2024 AAC Fall Conference

Updates from the Field and Lab

Friday, October 11 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Saturday, October 12, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve, Phoenix, Arizona and simulcast on ZOOM

https://deervalley.asu.edu/, 3711 W. Deer Valley Road, Phoenix, AZ 85308

This year’s conference theme is "Updates from the Field and Lab" with a focus on recent projects throughout the state. If you are interested, there are three talk options available:

a 5-minute digital poster lightning talk;
a 10-minute project update; or
a 15-minute research talk.

If you are interested in presenting, email the following information to me at ccaseldi@asu.edu by September 20th:

Author(s) with affiliation.
The talk option you are interested in.
Title of your talk.
Two keywords that describe your talk.
An abstract of no more than 100 words.

AAC strives to ensure that all presentations are developed and presented in an appropriate and respectful way. Presentations with drawings, photographs, or other visual depictions of human remains or funerary objects will not be allowed.

AAC will host additional events for students and recent graduates on Saturday, October 12. The Saturday events are developed to provide students with mentoring, training, and skills that would be useful resume builders for cultural resource management jobs. Spaces for Saturday's events are limited. Contact aacpresident@azarchaeology.org for details and availability.

Register Here

Venue

The conference will be held at the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve. The preserve is located at 3711 W. Deer Valley Road, approximately two miles north of Highway 101 and two miles west of I-17. It is approximately two miles from the bus stop at 35th Avenue and Deer Valley Road. When using your navigation system, search for “Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve”. Click here for maps and directions. The Conference proceedings will run on Friday from 9:30-5:00. Lunch will be provided by the AAC.

Nearby Lodging

Days Inn by Wyndham Phoenix North	Extended Stay America, Select Suites - Deer Valley
Drury Inn & Suites Phoenix Happy Valley	Hilton Garden Inn, Phoenix North Happy Valley

Travel Assistance

The AAC will offer a limited number of free hotel rooms on Friday night for students and recent graduates. Hotel rooms are available for a limited number of participants. Travel assistance requests will be considered and filled as they are received. Please contact aacpresident@azarchaeology.org soon!

Nearby Dining

Jo Jo's Pizza and Family Restaurant	George and Son's Asian Cuisine
Dillion's KC BBQ Arrowhead	Valle Luna
The Spot Neighborhood Grill	Bottega Pizzeria Ristorante
Chickii	Oscar's Pier 83

Conference Program

Friday

9:30	Christopher Caseldine	Welcome
9:40	John Bello	Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
9:50	Davina R. Two Bears	Updates on a Community-Accountable Project on the Navajo Reservation: the Leupp Isolation Center
10:00	Caitlin Stewart, Tara Friend, and Michael Pitts	Project-Based Settlement Systems Studies within the Virgin Ancestral Pueblo Region of Arizona
10:15	Abraham Arnett	Continuing Research in the Hay Hollow Valley of Eastern Central Arizona
10:30	Joseph S. Crary, Thatcher A. Seltzer-Rogers, and Stephen Germick	A Rudimentary Analysis of the Lower Verde Area Prehistoric Sherd Count Data
10:40	--	*BREAK*
10:50	William L. Deaver	Compass to the Past: The Hohokam Cultural Sequence and the Archaeomagnetic Record
11:05	Christopher R. Caseldine	In Search of Hohokam Irrigation: Suggestions for More Detailed Canal Documentation
11:15	Douglas R. Mitchell and Laurene G. Montero	Research Activities at S'edav Va'aki Museum
11:25	Hoski Schaafsma and Justin Mortensen	Notes on Hohokam Minerology and Palettes
11:30	Rachael M. Byrd	Recognizing Signs of Change with Ancestral Secondary Cremations in the Phoenix Basin
11:45	Jack W. Treichler and Caitlin Stewart	Objectives and Methods of Inventory for Prehistoric Artifact Scatters
12:00	--	*LUNCH*
1:30	Joseph Bryce, Annie King, and Christopher Taylor	Preliminary Results of Data Recovery at AZ AA:12:422(ASM) in Support of the Tangerine Road Widening, Phase 2 A Project, Town of Marana, Pima County, Arizona
1:35	Jerryll Moreno	Wasting the Archaic Landscape: Inequity in Eligibility in Arizona's Western Desert
1:50	Hunter M. Claypatch and Jazmin Santiago Soto	Documenting Artifacts from AZ EE:09:67: A Poorly known Trincheras-Hohokam Site in Nogales, Arizona
1:55	Hunter M. Claypatch and Zithlaly Vega	Revisiting Ceramics from the Nogales Wash Site: An Important Trincheras-Hohokam Site near the International Border
2:00	Ona Wang	Talking Piece, Talking Peace: How Peace Circles use Material Culture to Build Community and Resolve Conflict
2:10	David Zimmerman	The AZ SHPO office provides an update on the Statewide Historic Preservation Plan with an emphasis on the landscape-level preservation and collaborative stewardship of tribal heritage sections
2:25	Bruce Phillips	Action and Mentorship in the North Country: AAC/NAU Student Outreach and Career Development Programs
2:40	Kelin Flanagan	Things I Wish I Knew as a Young Archaeologist

Saturday

Students and recent graduates, get prepared for the AAC Fall Conference Student Outreach Session: Best Practices in Conference Presentations. This is an opportunity to present and credit your research. The event will start with a panel discussion on best presentation practices, followed by an AAC Board Member(s) presentation: Presenting Conference Presentations: Does and Don’ts. Then, students and presenters will have a Q&A session with the panel. For the finale, students and/or recent graduates will give PowerPoint presentations. If you are interested in presenting at this professional event, Action team members will help you develop a presentation. Members are invited to join the panel and to encourage new hires to join the AAC and present at the conference. Please support the event with a sponsorship. And most importantly, attend the event!

Happy Hour

2024 Arizona Archaeological Council