We will likely offer this program in the future; however, dates have not been set.

Unlocking the Secrets of the Salado Learning Expedition

October 24–28, 2011

Since the 1920s archaeologists have grappled with ways to explain the dramatic changes that rippled across central and southern Arizona during the A.D. 1200s and 1300s. Explanations have focused on migration, economic alliances, and cults.

Join ASM archaeologist Patrick Lyons on guided tours of the sites at the center of this controversy, many of which cannot be visited without special permission. Your learning expedition will also include behind-the-scenes tours of the ASM collections originally used to define the Salado phenomenon and those of the Amerind Foundation Museum and the Jack and Vera Mills Collection at Eastern Arizona College.

This experience is a series of five day trips, each beginning and ending at Arizona State Museum. No hotel stays are involved.

$600, $550 ASM members ($200 is tax deductible)

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Comments from past participants

• What a fabulous experience to visit remote migration sites with the best of scholars to interpret them for us.
• I can’t believe the encyclopedic knowledge you all had at your finger tips. Patrick is an excellent teacher...
• Patrick Lyons is incredible: loves questions, mind like a steel trap, has an encyclopedic amount of information, great sense of humor and a truly caring individual.
• I can’t recall having such a great learning experience. Patrick and Alan know so much and it was great to be able to have them always at hand to answer any questions.
• How can I thank you for the archaeology trip I had dreamed of—lots of information about archaeologists I have read about, but never known.
• To stand on Goat Hill surrounded by the eerie silence of the visible past and to share with everyone the excitement of discovery was for me the climactic experience.
• All questions presented by the participants were responded to with clarity and enthusiasm. I am very grateful to have been able to learn so much from this scholarly and exuberant group.

Your Guide

Patrick Lyons, PhD, is associate director and head of collections at Arizona State Museum (ASM), and an assistant professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Before joining the ASM faculty, Patrick was a preservation archaeologist at the Center for Desert Archaeology in Tucson. Patrick has conducted extensive fieldwork at the ancestral Hopi villages of Homol’ovi near Winslow, and in the San Pedro Valley of southeastern Arizona. His book Ancestral Hopi Migrations was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2003. He has authored and co-authored many articles in American Antiquity and Kiva. His current research focuses on the prehispanic pottery of the southwestern U. S. and northwestern Mexico, ancient migrations, and the use of tribal oral tradition in archaeology.

Your Host

Arizona State Museum’s scholars and extensive collections are among the most significant resources in the world for the study of Southwest peoples. Arizona State Museum is Arizona’s premier research museum, the oldest and largest anthropology museum in the Southwest (est. 1893), home of the world’s largest collections of Southwest Indian pottery and Southwest Indian basketry, and a Smithsonian Institution affiliate. Your support of our programs helps us continue our work. Thank you!

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Image credits:
Rock wall at Reeve Ruin: Laura LePere
Tour of Davis Ranch Salado site: Art Staubitz
Patrick Lyons: Jannelle Weakly

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