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This year's conference will feature speakers, field trips and silent auction for the Alice Hamilton Scholarship fund. Details available at the Pueblo Archaeological and Historical Society website. Our conference speakers will cover a wide range of topics covering Colorado archaeology and places from Amache Internment Center to the Four Corners region. We'll also hear from 2018 Alice Hamilton Scholarship recipients.
The banquet keynote speaker is Dr. Charles M. Musiba, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado, Denver and a research associate at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Much of his work focuses on human evolution in and around Olduvai Gorge as well as paleoanthropological sites in South Africa, and how climate and environmental changes has affected the human species over time.
Due to a generous donation from Legacy Bank, we will also be offering a luncheon speaker with a reduced price meal. Dr. Sue Ware is a paleopathologist, osteologist, and artist that has been teaching in many capacities since 1970. She will share information related to the lives of animals that is recorded in their bones.
Field tripsand activities are offered Friday as well as Sunday. For more information, review trip descriptions. For all activities except one (Picketwire Canyonlands Auto Tour), sign up with your conference registration.
Conference attendees may sign up for one activity on Friday and one activity on Sunday.
ALL SUNDAY FIELD TRIP ATTENDEES ARE REQUESTED TO EMAIL pahscas2019@gmail.com TO CONFIRM THEIR TRIP OF CHOICE AND RANK ALTERNATIVE FIELD TRIPS.
Please note that only conference attendees may participate in field trips and activities.
Project Archaeology Workshop: Discover The Past - Shape The Future
October 11, 2019 10:00 - 12:00 Fee: $0.00 Seats Remaining:23
Looking for activities to engage youth in archaeology? Project Archaeology has you covered. Join Tami Coyle, Denver chapter member and Project Archaeology volunteer with the Becca Simon, Assistant State Archaeologist for a free workshop Friday morning before the CAS Annual Meeting.
About the workshop:
Investigating Shelter is an inquiry-based curriculum that integrates science, social studies, math and language arts. Each of the nine units includes pre- and post-assessments, an inquiry based lesson, and hands-on activities that develop critical thinking skills. This workshop will review the structure of the entire curriculum, focusing on the following lessons: Thinking Like an Archaeologist; Knowing Shelter - Knowing People; Culture Everywhere; and Observation, Inference and Evidence. Lessons are adaptable to local history and a museum field trip will conclude the workshop. The workshop is adaptable to students in grades 3 - 8 and is especially useful for teaching Colorado History and building cultural awareness.
October 11, 2019 09:45 - 16:00 Fee: $25.00 Seats Remaining:13
Join us for a docent-led tour of Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, Colorado Mental Health Institute @ Pueblo Museum, Steelworks Center of the West Museum and Archive Tour. A box lunch will be provided at the Colorado Mental Health Institute. Attendees are requested to bring water, medications, comfortable walking shoes, camera, rain jacket and anything else they require to be comfortable.
Please note that attendees will have to drive themselves between sites in personal vehicles. Maps will be provided.
Weisbrod Aircraft Museum: Early aviation aircraft (WWI, WWII, and Korean War), as well as jets, helicopter and space artifacts models and exhibits, and an impressive collection of uniforms. On display outside are larger aircraft, many vehicles and some of the restoration projects currently underway, as well as an historic beacon tower.
Colorado Mental Health Institute @ Pueblo Museum: Located in the former Superintendent's Residence, our mission is to collect, preserve, interpret and exhibit artifacts and archives from the Mental Health Institute (formerly Colorado State Hospital). The Museum was developed to ensure that the history of CMHIP is not forgotten and that future generations will gain a better understanding of the treatment of the mentally ill in Colorado.
Steelworks Center of the West & Archives: Housed in the former CF&I Medical Dispensary, built in 1901, the museum features exhibits related to all facets of CF&I and related industries’ impacts on the American West. The CF&I Archives include over 100,000 photographs, more than 150 films, 30,000 maps and drawings, hundreds of ledgers, and internal publications documenting the life and economic development of Pueblo and Southern Colorado through CF&I’s impact on western immigration, labor issues, coal and iron mining, railroads and steel production
Cramer Site Visit
October 13, 2019 08:00 - 15:00 Fee: $0.00 Seats Remaining:11
Join Warran Nolan for a visit to the Cramer Site.
Attendees should note that they must travel to and from the site in their personal vehicles.
