Mound was founded about AD 1350 and occupied until AD 1500. In some ways it is a typical rambling Pueblo IV period village of about 500 rooms but it also has the most varied assemblage of pottery styles in the region. Pottery Mound is known for its spectacular kiva murals and may have served as a ceremonial center. Trip leaders are Dave Phillips, who leads the current site management efforts at Pottery Mound and curates collections from the site, and Helen Crotty, an expert on kiva mural art.
Tour conditions: Easy hiking.
Price per person: $95.00 / $75.00 MNMF members
Cerrillos Turquoise - June 6, '08 (Friday)
Joan Mathien, Ret. National Park Service Archaeologist; Bill Baxter, Historian; Dody Fugate, Assistant Curator of Archaeological Research Collections, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology
This tour features the latest research on the Cerrillos turquoise trade. Joan Mathien will lead you to Chalchihuitl, the largest, still-visible prehistoric turquoise mine in the American Southwest and share results of her multi-year, National Science Foundation-funded research project on turquoise sourcing. One of the goals of this project has been to assess whether turquoise excavated at Chaco Canyon came from the Cerrillos Hills. Bill Baxter will take you to Cerrillos turquoise mines that were heavily utilized during New Mexico's Territorial Period and discuss new documentary evidence tying the Tiffany Company to the Cerrillos mines and the development of turquoise as a popular gemstone. The day will include a visit to an active turquoise claim adjacent to a prehistoric mine.
Tour conditions: Hiking to the top of Chalchihuitl is strenuous; terrain includes slippery slopes without formal trails and steep paths with poor footing.
Price per person: $95.00 / $75.00 MNMF members)
Hands-On Pottery Firing with Robert Tenorio and Family at Santo Domingo - June 13, '08 (Friday)
Robert Tenorio, Potter
Experience an outdoor pottery firing and visit a pottery studio with Robert Tenorio and family at Santo Domingo Pueblo. Robert uses natural materials such as local clays, plants, and bark gathered from areas near the village to re-create traditional pottery. Every firing is different and a magical and exciting experience as raw greenware becomes fired Santo Domingo pottery. Come prepared to assist with all steps of the firing, including preparation of the pit. You will paint 5" diameter plates with yucca paintbrushes and plant juices to create your own design, then fire and take your creation home as a memento of the day. Trip attendees will participate in the table and food preparation for a traditional Pueblo meal homemade by Robert's family, including fry bread, beans, meat and chile, and dessert. The main ingredients will be prepared ahead of time but you will have the experience of making your own fry bread.
Tour conditions: No hiking. Please dress to participate in an outdoor pottery firing and assist with traditional food preparation.
Price per person: $125.00 / $105.00 MNMF members
Hiking the Gallina - June 27, '08 (Friday)
Mike Bremer, US Forest Service Archaeologist
Note: Please plan for a very long day as the Gallina area is approximately 2 hours from Santa Fe. Trip will return to Santa Fe by approximately 6:30 p.m.
Visit sites associated with the Gallina Culture in the Llaves Valley north of Cuba, New Mexico. The Gallina were an ancestral puebloan culture that occupied the upland margins east of the San Juan Basin between the 10th and 13th centuries, although they did not appear to participate in the larger Chacoan system. The landscape occupied by the Gallina is distinguished by topographic extremes including deep canyons and majestic hogbacks. The Gallina forged an agricultural and hunting lifestyle, building small communities around clusters of masonry structures frequently constructed in precarious situations with stupendous views. The trip will explore several communities and isolated sites in the Llaves Valley including sites in Mud Springs and Chupadero Arroyo. We will also visit a reconstructed masonry pithouse.
Tour conditions: Strenuous hiking over steep terrain through areas without trails for distances up to one mile. Trip will require high clearance vehicles and depending on weather, 4-wheel drive may be preferred.
Price per person: $95.00 / $75.00 MNMF members
Pot Creek Ruin & Picuris Pueblo Feast Day - Aug 9, '08 (Saturday)
Richard Ford, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, and Don Brown, Research Associate, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology
This unique trip pairs a visit to the modern pueblo of Picuris on its traditional San Lorenzo Feast Day with a tour of nearby Pot Creek Pueblo ruin, which was ancestral to both Picuris and Taos pueblos. This large and complex site of about 300 rooms was occupied from about AD 1250 to 1320. Trip participants will view the famed relay foot races at Picuris in the morning, followed by a tour of Pot Creek and lunch. In the afternoon we return to Picuris for the trade fair and various dances. Participants will have the option of staying later at Picuris to view the amazing pole climb.
