Arrive To: Arrivals between 3 and 5 PM.

Afternoon: Orientation at 5:15 PM.

Dinner: Family style home cooked meals served at the lodge.

Evening: Introductions.

Lodging: Kelly Place B&B

Meals Included: Dinner

Breakfast:

Morning: Introduction to the Ancestral Puebloan cultures: Lecture and discussion about the cultures whose remnants you will be handling all week, including how the local prehistoric inhabitants evolved their lifestyles through the centuries from Archaic, through Basketmaker, Pueblo, to modern times. Artifacts serve as examples demonstrating the details that can reveal clues to prehistoric lifestyles. Concurrently, you will learn about the process of archaeology and how it is used to understand what has occurred in the past. This will serve as a valuable background for the artifacts you will encounter the rest of the week.

Lunch:

Afternoon: This afternoon focuses on curation at McElmo Canyon Research Institute. You will be inspecting artifacts and learning how curation is done as a prelude to working at the Anasazi Heritage Center on the Dolores Archaeological Project.

Dinner:

Evening: Flintknapping video: See how beautifully-crafted projectile points are extracted from stone by the same methods used by prehistoric peoples. Learn what can be understood about primitive cultures by analysis of their projectile points and flakes.

Lodging: Kelly Place B&B

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Orientation to Anasazi Heritage Center, headquarters of Canyons of the Ancients. Begin curation work.

Breakfast:

Morning: Training and tour of the collections at the Anasazi Heritage Center, headquarters of Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.

Lunch:

Afternoon: Work at Anasazi Heritage Center to upgrade the Dolores Archaeological Program Collections. The Dolores Archaeological Project spanned 25 years and was one of the largest cultural resource mitigation projects in American history. Reboxing, rebagging, labeling, and inventory of the estimated 1.5 million artifacts are needed. Curators at the Anasazi Heritage Center will supervise Road Scholar participants in accomplishing some of this work.

Dinner:

Evening: Ancestral Puebloan Cultures

Lodging: Kelly Place B&B

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast:

Morning: Work at Anasazi Heritage Center or related site -- all day.

Lunch:

Afternoon: Continue working on artifacts.

Dinner:

Evening: Native American Cultures of Today; Song and Dance: A Ute man and a Navajo woman share the stories of their cultures and their personal struggles of bridging the modern day Native American and Euro-American cultures. They discuss and demonstrate their traditional dance, dress and music. An unforgettable experience!

Lodging: Kelly Place B&B

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast:

Morning: Work at Anasazi Heritage Center or related site-- all day.

Lunch:

Afternoon: Continue working on artifacts.

Dinner:

Evening: Lecture/discussion about the history of Mesa Verde--It's "discovery", plunder, and eventual National Park status.

Lodging: Kelly Place B&B

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast:

Morning: Tour Mesa Verde National Park- all day, with your archaeologist guide.

Lunch:

Afternoon: Continue tour of Mesa Verde National Park.

Dinner: Enjoy the traditional Kelly Place cookout! Savor a relaxed meal cooked and served outdoors for you on the Kelly Place courtyard (weather permitting). Unburden your mind as you watch the southwestern sunset play against your final evening view of beautiful Sleeping Ute Mountain. Complimentary beer and wine.

Evening: Evaluations and wrap-up.

Lodging: Kelly Place B&B

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast:

Morning: Load up and depart after breakfast.

Meals Included: Breakfast