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The Archaeology of Perry Mesa, Arizona
October 19 @ 8:00 am - October 20 @ 5:00 pm MST
| Join AAHS for a two-day tour of sites on and around Perry Mesa with Connie Stone and R.E. Burrillo. This field trip is open to AAHS Members only and is limited to 25 participants. For more information or to register for the trip, please click the link below. |
| Travel and Accomodations: this a two-day event where attendees have the option of joining for one or the other or both. Motels are scarce in the immediate vicinity, with the closest ones being in Black Canyon City to the south or Cordes Lakes to the north. People dispersed camping is also available all over the top of Perry Mesa, so people who want to attend both days are encouraged to camp. High clearance and/or 4WD are necessary to reach all of the locations for the planned visit, so it will be crucial to plan for carpooling once the list of attendees is finalized.
Sites and Locales: day one (Saturday) will take place in Agua Fria National Monument, with retired BLM archaeologist Connie Stone leading folks on a tour of locations to be decided within the monument. Day two (Sunday) will take place atop Perry Mesa, with researcher and AAHS trip director R.E. Burrillo leading folks on a tour of three major population centers. Maps and directions for meeting locations will follow. |
| Connie Stone is the former Agua Fria National Monument archaeologist and currently a director-at-large for Friends of Agua Fria National Monument. She is also the author of numerous articles about the area, including the foreword to The Archaeology of Perry Mesa and its World by David Wilcox.
R.E. Burrillo has worked as both a researcher and field archaeologist throughout the Southwest since 2008. He is the author of two books and numerous articles, including an extensive forthcoming study of the relationship between Perry Mesa and the greater Bloody Basin area to the east. |