AAHS President Jesse Ballenger
The Society has undertaken a couple of exciting new initiatives. We recently learned from Jeremy Moss, archaeologist at Tumacacori National Monument, that artifacts from a civil war era fort in Southern Arizona have been stored in Ohio since the 1980′s and have started a campaign to fund their return and proper curation at the Arizona State Museum. Jeremey has done a tremendous amount of leg work in locating these artifacts and securing their release from the property owners. We are pleased to partner with him to follow through and see that they reach the Arizona State Museum for proper curatation To help with this effort please follow the link to Fort Mason.
AAHS is also been involved in a project to interview and tape several of our local “elder” statesman. The interviews of Bunny Fontana and Jim Ayres discussing the origins of Historical Archaeology and their roles in it’s development have been completed and will soon be available through our website.
The Arizona Archaeological Exposition was held in March at Aqua Fria National Monument. It drew a large crowd and gave the opportunity to spread the word about our Society.
We were also pleased to participate in the State Museum’s recent 120th anniversary celebration. One of the Society’s missions is to support the Museum and in this vein we have given a significant donation to the Museum to help complete the funding for their new state of the art basketry exhibit. This exhibit will be a great addition to the the Museum and we look forward to it’s completion.
~ Jesse Ballenger
We are looking forward to working with Maney Publishing Company, our new Kiva publisher.
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AAHS is collaborating with the National Park Service and the Arizona State Museum to facilitate the return and curation of artifacts from Fort Mason, a US Cavalry Fort established in 1865 in what is now Rio Rico.
