Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Friday July 25, 2003 ***************************************** PECOS CONFERENCE From: José_Luis_Punzo Brian: Ben and I have a lot of messages of people asking for hotels, now the biggest hotels in Nuevo Casas Grandes are full, but hotels as Paquime, Las Fuentes, Villa Colonial and California, have rooms available. Maybe it is a good idea to publish this information. Take care and see you soon. Arqglo. Jose Luis Punzo Díaz Museo de las Culturas del Norte Paquime, Chihuahua (636) 692 41 40 tel/fax Editor's Note: http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/pecos/2003/index.html http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/pecos/2003/2003_pecos_conference.pdf Still need a hotel room for Pecos Conference? Better Hurry! More Information Below... The 76 Pecos Conference will take place in the recreational park Ancon. Located 500 meters from the archeological Paquimé Zone, on a side of the river. Tents for the conference will be placed under great Alamos and camping will be allowed. Registration The fee per person assisting the Pecos Conference 2003 will be of $25.00 USD if registered before July 15 and $30.00 if registered after July 15. You will need to send the registration form annexed. Registration to participate during the conference will take place during august 14th on a stand placed on the entrance of the Museo de las Culturas del Norte, located on the Archeological Site of Paquimé, from 11:00AM and will stay opened until August 15th from 10:00AM to 5:00PM. If you wish to participate as a volunteer you can get more information at the museums address. Program and Events Thursday August 14th a reception will take place at the Museo de las Culturas del Norte, which will be kept open for the participants. There will be various events (dances, music, etc.). Short Program Fifteen minutes will be given to each short program presenter, in orderly form. It will be from 10:00 to 18:00 Friday and Saturday. To give a presentation it is necessary to give the presentations name, title, e-mail and abstract in your inscription form and for you to get in touch with the organizer to know your schedule. In this program, there will be no visual aids available. Mini Symposium During Pecos Conference 2003 the mini symposium will be handed out. Progress in the Casas Grandes Culture and the State of Chihuahua Archeology. Friday August 15th. The Arroyo la Tinaja Site and Casas Grandes Cultural Landscape. Dr. Paul Minnis (University of Oklahoma) and Dr. Michael Whalen (University of Tusla) We have recently completed a three year excavation program an Arroyo la Tinaja Site, one of the largest communities neighboring Casas Grandes and approximately 20 km from it. A total of 35 rooms were excavated, and we tested two ceremonial ovens, the ball court, and some plaza space. Analyzes are on going: nonetheless, initial patterns suggest that the Paquimé dominated landscape was dynamic in ways previously known. We discuss the following issues: (1) dating and ceramic chronology, (2) human ecology, (3) the development of Paquimé and the political history of the region's communities. Early Agriculture Settlements Along the Rio Casas Grandes John R. Roney and Robert R. Hard At about 1250 BC a series of fortified villages hilltop villages were built along the Rio Casas Grandes. These are among the earliest agricultural settlements in the Southwest United states and Northwestern México. The largest of these sites, Cerro Juanaqueña, may have boosted as many as 200 habitants, and we estimate that over 30 years were required to build residential terraces, walls, and rock rings found on it's summit and lower slopes. These remains show dramatically that the introduction of agriculture was not slow, gradual process that took place in a similar way throughout the region. Instead the initial appearance of maize led to a rapid and dramatic changes in some cases, while cultural settings were largely unaffected. Cultural Heritage, Conservation and Development Sites from the Culture of Casas Grandes in the Sierra Madre Occidental Chih.,Mex. Arqlgo. Eduardo Gamboa The Madera region, includes, in it's greater part the basin of the Papigochi River and it´s inflowing, the Unico River and the Tutuaca river in the sierra Madre occidental to the Northeast of the Chihuahua State. The central part of the project is located in the Madera county. The ecosystem from the Huacopa canyon and Sirupa in general, the Papigochi basin is very complex and has a great relevance for it{s conservation because of it´s biodiversity and fragility. These canyons were lived on by men thousands of years ago. From the most significant things left by the human process are the sites of the caves named "casas acantilado", constructions