People of the Hohokam culture lived in the Salt River Area from approximately AD 450 to 1450. They were an agricultural society, growing corn, beans, squash and cotton. In order to support their extensive agricultural system, they constructed miles of canals in order to direct water from the Salt River to their fields. On Friday, Read more…

Photo by Jim Diers of Mimbres pottery sherds at one of the sites visited during the June tour. A Mimbres petroglyph at the Pony Hills site, New Mexico. Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s "Mimbres Ruins, Rock Art, and Museums of Southern New Mexico" archaeology education tour with archaeologist Allen Dart, June 9-13, 2016 (Thursday-Monday). Drive your Read more…

Photo by Tom Herrick of equinox "sun dagger" on spiral petroglyph at Picture Rocks site, Pima County, Arizona. Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's executive director, archaeologist Allen Dart, will lead this tour to two of the Tucson area’s premier archaeological sites - Los Morteros and Picture Rocks site, on Thursday, September 22, 2016, 8 am to Read more…

Archaeologist Dr. Suzanne K. Fish in an ancientrock-outlined structure at the Tumamoc Hill archaeological site. A massive trinchera (built-up rock terrace) near the crown of Tumamoc Hill. On Saturday, December 3, 2016, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center will host the “Tumamoc Hill Trincheras Site” site tour with archaeologists Dr. Paul R. Fish and Dr. Suzanne K. Read more…

To explore ancient people's recognition of solstices and other calendrical events, archaeologist Allen Dart (Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's executive director) leads this tour to Los Morteros, an ancient village site that includes a Hohokam ballcourt and bedrock mortars, and to Picture Rocks, where ancient petroglyphs include a solstice and equinox calendar marker, dancing human-like figures, Read more…

Photograph of some of the petroglyphs at Picture Rock. TOUR FILLED. WAITING LIST STARTED. Archaeologist Allen Dart will lead this car-caravan educational tour to sites in and near Topawa, Arizona, departing from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson on Saturday, January 7, 2017. In an educational adventure into Native American culture, this tour Read more…

Pascua Yoeme community circa 1938, photograph courtesy of the Southwest Center, The University of Arizona TOUR FILLED - LONG WAITING LIST! SEE FEB. 25 "ENCORE" TOUR LISTING FOR ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY. On Saturday, February 11, 2017, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center will lead a car-caravan cultural sites tour with Yoeme historian Felipe S. Molina, starting at Bwe'u Read more…

On Wednesday, February 15, 2017, join Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Los Morteros Village and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites" guided tour with archaeologist Allen Dart departing from near Silverbell Road and Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana, Arizona, from 8 am to 12 noon. The fee is $20 ($16 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Read more…

Ancient pictographs inside Ventana Cave. On Saturday, February 18, 2017 from 6 am to 4 pm, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center will sponsor a car-caravan educational tour with archaeologist Allen Dart departing from Tucson at the Park & Ride parking lot at I-10 and Ruthrauff Rd. at 6 am (northeast corner of the I-10 westbound Frontage Read more…

Pascua Yoeme community circa 1938, photograph courtesy of the Southwest Center, The University of Arizona On Saturday, February 25, 2017, from 8 am to noon, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center will lead a car-caravan cultural sites tour with Yoeme historian Felipe S. Molina, starting at Bwe'u Hu'upa (Big Mesquite) site, 1317 W. Irvington Road, Tucson (on Read more…