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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.

DATING THE SOBAÍPURI O’ODHAM

June 2013: In the newest Old Pueblo Archaeology bulletin’s featured article, “Dating the Sobaípuri: A Case Study in Chronology Building and Archaeological Interpretation,” archaeologist Dr. Deni J. Seymour discusses research Read more…

TWO MORE ARIZONA PROPERTIES ARE NOW NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS

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 Read more…

COX CHARITIES GRANT TO OLD PUEBLO

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 Read more…


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