in dirt architecture built on rocky coats: in this part of the Sierra Madre, more than over 150 sites of "casas acantilado" have been found, representing, one of the regions with greater dispersion in the world. Given it's natural and cultural characteristics, this resources are unique in México and in the regional cultural mosaic, that also covers the southeast of the USA. Creatures of Casas Grandes Christine S. VanPool, Robert D. Leonard, and Charles W. Painter Casas Grandes iconography includes images of birds, snakes, and turtles. The Casas Grandes artists in some cases painted their ceramic effigies with enough detail that some species could be identified. In this presentation, we will discuss the genera and the species that we have identified and their potential symbolic meanings in the larger Casas Grandes worldview. Arqglo. Rafael Cruz To be announce Casa de Huesos R. B. Brown (Centro INAH Chihauhua) and P. Fournier G.(Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia) In 1962, the late Rex E. Gerald excavated a colonial site which he named Casa de Huesos. Casa de Huesos is to be found on the first terrace on the southern bank of the Río Bravo between Ejido Barrial and the town of Guadalupe. Although Gerald mentioned the results of his study in a number of articles, for a number of reasons, he never published those results. This talk will discuss the excavation, initial analysis and present the results of a re-analysis of the material from Casa de Huesos. Recent Archaeological Research in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Sonora, Mexico Elizabeth A. Bagwell, University of New Mexico Very little is known about the archaeology of the Sierra Madre. However, this region may hold the answers to some of the central questions that interest archaeologists working in Northern Mexico today. What was the relationship between the cultures of Northern Mexico and Mesoamerican and the American Southwest? Were the Sierra Madres a pathway for people and ideas between these regions? Can the extensive tree-ring dating of cliff-dwellings help refine the ceramic chronologies of the region, as they have been refined further to the north? Here I report on the nature of the archaeological sites along the Rio Taraises, Sonora and the progress made in a large scale dendrochronological project currently taking place in the Northern Sierra Madre of Sonora. Ruprestian Art Without Boundaries Francisco Mendiola Galvan, INAH – Chihuahua Archeologist The study of ruprestian art as cultural material is susceptible to be looked in a scientific manner by archeology; in the beginning it is said that graphic ruprestatian is essentially a cultural phenomenon, that independently from where it is located reaffirms it's condition as a universal expression of cognitivas (epistemologicas) the process of abstraction from the reality of Homo sapiens sapiens, and is reflected on the ensemble of the elements that form the graphic, the inborn quality that has let us survive as a specie . under this idea many regional boundaries have been broken and let us make a synthesis that allows us to recapitulate what has been the study of ruprestian art from the political borders between the north of Mexico and southeast of the United states. Finally getting to a general demarcation of cultural and chronological assignments that explain this important material so ignored by the archeology of our nations. A Closer Look at the Acoclames Cultura in Chih. Arturo Guevara Sánchez Centro INAH Chihuahua The acoclames was a group that developed in the southeast of the Chih. State, it was a nomad group that was characterized by its great velocity and that's why it appears in various historical documents related whit war during the colonies. If is known that part of this group, was exiled to tierra caliente, where they vanishes in silence, the acoclames and it's allies, the tobosos, were forced by the Europeans to settle in peace in what's know the country of Villa Coronado, where they showed that they could keep most of their culture accepting the European for their survival. This is an abstract summary of those groups that possibly night have been only one-, and the way that they tried to adapt to the circumstances which the European's forced them to live in. Firing experiments of pottery of Casas Grandes Culture Blinman, Eric, and Tim Maxwell A possible group of prehistoric kilns has been observed in the Casas Grandes region and is reported. Also described are the results of firing experiments with local clays and diverse fuels. The experiments indicate that high quality pottery can be produced in replica kilns at low firing temperatures with any locally available fuel. The experiments do not prove that the observed features are kilns, but carbon