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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 classrooms of southern Arizona children learn about archaeology, Indigenous cultures, and the scientific me­thod by excavating “OPEN3,” a re-created Hohokam archae­o­logical site. For schools in which many students are from families who cannot afford to contribute to per-student charges to participate in the OPEN3 program, Old Pueblo provides classroom scholarships to cover some or all of the school’s fees. The classroom scholarships make it possible for many underserved students to learn the scientific method and professional ar­chaeological excavation tech­niques that facilitate interpreting how an­cient southern Arizona people lived.

Old Pueblo will utilize this $2,000 grant to cover some of our employee costs we incur to provide OPEN3 programs to schools that are within the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area boundaries and that take advantage of our classroom scholarships.

To learn more about the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area please click on the image above. For information about the OPEN3 program please Click Here.

Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area

                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…

Indigenous Interests

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…

NOW AVAILABLE – “This Picture Rocks” petroglyphs T-shirt

  “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…

TUCSON MAYOR PROCLAIMS MARCH 2019 AS OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY MONTH

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…

CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER: THE GCAS WEBSITE

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…

Vista del Rio Residents’ Association Grant

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…

An Annotated Bibliography of the Tohono O’odham (Papago Indians), Revised Edition

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…

“Who Are the Sobaipuri O’odham?” Project Video Now Online

March 4, 2018:  The “Who Are the Sobaípuri O’odham?” video that was created with assistance of Arizona Humanities’ $5,000 grant to Old Pueblo Archaeology Center in 2017 is now accessible for free viewing online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4khqVQOPw8w. Project Director Dr. Deni J. Seymour and Wa:k O’odham Community members Tony Burrell and David Tenario gave a presentation Read more…

Old Pueblo Archaeology Center Receives AZ Humanities Grant

Arizona Humanities has announced that it is providing a $5,000 grant for archaeologist Dr. Deni J. Seymour’s “Who Are the Sobaípuri O’odham?” project that will be administered through Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. Through the creation of a video, interactive lectures and discussions, Dr. Seymour and Old Pueblo Archaeology Center are teaming together to promote understanding Read more…


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