Tour conditions: Easy to moderate. (Price per person: $95.00 / $75.00 MNMF members)
The Spanish Missions of Galisteo and Pecos - Sept 12, '08 (Friday)
Cordelia Snow, Archaeologist, New Mexico Historic Preservation Division
Don't miss an opportunity to travel with Dedie Snow, an expert in New Mexico Spanish Missions, to the missions of Galisteo and Pecos. The mission at Galisteo, built ca. 1613, was one of the earliest missions in the Galisteo Basin and the only one refounded after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The mission had been abandoned due to disease and attacks by the Comanche after 1780. Although the history of the Spanish mission at Pecos Pueblo is well known as the result of John Kessell's extraordinary book Kiva, Cross, and Crown, Dedie will focus on little-known facts about the historic settlement at South Pueblo, the so-called Lost Church, and the convento kiva constructed ca. 1620.
Tour conditions: Easy hiking.
Price per person: $95.00 / $75.00 MNMF members
A Chacoan Great House: Pueblo Pintado - Oct 10, '08 (Friday)
Tom Windes, Ret. National Park Service Archaeologist
NOTE: Trip meets in Cuba, New Mexico at 9:30 a.m. Please plan for a very long day since the site is approximately 3 hours from Santa Fe. Following the tour, you have the option of joining the group in Cuba for dinner at the excellent El Bruno's restaurant (not included in trip price).
Spend the day with Chaco expert and archaeologist Tom Windes exploring Pueblo Pintado, a massive four-story Chacoan great house with construction dates in the AD 1060s. The easternmost of the Chaco ruins, Pueblo Pintado sits on a prominent low hill overlooking the countryside. It has a prehistoric road that leaves the site and crosses the plains and drops into Chaco Canyon via cut steps about 1.5 miles away to the west. There is also evidence for nearby signaling communication stations. Tom will discuss the complex pattern of the site's settlement, involving an earlier occupation, migration of families, and Pueblo Pintado's relationship to "Downtown" Chaco Canyon and other outliers within the Chacoan regional system.
Tour conditions: Easy walking.
Price per person: $95.00 / $75.00 MNMF members
************************************************** **********************
Maya Arts, Archaeology, and Day of the Dead
October 24 - November 3, 2008 (11 days, Friday through Monday)
Shelby Tisdale, Director, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology
From the lowland jungles that housed the greatest of the ancient Maya cities to the mist-clad uplands where Maya villages and customs still thrive, this 10-night journey transports us through 3,000 years of Maya history. Our journey not only spans a great expanse of human history, it also sets us into one of Mesoamerica's most unique celebrations, Day of the Dead, when the souls of the ancestors are believed to return to visit the living.
Our travels begin in the land of Mexico's first civilization, the Olmec, and we will see many of the legendary gigantic stone Olmec heads. We then travel to the edge of the Yucatan and visit three spectacular Maya Archaeological sites: the hill-slope city-state of Palenque, the mural encrusted temples of Bonampak, and the grand palaces of Yaxchilan on a bend of Usumacinta River.
From the jungle our road twists through the limestone mountains into the highlands where Maya culture and lifeways are alive and well. We will be based in the beautiful colonial town of San Cristobal de Las Casas and will pass our days visiting artisans, exploring San Cristobal, and traveling to surrounding villages. With Chip Morris, Maya expert and author of The Living Maya as our highland guide, we'll meet weavers, master sisal bag twiners, and other artisans. We'll visit unusual Maya churches and see how Catholicism and Classic Period Maya religious rites have fused.
On two special days we will visit the graveyards of the Zinacantan and Chamula. These two traditional Mayan cemeteries are worlds apart. The Zinacantan graveyard is on a jagged hilltop and each grave is as flower-adorned as the colorfully embroidered clothing of the Zinacatecos. The setting is somber as families stand around the tombs, talking quietly on the often mist-shrouded mountain top. One nation away in the land of the Chamula Maya the graveyard is topped with enormous green crosses as tall as pine trees and Day of the Dead is a raucous fiesta with live bands, booths selling all sorts of foods, ice cream carts, and hundreds of highland Chamulas dressed to the nines in their best homespun festival garb.
This trip is an unparalleled opportunity to travel with Director Shelby Tisdale to learn about the life of the Maya, both ancient and contemporary, to marvel at the ancient cities in the jungle and to see that the people and cultures who created those places have not disappeared, but continue to thrive in a far corner of an exotic land.
Tour conditions: Moderate physical condition needed for exploring ruins. Conditions include uneven trails, pyramid steps, and moderate elevation gains for walks of up to 1 mile. There will be walking on narrow sidewalks and cobblestone streets and short, uneven trails to artisans' homes in villages. San Cristobal is at 7,000 feet. The jungle region can be very hot and humid.
Price per person: $3,250 double occupancy; $3,525 single occupancy
Trip price includes a $500 tax deductible contribution to the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology.
Nonrefundable deposit of $200 due by June 6, 2008, with balance due August 8, 2008. All payments are forfeited if you cancel after August 15, 2008.
Space is limited to 10 people so please register early.
Note: Trip begins in Villahermosa, Mexico and ends in San Cristobal, Mexico.
Trip price does not include airfare to Mexico or airport transfers to and from hotels. Price includes 10 nights lodging, 25 meals, local transportation by van, entrance fees, and guides. Additional details will be sent once we receive your reservation.
To register, please call 505-476-1250.