APRIL-MAY 2014 ANCIENT NATIVE AMERICAN POTTERY REPLICATION WORKSHOP
The “Ancient Native American Pottery Replication Workshop: Decorated Wares of the 1300s” taught at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center by ceramist Andy Ward was a terrific learning experience for the students and the instructor. This workshop focused on replicating pottery types produced between AD 1270 and 1450 by Puebloan immigrants to southern Arizona. Some of this Read more…
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 she has conducted in southern Arizona’s San Pedro and Santa Cruz river valleys over the past 30 years on archaeological sites of the Sobaípuri O’odham, Read more…
ADVANCES IN THE USE OF GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR
November 2012: Our latest Old Pueblo Archaeology bulletin features a scientific article by archaeologist Dr. Lawrence B. “Larry” Conyers titled “Advances in the Use of Ground-Penetrating Radar at Archaeological Sites in Southern Arizona.” Dr. Conyers, a University of Denver Department of Anthropology professor, has pioneered in archaeological explorations using the sophisticated ground-penetrating radar, or “GPR,” Read more…
OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY BULLETIN ARTICLE ON THE GALLINA CULTURE
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…
CHIMNEY ROCK PUEBLO DESIGNATED A NATIONAL MONUMENT
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…
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 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…
OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY BULLETIN ARTICLE ON GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR
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…
UPDATE ON 1995-2001 SABINO CANYON RUIN EXCAVATIONS
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…
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 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…