Desert Archaeology Club 2024

Annual Club | Available

Udvar Hazy    , --   United States

Room 121

Classroom & Field Trips (meets monthly - second Wednesdays at 7pm)

Wednesday, January 10, 2024-Friday, September 6, 2024

7:00 PM-8:30 PM MDT on Wed

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$10.00

ALL members will need to re-register and pay $10 annual club dues for Jan.-Sept. of 2024. Registration is now open.

This club is for friends of Archaeology, pictographs, petroglyphs, rock art, preserving the past, protecting the past, and Native American history

The Desert Archaeology Club is a group of individuals whose purpose is to become better educated citizens so that we can help the general public become more aware of the value of irreplaceable archaeological resources; especially rock art, within Utah, the Arizona Strip and Southern Nevada.

We accomplish our goal by:

1) Having monthly meetings with lectures by subject matter experts.

2) Having monthly field trips to local archaeological sites, lead by knowledgeable persons who may help us to better understand the archaeological, cultural, and spiritual values of the sites.

We believe that the preservation of rock art as well as other archaeological sites lies in education. This education involves lectures, class room instruction and field trips. We believe that the public must be able to visit archaeological sites and view them “in situ” in order to fully appreciate the value of these traces of “those who came before”. We strive to make each site a “living museum”.


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Kaye (Whitefeather aka Feather) Robinson had the opportunity to walk in two worlds. Her father came from the Blackfeet heritage. Her mother came from the heritage of Liverpool, England. That means she can do Native American ceremonies to the Beatle tunes. She has studied with seven different tribes: the Blackfeet, Lakota, Paiute, Navaho, Hopi, Seminole, and Chumash. She appreciates the wisdom she learned from the Native American Culture and the Anglo culture. Both have much to offer. She has studied archaeology for the past 30 years and is now a researcher and teacher of archaeoastronomy, archaeology, Native Plants usages, Native American traditions and all the stories attached to those worlds. She is a teaching assistant at Utah Tech University for the archaeology classes. However, archaeoastronomy is her passion. She likes to introduce Native Science to others and to show that ancient cultures had wisdom and knowledge we have yet to discover. She now has a published article in the book "Star Circles" by Dr. Ivy Merriot. Dr. Merriot is an astronomer who teaches at the University of Montana. Along with "Star Circles", Dr. Merriot authored "Exploratory Research of the Big Horn Medicine Wheel."