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COLORADO ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION WEEK EVENT
SCHEDULED FOR MAY 14, 1998 AT THE RIO GRANDE COUNTY MUSEUM

Jack Phertsh will present a lecture and slide presentation titled "Archaeological Investigations at the Los Pinos Agency" at a Colorado Archaeology and Historic Preservation Week event sponsored by the San Luis Valley Archaeological Network, the Rio Grande County Museum, the San Juan/Rio Grande National Forest, and the Bureau of Land Management. The Los Pinos Agency was occupied by about 2,500 Utes from 1872 until 1875. Mr. Phertsh's presentation will highlight this important historic Ute cultural resource. The investigation, which was funded by a Colorado Historic Fund Grant, was done in 1996. An exhibit, which will be on display, details the findings of the investigation. The presentation will be held at the Rio Grande County Museum in Del Norte on Thursday, May 14, 1998 at 7:00 PM. The Rio Grande County Museum is located at 508 Oak Street, which is 1 block south of "The Stop Light", in Del Norte, For more information call the museum at 719-657-2487. Please plan to attend this informative event.
This Archaeology and Historic Preservation Week Event is supported by a grant from the Colorado Historical Society and the State Historic Fund.

SHAW SPRINGS RANCH FIELD TRIP REPORT

An Archaeological Network sponsored field trip to Shaw Springs Ranch on April 18 was attended by about 25 members and several guests. Viewed were historic structures, including the original warm springs pool from the 1880s, prehistoric and historic stone structures, and rock art site 5SH1492 which consists of six panels of red painted pictographs and solid pecked, stipple pecked, and scratched petroglyphs of horned animal figures, attached human-like figures, and four legged animal figures located in four small rock shelters. Prior to the trip Ken Frye discussed artifacts that came from the ranch and in the field Vince Spero reviewed the process of recording archaeologic sites on Colorado Cultural Resource Survey forms.
Special thanks Mike Wisdom, the owner of the Shaw Springs Ranch, for leading the trip and allowing us to explore this beautiful cultural landscape.

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TRIP TO CORTEZ PLANNED FOR FALL

A 3 day trip to the Cortez area is being planned for the Fall. Don and Jeanne Tucker, of the Cortez Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society, have volunteered to help guide our group to sites that are off-the-beaten-path including Cannonball Ruin, Boulder Castle, Hamilton Mesa, Rincon Canyon Ruins, and a few rock art sites. We also plan to visit the Anasazi Heritage Center, in Dolores and perhaps the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park. June's issue of the Archaeo-Update will present the trip in more detail. Tentative plans are for the latter part of September.

FORT GARLAND ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT 1998

The Colorado Historical Society is planning its 6th season of archaeological investigations at Fort Garland State Museum, a military post occupied by the US Army from 1858 to 1883. This years research efforts include continued ground survey and excavation of specific building locations. Volunteer assistance is welcome, with training in any necessary archaeological techniques provided by the project archaeologist and experienced crew. Tasks include ground survey, mapping, drawing, excavation, and cataloging artifacts. Anne Wainstein Bond, Project Archaeologist, is seeking volunteers from June 13 to 21 and July 11 to 19. Volunteer spaces are limited and reservations are required to secure a place. For further information, and to schedule volunteer times, call: Anne Wainstein Bond, Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Colorado Historical Society at (303) 866-4691.

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY VISITS SLV

In early March, Ken Frye, Virginia Simmons, and Mike Spearman, manager of the L-Cross Ranch on Carnero Creek, visited rock art and stone structures with Jim Walker, Director of the SW Region of the Archaeological Conservancy. Walker traveled from Albuquerque to see the ranch's archaeological resources. Later the Archaeological Conservancy made an offer to purchase acreage around the rock art, but this cooperative effort appears to have been rejected by The Nature Conservancy, which has been negotiating to buy part of the ranch.

NEXT PAAC CLASS POPULAR ENDEAVOR !

About 20 people are planning on attending the "Prehistoric Lithic Description and Analysis the next Program for Avocational Archaeological Certification (PAAC) class to be held in Alamosa on May 1, 2, and 3. The Colorado Archaeological Society (CAS) provides these seminars in order to provide the opportunity for people to obtain formally recognized levels of expertise outside of an archaeological degree program. There may be room for a few more people. It you are interested please call Loretta Mitson at 843-5328 or 589-6740 to see if there is a vacancy.

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UPCOMING MAY 30 FIELD DAY TO PERFORM
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVENTORY ON BLM LAND

Mark Saturday, May 30 on your calendar if you wish to help perform an archaeological inventory of Bureau of Land Management land near Del Norte. The land parcel near Bowen Creek is involved in a land exchange proposal and an archaeological inventory is required first. Participants will learn the basics of site recognition before walking the area in a systematic fashion to locate surface sites. Colorado Cultural Resource Survey forms will be completed for each site found.

We will meet in front of the Rio Grande County Museum in Del Norte at 9:30 AM. Please bring hiking boot, lunch, water, and a notebook. We plan on being done at about 3:30 PM, For more information please call Ken Frye at 852-6233 or 657-3161.

CAS ANNUAL MEETING/SYMPOSIUM 1998

The Pueblo Archaeological and Historical Society will host the Colorado Archaeological Society Annual Meeting at the new Pueblo Convention Center in downtown Pueblo on October 9, 10, & 11. The topic will be Southern and Eastern Colorado Archaeology from Paleoindian through Early Historic times. Papers will be presented on both Friday and Saturday. Keynote speaker at Saturday nights dinner will be Pegi Jodry of the Smithsonian Institution's Paleoindian & Paleoecology Program. Field trips to area sites will be scheduled for Sunday, October 11. Plan now to support the Annual CAS Meeting & Symposium 1998. For additional information please contact; Charles Booms, President, Pueblo Archaeological and Historical Society at (1-719) 545-5900.

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ARCHAEOASTRONOMY OF THE SW CLASS SET
AT ADAMS STATE COLLEGE, JUNE 22 TO JUNE 27

Adams State College is offering the opportunity for a week with Dr. J. McKim Malville, noted authority on the astronomical knowledge of the Ancestral Pueblo people. Dr. Malville will present theory, lead discussion and work in the planetarium, and then lead a trip to important Four Corners sites to experience first hand the power of this understanding in the Ancestral Pueblo world. Classroom work will begin at ASC, then proceed to the observation of sunrise events at Chimney Rock and in Chaco Canyon. Visits will be made to the Aztec and Salmon sites as well, Registration by May 10th for this popular course is required.
Please call Jeanne or John at: 719-587-7256 for more information.

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