On August 16, 2023, the Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance, Inc., which administers funding for the recently formed Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area, awarded the nonprofit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center a $2,000 grant to help fund Old Pueblo’s OPEN3 simulated archaeological excavation learning program for children. Since 1997, Old Pueblo has helped whole Read more…
May 11, July 13, September 14, & November 9, 2021; and January 11 & March 8, 2022 The “Indigenous Interests” online presentations series is a collaboration between Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Arizona Humanities. It is designed to provide an avenue for communication between Native Americans and non-Indians that can result in more understanding Read more…
Since 1997, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center has been the recipient of multiple grants provided by Arizona Humanities, formerly known as the Arizona Humanities Council. The grants have provided funding for Old Pueblo to provide classroom scholarships that allow schools with high percentages of students from low-income families to have their students participate in our children’s Read more…
Harry J. Winters, Jr., PhD, who has conducted extensive research among the Akimel ‘O’Odham (Pima), Tohono ‘O’odham (Papago), and Maricopa (Piipaash) communities for years, is author of the books ‘O’odham Place Names: Meanings, Origins, and Histories Arizona and Sonora (2012 and enlarged 2020 editions), Maricopa Place Names (2018), and ‘O’odham Course Notes: First through Fourth Read more…
“This Picture Rocks” petroglyphs T-shirt to benefit the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson. This 100% cotton T-shirt features a photograph of a splendid array of ancient petroglyphs at the Picture Rocks archaeological site near Tucson. The glyphs shown on the featured rock art panel appear to represent humans interacting with whimsical animals, a possible Read more…
At the Tucson Mayor and City Council meeting on Tuesday March 5th, Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild proclaimed March 2019 as Old Pueblo Archaeology Month, acknowledging Tucson’s many archaeological and historic cultural resources that manifest the City’s heritage as the oldest continuously occupied community in the United States, and recognizing that in its 25 years of Read more…
Check out the Silver City, New Mexico-based Grant County Archaeological Society’s new www.gcasnm.org/ website, “cobbled together” recently by Marianne Smith. GCAS is a wonderful example of a local archaeological society that works and raises funds to preserve and protect prehistoric, historic, and culturally significant places and objects by offering educational and aesthetic programs to the Read more…
April 14, 2018: The Vista del Rio Residents’ Association (RA) has provided an unsolicited $2,000 grant to support Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s education programs for children and adults. Vista del Rio RA began partnering with Old Pueblo in 2007 after the Tohono O’odham Nation provided the RA with an Indian Gaming grant to help conserve, Read more…
March 26, 2018. Bernard L. “Bunny” Fontana’s An Annotated Bibliography of the Tohono O’odham (Papago Indians), Revised Edition, compiled with the assistance of Michael U. Owens and Tumacácori National Historical Park’s Chief of Interpretation Anita Badertscher, is now hosted on Old Pueblo’s http://www.oldpueblo.org/links/ web page. This bibliography, which was first posted on the Tumacácori NHP Read more…
March 4, 2018: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center is participating in the 2018 “Millions for Tucson Raffle, which features a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit SUV as the grand prize! Tucson’s Jim Click Automotive Team will give away this sought-after vehicle in a raffle to raise millions of dollars for Old Pueblo and other southern Arizona Read more…