Rock Art and Archaeology of Ventana Cave

    Archaeological excavations by the University of Arizona recovered thousands of ancient Native American artifacts and documented human-made features up to 10,000 years old at Ventana Cave, a huge rockshelter on the Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona. Among the most striking and visually compelling aspects of this National Historic Landmark site are its many pictographs dating […]

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    AAHS Used Book Sale

    Arizona State Museum

    Join us during the Tucson Festival of Books for our bi-annual Used Book Sale. We will be on the walkway and lawn in front of the Arizona State Museum. As always, we will have books covering a wide range of subjects, including archaeology, ethnology, biology, history, art, and fiction. Prices range from $2.00 to $30.00. […]

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    AAHS Used Book Sale

    Arizona State Museum

    Join us during the Tucson Festival of Books for our bi-annual Used Book Sale. We will be on the walkway and lawn in front of the Arizona State Museum. As always, we will have books covering a wide range of subjects, including archaeology, ethnology, biology, history, art, and fiction. Prices range from $2.00 to $30.00. […]

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    George Tinseth – “History of Aviation in Arizona”

    AAHS Lectures are free and open to the public but you must preregister. To do so click here.   The City of Tucson has been home to several notable moments in aviation history over the past 115 years. For almost 80 years of those years, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base has contributed to several of those […]

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    Ann Lane Hedlund – “Mac Schweitzer: A Mid-Century Tucson Artist and Her Southwestern Archaeology Connections”

    Artist Mac (Mary Alice Cox) Schweitzer (1921-1962) was well known in the Tucson and Scottsdale art colonies of the mid-twentieth century. Mac’s close friends, mentors and patrons, many of whom were associated with the University of Arizona and anthropology, included Tom Bahti, David and Barbara Breternitz, Alice Carpenter, Ed and Marianne Dozier, Maurice Grossman, Emil […]

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