Ever Heard of Lithophones?
Some time ago, and during a period of many years, a few archaeologists and various amateur collectors retrieved a number of oblong stone artifacts from the area around and including…
How to Manage a Potsherd Collection
Periodically this here blog addresses the issue of potsherds. We’ve addressed several reasons why today’s avocational archaeologist should leave them wehre they arePeriodically this here blog addresses the issue of…
How to Show Respect When Visiting Sites
Cool people know how wrong it is to carve (photo, left), spray-paint (featured photo) their own “art” on top of petroglyphs and pictographs, or use ancient rock imagery for target…
Visit a Virtual Museum
The American Southwest Virtual Museum describes itself as “…a digital repository of photographs, maps, information, and virtual tours of National Park Service units and museums across the Southwest.” However, they…
Another Missing Mimbres Bowl
From the GCAS Library/Archives: No photos of this particular bowl are known to exist, but the following description may be accurate enough that someone may recognize it if they have…
Turkey Tales
The traditional US Thanksgiving feast is hard upon us and one’s thoughts turn to a roast bird with all the trimmin’s, one might pause to reflect on the turkeys of…
Field Trip to Frying Pan Canyon and Pony Hills
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…
Representation of Color in Mimbres Black-on-White Ceramics
For years, individual archaeologists have proposed that the blue-green color of turquoise was represented by the fine lines (aka hachure) in certain styles of Mimbres bowls, presumably as an appeal…
Introducing The Nancy Coinman Grant Awards
We of the GCAS are proud to announce the establishment of the Nancy Coinman Grant Awards. Nancy Ruth Coinman, an archaeologist, university professor, and GCAS member, left a generous gift…
New Vandalism at the Dragonfly Petroglyph Site
On about August 31, 2018, site stewards and members of the YCC archaeology crew at Silver City’s Aldo Leopold Charter School discovered at least two separate locations of vandalism at…