Besh Ba Gowah Archaeological Park FREE Admission March 15

A day of FREE Admission -- plus a guest lecture about the Salado Culture For updates, like and follow 

https://www.facebook.com/BeshBaGowah March 15 visitors are invited to self-guided tours of the Besh Ba Gowah Archaeological Park and Museum at no cost on this special day.  Admission's free -- but bring cash for food vendors, onsite from 11 am-3 pm. At 1:00 p.m. Archaeologist Allen Dart, from the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, will present “Old-Time Religion? The Salado Phenomenon in the US Southwest” Questions? Call (928) 425-0320 The presentation: “Old Time Religion? The Salado Phenomenon in the US Southwest” is co-sponsored by the City of Globe and Tucson’s Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. Events run from 9 am-4:30 pm; food vendors are scheduled to begin serving at 11:00). Read more https://www.globeaz.gov/page/besh-ba-gowah-museum 

Besh Ba Gowah preserves and interprets a prime example of what archaeologists call the Salado phenomenon. First recognized by archaeologists in the early twentieth century, a constellation of peculiar cultural traits – including polychrome (three-colored) pottery, above-ground housing often enclosed in walled compounds, and monumental architecture – at Besh Ba Gowah and some other southwestern US archaeological sites was thought to be indicative of a distinct group of people: “the Salado.” As more and more research was done and the widespread distribution of Salado material culture became apparent, interpretations of what the Salado phenomenon represents were debated. In this presentation archaeologist Allen Dart illustrates pottery and other cultural attributes of the so-called Salado culture, reviews some of the theories about the Salado, and discusses how Salado related to the Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon, Hohokam, and Casas Grandes cultures of the "Greater Southwest" (the U.S. Southwest and Mexico's Northwest). For more information visit https://www.globeaz.gov/page/besh-ba-gowah-museum 

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