Pre-Conference Fieldtrips - Wednesday Sept 13, 2006 (The day before conference sessions begin)

Registration for Field Trips is now closed. Thank you for your applications and interest.
Don't miss this opportunity to tour sites of interest in southern Arizona with local experts. Please pack your own bag lunch - to be stored in coolers provided by ASAS. Vans will depart the north entrance of the Arizona Student Union at 8AM and return before 5PM.

1) Historical Sites Tour
Led by: Dr. J. Jefferson Reid (U of A Department of Anthropology)
Description: Excursion to the Spanish colonial presidio site of Terranate, lunch at the ghost town of Fairbank, and finish with an extended visit to the legendary Old West town of Tombstone, AZ.

2) Anthropogenic Ecology of the Tucson Basin
Led by: Dr. Suzanne Fish (Arizona State Museum)
Dr. Owen Davis (U of A Department of Geosciences)
Description: We will follow a transect across the environmental zones of the Tucson Basin from the Santa Cruz River to the slopes of the Tortolita Mountains.  Hohokam farming techniques along the transect ranged from mid-scale irrigation to floodwater farming to the capture of surface runoff on the driest slopes, reflected in a zonally distinctive anthropogenic ecology.  The trip culminates with a visit to rockshelters with packrat middens that provide a record of environmental change as a background to prehistoric land use."

3) Title: Archaeology of the Northern Hohokam/Casa Grande Tour
Led by: Dr. Paul Fish (Arizona State Museum)
Description: The trip will tour Casa Grande, a Hohokam site continuously occupied for 600 years, another (Hohokam) platform mound site on the Casa Grande canal system, and additional sites along the Gila River. Includes a visit to the Casa Grande National Monument, archaeological museum, and a picnic lunch.

4) Paleoindian Archaeology of the San Pedro River Valley
Led by Dr. C. Vance Haynes (University of Arizona).
Description: Included visit to Murray Springs and Lehner Ranch Site.

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Mailing Address:
Archaeological Sciences of the Americas
c/o Cathy Snider
Department of Anthropology
University of Arizona
1009 E. South Campus Drive
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030 USA

emails: R. Emerson Howell (rhowell@email.arizona.edu)
AJ Vonarx (ajvonarx@email.arizona.edu)

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