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March 2025
Spring Equinox Tour to Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites
TOUR FILLED - WAITING LIST Join Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Spring Equinox Tour to Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites” with archaeologist Allen Dart on Thursday, March 20, 2025, from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon. Guests will be departing from near Silverbell Rd. and Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana, Arizona. The 2025 vernal equinox occurs on Thursday March 20, 2025 at 2:01 am Mountain Standard Time (9:01 am Greenwich Mean Time). To celebrate the equinox day (but not…
Find out more »Third Thursday Food for Thought Presentation “Crossing the Akimel to Snaketown: The Ancestral Connection to Modern Day O’Odham”
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursday Food for Thought” presentation will feature “Crossing the Akimel to Snaketown: The Ancestral Connection to Modern Day O’Odham” by archaeologist Reylynne Williams (Akimel O’Odham). This free Zoom online program will be held from 7:00-8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). The O’Odham village of Snaketown is located on the Gila River Indian Community and situated north of the Gila River within the respective District Four Stotonic Community. When Akimel O'Odham archaeologist…
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“An Incredible Family History Unearthed: How a Search for the Past Can Redefine the Present and Future” Third Thursday Food for Thought Presentation
On Thursday, April 17, 2025, join Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's “Third Thursday Food for Thought” program featuring “An Incredible Family History Unearthed: How a Search for the Past Can Redefine the Present and Future” by historian Blanca Carrasco. This free Zoom presentation will be held from 7:00 to 8:30 pm (ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time, same as Pacific Daylight Time). Blanca Monica Marina Garza Enriquez Espinoza Perez Crispin Tijerina Cortez Salinas, who was born in Torreón, Mexico and has lived in El…
Find out more »May 2025
“The Mogollon Culture of the US Southwest” 14-session Zoom Adult Education Class
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.…
Find out more »Third Thursday Food for Thought presents “Archaeological Humbugs: Exposing Frauds, Busting Myths, and Solving Mysteries”
On Thursday, May 15, 2025, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's “Third Thursday Food for Thought” presentation will feature “Archaeological Humbugs: Exposing Frauds, Busting Myths, and Solving Mysteries” by archaeologist Kenneth L. Feder, Ph.D. This free online Zoom presentation will be held from 7:00 to 8:30 pm, ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). Is the archaeological record of North America a lot weirder than traditional researchers would have you believe? Is there, for example, archaeological evidence that giant human beings…
Find out more »June 2025
Arrowhead-making and Flintknapping Workshop
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…
Find out more »“Beyond Any One Scholar’s Expertise: The Story of the Safford Valley Grids Archaeology Project” Third Thursday Food for Thought Presentation
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…
Find out more »July 2025
Tour of the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
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…
Find out more »Third Thursday Food for Thought Presentation – “The Great Rock-Art of Chaco Canyon”
On July 17, 2025, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursday Food for Thought" program will present “The Great Rock-Art of Chaco Canyon” by rock-art specialist Jane Kolber. This free online Zoom presentation will be held from 7:00-8:30 p.m., ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). The reason for “The Great” in the title of this presentation is because the Chaco Canyon region has Great Rock-Art panels in addition to Great Houses and Great Roads. Hundreds of books and articles…
Find out more »August 2025
Third Thursday Food for Thought Presentation – “Copper Networks in the U.S. Southwest, Mexican Northwest, and Mesoamerica”
On August 21, 2025, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursday Food for Thought" program presents “Copper Networks in the U.S. Southwest, Mexican Northwest, and Mesoamerica” by archaeologist José Luis Punzo Díaz, Ph.D. This free online Zoom presentation will be held from 7:00-8:30 pm, ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time (same as Pacific Daylight Time). The emergence of metallurgy, especially copper, took place in western Mesoamerica a little over a thousand years ago. This new type of objects was quickly appreciated by the societies…
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