Description:
The Cramer site consists of three large stone enclosures, circular in shape, with diameters ranging between 16 ft. to 25 ft. The three enclosures seem to form a triangular shaped grouping. This grouping is then enclosed by an outer perimeter of stone walls. These stone walls consist of rock slabs placed vertically in a trench and supported by other rows of horizontally and vertically placed rock slabs. The architectural effect as you walk up on the Cramer site is rather dramatic. Several archaeologists have even dubbed the Cramer site as a plains version of “Stonehenge”. The Cramer site has been visited by a who’s who of Southeastern Colorado archaeologists including: E, B. Renaud in 1920, N.W. Dondelinger and Robert Tatum in 1941, and Hal Chase and Robert Stigler in 1949. In 1985, James Gunnerson, along with the University of Nebraska, undertook an extensive excavation of the Cramer site along with several other nearby sites that Renaud had noted along the Apishapa Canyon. Due to similar construction techniques, Gunnerson classified these sites as “Classic Apishapa”, which dates them to the 1300’s. We plan to visit other Apishapa Phase sites, including the Canterbury and Munsell sites, which are located near the Cramer Site. We will also visit the many, many nearby rock art sites.
Activity level: Approximately 2.0 to 3.0 miles of somewhat strenuous walking over moderately difficult terrain that includes going up and down bluffs and small canyons.
Start time and location: 8:00 AM | Pueblo Heritage Museum, 201 W. B. St.
End time and location: 3:00 PM | At the end of the field trip participants can either drive 75 miles back to Pueblo or drive 40 miles west on Highway 10 back to Walsenburg and I-25.
October 13, 2019 10:00 - 12:00 Fee: $0.00 Seats Remaining:11
The tour costs $4, to be paid upon arrival to your tour leader.
Join us for a tour of Francisco Fort in La Veta led by Bob Kennemer, Director of the Francisco Fort Museum. La Veta grew up around an adobe trading post founded by Colonel Francisco in 1862. Now a museum, it is the last surviving original adobe fort in the state. Housed heirlooms of Huerfano County include locally and nationally important collections of Native American artifacts, including an exceptional lithic collection; Spanish settler, and pioneer artifacts.
Attendees should note that the fort is 65 miles from Pueblo. Lunch is not included as part of this tour.
Directions: From Pueblo take I-25 South Exit at Walsenburg, Exit 50 and follow US Highway 160 west toward Alamosa and La Veta. 11 miles west of Walsenburg, turn left onto State Highway 12. Take Highway 12 4 miles into La Veta. The Museum is two blocks south of the railroad crossing on Main and W Francisco. The entrance is on Main Street, behind the Public Library.
Please contact the Museum at 719-742-5501 for additional directions.
Ending Time: 12:00 pm
Activity Level: Low, participants will drive to site in individual vehicles. Walking from parking to museum; walking/standing at museum.
Equipment: There is no heat in the building – bring a jacket in addition to water, medications, comfortable walking shoes, camera, rain jacket.
October 13, 2019 09:00 - 16:00 Fee: $0.00 Seats Remaining:24
NOTE: The tour costs $5, to be paid to your tour leader.
Running on the geology and prison theme, this tour will highlight the geology around Cañon City, and show the way that prisons and many other industries historically used the local landscape and rocks to create a unique community. Join Mary Chamberlain, Spencer Little and various “leaders” at each site. These people are experts in their fields, and their involvement with the various sites illustrates the positive results of Fremont County’s unique collaboration between local government and community organizations.
Attendees should note that they must drive themselves between sites on the tour.
Directions: West from Pueblo on Hwy 50 51320 US-50, Cañon City, CO. PCC is on the far west end of town, just past the historic Territorial Prison on 1st Street in Canon.
Following a tour of the grounds there will be the option to have a wine tasting at the Abbey of award winning locally made wines.
Activity level: Low to Moderate. Participants will drive from site to site in individual vehicles. MAP WILL BE PROVIDED Carpooling recommended. At each site there is a very short walk (no more than ½ mile, on gravel trails, to the sites. There are options for further walking at most of the sites, but it is generally mild. Bring water and snacks in your vehicles, and pack a lunch for our picnic at the newly renovated city park.
9:00-11:15 PCC-F: Crossroads thru Time, a geology time trail with local rocks that tell the geologic story of Fremont County. People and Places tour featuring historical markers put up by college students. Also, PCC was the former site of the prison farms and the ruins from this past cover the grounds.
11:30-12:15 Skyline Drive: Travel up this Dakota Formation ridge and see footprints of Ankylosaurid footprints. At the entrance, just 1 mile west of PCC on the right of Hwy 50, we will stop and look at the archway. Then go over the ride and stop at the bottom (On the east side)to see a new interpretive signage project, Bridge Creek area (known for fossils and extinction periods) in a group effort by the City of Cañon City, Stones and Bones Fossil Group, Skyline Exploratory School, Hogbacks Open Space, and Dan Grenard( retired BLM geologist)
12:30-1:00—Lunch at Centennial Park
1:15-2:00—park downtown Cañon City and walk to Fremont County Admin building on Macon and the Cell House, if time
2:15-3:15 Woodpecker Hill: We will visit Greenwood Cemetery, on S 1 st Street. Known as “Woodpecker Hill” because of the woodpeckers who lived off the bug infested wooden headstones that marked the dead from local prisons. Local historian Carol McNew will talk about her work with the prison and the history of the cemetery.