core differences between surface-fired and pit-fired pottery may help determine whether similar pits were used for production of Casas Grandes wares. Paint analysis shows that both matte and glazed black paint are composed of a mixture of copper and lead minerals. The glaze or non-glaze appearance of the black paint is determined by firing temperature. Most paints will be matte because the pots do not have to be fired at high temperatures. There need not be a compositional difference between the matte and glaze paints. The Origin and Evolution of Oasis America's Horned Serpent Todd L. VanPool, Christine S. VanPool, Marcel J. Harmon, and David A. Phillips Jr. A reoccurring theme in the iconography of the U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico is the horned or plumed serpent. The horned serpent imagery is heavily integrated in the symbolism of many native prehistoric and ethnographic groups. This paper examines the distribution of horned serpent images and their use in different archaeological and ethnographic contexts using phylogenetic analysis, a means of archaeological systematic. These patterns in turn provide insight into the interaction between different archaeological cultures. Poster Sessions Your poster displays are welcome. You have to get in contact with the Museo de las Culturas del Norte Staff to display your poster. Your posters will need to be framed and ready to be hanged. It's important to let us know at least 15 days in advance if not your poster will not be able to be displayed. Friday evening program At el Ancon camp site we will have opportunity to enjoy the Grupo Cultural de la Tarahumara. They will perform traditional music and dances from the Tarahumara Indians. Dinner – Dance Closure Saturday 16th of August, starting at 21:00 hrs. Music will be by the Atenas group. Cover is $15.00 USD per person before July 15, and $20.00 USD after July 15. Vegetarian menus will be available. If you will be assisting let us know on your registration form. Beer Contest It will be before the dinner-dance, starting at 20:00 hrs. At the same place. To join the contest bring your own beer. This year the judge will be Dr. Cesar Hernández. Field Trips Sunday 17th of August None of the field trip includes lunch. The Casas Grandes Heartland: The Arroyo la Tinaja and El Alamito Areas Dr. Paul Minnis (University of Oklahoma) y Dr. Michael Whalen (University of Tulsa) (This tour will be in Spanish and English) This half-day tour will explore two locations west of Casas Grandes that provide insights into the regional character of the Casas Grandes polity. We will first visit the Arroyo La Tinaja site approximately 20 KM west of Casas Grandes. A three year excavation program at this site and completed in 2002 produced the second largest excavation of a Medio Period site, the first being of Casas Grandes itself. This site contains approximately 200 rooms in one large and several small room blocks, two large ceremonial ovens, a well-made call court, an atalaya, and a number of other features. Time permitting, we will then travel through Colonia Juárez (a Mormon town) to the plains between Mata Ortiz and the Sierra Madre to view another large site and surrounding archeological features. This largest site, El Alamito, has multiple room blocks (one of which may be one of the few multiple-storied structures outside of Casas Grandes), several ceremonial ovens (one of which is the largest ceremonial oven outside of Casas Grandes), and a ball court. Field Trip to Cerro Juanaquena John R. Roney and Robert R. Hard This field trip will consist of a visit to Cerro Juanaqueña, one of the most dramatic Late Archaic/Early Agricultural sites in the region. We will see over 500 massively constructed cobble terraces built on the summit and slopes of a 150 meter high hill, as well as rock rings representing dwellings and storage features, and a large perimeter which defines the outer margin of the site. This trip will be limited to 30 people. Depending on rainfall, high clearance, scratch resistant vehicles may be required to reach the site, and the tour itself will involve a strenuous hike up a steep hill slope covered with loose cobbles. Be sure to bring serious hiking shoes, sun protection and plenty of water. Field Trip to the Sites of the Mountain. Cueva de la Olla. Mstro. Eduardo Gamboa INAH Chihuahua Investigator The trip will consist on visiting the Cueva de la Olla site, a canyon site, in the heart of the mountain range. The site is found on what is called Cave Valley, where we will be able to visit other sites. The trip is three hours on dirt road, it is necessary to have a good vehicle, it's better if it's a 4x4. Mata Ortiz and Heroinas by wagon (Armon) Consejo Regional de Turismo We will be leaving at 8:30 am from