Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art

“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart for Verde Valley Archaeology Fair sponsored by Verde Valley Archaeology Center at Camp Verde Community Center, 395 S. Main Street, Camp Verde, Arizona; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities*

1:30 p.m. Free

Photo of petroglyphs in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico

Native Americans in the Southwest developed sophisticated skills in astronomy and predicting the seasons, centuries before Old World peoples first entered the region. In this presentation archaeologist Allen Dart discusses the petroglyphs at Picture Rocks, the architecture of the “Great House” at Arizona’s Casa Grande Ruins, and other archaeological evidence of ancient southwestern astronomy and calendrical reckoning; and interprets how these discoveries may have related to ancient Native American rituals. This program was made possible by Arizona Humanities.

* This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. For event details contact Kenneth Zoll in Sedona at 928-593-0364 or zollken88@gmail.com; for information about the activity subject matter contact Allen Dart at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or adart@oldpueblo.org.