This free presentation will be given by Dr. Felipe Fernández-Armesto on Friday, March 11, 2016 at the Center for English as a Second Language, on the University of Arizona campus at 1100 James E. Rogers Way, Tucson at 7:00 pm.* One of our greatest historians, Dr. Felipe Fernández-Armesto discusses our Hispanic past with insight and Read more…

An Ancient Family? Photograph by Arthur W. Vokes of Hohokam figurines carved from seashell. The Hohokam Native American culture flourished in southern Arizona from the sixth through fifteenth centuries. Hohokam artifacts, architecture, and other material culture provide archaeologists with clues for identifying where the Hohokam lived, interpreting how they adapted to the Sonoran Desert for Read more…

On March 16-19 (Wed-Sat), 2016, the annual Society of Ethnobiology (SOE) Conference will bring together people from an extraordinarily rich variety of backgrounds, disciplines, and geographic locations, all seeking to understand the myriad interactions of human cultures with plants and animals, past and present, worldwide. It attracts academics, students, museum staff, government and non-governmental agency Read more…

Photo by Aaron Wright of a complex Hohokam petroglyph panel. This Third Thursday Food for Thought presentation will be given by archaeologist Dr. Aaron Wright on Thursday March 17, 2016 at 6-8:30 PM at U Like Asian Buffet Restaurant (330 S. Wilmot Rd., Tucson). The South Mountains in Phoenix encompass the largest concentration of rock Read more…

The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society meeting will feature Debra Martin. This free presentation will be held on Monday March 21, 2016 at 7:30-9 PM at Banner University Medical Center DuVal Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson. Description of presentation will be provided later. This is not an Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-sponsored event. No reservations Read more…

Photo by Tom Herrick of an equinox "sun dagger" phenomenon on a Hohokam petroglyph in Pima County, Arizona. This free presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart will be held on Monday, March 28, 2016 from 10:00 to 11:30 am at the Maricopa County Library District’s White Tank Branch Library, 20304 W. White Tank Mountain Rd., Waddell, Read more…

Summer solstice sunset viewed through circular window in an upper story of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. This free presentation will be given by archaeologist Allen Dart at the Maricopa County Library District’s White Tank Branch Library, 20304 W. White Tank Mountain Rd., Waddell, AZ at 10-11:30 AM ; cosponsored by Read more…

This free presentation will be given by Gregory McNamee and sponsored by the nonprofit Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary (PGMA) at Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 from 7:30-9 pm.** Mike Burns lived a long life in two worlds. Born in about 1862 into the Kwevkepaya Read more…

Retablo from Gloria Fraser Giffords collection courtesy of the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. This presentation, given by Gloria Fraser Giffords, will be held at the Arizona State Museum (ASM), 1013 E University Blvd, University of Arizona, Tucson on Thursday, April 12, 2016 at 3:00 pm (free with museum admission). Conservator and art historian Read more…

Logan Simpson Design photograph of Hohokam pithouse excavation at La Ciudad archaeological site in Frank Luke Addition. This free presentation will be given by archaeologists Mark Hackbarth and Chris Garraty, sponsored by the Phoenix Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society, at Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix on Thursday, April 14, 2016 Read more…