the train station in Nvo. Casas Grandes reaching Mata Ortiz at 9:30 am. We will go through some of the pot makers houses so that you can see the whole process from the washing of the barro to the painting. At noon we will go through a railroad that was made in 1897, it will take about 50 minutes to get there. It's 30 Km of apple and peach ortures also chili and trive among other things. We will also see the San Diego Hacienda from just 300 meters away. During this trip wee will pass through the Palangana River and you will be able to appreciate the Casas Grandes that runs through the side of the railroad. The will be $5.00 USD per person to ride the wagon. Arroyo de los Monos Arqglo. José Luis Punzo Díaz The trip consist in visit the magnificent site of rock art "Arroyo de los Monos". This is a Half day tour. The motives in the rock art are associated with the Casas Grandes Culture. The trip is 45 minutes on dirt road and it is necessary to have a good vehicle. Tour will be available in English and Spanish. El Pueblito in Cerro Moctezuma Todd Pitezel The trip consists in visiting the site of el Pueblito in the Cerro Moctezuma. The trip is several hours walking to the summit of the Cerro, you have to be in good shape. Superb views of all region excellent for trekking lover's. Book Sale We will have on sale specialized INAH publications on archeology, anthropology, linguistic and history in the Museo de las Culturas del Norte. Food and Beverage Sale at Camp There will be food and beverage stands on camp. Accommodations The will be camping available at the Ancón. The Ancón is a recreational park on the south bank of the Casas Grandes River about 500 m from the site itself. The conference tent will be set up at the Ancón. Transportation will be available to go to the Paquimé site. Motels, Hotels and Rvs Hotel Hacienda¤¤¤¤¤ hotelhacienda@prodigy.net.mx hotelhacienda@paquinet.com.mx (636) 6942740 Imelda Dávila Hotel Paquim餤¤ npinon@paquinet.com (636) 6944620 Jesús Piñón Hotel Villa Colonial¤¤¤ (636) 6943520 Guillermo Piñón N. Hotel Piñón¤¤¤ (636) 6940655 LAE José Luis Piñón Urbina Las Guacamayas (b & b) maytelujan@laplaya.com.mx maytelujan@mns.com (636) 692-4144 Mayte Luján Motel Las Fuentes¤¤¤¤ motellasfuentes@paquinet.com.mx (636) 694-5441 Martín Jesús Torres Motel Casas Grandes¤¤¤ (636) 694-4844 Andrés Palma RV Park de Dublán Los Metates (636) 694-1203 Sr. Parada RV Park y hotel Los Arcos (636) 694-4250 Eduardo Nevárez RV Park Pistoleros (636) 694-2964 David Baca Gómez We recomend you make your reservations with anticipation. Hospitals and Pharmacies Hospital Dublán hospitaldublan@prodigy.net.mx (636) 694-5071 Lic. Juan Pablo Chimal Centro Médico Madero centrmedicomadero@hotmail.com (636) 694-6565 Dr. Gregorio de la Fuente Hospital Juárez grupomedicopaquime@paquinet.com (636) 694-2222 Farmacia Bauco (636) 694-3545 Jesús Bautista Corral Farmacia Benavides jlyosef@hotmail.com José Luis de la Campana P. Souvenirs T-shirts, mugs, pottery, key chains, pens, jewelry, etc. will be sold at the camp site, and in the stores located in the central plaza of Casas Grandes, and in the Museum store. Parking At the Ancon camp site there will be special areas for parking cars, trucks and Rv´s. Pets If you want to bring your pet, you have to get in contact with the Mexican authorities (52) (656) 666 02 84 for the permits. In the archeological zone of Paquimé pets are prohibit. Permit requirements for temporary vehicle importation 1. Be a Foreigner. You need to show proper documentation that proves that you are a foreigner. (Birth certificate, Naturalization Certificate, Passport). 2. Proof of Legal Vehicle Property. Own Vehicle: Title, registration by DMV. Financed Vehicle: Up to date registration, an authorization letter given by the company or bank that is financing you, that allows you to use your vehicle outside the USA. (letterhead, up to date, signed and sealed). Rented Vehicle: The contract with the name of the person who is requesting the permit. Company Vehicle: An ID that proves you work for that company and an authorization letter from the company that allows you to use the vehicle outside the USA. 3. Drivers License. Original, no copies. 4. Guarantee the Return of the Vehicle. Only one of the following: An International Bank credit or debit card, Visa, Master Card or American Express in the name of the person who is requesting the permit. Pay the authorized credit institution with a credit card the amount of ________ U.S.D. plus the transaction tax. VEHICLES MODEL AND YEAR PRICE 1999 to 2002 U.S.D. $ 400.00 1994 to 1998 300.00 1993 down 200.00 STEPS TO FOLLOW American Citizens. Mexican Migration Department. Document Reception. Copies in Public Desk. Permit Inssuance. Banjercito. 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