Field Trip to Sites Along Fort Bayard’s Big Tree Trail
“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…
Our GCAS Library: a Work in Progress
The GCAS Library’s Checkered Past: The GCAS collects educational and research materials in addition to maintaining the records every nonprofit corporation is required to keep. During our group’s 90-year life,…
Please Leave Potsherds Where You Find Them
Humans, like crows, are acquisitive by nature. We are attracted to pretty things and are especially intrigued when it’s clear to us that other, ancient humans made the pretty things…
Field Trip to Gila River Farm Site
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…
GCAS Field Trip to Elk Ridge, Part II
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…
GCAS Field Trip to Elk Ridge, Part I
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…
The Aldo Leopold Charter School’s 2018 Heritage Garden Project
As part of their study of local historic Puebloan agriculture, students in the Aldo Leopold Charter School’s Garden Crew recently grew over 100 heritage corn, bean and squash seedlings with…
The Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection
The Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (SPARC) is an ongoing project and online resource that allows users to search over 140,500 records including approximately 13,000 photographs, 29,000 documents, and 24…
GCAS Field Trip to Paquimé, Part VI
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…
GCAS Field Trip to Paquimé, Part V
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…