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May 2025

“The Mogollon Culture of the US Southwest” 14-session Zoom Adult Education Class

May 7 @ 6:30 pm - August 13 @ 8:30 pm
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On Wednesdays, May 7-August 13, 2025 (skipping July 9th), Registered Professional Archaeologist Allen Dart will be teaching the “The Mogollon Culture of the US Southwest” class.  This 14-session online class will explore the archaeology of the ancient Mogollon culture of the American Southwest. The class covers the history of Mogollon archaeology, Mogollon origins, the complex subregional Mogollon “branches,” chronology of habitation, subsistence and settlement patterns through time, artifacts, rock art, religious and social organization, depopulation and movement, and descendant peoples.…

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June 2025

Arrowhead-making and Flintknapping Workshop

June 14 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 2201 W. 44th St.
Tucson, AZ 85713 United States
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Join Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's “Arrowhead-making and Flintknapping Workshop" with flintknapper Sam Greenleaf on Saturday, June 14, 2025 from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon. This workshop will be held at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, located at 2201 W. 44th Street, Tucson, AZ. Learn how to make arrowheads, spear points, and other flaked stone artifacts just like ancient peoples did. In this workshop, flintknapping expert Sam Greenleaf provides participants with hands-on experience and learning on how pre-European Contact people made and…

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“Beyond Any One Scholar’s Expertise: The Story of the Safford Valley Grids Archaeology Project” Third Thursday Food for Thought Presentation

June 19 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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On June 19, 2025, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's “Third Thursday Food for Thought” will present “Beyond Any One Scholar’s Expertise: The Story of the Safford Valley Grids Archaeology Project” by archaeological geographer William E. Doolittle. This free Zoom presentation will be held from 7:00 to 8:30 pm (ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time, same as Pacific Daylight Time). Expansive tracts of rock-bordered grids atop Pleistocene terraces north of the Gila River in the Safford Valley, Arizona mystified archaeologists and others for nearly a…

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July 2025

Tour of the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research

July 12 @ 7:45 am - 12:30 pm
Mercado San Agustin, 100 S. Avenida del Convento
Tucson, AZ United States
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  On Saturday, July 12, 2025, from 7:45 am to 12:30 pm, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center summer tour visits TOO-COOL University of Arizona (UA) environmental-science laboratories in Tucson – the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR). Tour guests will meet at Mercado San Agustin, 100 S. Avenida del Convento, Tucson, AZ. The Tumamoc Desert Laboratory began its existence in 1903 as the Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory established by the Carnegie Institution of Washington and…

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September 2025

The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona” 14-session Online Adult Education Class

September 3 @ 6:30 pm - December 10 @ 8:30 pm
Online

Each Wednesday from September 3 to December 10, 2025 (skipping October 22), from 6:30-8:30 pm ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time through Oct. 29), Registered Professional Archaeologist Allen Dart will teach “The Hohokam Culture of Southern Arizona” class. This 14-session online adult education class will explore the archaeology of the ancient Hohokam culture of the American Southwest, which includes Hohokam origins, subsistence and settlement systems, social and organizational systems, material culture including ceramics, other artifacts, and architecture, interaction…

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“Autumn Equinox Tour to Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Sites”

September 22 @ 8:00 am - 11:30 am
Silverbell Rd/Linda Vista Blvd

Join Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Autumn Equinox Tour to Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Sites” with archaeologist Allen Dart on Monday, September 22, 2025. This tour will depart at 8:00 am from near Silverbell Road and Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana, Arizona. There is a $45 requested donation per person ($36 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center members), which supports Old Pueblo’s education programs about archaeology and traditional cultures. The 2025 autumn equinox occurs on Monday September 22, 2025 at…

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Dragoon Springs Stage Station & Cochise-Howard Treaty Sites Tour

September 27 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Interstate-10 at Sybil Road, Interstate-10 at Sybil Road
Benson, United States
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On Saturday, September 27, 2025, join Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Dragoon Springs Stage Station & Cochise-Howard Treaty Sites Tour” guided by archaeologist Dr. Deni J. Seymour and historian Bill Mapoles. The tour will be from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm and begins/ends at south side of Interstate-10 Exit 312 (Sybil Road) about 9 miles east of Benson, Arizona. This tour to the historic Dragoon Springs Stage Station and Cochise-Howard Treaty archaeological sites in the foothills of southern Arizona’s Dragoon Mountains…

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October 2025

Yuma Wash Hohokam Village and Bojórquez-Aguirre Ranch Archaeological Sites Tour

October 11 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Library, 7800 N. Schisler Dr.
Marana, AZ United States
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On Saturday, October 11, 2025, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center is sponsoring the “Yuma Wash Hohokam Village and Bojórquez-Aguirre Ranch Archaeological Sites Tour” to be led by archaeologist Allen Dart. The tour will be from 3:00-5:00 pm, with participants meeting at Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Library, 7800 N. Schisler Dr., Marana, AZ. Archaeological investigations along Silverbell Road and in the Town of Marana’s Crossroads at Silverbell District Park revealed numerous cultural features and artifacts of the ancient Yuma Wash Hohokam village…

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Third Thursday Food for Thought presents “Reconstructing the Biographies of Culture and Power in Conquest Mexico: Malinche, Hernán Cortés, and the Origins of Indigenous-Spanish Relations”

October 16 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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On Thursday, October 16, 2025, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's “Third Thursday Food for Thought” online presentation will feature “Reconstructing the Biographies of Culture and Power in Conquest Mexico: Malinche, Hernán Cortés, and the Origins of Indigenous-Spanish Relations” by historian Michael M. Brescia, Ph.D. This free Zoom presentation will be held from 7:00-8:30 pm (ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time ). Dr. Michael Brescia establishes the nature and scope of biography as a tool to uncover the historical experiences of Indigenous peoples and Spaniards…

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