The latest issue of the Old Pueblo Archaeology quarterly bulletin features an article titled “Skeletons of War: Migration and Violence in the Northern Southwest in Late Prehistory” by archaeologist Lewis Borck. Lewis recently finished his University of Arizona Master’s thesis on this topic, and he gave a presentation about it for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s Read more…
On September 21, 2012, President Barack Obama named the Chimney Rock archaeological site in Colorado as a U.S. national monument. Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s executive director wrote the following letter to the President on this same date: Dear President Obama, On behalf of the nonprofit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center (www.oldpueblo.org) in Tucson, Arizona, and our Read more…
From “Spear-point site in SE Ariz. gets landmark status” by Tom Beal, in Tucson’s Arizona Daily Star, October 19, 2012 http://azstarnet.com/news/science/spear-point-site-in-se-ariz-gets-landmark-status/article_b984505e-caa0-5678-8ec6-98c7132b5aa3.html About 13,000 years ago, the earliest-known human inhabitants of the New World killed and butchered mammoths and bison near the San Pedro River east of Sierra Vista – a site designated this week as Read more…
The latest issue of the Old Pueblo Archaeology quarterly bulletin features an article titled “Advances in the Use of Ground-Penetrating Radar at Archaeological Sites in Southern Arizona” by archaeologist Dr. Lawrence B. “Larry” Conyers, a University of Denver Department of Anthropology professor who has pioneered in archaeological explorations using the sophisticated ground-penetrating radar, or “GPR,” Read more…
From 1995-2001 Old Pueblo operated its first public archaeological field school education and research program at the Sabino Canyon Ruin northeast of Tucson, in cooperation with the Fenster School of Southern Arizona, which owns part of that site. Previous digs at the ruin established that it was a large settlement occupied by Hohokam Indians between Read more…
In December 2012 Cox Charities, the philanthropic organization associated with Cox Communications, provided Old Pueblo Archaeology Center with $1,500 contribution through the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona. This gift will be used to provide classroom scholarships for children from low-income families to participate in field trips to Old Pueblo’s Old Pueblo’s OPEN3 (Old Read more…