Some pueblo rooms exposed during recent excavations at the Elk Ridge site: photograph courtesy of Barbara Roth On Thursday, February 16, 2017 from 6-8:30 pm, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner presentation will feature “New Insights into Mimbres Pueblo Communities: Excavations at the Elk Ridge Site” by archaeologist Barbara Roth at Read more…

Examples of ancient southwestern Patayan, Hohokam, Mogollon, and Ancestral Pueblo Native American pottery; courtesy of Bureau of Land Management, Arizona State Museum, and Amerind Foundation Museum. On Thursday, March 16, 2017 from 6-8:30 pm, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner presentation will feature “Ancient Southwestern Native American Pottery” by archaeologist Allen Read more…

Footprints of a forgotten era about 2,500 years ago along the Santa Cruz River; photo by Maggie Evancho, SWCA Environmental Consultants. On Thursday, April 20, 2017, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner will feature the presentation “Footprints along the Santa Cruz: 3,000 Years of Farming Where the Rillito Meets the River” Read more…

Summer solstice sunset viewed through circular window in an upper story of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument (Photo by Allen Dart) On Saturday, July 22, 2017, archaeologist Allen Dart will present "Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces" at the Phippen Museum, 4701 Highway 89 North, Prescott, Arizona, from 1-2:30 pm.  Read more…

Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursday Food for Thought" on Thursday, September 21, 2017, 6-8:30pm will feature archaeologist Dr. Aaron M. Wright who will present “Hohokam/Patayan to O'odham/Yuman: The Cultural Landscape of the Lower Gila River.” The lower Gila River is a complicated cultural landscape. Though for many this remote region in southwestern Arizona is Read more…

Tree-ring cross-section photo courtesy of The University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner will feature the presentation “Great Moments in Dendrochronology: Important Achievements of Tree-Ring Science” by dendrochronologist Dr. Paul R. Sheppard at El Molinito Mexican Restaurant, 10180 N. Oracle Rd., Oro Valley, Arizona, from Read more…

Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner featuring “Who Are the Sobaípuri O’odham: The Sobaípuri Legacy at the San Xavier/Wa:k Community” presentation and video by Deni J. Seymour, Tony Burrell, and David Tenario at U-Like Oriental Buffet Restaurant, 5101 N. Oracle Rd. (at River Rd.), Tucson; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities. This free Read more…

An excavated and reconstructed Hohokam ballcourt at the Pueblo Grande archaeological site in Phoenix; photograph provided by Todd W. Bostwick Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner on Thursday, January 18, 2018, from 6:00-8:30 pm, will feature the presentation “The Ancient Hohokam Ballgame of Arizona” by Dr. Todd Bostwick. The ancient Hohokam Read more…

Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner featuring “Cochise and Bascom, How the Apache Wars Began” free presentation by historian Doug Hocking at El Molinito Mexican Restaurant, 10180 N. Oracle Rd., Oro Valley, Arizona, from 6:00 to 8:30 pm; cosponsored by Arizona Humanities. In 1861, Lieutenant George Bascom confronted Chiricahua Apache leader Read more…