The joint GCAS-IFWEF Back to the Earth garden project moves ahead. Intrepid students from the Mimbres Valley’s San Lorenzo Elementary School visited the work site with their teachers to learn about the project’s purpose and inspect the adjacent Mattocks archaeological site for inspiration. Under the direction of Marilyn Markel, the students laid out weed barrier cloth upon which they set stone cobbles they had carried from the nearby Mimbres River, creating an outline of the Mimbres lizard-to-be. The GCAS has successfully sorted unprovenienced (“orphan”) potsherds by size and color, which will be used to form the lizard’s body and markings.
We are very grateful for the time and effort Marilyn Markel, Harold Markel, GCAS members, and the San Lorenzo students have been contributing to this garden project. Watch this website for more developments as this project progresses!
