A Heartfelt Merry Christmas To All and Gratitude to Our Donors
The GCAS wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season as 2020 draws to a close. We are also grateful to our friends who, as of this writing, have donated…
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Please Support Our Latest Project!
The Grant County Archaeological Society seeks donations for our 2020-2021 season’s priority project at the Mattocks Site/Mimbres Culture Heritage Site in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico. Mattocks Site/Mimbres Culture Heritage…
Breaking News from a Past Coinman Grant Awards Recipient
Samantha Bomkamp, one of only two 2018-2019 Coinman Grant Awards recipients, completed her thesis for her Master’s of Science in Anthropology degree at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in…
Breaking: GCAS Submits Comment on the Gila River Diversion Proposal
On June 3, 2020, the GCAS Board of Trustees submitted a formal comment in opposition to the US Bureau of Reclamation’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), which proposes a diversion…
Meet Our 2020 Coinman Grant Awards Recipient!
We here at the GCAS are very pleased to announce this year’s recipient of our 2020 Nancy Coinman Grant Awards, Danielle Romero of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.…
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…
Silver City’s New Mural: Dedicated to Plants, Pollinators, and Climate Change
The GCAS proudly donated funds to the Southwest New Mexico Audubon Society in partnership with the Mimbres Region Arts Council Youth Mural Program, to support their latest civic educational and…
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…