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“Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces”
On Saturday, July 22, 2017, archaeologist Allen Dart will present “Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces” at the Phippen Museum, 4701 Highway 89 North, Prescott, Arizona, from 1-2:30 pm. Native Americans in the Southwest developed sophisticated skills in astronomy and predicting the seasons, centuries before Old World peoples first entered the region. In this presentation archaeologist Allen Dart discusses the petroglyphs at Picture Rocks, the architecture of the “Great House” at Arizona’s Casa Grande Ruins, and other archaeological evidence…
Find out more »“Third Thursday Food for Thought”
Guest speaker will be Lewis Borck for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” on Thursday, September 21, 2017, 6-8:30pm. Details for the presentation and the Tucson-area restaurant to be announced at a later date. Reservations are required: info@oldpueblo.org or 520-798-1201. PLEASE WAIT TO HEAR FROM OLD PUEBLO THAT YOUR RESERVATION HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BEFORE ATTENDING because the Fire Code limits how many guests we can have in the restaurant meeting room. Reservations must be requested before 5…
Find out more »“Autumn Equinox Tour of Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites”
To celebrate the autumnal equinox, archaeologist Allen Dart (Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s executive director) leads this tour to Los Morteros, an ancient village site that includes a Hohokam ballcourt and bedrock mortars, and to Picture Rocks, where ancient petroglyphs include a solstice and equinox calendar marker, dancing human-like figures, whimsical animals, and other rock symbols made by Hohokam Indians between A.D. 650 and 1450. Tour will be on Friday, September 22, 2017 from 8am to noon. The fee is $20…
Find out more »“Prehistory of the Southwest: The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona” Class
Beginning September 29 through December 8, 2017, each Friday evening (skip Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 24) from 6:30-8:30pm, archaeologist Allen Dart will be teaching the adult-education class “Prehistory of the Southwest: The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona.” Dart teaches this class in ten 2-hour sessions to explore the archaeology of the ancient Hohokam culture of the American Southwest. The class covers Hohokam origins, subsistence and settlement systems, social and organizational systems, material culture including ceramics, other artifacts, and architecture, interaction within…
Find out more »“Tucson and Marana Yoeme (Yaqui Indian) Communities” Cultural Sites Tour
On Saturday, October 28, 2017, this car-caravan cultural sites tour with Yoeme traditional culture specialist Felipe S. Molina, will start at the Bwe’u Hu’upa (Big Mesquite) site in the Santa Cruz River Park at 1317 W. Irvington Road, Tucson (on south side of Irvington just west of the Santa Cruz River). Time: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.; $25 ($20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members). Felipe S. Molina was taught the indigenous language, culture, and…
Find out more »“Chukui Kawi/Cerro Prieto: Yoeme Sacred Mountain, Hohokam Trincheras, and Petroglyphs” Tour
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center presents Chukui Kawi/Cerro Prieto: Yoeme Sacred Mountain, Hohokam Trincheras, and Petroglyphs car-caravan cultural sites tour with Yoeme traditional culture specialist Felipe S. Molina and archaeologist Allen Dart. Details on the sites and for the tour can be viewed on the flyer (see link below). Tour will be held on Saturday, November 11, 2017 from 8 am to around 4 pm. Meets at McDonald’s Restaurant, 13934 N. Sandario Rd., Marana, Arizona, near Interstate 10 Exit 36 (Marana).…
Find out more »“Third Thursday Food for Thought”
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner featuring “Who Are the Sobaípuri O’odham: The Sobaípuri Legacy at the San Xavier/Wa:k Community” presentation and video by Deni J. Seymour, Tony Burrell, and David Tenario at U-Like Asian Buffet Restaurant, 330 S. Wilmot Rd., Tucson; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities. This free program is from 6 to 8:30 p.m. (Order your own dinner off of the restaurant’s menu.) Over the last couple of decades much has been learned about the…
Find out more »Sears Point and Painted Rocks Petroglyphs, and Gatlin Hohokam Site Tour
On Saturday, December 9, 2017, archaeologist Dr. Aaron M. Wright will guide guests on a tour of Sears Point and Painted Rocks Petroglyphs, and the Gatlin Hohokam site. The tour group will meet at 10:00 am at Interstate 8, Exit 78 (Spot Road), approximately 39 miles west of Gila Bend, Arizona. Fee: $45 ($36 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members). Tour leader Aaron Wright, a Preservation Archaeologist with Tucson’s Archaeology Southwest organization, has research interests…
Find out more »Jim Click’s “Millions for Tucson Raffle” – Support Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give away a 2017 Ford Explorer Platinum edition SUV in a raffle to raise millions of dollars for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and other southern Arizona nonprofit organizations. With your contribution you could win this 2017 vehicle – or the second prize, two first-class airline tickets to anywhere in the world; or the third prize of $5,000 in cash! And 100% of your contribution will support Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, which gets to keep…
Find out more »“Third Thursday Food for Thought”
On Thursday, December 21, 2017, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” event will feature Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Tour, Dinner, and “Celebrating the Solstice: Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces” presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart in the Dining Hall and Petroglyph Auditorium of the Picture Rocks Redemptorist Renewal Center (PRRNC), 7101 W. Picture Rocks Road, Tucson. Petroglyphs tour at 5:30, dinner at 6:00, presentation 7:15-8:30 p.m. Dinner $15 per person, tour and presentation free. Native Americans in…
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