Monthly Lecture: Brian Yaquinto speaking about: Rediscovering the Fremont of Nor


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Tonight we welcome. . .
Brian Yaquinto speaking about
Rediscovering the Fremont of Northwest Colorado
Currently, Brian works as the field office archaeologist for BLM Tres Rios Field Office in Dolores and spends every weekend possible exploring the four corners region.
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Archaeologists first studied and named the Fremont culture along the Fremont River in south-central Utah and have since traced it through much of the Green and Colorado River drainages into northwest Colorado.
Gilbert Wenger’s 1956 thesis study constitutes one of the earliest research endeavors on Fremont granaries and habitation sites in northwest Colorado. Since Wegner, very little research on Fremont culture has been completed in this region until recent efforts by the Bureau of Land Management White River Field Office (WRFO) located in Meeker, Colorado.
Tonight's presentation will highlight fieldwork carried out by the BLM WRFO in 2012, 2015, and 2016, which included an archaeological field school through Colorado State University in the summer of 2016. The outcomes from these efforts have greatly contributed to the understanding of Fremont culture in NW Colorado, including producing some unexpected results.
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Brian was born and raised in the middle of the Michigan mitten. Upon finishing his undergraduate degree in anthropology at Western Michigan University (https://wmich.edu/anthropology), Brian moved on in pursuit of becoming an archaeologist. Along the way, he earned a master's degree in anthropology from Northern Arizona University.
Brian has held jobs in both the private and federal sectors as an archaeologist. These positions included working for Illinois Transportation and Research Program, the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky, the Kaibab National Forest in northern Arizona, Navajo National Monument, Flagstaff Area National Monuments, and various locations within the Bureau of Land Management including Elko, Nevada and Meeker, Colorado.
After moving around the country, a lot, Brian and his wife Jessica have been settled in Cortez since October 2016.
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CAS-GJ meets indoors monthly January - June, then September- December. July and August we hold outdoor potlucks. Meeting NIGHTS are the 2nd MONDAY of each month.
Regular meetings are FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC. Our membership includes students, those who cannot even keep all the vowels straight in the word A-r-c-h-A-E-O-l-O-g-Y, as well as academics and professionals.
The church has asked us to give a 'DONATION' in lieu of a fixed amount of payment for use of the room so please bring and give a few dollars each to thank them for the generous use of the meeting room.
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As you enter the meeting hall, to the left of the main entrance, there will be a table where you can pick up membership forms to join or renew your membership.
There will also be a Show n Tell table as you enter the room. Some months it may have items members have brought for others to look at. Sometimes there may be books or magazines to exchange. There may also be assorted used books for sale for $1 or $2 each. If you have archaeology or related books or magazines you would like to recycle consider bringing them
Joining CAS-GJ, as we refer to ourselves, entitles you to membership (http://www.cas-gj.org) in both our chapter and the statewide Colorado Archaeological Society (CAS).That membership also gets delivered to your mailbox the state's publication, Southwestern Lore (https://www.coloradoarchaeology.org/PUBLICATIONS/SouthwesternLore/swl.htm).
Both CAS-GJ and the state have Facebook pages that may interest you. To learn all about our monthly activities, special opportunities and field trips visit our calendar/ webpage. Anyone is welcome to register on this page to keep track of our chapter activities; however . . .
To participate in field trips you must be a paid member of this or another CAS chapter. If spaces on a field trip are limited first preference is given to CAS-GJ paid members.
Our webpage is online at www.cas-gj.org for a wealth of information about archaeology in general and our chapter specifically. There are numerous links on this site that can take you to a membership or renewal application.
For our calendar of events, meetings, field trips; photos and more visit our meetup.com website at http://www.cas-gjEvents.org
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Other archaeology resources that may be of interest:
• CAS-GJ (us) Membership Application (http://www.cas-gj.org) (for new or renewing members)
• CAS-GJ calendar (http://www.cas-gjEvents.org) of meetings, field trips and other postings of possible interest
• CAS State website (http://www.coloradoarchaeology.org/)
• State CAS Newsletter, The Surveyor (http://www.coloradoarchaeology.org/PUBLICATIONS/Newsletters/Newsletters.htm) (part of what you get for paying dues)
• Chipeta (http://www.chipetachaptercas.org/)Chapter of CAS, in Montrose
• Utah Rock Art Research Association (URARA (https://urara.wildapricot.org/))
• BLM, Grand Junction (https://www.google.com/search?q=blm+grand+junction&rlz=1C1NHXL_enUS715US715&oq=BLM%2C+Grand+Junction&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.3624j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) Field Office
• Cultural Resource Management Agencies, Consultants & Personnel for CO (http://www2.cde.state.co.us/artemis/hedserials/hed65012internet/hed65012201707internet.pdf) (great resource for future monthly speakers)
• US Forest Service archaeology blogs (https://www.google.com/search?q=US+Forest+Service+archaeology+blogs&rlz=1C1NHXL_enUS715US715&oq=US+Forest+Service+archaeology+blogs&aqs=chrome..69i57.2354j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
• Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists (CCPA (https://www.facebook.com/Colorado-Council-of-Professional-Archaeologists-CCPA-166322145779/))
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Monthly Lecture: Brian Yaquinto speaking about: Rediscovering the Fremont of Nor