3:30-4:30 Winery at Holy Cross Abbey (on former Ranch 5 of prison) and wine tasting.
NOTE: The tour costs $5, to be paid to your tour leader.
Picketwire Canyonlands Guided Auto Tour
October 13, 2019 06:15 - 16:00 Fee: $0.00 Seats Remaining:24
NOTE: The tour costs $15, which must be paid to the Forest Service upon registration through the portal below.
For a unique and unforgettable family experience, tour the Picketwire: home to the largest dinosaur tracksite in North America, though location without a guide may be difficult. Huge dinosaurs weren't the only prehistoric visitors to the canyons. Numerous rock art images, together with the remains of dwellings, stone tools, and pottery, shed light on the lives of prehistoric people. Rock art, though abundant, can be difficult to locate. Guides will take you to some of the best sites in the canyons. This canyon was also the site of a Spanish expedition of treasure seeking soldiers who met with tragic consequences. In the 19th century, Hispanic and European settlers homesteaded here. You will visit the ruins of an early Catholic Church and cemetery. Poignant hand-carved headstones give mute testimony to the canyon hardships. Our tour will be complete with a visit to Rourke Ranch, on the National Register of Historic Places. It was the home of pioneer, Eugene Rourke. The ranch grew from a 160-acre homestead in the late 1800s to an over 50,000-acre cattle empire still owned by the Rourke family into the 1970s.
This auto tour is the only motorized access into the canyons. This is the best way to see the bounty of Picketwire Canyon offerings. This popular tour is led by a local citizen from La Junta. It is an official USDA National Forest Service tour, so pictures, complete description, registration, and all additional information about the tour may be found at: https://www.recreation.gov/ticket/facility/234166
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
Because tours are offered through the USDA Forest Service, attendees MUST REGISTER THROUGH THE USFS PORTAL. Registration will be open between October 4 and October 11. YOU MUST SIGN UP DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME TO COME ON THE TOUR.
Reminders will be emailed prior to the registration period.
NOTE: The tour costs $15, which must be paid to the Forest Service upon registration through the portal below.
Additionally, visitors will need to arrange carpooling in a four-wheel drive vehicle or use their own four-wheel drive high clearance vehicle. The roads are not accessible to vehicles without high clearance. Call the USDA Forest Service at 719-384-2181 for more information.
Start time and location: Carpool from Pueblo to La Junta at 6:15 am from the Pueblo Heritage Museum (201 W. B. St., Pueblo)
End time and location: 4:00 pm | ~10 miles out of La Junta
Activity level: This is a multi-site, short walk tour over uneven ground. There will be 20 stops.
Equipment: Water, lunch, sturdy walking shoes, sunscreen, hat, camera, rain jacket, sweater/jacket. Four-wheel drive high clearance vehicle is required. Carpooling is encouraged.
Southern Pueblo County Car Tour Of Historic Places
October 13, 2019 09:00 - 15:30 Fee: $0.00 Seats Remaining:18
Join Doug Baxter for a car tour of five select historic places in southern Pueblo County. These sites include:
The Huerfano Ranch will include historic buildings built of native stone at the turn of the century on the shore of Lake Huerfano. The site was not only a working ranch but a gathering place for locals to rent boats, picnic, and have local events.
The Doyle Settlement was built by Joseph Doyle in the early 1860s along the Huerfano River. Joseph Doyle was one of the most prominent business men in Colorado at the time and became a state senator.
The Finn settlement was settled in 1880’s and abandoned by the 1930s. We will visit the family Cemetery, building sites and see where a sensational murder in 1942 took place that made national news and was featured in detective magazines.
Rael Plaza: Settled in the late 1860s and abandoned in the 1890s Many rock walls and foundations remain.
B.B. Fields Trading Post: This historic adobe trading post was built in the late 1850’s. It was used as a stage station by The Barlow Sanderson stage line, change station by the army between Ft Lyon, Ft Union, and Ft Garland, and a place for early settlers to buy supplies and gather.
Activity level: There will be some moderate hiking over mostly flat surfaces not to exceed a quarter of a mile at any one site. At one site there is a rather steep hill that can be climbed but this would be optional. Hiking boots would be recommended as the walking will be across prairie in some locations.
Equipment: Pack a lunch & water, bring a jacket, hiking boots or sturdy walking shoes, hat, sunscreen, camera.
Attendees should note that approximate driving distance will be 50 miles. We will be traveling on mostly dirt roads. If you don’t mind driving please let Doug know ahead of time. We will need 4 to 5 vehicles. If you are not driving please consider giving gas money to your driver.
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