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Rock walls at Reeve Ruin

Unlocking the Secrets of the Salado Learning Expedition

rescheduled for October 26–30, 2009
(postponed from March 2–6, 2009)

Patrick Lyons giving a tour of the Davis Ranch Site

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.

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

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Your Guide

Patrick LyonsPatrick Lyons, PhD is head of collections and associate curator at Arizona State Museum and an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Arizona. Before joining the ASM faculty, he was a preservation archaeologist at the Center for Desert Archaeology. 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 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.

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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 largest collection of Southwest Indian pottery in the world, 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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