GCAS August 2024 Field Trip to Treasure Hill
On a very warm and sunny Sunday, August 4, 2024, twenty one members of the Grant County Archaeological Society (GCAS), coming from as far away as El Paso, Texas, gathered…
2023’s Last Field Trip
Our last field trip of 2023 happened on December 3 when Kyle Meredith guided about 13 GCAS members to the C-Bar Ranch area of the Burro Mountains. The day was…
2022’s Final Field Trip
On December 4, 2022, nineteen GCAS members and their guests- including our youngest visitor (age six months old!) – visited the Fleming Museum at WNMU. In addition to a guided…
The GCAS Field Trip to Pitchfork Ranch
This report and all photos come to us courtesy of GCAS member and trustee, Kathryn McCarroll. The forecasts of heavy monsoon rains and bad road access were greatly exaggerated for…
2021’s First GCAS Field Trip!
It’s been a long time coming – 16 months to be exact – but the GCAS field trip program is gradually reemerging from its Pandemic Pause. Our group jumped at…
GCAS February Field Trip – Providence Cone
Providence Cone is located east of Deming, jutting upward from the surrounding flatlands. Locals know it as Rattlesnake Peak and there is a good reason for that name. As long…
The Three-Fish Site Part II
The GCAS’s informal name for the site of our December field trip was inspired by the three separate petroglyphs of three different fish in three different places. Every reader of…
GCAS Field Trip to San Diego Mountain: the Three-Fish Site
On December 8, 2019, 22 GCAS members congregated southeast of Hatch, New Mexico, to visit a petroglyph site most of us had never seen before. Weather forecasts threatened rain but…
GCAS November Field Trip – Fort Bowie, Arizona
Today’s Guest Blogger is our very own GCAS President, Kyle Meredith, accompanied by Guest Photographer and GCAS Field Trip Coordinator, Greg Conlin. Together they report on a very satisfying visit…
GCAS August Field Trip Part II – the C-Bar Ranch Site
The second phase of our August 4, 2019, GCAS field trip found us traveling from the Microwave Site to examine the site at C-Bar Ranch. Like the Microwave Site, the…