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The Society needs your help this Giving Season. Your donations support our mission, our programs and our ability to raise additional funding through grants and other fundraising campaigns. We have teamed up with the Colorado Gives Campaign to help you help us. To donate go to: https://www.coloradogives.org/organization/Society-For-Cultural-Astronomy-In-The-American-Southwest From now through December 10, every donation made will be boosted with a $1M+ Incentive Fund, made possible by Colorado Gives Foundation and FirstBank. SCAAS will receive a share of the fund based on the percentage of the total funds raised. Plus, if you set up a new monthly donation, Colorado Gives Foundation will match your first monthly donation up to $100 and up to $250,000 in total across all organizations! Only nine days remain for you to donate; over $161,000 remains in the monthly donation matching fund that expires on December 10th. |
Giving Tuesday is coming up on December 3, 2024 and we need your help on this special day. Colorado Gives Day, the single largest day for donations in the State of Colorado, is on December 10, 2024. Our programs like the Cultural Landscapes Survey Program and Journal Club are dependent on our ability to raise donated and grant funds for these efforts. All donations made on our Colorado Gives page by December 10th go toward receiving out share of matching funds, the Incentive Fund and substantial money prizes for organizations that raise the most money in their class. Donating is easy, go to: SCAAS Colorado Gives Donation Page A Joyful Solstice, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to All! Greg Munson SCAAS Fundraising Coordinator |
“Envisioning a Cultural Landscape” By SCAAS Cultural Astronomy Researcher Greg Munson Sponsored by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, PO Box 40577, Tucson AZ 85717 Greg Munson (Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest) discussed new ways to record, document, and visualize the cultural landscape of the Greater American Southwest. The program emphasized the SCAAS Cultural Landscapes Survey Program, which has tribal consultation as a key component. At the center of the program is expanding the concept of the archaeological site boundary to include resources from the local environment, relationships to nearby villages, how the architecture relates to the more distant landscape, and a building’s alignment to horizon features such as mountain peaks. SCAAS studies the connection of a site to astronomical cycles and features in the day and night sky and explores new technologies for the visualization of buildings and the landscape like the use of dynamic panoramas, 3D modeling, and infographics. Its goals include establishing a common method of documenting and visualizing links between ancestral peoples and the land and sky that surrounded them so that we can better understand that we live in a unified cultural landscape, inseparable from its parts. The program was recorded and is now posted to the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib4s_9McWo0 Please enjoy these additional Zoom lectures sponsored by our friends at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. What All of Us Can Learn from the Old Ones with Dr. Scott Ortman https://youtu.be/WWWfM6gVlYc?si=L5bfC6kc4wsLqkml Seeking My Center Place: Migrations through Science and Tradition with Lyle Balenquah https://youtu.be/Eh86t2Kcueo?si=BSl0CKF8toHPiudw
If you are interested in our Society, its mission and our developing field research program - please sign-up for your membership with the links below. To join or renew your membership with the Society - Join Us Financially support the Society with your Sponsor Membership - Sponsor Memberships SCAAS launches Journal Club! Journal Club WebpagePlease enjoy these
The Society launched its Journal Club in July 2021. The Journal Club is a member's resource and a forum to discuss two papers or articles of interest, normally one from a SCAAS member and one from a qualified researcher on related topics. The event is held via Zoom and the sessions are being recorded for later posting on our You Tube Channel - SCAAS.Connects2U. You must be a member to access downloadable copies of the papers and articles to be discussed at the Journal Club meetings. The public is welcome to attend the meetings.
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