Field Trip to Indian Wells
Please welcome today’s guest photographer, GCAS’s own Chris Overlock. Thank you for sharing your photos, Chris! Chris was one of 11 humans accompanied by 2 enthusiastic canines on our March…
Please welcome today’s guest photographer, GCAS’s own Chris Overlock. Thank you for sharing your photos, Chris! Chris was one of 11 humans accompanied by 2 enthusiastic canines on our March…
A total of 15 GCAS members, a few of the membership-curious, and three canine companions gathered for the GCAS’s November 4, 2018, field trip to examine the petroglyphs in Frying…
“Is this what I think it is?” [Points to half-buried odd-shaped rock…] “No. It’s just a half-buried odd-shaped rock.” “What about this?” “Well, now, that IS something!” [Group clusters together…
On June 30, 2018, assorted GCAS members joined the general public in Cliff, New Mexico, to visit the Gila River Farm’s open house and 2018 Archaeology Fair presented by the…
The June 10, 2018, GCAS field trip to the UNLV Field School’s final season of excavation at Elk Ridge in the Mimbres River Valley was brief due to the warm…
The Elk Ridge archaeological site comprises a large Classic Mimbres (1000-1130 CE) pueblo containing more than 200 rooms, making Elk Ridge the most significant site of the upper Mimbres River…
To read the full narrative of the great GCAS field trip of May 2-4, 2018, see all 6 parts of the adventure. I have been remiss in not disclosing that…
The second half of Day 2, May 3, 2018, comprised a tour of the area’s historic structures, including a charming 1930s-era church in Juan Mata Ortiz. In stark contrast to…
Marcia Corl, an archaeology enthusiast from Las Cruces, joined us on our international field trip to Paquimé. In today’s post please enjoy some of her portraits of the people living…
Day 2: May 3, 2018. Shopping day in the artisans’ town of Mata Ortiz. Because the Grant County Archaeological Society embraces art and culture in all its forms. (h/t Marcia…