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SUBSISTENCE TO SUPERMARKET: GREAT SAND DUNES
RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM AND CAS ANNUAL MEETING
Adams State College Campus, College Center, October 7, 8 and 9,
2005
The
upcoming Great Sand Dunes Research Symposium is a great opportunity
to learn more about the archaeology, history, geology, botany, and
biology of the San Luis Valley and southcentral Colorado. The Colorado
Archaeological Society Annual Meeting will also be a part of the
conference.
Summary
of Great Sand Dunes Research Symposium Schedule of Events
Friday, October 7.
Papers will be presented from 1:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. in Carson
Auditorium. On Friday evening, October 7th, starting slightly
after 5:00 P.M., there will be a no-host, cash-bar Happy Hour
at the K-Bob Restaurant, located at 1310 Main Street (Highway
160) across the street from the Adams State College Campus
.
Saturday, October 8. Papers will be presented from 8:00
AM until 4:00 PM in Carson Auditorium.
Saturday Evening Banquet (Clarian Inn of the Rio Grande, formerly
the Holiday Inn). 5:00 PM Cash Bar ($3.50 Margaritas); 6:30
Fiesta Buffet ($15.00 per person); 8:00 PM Keynote speaker David
White; Traditional Users of the Sand. There will also be a CAS
Silent Auction benefit during the banquet.
Sunday, October 9. There will be a choice of two tours.
Tour of the Medano and Zapata ranches and the new Great Sand Dunes
National Park and Preserve. Cost is $35. Meet at the Oasis Store
& Campground at 9:00 AM (return at 3:00 PM).The other tour will
be of Rock Art of the Fort Garland area (self driving, no cost).
Meet at the Fort Garland Museum parking lot at 9:00 AM. Return
at 1:30 PM.
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Great Sand
Dunes Research Symposium Program Schedule
Friday, October 7, 2005 Topic; Early Historic
Settlement
1:00 Introduction to History of SLV. Hobey Dixon and Dick Sundstrom
1:20 Pike's Stockade PAAC Survey 2004-2005, from Field Survey
to Digital Data. Bruce Wahle
1:40 Update on PAAC Training Survey at Pike's Stockade, Conejos
County, Colorado. Kevin Black
2:00 Moccasin Bill. Noel Harlan
2:20 Great Sand Dunes Eolian System Anthropological Project: Public
Education and Volunteers. Danielle M. Hoefer
2:40 BREAK
3:00 West Blanca Mining District: A Bajada Base Camp. James
Brechtel, Heidi Guy Hays, Scott Phillips
3:20 Interpreting the Past: A Colorado Battlefield Investigation.
Kevin Walda
3:40 The Teofilo and Pedro Trujillo Homesteads-Archaeology, History
and Architecture of Two Early Hispanic Homesteads in the San Luis
Valley Marilyn Martorano
4:00 From the King to the Baca and Beyond. Dennis Stanford
and Pegi Jodry
5:00 Happy Hour at K-Bob's Restaurant (cash bar)
7:00 CAS Board Meeting
Saturday,
October 8, 2005 Topic; Geologic Foundations
8:00 Introduction. Hobey Dixon, Dick Sundstrom
8:20 A View Towards Understanding the Aeolian System. Fred
Bunch, Adrienne Anderson
8:40 Surficial Geology of the Great Sand Dunes Area. Rich Madole
9:00 Geologic Processes that Control the Development of Great
Sand Dunes, Colorado. Andrew Valdez
9:20 Measuring Changes in Historic Wetlands at Great Sand Dunes,
1936-1955. Dave Hammond
Topic; Biologic Foundations
9:40 Ecological Systems of Great Sand Dunes. Joe Stevens
10:00 BREAK
10:20 Plant Communities of Great Sand Dunes and Vicinity: Present
and Past. Hobey Dixon 10:40 Of Tiger Beetles and Priests:
Father Bernard Rotger Contributions to the Natural and Cultural
History of the San Luis Valley. Phyllis Pineda Bovin
Topic; Earliest Inhabitants
11:00 Building a Prehistoric Chronology for the Rio Grande Basin.
