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  • Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces

    Casa Grande Ruins National Monument 1100 W. Ruins Drive, Coolidge, AZ, United States

    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 for the Arizona Archaeology Expo at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, 1100 W. Ruins Drive, Coolidge, Arizona at 2:30-3:30 PM; sponsored by Arizona State Read more…

  • “Our America”

    Center for English as a Second Language University of Arizona, 1100 James E. Rogers Way, Tucson, AZ, United States

    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…

  • Open House at the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona

    Arizona State Museum 1013 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ, United States

    Come get to know your State Museum! On Saturday, March 12, 2016, in celebration of Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month, you'll have the opportunity to meet curators, visit laboratories, and tour collections areas in the largest and busiest state-run archaeological repository in the nation.  Also, browse the Friends of the ASM Collections group’s annual Read more…

  • Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians

    Museum of Casa Grande 110 W. Florence Blvd., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

    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…

  • “Recreating Ancient Salado Pottery Workshop”

    Besh Ba Gowah Archaeological Park 150 Jesse Hayes Road, Globe, AZ, United States

    A Gila Polychrome reproduction made and photographed by Andy Ward. Andy Ward will be presenting this pottery workshop from Sunday, March 13 to Thursday, March 17, 2016 at Besh Ba Gowah Archaeological Park, 150 Jesse Hayes Road, Globe, Arizona. This intensive five-day workshop will focus on recreating the beautiful pottery of the Salado culture that Read more…

  • 39th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology (SOE)

    University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, United States

    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…

  • Third Thursday Food for Thought “Hohokam Rock Art, Mountain Ritualism, and Social Transformation in the Salt River Valley”

    U-Like Oriental Buffet Asian Cuisine 330 S. Wilmot Road, Tucson, AZ, United States

    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…

  • Spring Equinox Tour of Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites

    Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Depart from NE corner of Silverbell Rd/Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana, AZ, Marana, AZ, AZ, United States

    Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Spring Equinox Tour of Los Morteros and Picture Rocks Petroglyphs Archaeological Sites” with archaeologist Allen Dart, departing from near Silverbell Road and Linda Vista Blvd. in Marana, Arizona. Time: 8 a.m. to noon. Fee: $20 ($16 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members). The 2016 vernal equinox Read more…

  • “Hard Times in Dry Lands: Apocalypse in the Ancient Southwest or Business as Usual?”

    UMC Duval Auditorium 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, AZ, United States

    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…

  • “Baboquivari Peak Sacred Cave and Petroglyphs”

    Pima Community College 401 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson, AZ, United States

    Marc Severson photograph of some of the petroglyphs at Picture Rock. On Saturday March 26, 2016 (Easter weekend), in an educational adventure into Native American culture, this tour meets in Tucson (Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave) at 8 a.m. and travels to the Tohono O'odham (Papago) Indian Reservation for visits to the Picture Read more…


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