June 1, 2025, Field Trip Redux
Eighteen GCAS members and guests enjoyed our most recent field trip on June 1, 2025, to the Twin Pines archaeological site in the Upper Mimbres Valley. The GCAS’s own Marilyn…
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…
The GCAS Summer Internship Program Is Here!
Last month we announced a new GCAS pilot project to engage local high school students in a summer internship program headquartered at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site (MCHS). The GCAS…
Back to Back to Back Field Trip Reports – Part V: The Croteau Collection
Our final field trip report in this 5-part series addresses the GCAS’s visit to the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site (MCHS) on July 7, 2019, to examine the artifacts comprising the…
Back to Back to Back Field Trip Reports – Part IV: Gila River Farm’s Excavation
Our preceding post featured the fine work that Archaeology Southwest Field School students display as part of their public outreach duties. The second portion of the June 29, 2019, GCAS…
Back to Back to Back Field Trip Reports – Part III: Gila River Farm
It’s always a pleasure to visit directing archaeologist Karen Schollmeyer, PhD, and her crew of the Archaeology Southwest/Preservation Archaeology Field School when they wind up another productive season of research…
Following Pat Gilman, Mimbres Archaeologist
Pat Gilman had no idea that she wanted to be an archaeologist until she took an anthropology class as an undergraduate. Even then, all she knew was that she liked…