Ted Hoefer
11:20 Traveling Through Time from Clovis to Bajada. Pegi Jodry
11:40 The Life Giving Waters and Marshes of Big and Little Spring
Creeks. Pegi Jodry
12:00 LUNCH BREAK
Topic; Late Prehistoric Peoples
1:00 The 2005 Cultural Resource Inventory of the Baca Land Exchange
Biedell Creek Parcels: Comparative Data from the Western San Luis
Valley. Chris Bevilacqua
1:20 Prehistoric Shell Cache. Fred Oglesby
1:40 An Analysis of a Small Collection of Stone Pestles from the
San Luis Valley. Diane Rhodes.
2:00 Volcanic Quarries and Broken Rocks: Identifying Material
Sources in the Taos. Valley. Jeffrey Boyer
2:20 Results of Archaeological Investigation at Open Camp Site:
Great Sand Dunes. Sean Larmore
2:40 BREAK
Topic; Ethnohistoric Groups
3:00 Jicarilla Apache in the San Luis Valley and Surrounding Area.
Lorene Willis, Bryan Vigil
3:20 So Hungry They Ate a Tree: Culturally Peeled Ponderosa Pine
Trees at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Marilyn
Martorano
3:40 Rock Art of the San Luis Valley: A Regional Comparison of
Styles. Vince Spero/Ken Frye
4:00 Conical Timbered Lodges and Other Aboriginal Structures at
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Marilyn Martorano
End of Papers
4:30 Colorado Archaeological Society Annual Meeting (College Center)
5:00 Happy Hour-Clarion Inn of the Rio Grande
6:30 Fiesta Buffet Banquet-Clarion Inn of the Rio Grande (pre-registration
required)
7:00 CAS Silent Auction to benefit the Alice Hamilton Memorial
Scholarship Fund
8:00 Traditional Users of the Sand Keynote Address by Dr. David
White
Great
Sand Dunes Research Symposium Registration Form
(due
Sept 1)
The
Paper Abstracts have been posted.
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There
is a block of 40 rooms reserved for CAS and other Symposium participants
at the Clarion Hotel. The cost is $69.95 plus 10.8% tax per night.
Each additional adult is $10.00 per night; children can stay free.
Each registered adult will receive a free breakfast voucher at the
Clarion Restaurant for each day of registration, a $4.00 per person
value. Also, each registered adult will receive a complimentary
drink coupon good for your first drink at the Saturday banquet!
The Clarion Hotel will also provide complimentary transportation
to and from the Carson Auditorium (but not an all day shuttle).
To reserve your room, call the Clarion at (800) 669-1658, or (719)
589-5833 or FAX (719) 589-4412. Ask for the "Colorado Archaeological
Society" or the "Sand Dunes Symposium" rate.
Volunteers
for the Great Sand Dunes Research Symposium Needed
Volunteers
are needed for a variety of tasks during the symposium. Everything
from helping with equipment to giving out registration materials.
If you would like to volunteer for any amount of time during the
event please call or e-mail Vince Spero at 719-873-5916 (home) 852-6242
(work) or vspero@peoplepc.com
by e-mail by September 1, 2005
**
PLEASE NOTE THAT IT IS ASC HOMECOMING WEEKEND SO PARKING MAY BE
TRICKY **
UPCOMING
FIELD TRIP INFORMATION
Saturday August 20 Trickle Mountain Quartzite Source
and Stone Structure Village. On
this trip to we will visit the site of the Trickle Mountain Quartzite
quarry, on BLM land to the west of Saguache, where the stone for
many of the quartzite artifacts in the Saguache area originated.
Nearby is a stone structure village that we will also visit. High
clearance vehicles are needed. We will meet at the park in Saguache
at 9:00 AM. For more information please call Vince Spero at 719-852-6242
or contact him by e-mail at vspero@peoplepc.com
Paleo
Fluted Points Inventory
Tom
Hoff, past CAS President is working with Dennis Stanford and Steve
Holen on a project to inventory Paleo Fluted Points in private collections
in Colorado. They have put together a questionnaire which I have
attached for your review and would like to get it out to our membership.
This will be published in Southwestern Lore and is being distributed
by the Loveland
Archaeological Society.
Colorado
Fluted Point Survey Form.doc (Word format)
Colorado Fluted Point
Survey Form.rtf (Rich Text format)
This
newsletter is available in Word format:0405aup.doc
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