Students and Young Professionals: Mapping Workshop

Calling all students and young professionals! Join AAHS on Saturday, October 26th, for a mapping workshop with Rich Lange, President of AAHS. The workshop will take place from 8:30AM–5PM at Desert Archaeology in Tucson, AZ.

Rich Lange came out to Tucson for graduate school in the 1970s, and after completing a Master’s degree at the University of Arizona began working for the Arizona State Museum contract archaeology program. That morphed into a fulltime position at ASM to do State land surveys all across the state. The course work, contract work, survey, and other research projects got him involved in southern Arizona at Los Morteros, central Arizona in the Sierra Ancha north of Lake Roosevelt, and finally in the Homolovi Research Program at ancestral Hopi sites around Winslow and in the Rock Art Ranch area for 40 years. Mapping and recording sites and features was a major component of many of these projects, so Rich brings decades of experience with many different instruments and techniques, some of which are perhaps a bit out of date, others will never be. This workshop presents background knowledge important to understanding how to set up grids, how to map sites and features, how various instruments and techniques work, how to figure out where you are, and how to match the various instruments to what needs to be mapped.

The tentative schedule for the day is as follows:

8:30–9AM: Registration

9AM–12PM: Classroom

12:30–1PM: Lunch

1–5PM: Outdoor practicum

Prior to the workshop, attendees will be sent a summary packet of the classroom component and additional work packets, so that they can apply their skills outside of the classroom. Lunch will be provided for all attendees, however we recommend bringing a water bottle, sun protection, notebook, writing utensil, and additional snacks that you may desire throughout the day.

Desert Archaeology is located at 3975 N. Tucson Blvd. The office is located on Tucson Blvd about a ½ mile north of Prince Road, and is the last property on the west side of the road across the street from the Rio Vista Natural Resource Park. (If the mapping app on your phone tells you anything different it is lying to you. Really.).

Workshop registration is currently limited to students and young professionals looking to develop professional skills for a career in archaeology. Registration is currently limited to 15 people. However, if you are no longer able to attend, we ask that you reach out to Emily Jonsson, VP for Membership, at AAHSmemberVP@gmail.com, so that we can offer your spot to someone on the waiting list. 

A good faith effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations requested by October 19, 2024. These requests can be submitted with registration or directly to AAHSmemberVP@gmail.com.