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SPECIAL LUNCHEON ADDRESS BY PETER J. PILLES, JR.
Friday, April 11 at 12:00pm
Courtyard by Marriott Sedona
4105 W State Rte 89A, Sedona, AZ 86336
Celebrate Sedona's iconic landscape and Native American pictography with VVAC and world-renowned Archaeologist, Peter J. Pilles Jr. Join us for a lovely lunch and an engaging presentation at the Courtyard by Marriott located in West Sedona. Pilles will present:
Kinyuriki of the Wipukpaia
The Red Rock Country around Sedona has long been the home of the Wiupukpaia – “the people at the foot of the red rocks”. Their relationship to the land is reflected by the many places and rock formations that are associated with their origin tradition and the exploits of Skataka’amche, a being anthropologists would identify as a “culture hero”. A culture hero typically teaches people the things they need to know in order to survive, kills monsters that threatened humans, creates features on the landscape, and other feats. The rock shelters and canyons of the Red Rock country are filled with pictographs created over the centuries by the people of many different cultures. Among them are recurrent elements and designs that are recognized by the Yavapai. Many of these resemble attributes of Skataka’amche and his interactions with other inhabitants of the region, as recorded in Yavapai traditions. This presentation will illustrate the pictography believed to represent the Yavapai people and their stories about the Red Rock country.
Tickets are $60 per person (includes lunch and gratuity)
Lunch Menu:
Chicken Piccata with mushrooms and artichokes
Vegetarian penne pasta
Roasted Tuscan vegetables
Classic Caesar salad
Garlic Bread
Dessert
Beverages: Iced Tea, Coffee, Water
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Peter J. Pilles, Jr., received his BA degree from Arizona State University in 1967 and worked at Pueblo Grande Museum from 1965-1967, and the Museum of Northern Arizona from 1967 until 1975, when he became the Forest Archaeologist for the Coconino National Forest. He has presented numerous papers and authored many publications which reflect his specialty areas of central and northern Arizona prehistory, rock art, ceramics, cultural resource management, and public archaeology.
Peter has been involved with various site development and interpretive plans and has been an advisor to the National Park Service, the State of Arizona, the Museum of Northern Arizona, US AID, and the Brazilian Institute for Cultural Heritage. An adjunct professor at Northern Arizona University, he has been an instructor in archaeological law enforcement for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and has taught courses in rock art conservation and management for the American Rock Art Research Association, the Rock Art Special Interest Group of the Society for American Archaeology, the J. Paul Getty Conservation Institute, the Instituto Brasileiro do Patrimonio Cultural, and at the VI Simposio Internacional de Arte Rupestre, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina.
He has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Northern Arizona. For his public archaeology work, he has received awards from the Governor of Arizona, the Secretary of Agriculture, the U.S. Forest Service, the Hopi Tribe, the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, the American Rock Art Research Association, the Arizona Archaeology Advisory Commission, and the Arizona Preservation Foundation. He recently retired.
