GOAT CAMP EXCAVATION 2021 Had enough fun over the winter sitting around waiting to find an open slot for vaccination? Well, I can't help you there, but a new season of fieldwork at GCR is rapidly approaching! Not quite a week after the FOTNF Open House at Sears-Kay Ruin (March 7) we'll be back in the dirt again. I'll send out a call for signup later, but for now, here's the workplan for this Spring. Watch this space! Looks like we’ll continue to be working under our COVID protocols for the foreseeable, so here’s the tentative schedule I’ve worked out for Spring: March 13 and 27 field April 10 and 24 field May 8 and 22 field June 5 field or lab June 12 and 26 lab There is a (slight) possibility that we could start Feb. 27, but that will depend on the weather and the amount of work that we get done at Sears-Kay the week before. As always, I’ll send out a notice the week before each session. Basically, the plan for the Spring is going to be exactly the same as the plan for last Fall. One new opportunity: Friends of the Tonto has taken on maintenance responsibilities for Shoofly. We will have several workdays there this Spring ahead of our planned first Open House there. The dates conveniently coincide with several Goat Camp sessions, so if you’d like to stay over after a day of digging to help cut brush and pull weeds and such, those dates are March 28, April 11, and April 25, tentative date for the open House. So hang in there – we’ll be getting dirty again fairly soon! As always, please let me know if you are planning to join us so I can put you on the list. The Covid protocol limit is 10 people on the crew. Cheers and stay safe, Scott Scott Wood, retired Tonto archaeologist and Rim Country Adviser, leads the excavations at Goat Camp. Participants must be members of AAS. Scott's contact information Goat Camp Ruin is located in Payson and was occupied from about 750 to 1280 AD. The site was originally a Hohokam colony that continued Ceramic Checklist First Season Report Master Development Plan Third Season Report Excavation and Stabilization Plan Fourth Season Report Goat Camp 2018 Fall Plan Fifth Season Report Goat Camp 2019 Spring Plan Sixth Season Report Goat Camp 2020 Spring Plan Seventh Season Report Goat Camp 2020 Fall Plan Rev Virus Protocol Rev EXCAVATION SCREENING CLEANING ARTIFACTS SORTING AND IDENTIFYING ARTIFACTS |